security camera captured a bright light Virginia Beach March 29 2009
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The "russian rocket" explanation seems to be the new "swap gas"
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If it was a Russian rocket,why was it in our airspace?
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@piwacket33 I'm not trying to say you were wrong about the "sonic boom". I'm just trying to set you straight about the acceleration statement. When an object is falling to the earth, it does NOT stop accelerating when it reaches 9.8 meters/sec. The acceleration is constant.
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@piwacket33 Almost anything falling to the earth will continue to accelerate (yes, even beyond the 9.8 meters/sec/sec) until it is stopped (usually by the ground). The drag resistance is more than likely not enough to slow a falling object like a meteor (or some such) DOWN to 9.8 meters/sec/sec. Obviously, there are things that do have a lot of drag (like a feather) that do not gain velocities greater than 9.8 meters/sec/sec. However, there is such a thing as terminal velocity.
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@piwacket33 Lol back at you. ;) You had me worried that I said something wrong.... until I got to "So falling debris only..." Then, I realized "this guy doesn't pay much attention to detail." I thought this because you stated velocity in terms of meters per second squared (which is wrong) and you said that the terminal velocity of anything is 9.8 meters per second squared (which is also wrong). You simply stated the gravitational acceleration twice (perhaps in hopes that nobody knows this??).
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hmmm wow u really gotta good point there
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@testyvenom testyvenom lol. Yes. I took physics and in that class I learned about terminal velocity. So falling debris only accelerates until it hits 9.8 meters/sec/sec. Laws of falling bodies and all. Of course if it's traveling faster than that, then when it hits the atmosphere it can only decelerate until it reaches the ground or 9.8 meters per second squared. Ahhh Galileo!
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@piwacket33 Technically, falling debris DOES ACCELERATE toward the earth. Have you ever taken a physics class? Don't forget that gravitational ACCELERATION effects objects within a certain range of the earth. Everything in orbit experiences this gravitational acceleration (or gravitational "pull") and so does everything below orbit.
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its a boom from low frequency charge , ITS CLASSIFIED PROGRAME GOOGLE IT ( VTERPE)
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lol no it's not. Try living in a small small town in podunk Ohio where the nearest clothing store is a WALMART and it's 20 minutes away and the nearest mall is 2 hours and the theaters are the old style ones meaning if someone who is tall sits infront of you, you can't see...
I live in Virginia Beach and I saw this hooplah with my own eyes. There is no way that flashing sphere of light, which lit up the entire sky like an atom bomb's flash, was a damned russian rocket and I cannot believe they think we, as Americans would be COMFORTABLE with accepting this. WHY? Because who the HELL wants rockets from other countries falling onto our soil & into our lives. This was no rocket. I know this because when rockets fall they do not travel horizontaly then fly upward.
whats0up0with0that 2 years ago 4
It's not debris. The BOOM is a sonic boom, and falling debris doesn't push the sound barrier.
That's just a bunch of crap.
something makes that sound as it ACCELERATES.
duh.
piwacket33 2 years ago 4