>>11403142>I believe there are many mysteries to our reality that we don’t know the answers to.There are. This, however, is not one of them.
>“Oh it’s rock from uhh space entering our atmosphere extremely quickly and it burns out due to the friction of our upper atmosphere”Yes. Yes it is. It can also be ice.
>Then why doesn’t it leave a trace? Why is there no smoke? Why doesn’t it make a noise? You’re telling me a rock hitting our atmosphere at 100 miles per second just zips by like nothing?It does. That tail you see is the trace. It just doesn't stay hot enough to emit light after a while. Also, what solid particles survive, if any, are quickly dispersed. Rock, as you know, doesn't stay too long in the air.
And it doesn't "hit" anything. The atmosphere is not a shield like in star trek. What it hits are tiny molecules in the air and that causes friction with the air and that raises the temperature. It's more of a "stay inside enough and it gets progressively hotter" kind of event. It's not a "rock hits invisible wall" type of thing.
>I walk home out in the country every night and watch these things when the sky is clear. Most of the time they don’t leave a trail of light, they are just a white ball of light moving impossibly fast over the sky.Those leave a trail too, they're just to small to leave a visible one. Bring binoculars.
>I believe ((they)) just use these things, whatever they are, as an instrument of fear to remind us that we can be annihilated any second by one of these things, and it’s what wiped out the ((dinosaurs)).These things almost anihilated us too at the end of the last dryas and, if one big enough hits, it will anihilate (((them))) too so you can at least be happy about that.
>Just think about asteroid headlines. “Incoming asteroid size of a bus/car/dildo might hit earth!” How can they even see them? Its just to keep us on edge.They bounce light beams off of them. It's quite cool. Works with planes too.
