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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by mrfusion on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:18PM (#19422991)
The earth is rotating so fast. You’d need really precise timing to know where it would hit.
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Re:A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in Decembe... by cultofmetatron on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:00PM (#19426226)
we can account for a nanosecond discrepancy in the flow of time between two objects separated by hundreds of miles. IE: accounting for reletivity to sync time between phones and satellites. We have the technology.
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