Thread: Hundreds injured by meteor hitting Russia

I haven't heard yet why they didn't know this one was coming. Maybe too small.

The video pretty cool. Everyone is looking at the vapor trail and then BOOM

An event like that would certainly lead to some entertaining conversation at the pub.

Woah...here you go! Definitely NOT what you want to see as your driving down the highway.

Wow. Thing is, something like that could cause a launch of nukes. If I saw something like that and then heard the explosion followed by damage, my first thought would be we just took a hit from a nuke, the sort that would take out all electronics from an EM burst. Good thing is wasn't over Moscow.

Originally Posted by OldmanDan

I haven't heard yet why they didn't know this one was coming. Maybe too small.

If it comes in from the direction of the sun, we might not even know it was headin our way.We know about many of these things, but not close enough for a complete knowledge.

Originally Posted by Blue Doggy

Wow. Thing is, something like that could cause a launch of nukes. If I saw something like that and then heard the explosion followed by damage, my first thought would be we just took a hit from a nuke, the sort that would take out all electronics from an EM burst. Good thing is wasn't over Moscow.

I think the chances are pretty remote for Russia to launch due to a meteor or comet strike. I think they’d identify the cause / source before they launched.
No telling how Iran or Pakistan might react though.

Originally Posted by Voland

The people of Russias Ural region, especially around the city of Yekaterinburg, may have escaped a major and luckily unlikely catastrophy this morning. A meteor hit the region, causing a blast that blew out windows, caused roofs to collapse, rocked buildings and caused accidents, leading to around 400 injured people. At least the device from outer space was friendly enough to land in a lake apparently, and not on a nuclear plant ( of which there are some in the region), a nuclear storage site ( there is one not far) or to hit one of the regions cities, like Yekaterinburg or Chelyabinsk, where it could easily have caused much worse damage and casualties. For Russians the case has brought up memories of the "Tunguska incident" when a meteor hit a luckily sparsely populated area in Sibiria in 1908 and destroyed an area of about 2000 square cilometres, the largest meteorite impact ever in recorded history :

It wasn't a meteor... it was Chuck Norris bitch slapping Vladimir Putin.

I tell you...in watching some of the video it's pretty freaky. I mean seeing it approach you'd barely have time to kiss your ass goodbye then you get the relief of "whew! It missed" and then a minute later you get the pressure wave. It definitely gives one a little perspective.

Originally Posted by Lutherf

I tell you...in watching some of the video it's pretty freaky. I mean seeing it approach you'd barely have time to kiss your ass goodbye then you get the relief of "whew! It missed" and then a minute later you get the pressure wave. It definitely gives one a little perspective.

Kind of like and F4 run. You never heard anything coming until it had dropped its bombs and passed overhead.