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First artificial meteor shower might outshine natural 'shooting stars'
[...] Tokyo-based ALE (for Astro Live Experiences) pitches itself as a pioneer in the "space entertainment sector." It hopes to conduct a groundbreaking artificial meteor event in 2020 using its first satellite over an area near Hiroshima, where it will be observable by up to 6 million people over an area 200 kilometers (124 miles) wide.
[...] "I hope that our man-made meteors will help reveal new discoveries in science, and that it will gather and entertain people under the night sky," CEO Lena Okajima said in a statement.
The satellite creates its sky show by firing off little pellets a centimeter in diameter that are made up of a proprietary mix of non-toxic materials. The "particles," as ALE calls them, are designed to generate a range of bright colors as they heat up and disintegrate during reentry into the atmosphere, all while still over 60 kilometers (37 miles) above our heads.
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Previously: Company Will Create an "Artificial Meteor Shower" Over Hiroshima, Japan in 2019
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 18 2019, @09:19AM (8 children)
>over an area near Hiroshima
It's as if they actively tried to be controversial.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday January 18 2019, @09:59AM (1 child)
They want a show, right? I can give them a magnificent show, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Although the Hiroshima people, maybe they have.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday January 18 2019, @04:37PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 18 2019, @05:47PM
EF being stupid. Again.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 18 2019, @03:33PM (2 children)
It's not like an American company was trying to do that. It's an entertainment company based in Japan, run by Japanese. I've never asked a Japanese person about their feelings with regard to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I can't imagine they were happy about it. The thing is we didn't just nuke them and move on. America was integral to the rapid rise of Japan's economy after World War II. Somehow, the USA didn't end up fleecing them, either.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by richtopia on Friday January 18 2019, @04:50PM
I went to the peace museums in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I highly recommend visiting them if you can. My understanding is that bombing Hiroshima is understood as a logical course of war. However, Nagasaki was only two days later; this did not give the Japanese a chance to surrender and was actually designed to inflate the USA's atomic capacity in the eyes of the Soviets.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday January 18 2019, @06:16PM
It was critically important to prevent the commies from advancing further on the Pacific coast, especially after 1949.
The US propped Japan up because they were scared of them Reds, not out of sheer humanity. And people do know that. The research conducted, and the lies told, by the US at both bombing places, are also known to have been ethically "questionable", and caused more deaths, especially in a country where the dead are revered.