Meteorite Crash In Canada Is Caught By Home Security Camera (smithsonianmag.com) 30
Smithsonian Magazine reports: A homeowner on Prince Edward Island in Canada has had a very unusual near-death experience: A meteorite landed exactly where he'd been standing roughly two minutes earlier. What's more, his home security camera caught the impact on video -- capturing a rare clip that might be the first known recording of both the visual and audio of a meteorite striking the planet. The shocking event took place in July 2024 and was announced in a statement by the University of Alberta on Monday.
"It sounded like a loud, crashing, gunshot bang," the homeowner, Joe Velaidum, tells the Canadian Press' Lyndsay Armstrong. Velaidum wasn't home to hear the sound in person, however. Last summer, he and his partner Laura Kelly noticed strange, star-shaped, grey debris in front of their house after returning from a walk with their dogs. They checked their security camera footage, and that's when they saw and heard it: a small rock plummeting through the sky and smashing into their walkway. It landed so quickly that the space rock itself is only visible in two of the video's frames.
"It sounded like a loud, crashing, gunshot bang," the homeowner, Joe Velaidum, tells the Canadian Press' Lyndsay Armstrong. Velaidum wasn't home to hear the sound in person, however. Last summer, he and his partner Laura Kelly noticed strange, star-shaped, grey debris in front of their house after returning from a walk with their dogs. They checked their security camera footage, and that's when they saw and heard it: a small rock plummeting through the sky and smashing into their walkway. It landed so quickly that the space rock itself is only visible in two of the video's frames.
Pretty small meteorite (Score:3)
Pretty small meteorite coming at a pretty wide angle from the sky compared to straight down. It probably slowed down enough to be at the maximum speed of a free falling object since it didn't even make a hole in the ground but seem to have bounced off the ceramic garden tile.
Still, I guess it's better to have been out of the way...
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Re:Pretty small meteorite (Score:5, Funny)
Had it killed you, the IQ of the world population would have gone up noticeably.
Please No! (Score:2)
too bad it didnt crash into ...donald trump
I really hope that never, ever happens. The last presidential assassination you had still has idiots going on and on about conspiracy theories and that was a guy in a building with a gun. The conspiracy nutters heads would explode if Trump got hit by a meteorite: you'd get aliens, UFOs, Russian/Chinese/Korean satellite weapons, chemtrails etc. we'd never hear the end of them!
Re:Pretty small meteorite (Score:5, Funny)
Still, I guess it's better to have been out of the way...
Dont worry, it landed in Canada so it was apologized to profusely for the planet being in its way.
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I guess moving about 2 m/s or 6 ft/s or 200 km/h or 120 mph.
Sorry, 2 meters per frame or 6 ft per frame.
If there is another civilisation out there... (Score:1)
... even taking into account the sequence of improbably actions that led to us including wiping out dinosaurs etc, then when we basically did nothing impressive for a million years until farming was invented and technology would still have remained medieval to this day if a few geniuses hadn't bootstrapped the industrial revolution - then I suspect high power broadcast radio is a short term thing. Even today only ~100 years after its invention, over the air broadcasting is slowly giving way to internet base
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Unless we caught that exact moment another civilisation went through that period then we'll hear nothing.
100% this^. When you look at the details, the only signals we can rule out today is no one is broadcasting on wavelengths not normally encountered naturally in large amounts with the power of an entire large star and in our own galaxy. You would need to increase that power by the inverse square law to apply to far off communication like other galaxies. What civilization in their right mind would use the entire energy output of a star and then broadcast an ultra simple carrier signal and super simple enc
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Unless we caught that exact moment another civilisation went through that period then we'll hear nothing.
Actually: we would hear stuff. There is still high power transmission from Earth to Satellite and Satellite to earth. The caveat is that all those broadcasts are encrypted to make sure nobody can decipher the signal upstream without a Cable TV / Dish subscription. So the cable companies are able to decode an intelligible meaning, but to outsiders it would look like noise.
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Actually: we would hear stuff. There is still high power transmission from Earth to Satellite and Satellite to earth. The caveat is that all those broadcasts are encrypted to make sure nobody can decipher the signal upstream without a Cable TV / Dish subscription. So the cable companies are able to decode an intelligible meaning, but to outsiders it would look like noise.
If the noise has the right distribution of frequencies it can easily be told from natural sources so it’s not possible to simply encode data on a signal to hide it which is the question here, only that we won’t be able to understand it or perhaps, if the distribution of frequencies is amicable, have difficulty telling if the noise floor is raised slightly by a signal or not.
But the point was we can’t hear those signals even if they were pointed in the right direction for very far at all
Re: If there is another civilisation out there... (Score:2)
Earth is emitting massive EM fields at both 60 and 50 Hz. I wonder what the aliens will think when they detect the daily variation between the two as either the European/Asian or American continents face them. Probably some huge global war with the outcome uncertain. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Speak for Yourself! (Score:2)
then when we basically did nothing impressive for a million years until farming was invented
Speak for yourself: my ancestors were busy in that period evolving their intelligence and increasing their brain size so that they could come up with the idea of farming. Modern humans with current brain shapes only came on the scene about 100,000 years ago. Farming was invented about 12,000 years ago, around the time the last ice age was ending which is probably not a coincidence.
Given the rapid pace of technology vs evolution you may be correct that there is only a short window for radio transmissions
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The juries still out on when we became homosapiens , but ok, 100K years. That was still 88K years where we basically chucked sticks, picked berries and little else. Not evidence of any sophisticated culture.
As radio , sure we're using more, but its all very low power. An alien would have trouble picking up a mobile phone transmission from within our solar system, never mind the other side of the galaxy.
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Where's the kaboom? (Score:2)
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
A meteor crashed and became a meteorite (Score:3, Informative)
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Replying to undo incorrect mod -__-
Maybe videos like this will become more common (Score:4, Insightful)
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Space-X is upping the game - the odds of "hard" rain are getting better!
Remember the skydiver filming one going past? (Score:4, Interesting)
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I once thought something similar, but the object turned out to be my parachute. I walk with a limp.
Meanwhile, aliens: ... (Score:2)
Re: Meanwhile, aliens: ... (Score:2)
Just wait until they get hit by a 2000 lb manhole cover.