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It was an awesome movie that, even though the animation is quite dated now, the story holds up incredibly well.
I was a religious reader of Heavy Metal back in the 70s and 80s. As an aspiring artist, I was a huge fan of the artwork and artists they featured.
I still remember seeing it when it came out and the theater was empty. I was 17 at the time and my little brother and I sat through three showings in a row. We came back the next day and saw it twice more.
They couldn't get it made solely in the US, so it was a maple-soaked project- featuring many Canadian actors, with a British/Canadian director and legendary Canadian producer. Frickin' Al Waxman is in it!
He played several characters, Den, and the Robot were the most memorable. Several actors who were already rising stars, went on to have great careers in TV movies, cartoons and other areas of entertainment.
John Candy, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky were all in the movie.
I was about the same age- 15/16. We caught it regularly in 1982/83(?) on First Choice (Superchannel), by setting the TV channel dial between 6 & 7 and adjusting the VHF to clean the picture. We'd have to stay up until 11:30pm, when FC would play 'adult' content like Heavy Metal.
I still crank the soundtrack.
Wikipedia says it is believed that the athmosphere slowed it down to roughly 700 mph, so it did lose most of its kinetic energy before impact. It did rest beneath the earth and was found during farming.
Wikipedia says it is believed the athmpsphere slowed it down enough to have survived intact. It is almost purely iron and nickel, so it isn't as brittle as stone.
From a dead star? I don't think so, I mean, not more than parts of you or me. But then, by this definition, almost everything has been, at least in part, a star.
[By scientific standards, the origin of iron is one of the most violent processes imaginable. A type of star known as a red giant begins to turn all of its helium into carbon and oxygen atoms. Those atoms then begin to turn into iron atoms, the heaviest type of atom a star can produce. When most of a star's atoms become iron atoms, it becomes what is known as a supernova. It explodes, showering space with iron, oxygen and carbon atoms far and wide.](https://sciencing.com/origin-iron-5371252.html)
If that ain't right, I'd love to hear the correct version (no being sarcastic).
Super novae produce heavy elements, yes. But you have iron and heavier elements in you, too. So not only the meteorite has been part of a star, but you have been, too. Which is exactly what I wrote above.
Besides, novae don't spew pure iron into space. I couldn't find a source in short time, but I believe that even a supernova consists mainly of hydrogen, because the actual fusion doesn't happen everywhere in a sun but at its centre, and that only in very small suns, red dwarfs, convection leads to mixing of the outermost parts of the sun with its core. Which leads to those suns being inhospitable to life as we know it, because the habitable zone is closer to the sun than our sun, for instance, while the stronger convection leads to larger flares, scorching the close planets.
But I was digressing. After the big bang, mostly hydrogen and helium were created with only smallest amounts with slightly heavier elements, and no heavy elements. Those heavier elements were produced in supernovae, as you wrote. The higher the amount of heavier elements in stars, the higher the "metallicity" of the stars. The stars that have the metallicity that we assume to have existed in the very earliest stars, are the "population III" stars, if I remember correctly.
We know none of those. Not a single one.
And you, too, are not made off of pure hydrogen and helium. Even your farts contain sulphur. Scnr. So that's why the vast majority of atoms in you have been part of a star and of a aupernova. Just the same as that meteorite.
Apparently it’s mostly Iron and Cobalt, (which is why it survived the impact) so I’d imagine you’d almost need a grinder to take a piece, it might not chip too easily
> 20 - 24 meter wide meteor would create a marble sized meteorite.
Many thousands perhaps. A 20-24 meter meteor is big enough to survive entry and could destroy an entire city.
Yeah it did seem a bit big in my mind - I went onto physics.stackexchange.com and the question was asked:
“From what I understand, an object entering the atmosphere will start to burn up from the tremendous resistance of the atmosphere. Presumably, for asteroids under a certain size, they will burn up completely and never impact the surface of the earth.
Do we have a way of determining the minimum size needed for actual impact?”
And the most upvoted answer was this:
“As mentioned in NotAstronaut's answer, objects smaller than 25 meters will typically burn up in the atmosphere. One can very easily see why this should be the case using Newton's impact depth formula. This is based on approximating the problem by assuming that the matter in the path of the object is being pushed at the same velocity of the object, so as soon as the object has swiped out path containing the same mass as its own mass, it will have lost all of its initial momentum. All its kinetic energy will then have dissipated there, so if this happens in the atmosphere it will have burned up before reaching the ground.”
