11-24-2017, 07:55 AM | #301 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
Its nice when you find a world that still has a chance at not being completely overrun.
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11-24-2017, 03:31 PM | #302 | |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_trojan ....1906 for the first one. However, Jupiter itself has asteroid sized moons that weren't discovered til the post-Cold war period. Same for the other gas giants. Pluto's moon Charon also wasn't discovered til the post Cold War period. So somewhere in that range maybe, 5 to 30 AU.
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11-24-2017, 09:47 PM | #303 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
Except that moons are kind of easier to spot since so many are studying their planets. And similar for Lagrangian points.
Asteroids coming right for us would almost certainly sit in poorly viewed sections of the sky.
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11-25-2017, 06:51 AM | #304 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
Try this notion. Drop a comet, enough to wreck a key section of a nation or a midsized nation on any one participant in WWII. You can play out some wild twists on the 20th century.
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11-25-2017, 07:06 AM | #305 |
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Dropping a comet would cause every civilization of Earth to fail, regardless of where it fell. A smallish asteroid (500m) in the middle of a nation, a VEI 7 eruption, or a category 9.0+ earthquake would probably be a better idea for destroying only one nation rather than all of civilization.
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11-25-2017, 07:20 AM | #306 | |
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11-25-2017, 09:16 AM | #307 | |
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Then, before 1906 no one had any reason to believe that small objects might congregate in Lagrange points and didn't look there. I'd say that unexpected objects were most likely to be found in otherwise uncluttered sky where their movement were more obvious.
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11-25-2017, 01:47 PM | #308 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
That sounds very counter-intuitive, but as I'm not an astronomer I'll concede layman's ignorance.
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11-25-2017, 06:59 PM | #310 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
Try this one. In the same year that Ataturk abolishes the Caliphate have a Tunguska type object hit Mecca. This would lead to a massive crisis in most of the Islamic lands. Given the culture of the 1920s, this would lead to serious anti-Islamic attitudes in the West and widespead cultural crisis in many parts of the globe.
Similar effects can be achieved by smashing other religiously important cities in different historical periods.
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