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Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - ijfeswijfae - 02-16-2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/15/russian-meteor-explosion-videos-fireball-chelyabinsk_n_2694496.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.html
It was during this morning that it happened.
About a thousand were reported to be injured.
Also, today was the day that asteroid 2012 DA14 passed by Earth just 17,000 miles away.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Innerwebs - 02-16-2013
Yeah, I heard about it this morning.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Ghosty - 02-16-2013
Yeah, me and Paradox mentioned it in the chat yesterday afternoon. NASA says it's the biggest 'atmospheric event' (it wasn't a true impact, because it broke up) since the infamous Tunguska Event in 1908.
(02-16-2013, 05:44 AM)Myem Wrote: Also, today was the day that asteroid 2012 DA14 passed by Earth just 17,000 miles away.
Which is, interestingly enough, a complete coincidence. They passed by in opposite directions, though I can't remember which was heading north and which was heading south.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Void - 02-16-2013
It wasn't a meteorite and an asteroid, they were just spaceships chasing each other. One got shot down and was pulled into Earth's atmosphere.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Hippo - 02-17-2013
(02-16-2013, 05:53 PM)Void Wrote: It wasn't a meteorite and an asteroid, they were just spaceships chasing each other. One got shot down and was pulled into Earth's atmosphere.
You'd think a spaceship would have some way of preventing burning up in a planet's atmosphere... silly aliens.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - ijfeswijfae - 02-17-2013
(02-16-2013, 05:53 PM)Void Wrote: It wasn't a meteorite and an asteroid, they were just spaceships chasing each other. One got shot down and was pulled into Earth's atmosphere.
Except that's false and I dislike you for spreading the most absurd BS that I've heard this weekend about an event that a thousand people were injured in.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Void - 02-17-2013
(02-17-2013, 09:30 AM)Hippo Wrote:(02-16-2013, 05:53 PM)Void Wrote: It wasn't a meteorite and an asteroid, they were just spaceships chasing each other. One got shot down and was pulled into Earth's atmosphere.
You'd think a spaceship would have some way of preventing burning up in a planet's atmosphere... silly aliens.
The thermal shields obviously failed due to the hit from the other ship.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Innerwebs - 02-17-2013
Russian conspiracy theorists say it was a test for some Murican superweapon.
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Ghosty - 02-17-2013
(02-17-2013, 09:40 PM)Innerwebs Wrote: Russian conspiracy theorists say it was a test for some Murican superweapon.
Oooh boy, if this was the '80s...
RE: Did you hear about the meteor that exploded in Russian skies? - Derpy - 02-19-2013
I saw that O_O