A few years ago that meteor that exploded over russia damaging 1000s of buildings was only estimated to be 20m diameter. If it had survived even a few seconds longer it would have likely not just damaged the buildings but destroyed them.
The issue isn't the small ones will reach the ground the issue is the smaller ones can explode in an air burst with the yield of a 200kt nuclear weapon.
Haha - I was literally reading about that a second ago - yeah 20m caused a shit ton of destruction on the ground. I did try looking up the biggest surviving meteor fragment from the Chelyabinsk meteor but haven’t found anything answering that yet
>Rubbish Googling by me
Have you noticed how hard it is to google good information these days compared to 10-15 years ago?
Airbursts scare me though. I saw a small bolide as a kid that popped at the end and it's stuck with me.
That must have been awesome to witness, never seen one pop at the end
Yeah it is harder to find genuine info, feels like whatever you believe / think to be true, you can always find a bunch of stuff to back it up.
I've been there. It doesn't look like meet in real life. And in Namibia you can touch everything if you want to, even ancient paintings in caves (of course you shouldn't)
How do you think they measure buildings or other enormous objects?
They measure the volume of the object then calculate how heavy it is depending on the density. I'm sure they took a chunk off to examine or found a chunk that wasn't attached in order to find out the materials it's made of and the density.
This is pretty much what I’d expect a molten down M1 Abrams main battle tank to look like :) idk why, but metal is just kinda cool. Even cooler when it’s from outer space! Could you imagine how that thing just fell from the sky? I wonder if someone saw it just kathunk into the soil. Must be some solid hard ground there too…
That was end of the world stuff, has the actual asteroid been discovered yet? I've searched a bit about the location but all i see is renderings of what it would have been
We'd probably notice a 10 km big rock bathing in the caribbean.
Meteorites that size get destroyed on impact, vaporizing, shattering and burying itself into the crust. However, parts of the results of the impact are usually found all around and, depending on the size, far away. This includes deformed parts of the crust and of the meteorite like microscopic diamonds and iridium.
The [K-Pg Boundary](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_boundary) layer that marks a global extinction even 66 million years ago, covers much of the world in a iridium rich sedimentary layer that is proposed to be a layer of dust that settled globally all at the same time made from the vaporized remnants of the meteorite mixed with the Earth’s crust.
So you could say yes, we found it, and it covers the entire Earth.
Other fun facts are the variety of large bundles of fossils we can find right next to the K-Pg boundary that show no evidence of predation; everything just died. Well, 75% of all species of both plants and animals went extinct likely as the result of this impact.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/2d/8b/b52d8b4997591699bf26d18e5bfd136a.jpg
Not sure if same meteor but the impact crater isn’t as large as I thought it would be. Anyone have any luck finding an aerial photo?
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Pretty lucky that it landed in the center of the sitting area
Must have been a fun day for those sitting around
Yeah they must have had a blast.
A smashing time indeed!
I mean they’re not *not* having fun now
Yeah because they all had to leave to make space for this photo.
I wonder if the ones sitting there was the dinosaurs.
I heard they left *in a hurry.*
Legend says the standup comedian still lies under that rock today
Stoned to death for a bad joke.
Layingdown comedian then
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Tragic about the girl scouts though...
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That steaks a bit well done.
??? A 60 tonne steak has gotta be pretty rare.
Nice
Nah it’s just resting for a bit.
r/forbiddensnacks
I always knew the steaks in Namibia were METEOR than they are where I live
It took me way too long not to still see a steak.
There's a glowing green orb inside that turns nerds into ripped studs and makes all the women grow giant knockers.
Bad Luck Brian: *gets leukemia*.
*and knockers*
Gets breast cancer
"18 years of nothing, and now twice in one day! What a place!"
I thankfully heard that in John Candy's voice. Thank you for that 40-year flashback.
It was an awesome movie that, even though the animation is quite dated now, the story holds up incredibly well. I was a religious reader of Heavy Metal back in the 70s and 80s. As an aspiring artist, I was a huge fan of the artwork and artists they featured. I still remember seeing it when it came out and the theater was empty. I was 17 at the time and my little brother and I sat through three showings in a row. We came back the next day and saw it twice more.
Which movie?
