>“With the normal rate for fireballs, someone would have to sit outside for 20 hours straight to see one,” said Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society. “With the Taurids, (that time) can be reduced quite a bit, maybe down to five hours. And if you’re really lucky, you could just step outside and within a few minutes see one. When they appear is totally unpredictable.”
Saturday night will be the peak. Might be a good time to set up a camera but I wouldn't stare at the sky for 5 hours.
Spot on. I'm sure our own broadcasts fizzle out into noise before they even reach the Proxima system. I wonder how far we could "signal" if we wanted to be found.
The problem with Europa is that it is 15 kilometers thick and the water it encases is under extremely high pressure. We could maybe observe microbes in the water it ejects into space through geological activity but we are nowhere near technologically advanced enough to uncover whats beneath the ice.
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>“With the normal rate for fireballs, someone would have to sit outside for 20 hours straight to see one,” said Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society. “With the Taurids, (that time) can be reduced quite a bit, maybe down to five hours. And if you’re really lucky, you could just step outside and within a few minutes see one. When they appear is totally unpredictable.”
Saturday night will be the peak. Might be a good time to set up a camera but I wouldn't stare at the sky for 5 hours.