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Title: The Sky is Falling
Post by: patric on February 15, 2013, 11:15:16 AM
Well, maybe a few pieces here and there...



(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02482/ateroid-windows_2482408c.jpg)
(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/02/15/meteor021513_00009-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083)

Initial reports out of Russia indicate that no dinosaurs survived the blast.
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Gaspar on February 15, 2013, 12:03:55 PM
Asteroid zips by in a couple of hours.

CNN of course suggests it could be caused by global warming.

http://now.msn.com/deb-feyerick-cnn-anchor-seems-to-link-global-warming-and-asteroids
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Townsend on February 15, 2013, 12:35:48 PM
Start screaming

NASA Follows Asteroid Flyby

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 (http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2)
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: patric on February 15, 2013, 12:49:56 PM
Quote from: Townsend on February 15, 2013, 12:35:48 PM

Start screaming


Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Townsend on February 15, 2013, 01:30:17 PM
It's now moving away from us.
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: dbacks fan on February 15, 2013, 01:32:06 PM
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Townsend on February 15, 2013, 01:59:53 PM
Obviously this hole, in no way, could be made by man.  Reportedly the landing spot of the meteorite.

(http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/lakeandcrater.jpg)
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Gaspar on February 15, 2013, 03:08:14 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Baby found in the middle of the Meteorite crash site, he is miraculously unharmed. Wrapped in what seems to be a red cape.
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: sgrizzle on February 16, 2013, 12:40:18 PM
Quote from: Gaspar on February 15, 2013, 12:03:55 PM
Asteroid zips by in a couple of hours.

CNN of course suggests it could be caused by global warming.

http://now.msn.com/deb-feyerick-cnn-anchor-seems-to-link-global-warming-and-asteroids


(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/02/17/ugeba4us.jpg)
Not sure if serious
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: custosnox on February 16, 2013, 02:28:24 PM
It's getting crazy out there

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Watch-Fireball-Streaks-Across-Bay-Area-Sky-191508391.html
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: nathanm on February 16, 2013, 03:53:19 PM
Meteors bright enough to be described as fireballs aren't actually that uncommon. Back when I was often driving between Fayetteville and Tulsa in the middle of the night I'd see one at least once a month. Always something bizarre on that drive at that time of night, though. I think Siloam Springs is not quite what it seems. :D

What is uncommon are ones large enough to make it low enough at high enough speed to generate sonic booms and large shock waves like the one in Russia.
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Conan71 on February 16, 2013, 07:38:11 PM
Quote from: nathanm on February 16, 2013, 03:53:19 PM
Meteors bright enough to be described as fireballs aren't actually that uncommon. Back when I was often driving between Fayetteville and Tulsa in the middle of the night I'd see one at least once a month. Always something bizarre on that drive at that time of night, though. I think Siloam Springs is not quite what it seems. :D

What is uncommon are ones large enough to make it low enough at high enough speed to generate sonic booms and large shock waves like the one in Russia.

Is it the Perseid showers we get every August?  Just about any night during mid-August out east of the lights of Tulsa, there's a spectacular show well into the wee hours of the morning.
Title: Re: Re: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: Hoss on February 16, 2013, 09:38:33 PM
Quote from: Conan71 on February 16, 2013, 07:38:11 PM
Is it the Perseid showers we get every August?  Just about any night during mid-August out east of the lights of Tulsa, there's a spectacular show well into the wee hours of the morning.

Yea that would be the Perseids.
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: sauerkraut on February 27, 2013, 01:29:03 PM
The damage is stunning- and that was just a tiny rock. I'd hate to be around when a larger rock hits. They say the force was like 20 atomic bombs and it exploded 30 miles in the air.
Title: Re: The Sky is Falling
Post by: sauerkraut on February 27, 2013, 01:39:42 PM
Quote from: Gaspar on February 15, 2013, 12:03:55 PM
Asteroid zips by in a couple of hours.

CNN of course suggests it could be caused by global warming.

http://now.msn.com/deb-feyerick-cnn-anchor-seems-to-link-global-warming-and-asteroids
Yep, everything is caused by global warming. I wonder how wildlife in Russia handled that blast, one video showed a dog running thru a yard as if it's hind quarters was on fire after one of the booms. The birds and animals must have been frightened too. As far as I know no one reported a tiny asteroid coming in with the biger asteroid that buzzed our planet. The bottom line is Sooner or latter a big asteroid will hit Earth and we likely won't even see it coming.