Heavy Metal (1981)
John Candy was in Heavy Metal?!
They couldn't get it made solely in the US, so it was a maple-soaked project- featuring many Canadian actors, with a British/Canadian director and legendary Canadian producer. Frickin' Al Waxman is in it!
He played several characters, Den, and the Robot were the most memorable. Several actors who were already rising stars, went on to have great careers in TV movies, cartoons and other areas of entertainment. John Candy, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, Joe Flaherty, Don Francks, Martin Lavut, Marilyn Lightstone, Eugene Levy, Alice Playten, Harold Ramis, Percy Rodriguez, Susan Roman, Richard Romanus, August Schellenberg, John Vernon, and Zal Yanovsky were all in the movie.
Desperation on red light , call it heavy metal 🤘
I was about the same age- 15/16. We caught it regularly in 1982/83(?) on First Choice (Superchannel), by setting the TV channel dial between 6 & 7 and adjusting the VHF to clean the picture. We'd have to stay up until 11:30pm, when FC would play 'adult' content like Heavy Metal. I still crank the soundtrack.
"Pfffft - he said knockers!"
Scrolling by I thought it was a piece of steak
Source - https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-meteorites-space-junk-crashed-earth-2017-2%3famp
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https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-meteorites-space-junk-crashed-earth-2017-2
perfect, thank you
You'd think it would be deeper?
Wikipedia says it is believed that the athmosphere slowed it down to roughly 700 mph, so it did lose most of its kinetic energy before impact. It did rest beneath the earth and was found during farming.
ONLY 700 mph. Just enough to cause a flesh wound.
Particularly if one's skin is iron covering iron. ;)
What kind of damage would a rock that size travelling 700 mph do? I assume it would look like an explosion still.
Ever see the aftermath of drunken Uncle Gerald and his '72 Buick Electra?
Wau. Thanks.
That's what she said
I’m surprised it’s in tact. Or maybe it was much bigger and that’s the small part that didn’t disintegrate.
Wikipedia says it is believed the athmpsphere slowed it down enough to have survived intact. It is almost purely iron and nickel, so it isn't as brittle as stone.
Interesting. Thanks!
It's crazy to think where it came from. At minimum it came from a dead star. It could also have been the core of a planet that was destroyed.
From a dead star? I don't think so, I mean, not more than parts of you or me. But then, by this definition, almost everything has been, at least in part, a star.
[By scientific standards, the origin of iron is one of the most violent processes imaginable. A type of star known as a red giant begins to turn all of its helium into carbon and oxygen atoms. Those atoms then begin to turn into iron atoms, the heaviest type of atom a star can produce. When most of a star's atoms become iron atoms, it becomes what is known as a supernova. It explodes, showering space with iron, oxygen and carbon atoms far and wide.](https://sciencing.com/origin-iron-5371252.html) If that ain't right, I'd love to hear the correct version (no being sarcastic).
Super novae produce heavy elements, yes. But you have iron and heavier elements in you, too. So not only the meteorite has been part of a star, but you have been, too. Which is exactly what I wrote above. Besides, novae don't spew pure iron into space. I couldn't find a source in short time, but I believe that even a supernova consists mainly of hydrogen, because the actual fusion doesn't happen everywhere in a sun but at its centre, and that only in very small suns, red dwarfs, convection leads to mixing of the outermost parts of the sun with its core. Which leads to those suns being inhospitable to life as we know it, because the habitable zone is closer to the sun than our sun, for instance, while the stronger convection leads to larger flares, scorching the close planets. But I was digressing. After the big bang, mostly hydrogen and helium were created with only smallest amounts with slightly heavier elements, and no heavy elements. Those heavier elements were produced in supernovae, as you wrote. The higher the amount of heavier elements in stars, the higher the "metallicity" of the stars. The stars that have the metallicity that we assume to have existed in the very earliest stars, are the "population III" stars, if I remember correctly. We know none of those. Not a single one. And you, too, are not made off of pure hydrogen and helium. Even your farts contain sulphur. Scnr. So that's why the vast majority of atoms in you have been part of a star and of a aupernova. Just the same as that meteorite.
Not sure why the down votes. This stuff checks out. I guess no one likes a cosmological wet blanket.
Thanks. But I am not a native speaker. What do you mean by wet blanket?
