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http://www.weather.com/news/meteor-hits-earth-20130215
First of all to all our gamer friends & opponents from the Motherland, descendants of the proud Viking Rus, I hope none of your loved ones were among the 950 injured by debris from the chunk of meteor that hit a building, if they were I wish them a quick recovery. When I first heard of it, a friend of mine was spreading an apparent rumor that 500 people died by it. I checked out several online news sources and found nothing about any deaths, only mounting injuries. I fear a possible cover up involved here if the initial rumor was actually the true news that leaked out but I am hopeful that no one was killed. So please confirm this.
For those who are not aware, 950 people were injured by flying glass and debris from a building in Chelyabinsk, Russia by a meteor hitting the earth. Meteorites actually bombard our atmosphere every day but most are burned up before they can reach the earth. This sort of event is very rare. But what happens when the earth's atmospher gets too thin to hold them back? Or if one gets through that is just large enough to cause nationwide or worldwide fallout upon impact?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5saMA-__hMQ
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Quite awesome to see such a spectacle, though I hope no one got seriously injured and the damage done to the enviroment isn't too high.
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It's passage through the dense layers of atmosphere looks more spectacular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W90i4nZZAQ
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People were hurt and the world enjoys the show.:(
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Ths is just a reminder of the asteroid that is passing near earth today, closer than the moon's orbit.
Most likely a fragment of it.
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2012-da14-will-pass-very-close-to-earth-in-2013
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950 people injured? Hot damn, someone must of been killed.
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950 people injured? Hot damn, someone must of been killed.
Haha, now, my dear sir, sarcasm is becoming your virtue and the work becoming a genre itself. ;)
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950 people injured
Just another day in soviet russia
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Ths is just a reminder of the asteroid that is passing near earth today, closer than the moon's orbit.
Most likely a fragment of it.
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2012-da14-will-pass-very-close-to-earth-in-2013
"According to NASA scientists, the trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object. Information is still being collected about the Russia meteor and analysis is preliminary at this point. In videos of the meteor, it is seen to pass from left to right in front of the rising sun, which means it was traveling from north to south. Asteroid DA14's trajectory is in the opposite direction, from south to north."
About the Russia meteor http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html)
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Quite a coincidence then.
Thanks Kevin.
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I held some concert here in Leipzig together with the russian community of the town to gather some raising for the victims of the krim floods back then, we had major problems getting the money to someone who actually can provide the money. Do you think this would be the same? Would love to help, but don't want to waste my ressources, time, moneyz...
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Sounds like they wasted a perfectly fine opportunity to grab their K's and start shooting the sky.
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I held some concert here in Leipzig together with the russian community of the town to gather some raising for the victims of the krim floods back then, we had major problems getting the money to someone who actually can provide the money. Do you think this would be the same? Would love to help, but don't want to waste my ressources, time, moneyz...
Red Cross donation?
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Seems like god has delayed the Earth 2.0 update again..
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Quite awesome to see such a spectacle, though I hope no one got seriously injured and the damage done to the enviroment isn't too high.
Sorry but, damage to the environment? You mean from the asteroid itself? Meteors burn up in the atmosphere every day, this one was just bigger than usual, its effect on the environment isn't much of a concern.
I too hope people weren't seriously injured, but I'm also glad this event, along with the coincidental 2012 DA14 asteroid, might serve as a wake-up call to the fact that there should be measures to deflect/change the trajectory of large asteroids that could destroy cities/cause tsunamis, or worse. If discovered early enough, it could be relatively simple to push a large asteroid off its collision course. Technology needs to be improved to have better reliability on detecting NEOs.
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I'd pay a fortune for a chunk of that stone !
If discovered early enough, it could be relatively simple to push a large asteroid off its collision course.
You watched too much Armageddon.
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Repulsion force to change asteroid's trajectory by a few centimeters ≠ asteroid being nuked. It's totally plausible if detected early enough.
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use a big ass laser to slice it into multiple pieces, small enough to completely evaporate in atmosphere.
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Repulsion force to change asteroid's trajectory by a few centimeters ≠ asteroid being nuked. It's totally plausible if detected early enough.
Yea, IKR, but thats not the point. The point is theres by FAR neither the proper technology for that, nor can be the trajectory paths be 100% calculated, nor is there enough data on the properties of big fucking rawwkits or any vehicle outside of our gravity sphere. Asides from some space probes, maybe they can go out on a suicide mission to crash into some asteroid ? :>
For those few centimeters to have an effect, that asteroid needs to be intercepted early on. For such operations, there are no means yet.
Meanwhile, enjoy the fireworks. It's good to remind the human species once in a while that they are, in fact, worms.
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I believe there are plans to launch a satellite with improved technology for scanning for Near-Earth Objects, though I don't remember where I heard this, I think it was on the news some time. But yes, it does sound more sci-fi than anything else, but I still think the point is that it is possible to develop the technology/means.
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"...which culminated in over 950 Russian severely injured or dead. In related news, NCR Bazaar just got 950 times safer! Back to you, Tom."