Russia hit by meteor

[bigsky]

they are coming from Klendathu, a bug planet.

[mbailey]

   Where's Denise Richards and Rico when you need them?

Their off looking for their acting careers 

[Shane]

Their off looking for their acting careers 

And they took your grammar rule book with them, apparently.   

[Devil 505]

The only good bug, is a DEAD bug!

[skorpx1]

If nobody has corrected this, let me be the first to do so.


*Meteorite.

Meteors burn up in the atmosphere, meteorites hit the ground.

[BoilerDown]

And a meteor that buries itself into the ground and liquifies is called a magmeorite.

At least read the thread before posting a "correction" that you assume, incorrectly, is needed.

Anyways, NASA is upgrading their estimated size to around 60 feet and the explosion energy to about 500 kilotons.  I just read a story about a teacher that pulled the old cold war duck and cover instructions to her students, her students were unscathed as the shock wave blew out the windows of her classroom, while she was badly cut up.  Apparently duck and cover still has value, yeah if you're near the blast you're screwed, but if you're in the periphery it could save you from injury.

[Buzzard7]

NASA is saying it was an asteroid about 50ft across, kicked out of the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, probably was sent on its course that ended at Earth today for about a year, traveling at a speed of 40,000 kph.  Detonated 12-15 miles up with the force of a 0.3 megaton bomb. 

Came in with an unusually shallow trajectory, just like you see in all the movies.  Usually they're supposed to come in straight down more or less, and the movie version where it streaks across the sky is supposed to be a rarity.  I'm starting to think they could be mistaken on that point, because all the meteor movies are cross-sky streaks.  Granted those are easier to capture on film too.

The noise of the detonation in the YouTube videos is pretty spectacular.  I like this one, wish he'd hold the camera sideways though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=Np_mpGYSBSA .  It would be easy to think that you just got nuked, though I'd imagine an ICBM contrail would look different I suppose.

New estimates put it at 10,000 tons,55 ft diameter. About 500 kiloton explosive force. JPL says this is from the ground sensor data they put together.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

And a meteor that buries itself into the ground and liquifies is called a magmeorite.

At least read the thread before posting a "correction" that you assume, incorrectly, is needed.

Anyways, NASA is upgrading their estimated size to around 60 feet and the explosion energy to about 500 kilotons.  I just read a story about a teacher that pulled the old cold war duck and cover instructions to her students, her students were unscathed as the shock wave blew out the windows of her classroom, while she was badly cut up.  Apparently duck and cover still has value, yeah if you're near the blast you're screwed, but if you're in the periphery it could save you from injury.

Model example of 'do as I tell you to do, not as I do' 

[Dragon]

I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5eg_lk8zA

[Slash27]

Their off looking for their acting careers 

Who would have thought Jake Busey would have a better career?

[Meatwad]

I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5eg_lk8zA

Clip was ruined when the music was thrown into it

[mbailey]

And they took your grammar rule book with them, apparently.    

They're.....oops  Being that I followed it with a  present participle verb (looking) you would be correct.   Thank you for the correction  ( I found the book, they didnt get far)    

[Shane]

I just took the opportunity to pick you while you were vulching.  

[Vulcan]

Agreed ghost, way too slow.



Someone just lost something important, as to how what or why. who knows..time will tell.


 

So you experts, too slow became 40000+ km/h

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[Gh0stFT]

So you experts, too slow became 40000+ km/h

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