Posted on 09/21/2007 5:15:49 AM PDT by tlb
Hey, stop confusing the story with logic!.
He’s an editor at Pravda.
So what was your second thought?
This stuff reads like articles from the North Korean “press.” Guess we should start looking for references to “The Great, Dear Leader of the Heroic People, Vladimir Putin,” etc.
“Lake Titicaca”
“I had quite an experience up in Lake Titicaca. Yes, up in Lake Titicaca I had a wonderful experience with a rattlesnake. This rattlesnake was imprisoned under a rock. I took the rock and rolled it off the little fellow’s back. To show his appreciation, he followed me down to the wickiup...we were living in a little place there...The rattlesnake followed me down to the shack. I took my socks off and put it over the snake.
During the night, a marauder crawled in through the window. The snake...sank its teeth into the marauder’s fetlocks, and stuck its tail out the window and rattled for a constable.”
This is the language of the USSR 30 years ago.
Well, no. To "bring down" a bird in the manner described would require some sort of very significant propulsive effect, which a laser would not provide.
Yeah, they're reporting a meteor. What they're NOT reporting, because they're marginally more professional than Pravda, is that it was spy satellite debris. As far as I know, the meteor was confirmed by geologists.
A Russian once told me....”The difference between Russians and Americans is that we know Pravada is BS, but you believe your newspapers”.....Egypt, 1994.
Fiery ball=ablation. From a meteorite.
They already tested, and there was no radiation...but facts never stand in the way of Pracda.
Peru ‘meteorite’ strike leaves 200 sick ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899362/posts
Same thing ? I posted this couple of days ago ...
Hard to believe it could be anything different. I prefer the Pravda article though. It’s funnier AND more current.
Fine, but given the same mass and size, they’ll have the same terminal velocity and thus the same momentum. I’m assuming (perhaps incorrectly?) that meteors slow down as they enter the atmosphere?
The average velocity of meteoroids entering our atmosphere is 10-70 km/second. The smaller ones that survive the trip to the Earth's surface are quickly slowed by atmospheric friction to speeds of a few hundred kilometers per hour, and so hit the Earth with no more speed than if they had been dropped from a tall building. For meteorites larger than a few hundred tons (which fortunately are quite rare), atmospheric friction has little effect on the velocity and they hit the Earth with the enormous speeds characteristic of their entry into our atmosphere. Thus, for example, it is estimated that the meteorite that produced the Barringer Crater was still travelling at 11 km/second when it struck what is now the Arizona desert 49,000 years ago. Such objects do enormous damage, because the kinetic energy carried by the meteorite is the product of the mass and the square of the velocity.
So... A meteor and a satellite with the same mass would have the same momentum and kinetic energy.
No the devil wears pantsuits, and is currently running for President.
DEBKA has competition.
I don’t know if you saw it, but there was an article posted yesterday that said the Peruvian govt. found no radioactivity at the site.
But, then, who knows? Maybe there really is a coverup.
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