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Chelyabinsk meteor #2? Massive flash over Russia’s Urals stuns locals & scientists
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Posted on 11/18/2014 7:38:30 PM PST by traumer
An extraordinary bright orange flash has lit up the sky in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region in the Urals. While locals captured the massive ‘blast’ on numerous cameras, both scientists and emergency services still struggle to explain the unusual event.
Dark evening skies in the town of Rezh in Sverdlovsk region near Russia's Ekaterinburg turned bright orange for some ten seconds on November 14, with the event being caught on several cameras by the locals.
A driver filmed the massive flash with his dashcam, later posting the video on YouTube, with more people commenting they’ve seen it too. Teenagers in the town of Rezh also filmed the phenomenon with a mobile phone.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; chelyabinsk; ekaterinburg; meteor; meteors; rezh; russia; science; sverdlovsk; v
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To: editor-surveyor
Color indicates the burning of a metal at more normal furnace temps, not a nuclear reaction.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. There is a much dimmer steady glow that people were already filming and then the flare. Looks a lot like a flare from one of the old open blast furnaces.
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11/19/2014 6:16:15 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: PeaceBeWithYou; All
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11/19/2014 7:33:23 AM PST
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BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: wetphoenix
In fact Powers was shot only about a dozen miles away Southeast from the place there it is filmed. Sergei Khrushchev wrote about that famous incident in 2000:
The Day We Shot Down The U-2
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11/19/2014 9:29:26 AM PST
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cynwoody
To: wetphoenix
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11/19/2014 9:31:04 AM PST
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Lazamataz
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To: traumer
INVA-SION!"
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11/19/2014 9:40:23 AM PST
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RckyRaCoCo
(Shall Not Be Infringed)
To: cynwoody
There is a decommissioned S-75 SAM sitting at the place to this day to commemorate Powers shot down. Note the American truck parts shop at the first floor of motel at background.
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11/19/2014 2:50:34 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: dangus
I like the idea of a dash cam. I think it would be a great idea for anyone. Lots of fraud here too! Unless it’s a fortune, your insurance company doesn’t care, they’ll happily pay out a few grand and jack your rates through the roof, PERMANENTLY.....
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11/19/2014 4:10:20 PM PST
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KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: KoRn
Ditto that on dash cams. Wish I had one.
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11/19/2014 5:46:06 PM PST
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miserare
(2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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