"Captain, is there something wrong with your chair?"

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NOAA


National Weather Service

National Hurricane Center

Tropical Weather Outlook Text

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TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL

1100 AM PDT MON OCT 26 2015

For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude:

The Central Pacific Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Olaf, located several hundred miles east-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii. Olaf is expected to cross 140 degrees West longitude later today, at which time advisories on this system will be issued by the National Hurricane Center.

1. An elongated area of low pressure located about 1200 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula has become less organized during the past 24 hours. Environmental conditions have become less conducive, and development of this system now appears unlikely as it moves little during the next few days.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent

* Formation chance through 5 days...low...near 0 percent










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Star Trek Generations (1994)


[Veridian III mountaintop]

PICARD: You don't need to do this, Soran. ...I'm sure we could find another way of getting you into this Nexus.

SORAN: I've spent eighty years looking for another way. Believe me, this is the only one.

(Soran presses some buttons on a keypad and a rocket reveals itself on the launcher)

PICARD: What you're about to do Soran, is no different from when the Borg destroyed your world. They killed millions too, ...including your wife ...and children.

SORAN: Nice try. ...You know, there was a time when I wouldn't hurt a fly. Then the Borg came. And they showed me that if there is one constant in this whole universe. ...It's death. ...Afterwards I began to realise it didn't really matter. We're all going to die sometime. It's just a question of how and when. You will too, Captain. Aren't you beginning to feel time gaining on you? ...It's like a predator. It's stalking you. ...Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies, but in the end time is going to hunt you down, ...and make the kill.










http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3289810/Mysterious-UFO-dubbed-WTF-collision-course-Earth-Space-junk-crash-Indian-Ocean-month.html

Daily Mail


Mysterious UFO dubbed 'WTF' is on a collision course with Earth: Space junk will crash into the Indian Ocean next month

WTF1190F is predicted to crash into the Indian Ocean on 13 November

Object may be part of a rocket from a lunar mission or even an Apollo craft

Most of WTF1190F is predicted to burn up in the atmosphere upon entry

It will give experts a rare opportunity to see an impact from start to finish

By SARAH GRAHAM FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 06:34 EST, 26 October 2015 UPDATED: 08:44 EST, 26 October 2015

A strange piece of space junk is expected to plummet to Earth in November, but researchers don't currently have any idea what it is.

The object, dubbed WTF1190F, is set to land in the Indian Ocean, around 40 miles (65km) off the southern tip of Sri Lanka, at 6:20 UTC on 13 November.

It measures up to 7ft (2 metres) long and it could be a piece of rocket stage from a recent lunar mission, or even part of an Apollo program craft that has been in space for more than 40 years.

But rather than threatening life on Earth as we know it, the object will give scientists a rare opportunity to observe a relatively small impact from its approach to landing.

WTF1190F’s trajectory was first calculated in 2012.

The unknown object was rediscovered by astronomers at the Catalina Sky Survey, based at the University of Arizona earlier this month.

Astronomers at the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Near Earth Object office in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, are now monitoring the space junk’s journey carefully.

It is also being used to test plans put in place to monitor potentially dangerous space objects hurtling towards Earth.

The agency said that WT1190F 'poses very little risk to anyone but could help scientists improve our understanding of how any object – man-made or natural – interacts with Earth’s atmosphere.'

Bill Gray, an independent astronomy software developer who has been tracking the debris with Nasa’s Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told Nature the space junk was travelling in an elliptical orbit, that at its longest point, is twice as long as the distance between Earth and the moon.

The way it moves also suggests the object is hollow inside.

It's not known how many pieces of space junk orbit the Earth and moon, but WT1190F is rare.

It is believed to be one of only 20 or so man-made objects tracked in distant orbit, according to Gareth Williams, an astronomer at the Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

And it's not known exactly how the object was propelled onto a collision-course with Earth.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said WTF1190F is probably ‘a lost piece of space history that’s come back to haunt us’.

While it is more likely the junk dates from recent years, it could be a piece of from an Apollo Mission, over 40 years ago.

A piece of the Saturn V rocket, which enabled man to first walk on the moon, was spotted orbiting Earth in 2002.

If WTF1190F is a piece of rocket it will be the first piece of man-made junk to return home independently.

Mr Gray predicts most of it should burn up upon entering the atmosphere, so it will not create a terrifying tidalwave or crater as seen in disaster films.

But despite this, he said: ‘I would not necessarily want to be going fishing directly underneath it.’



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:00 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 27 October 2015