However, the main thing which I can't stop thinking about is how many cameras caught a glimpse of this meteor as it flew across the sky. I mean, no one knew this coming, so it is not like they could set up cameras. Plus, it didn't happen near a major city. It happened in Siberia, which is literally the place most people would use when trying to think of an example of a place in the middle of nowhere. Despite that, within a couple hours we had 20 different camera angles to check out and not only were there multiple cameras, the pictures were clear - not the grainy, low-quality shots you would expect. It just goes to show you how much you are on camera without realizing it. Between security cameras, dashboard cameras and cellphones it is actually rare that something happens without being captured for posterity. If anything, this just proves why people are right to say they will no longer believe something without seeing it for themselves. If the world can produce multiple clear videos of an event which happened for 30 seconds in one of the more remote part of the worlds than I'm not going to believe aliens landed outside your door without definitive proof. (Sorry, hoaxers, the bar has been raised.) Just remember: you may be watching the sky, but someone is watching you while you do.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Watching The Watchers
Obviously, the biggest story over the last couple of days was the meteorite which crashed into Russia early Friday morning. The rock, which was roughly the same size as a shoolbus before it broke into several smaller (though still large) pieces, hit with roughly the same force as a 1940s-era atomic bomb. The shockwave following the landing was felt for miles, leveled a zinc factory, shattered almost every windows for 30 miles and injured nearly 1,000 people. As you would expect, there is a lot to delve into with this story. The first is the rather ironic twist that for most of the week everyone was focused on the large asteroid which was set to buzz the Earth later Friday afternoon and while we couldn't stop talking about the thing which was going to miss us by 17,000 miles (which isn't a big difference when thought about in the context of space) we were totally unaware regarding the thing which actually hit us. (Space is sneaky that way.) I could also rail about why this is a perfect metaphor for why the world should spend more money on space exploration, because space is pretty big and we aren't monitoring enough of it.
However, the main thing which I can't stop thinking about is how many cameras caught a glimpse of this meteor as it flew across the sky. I mean, no one knew this coming, so it is not like they could set up cameras. Plus, it didn't happen near a major city. It happened in Siberia, which is literally the place most people would use when trying to think of an example of a place in the middle of nowhere. Despite that, within a couple hours we had 20 different camera angles to check out and not only were there multiple cameras, the pictures were clear - not the grainy, low-quality shots you would expect. It just goes to show you how much you are on camera without realizing it. Between security cameras, dashboard cameras and cellphones it is actually rare that something happens without being captured for posterity. If anything, this just proves why people are right to say they will no longer believe something without seeing it for themselves. If the world can produce multiple clear videos of an event which happened for 30 seconds in one of the more remote part of the worlds than I'm not going to believe aliens landed outside your door without definitive proof. (Sorry, hoaxers, the bar has been raised.) Just remember: you may be watching the sky, but someone is watching you while you do.
However, the main thing which I can't stop thinking about is how many cameras caught a glimpse of this meteor as it flew across the sky. I mean, no one knew this coming, so it is not like they could set up cameras. Plus, it didn't happen near a major city. It happened in Siberia, which is literally the place most people would use when trying to think of an example of a place in the middle of nowhere. Despite that, within a couple hours we had 20 different camera angles to check out and not only were there multiple cameras, the pictures were clear - not the grainy, low-quality shots you would expect. It just goes to show you how much you are on camera without realizing it. Between security cameras, dashboard cameras and cellphones it is actually rare that something happens without being captured for posterity. If anything, this just proves why people are right to say they will no longer believe something without seeing it for themselves. If the world can produce multiple clear videos of an event which happened for 30 seconds in one of the more remote part of the worlds than I'm not going to believe aliens landed outside your door without definitive proof. (Sorry, hoaxers, the bar has been raised.) Just remember: you may be watching the sky, but someone is watching you while you do.
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