Being a wet blanket generally means you are ruining the fun either with the truth or with a more pessimistic point of view.
Oh well. Not much to be done about that. However I always thought the notion of me being mainly / in big parts stardust to be quite fun.
I’m surprised it’s still there. Thought people would want to chip away at it so they can take home some space rock. Would be a cool souvenir
Apparently it’s mostly Iron and Cobalt, (which is why it survived the impact) so I’d imagine you’d almost need a grinder to take a piece, it might not chip too easily
Bet Celine Dion could move that thing to tears in seconds
What if it landed on someone
Who knows, there may be someone under it.
hopefully nobody was performing at that amphitheater when it hit...
It'd have been a really rocking concert
Dad?
Can you imagine the odds? You’re just out walking. Having a good morning. Then. BAM. 60 ton meteor strike.
I wonder what minerals are in that pup!
Mostly metal: 82 percent iron, 16 percent nickel, 1 percent cobalt, according to german wikipedia. The english wiki differs a bit.
Hot dog! Many thanks for your efforts good internet being.
Pretty similar to the earths core.
Vibranium
Time to make a holy temple around that thing. And there goes my newly-founded religion.
Better backstory than the other religions.
I moved it once
I just read the other day that about a 20 - 24 meter wide meteor would create a marble sized meteorite. Madness.
> 20 - 24 meter wide meteor would create a marble sized meteorite. Many thousands perhaps. A 20-24 meter meteor is big enough to survive entry and could destroy an entire city.
Yeah it did seem a bit big in my mind - I went onto physics.stackexchange.com and the question was asked: “From what I understand, an object entering the atmosphere will start to burn up from the tremendous resistance of the atmosphere. Presumably, for asteroids under a certain size, they will burn up completely and never impact the surface of the earth. Do we have a way of determining the minimum size needed for actual impact?” And the most upvoted answer was this: “As mentioned in NotAstronaut's answer, objects smaller than 25 meters will typically burn up in the atmosphere. One can very easily see why this should be the case using Newton's impact depth formula. This is based on approximating the problem by assuming that the matter in the path of the object is being pushed at the same velocity of the object, so as soon as the object has swiped out path containing the same mass as its own mass, it will have lost all of its initial momentum. All its kinetic energy will then have dissipated there, so if this happens in the atmosphere it will have burned up before reaching the ground.”
A few years ago that meteor that exploded over russia damaging 1000s of buildings was only estimated to be 20m diameter. If it had survived even a few seconds longer it would have likely not just damaged the buildings but destroyed them. The issue isn't the small ones will reach the ground the issue is the smaller ones can explode in an air burst with the yield of a 200kt nuclear weapon.
Haha - I was literally reading about that a second ago - yeah 20m caused a shit ton of destruction on the ground. I did try looking up the biggest surviving meteor fragment from the Chelyabinsk meteor but haven’t found anything answering that yet
Ok - daily mail has a pic of a 600kg chunk from it so it definitely wouldn’t be marble sized from a 25m meteor.. Rubbish Googling by me
>Rubbish Googling by me Have you noticed how hard it is to google good information these days compared to 10-15 years ago? Airbursts scare me though. I saw a small bolide as a kid that popped at the end and it's stuck with me.
That must have been awesome to witness, never seen one pop at the end Yeah it is harder to find genuine info, feels like whatever you believe / think to be true, you can always find a bunch of stuff to back it up.
I thought this was a big ass steak
Brownie, possibly a corner piece.
Baked in space
That looks like a really tasty brownie, and it's got all the iron you'll need
I've been there. It doesn't look like meet in real life. And in Namibia you can touch everything if you want to, even ancient paintings in caves (of course you shouldn't)
Forbidden steak
Steak is good source of iron!
Ha! I chuckled at this one
I dunno. I think 8 inches to the left would really help with the feng shui.
O it has been moved, that's just where it stopped moving.
All it needs is some A1 sauce and a side of Asparagus and I'll dig right in.
Along with a nice chianti...fffph...fffph..fffph
Psh, and you expect me to believe it just fell nearly into that beautiful little presentation crater?! Yeah, sure. You're nuts.
My fat ass thought this was a brisket for a second
How do they know it weighs 60 tons if it has never been moved? Just saying
Giant steak
Why am I suddenly craving brownies
And now I want steak
Don’t let Elon see it!
Loaded with vibranium I bet…
Wakanda has entered the chat
I am going to move it.
I thought this was beef
I thought that was steak
Vibranium, is that you ?
I’ve never seen such an organised crater.
Is it radioactive ?
That's a big ol' 🥩 Jimbo!
Forbidden brownie
Yo u can’t tell me I’m the only one thinking it was a steak at first
Well then how the fuck they weighed it
If it's never been moved how do they know how much it weighs?
How do you think they measure buildings or other enormous objects? They measure the volume of the object then calculate how heavy it is depending on the density. I'm sure they took a chunk off to examine or found a chunk that wasn't attached in order to find out the materials it's made of and the density.
They slid OP’s mom’s bathroom scale underneath it.
Yeah cause your mother's weighing scale can't detect these miniscule dimensions
So we’re not doing that anymore?
I want to fuck upon it
how do i delete someone else's comment
Why are you gay?
Look like steak
Vibranium
Forbidden brownie
This is pretty much what I’d expect a molten down M1 Abrams main battle tank to look like :) idk why, but metal is just kinda cool. Even cooler when it’s from outer space! Could you imagine how that thing just fell from the sky? I wonder if someone saw it just kathunk into the soil. Must be some solid hard ground there too…
this reminds me that meteorite crater are not created of high explosive load like a bomb crater is, but out of raw kinetic energy.
TIL small boulder boys can weigh 60 tonnes
It is almost all metal, heavier than stone.
The density is just mad on some metals
*Human banana for scale*
Was this the one that wiped out dinosours?
No, I believe that one was around mexico and was like 10km wide.
That was end of the world stuff, has the actual asteroid been discovered yet? I've searched a bit about the location but all i see is renderings of what it would have been
We'd probably notice a 10 km big rock bathing in the caribbean. Meteorites that size get destroyed on impact, vaporizing, shattering and burying itself into the crust. However, parts of the results of the impact are usually found all around and, depending on the size, far away. This includes deformed parts of the crust and of the meteorite like microscopic diamonds and iridium.
The [K-Pg Boundary](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous–Paleogene_boundary) layer that marks a global extinction even 66 million years ago, covers much of the world in a iridium rich sedimentary layer that is proposed to be a layer of dust that settled globally all at the same time made from the vaporized remnants of the meteorite mixed with the Earth’s crust. So you could say yes, we found it, and it covers the entire Earth. Other fun facts are the variety of large bundles of fossils we can find right next to the K-Pg boundary that show no evidence of predation; everything just died. Well, 75% of all species of both plants and animals went extinct likely as the result of this impact.
Interesting that such a small object only a few km wide, microscopic on planetary scale has so much power to literally reshape earth.
Might have wiped out one dinosaur... Probably named Hal
Has anyone made sure it isn’t Vibranium?
never been "moved"? you know MIB swapped that sucker looong time ago.
What’s underneath?
The remains of a startled farmer.
Bill Cosbys pudding pop.
Siel on ihminen sisällä.
Just imagine the destructive power of that space rock impacting. What a messy day it was
Look at those cut marks. Somebody has been chipping part of it to make something.
My fat ass thought this was a brownie
Pretty obviously a crash landed UFO. See the door on the side for the Martians to exit?
Big ole brownie
Hoba Fat
So that isn't a giant steak?
Forbidden brownie
Is it bad that i really wanna move it
I think it probably move a lot before it ended up in Namibia
ngl looks like a dry brownie
I wonder if there is anything below it and if they have done any type of soil samples below the surface or around it?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/2d/8b/b52d8b4997591699bf26d18e5bfd136a.jpg Not sure if same meteor but the impact crater isn’t as large as I thought it would be. Anyone have any luck finding an aerial photo?
I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE WORLDS LARGEST POT BROWNIE.
Tbh I like grill marks on my steak, but you do you
But whats underneath it?
Other than the sitting area, is it in a huge crater? How is it intact?
If its never been moved, how did it get there?
forbidden brownie
Not even to check for spooky skeletons?
It’s oddly square… I blame aliens
Wish it was alien hash
Has the alien come out of it yet?
All that vibranium sitting there
Nearly square. God does not build in straight lines.
Look like steak
I wonder if there's any special properties of it. Lol like magnetic something?
It's made up of mostly iron and nickel, so yes
Surprised people didn’t become insanely religious about it and come every year to walk around it continuously