It's eggs are in most small children's homes: just waiting to hatch...
Posted on 02/15/2013 11:00:09 AM PST by dragnet2
Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning, before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt
The number of injured has continued to rise through the day as new reports come in from across a swath of central Russia.
Most of those hurt are in the Chelyabinsk region, the news agency said. The vast majority of injuries are not thought to be serious.
About 3,000 buildings have sustained damage -- mostly broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast
About 20,000 emergency response workers have been mobilized
Amateur video footage showed a bright white streak moving rapidly across the sky, before exploding with an even brighter flash and a deafening bang.
The explosion occurred about 9:20 a.m. local time, as many people were out and about.
One large chunk was discovered in a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, RIA Novosti cited the Chelyabinsk governor as saying.
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The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood,
Some fragments may have hit a lake near Chelyabinsk.
a tennis ball sized piece could have mad that hole.
The WAVE from the impact would chew up a LOT more ice and fling it outward, than the actual size of the fragment.
It IS; in RUSSIA!
Our 'pravda' has BIGGER fish to fry.
Not to RUSSIANS!
And; it has an emerald mine!
And a UNIVERSITY...
And Denton's room!
55° 11' 19" N
61° 25' 30" E
Having a blast will be no windows.
It's eggs are in most small children's homes: just waiting to hatch...
Then just WHERE did the 'bullet' land?
Or did it just make a glancing blow thru the lower atmosphere and head on into space?
It just VANISHED in all the videos I've seen!
AMEN!
Where DO they find these twits?
I worked in a Naval plant that repaired and aligned the guidence systems for ICBMs on our subs.
It was a given that we’d see no flash, as our nervous system doesn’t work that fast.
Would you rather be hit with a deer slug or a shotgun; as all a bomb would do to a 10 ton solid rock is to turn it into 10 tons of flying gravel!
——Or did it just make a glancing blow thru the lower atmosphere——
The video seems to point to that conclusion.
I highly doubt that the Russians used ANYTHING!
Did you SEE any contrails that intersected the thing as it came in?
Oh NO!
You've typed D&C and I have a reflex respose that REQUIRES me to post something relevant!
I must resist...
I MUST resist...
Maybe...
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did it slow down enough to do a big looping turn in space, and it'll be BACK??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ypn0y32Ac
wow, thanks for the link.
An ICBM travels pretty fast too, the idea is to intercept it not catch up with it. That said there is no anti missile system capable of intercepting a meteorite on short notice. By short notice I mean “Holly s**t what that in the sky?” lol, but just for grins a 20 lbs anything inpacking a meteor traveling at 60,000 mph would result in a very very big band as e=mv2 and 60k mph squared is a very big number. Lets do the math! Mass is about 9kg, velocity is about 30,000m per second so the energy is about 8.1 billion joules. That is enough energy to light up 81 million 100 watt light bulbs for 1 second. Or about 2.1 kilotons of TNT, a small nuke, Not bad for a 20lbs payload.
The two big immediate threats from a nuke are 1) the heat wave (flash) 2) the blast wave. Just getting in a shadow will protect you from the heat wave, so by all means do not turn into the light. If you do you will probably go blind. Once the flash has ended get away from glass windows as fast as you can. Flying glass is a big killer. It is possible to survive a nuke if you are far enough away that the over pressure will not collapse the structure you are in. So yes duck and cover can work. If you are alive after the blast move upwind to avoid the fallout.
That’s an amazing picture. The smoke was an interesting color. I wonder what the meteor was made of.
Telling them not to look at the flash was not sillier than telling them to get under their desks! But apparently they had drills; just like today students have fire drills and tornado drills, they had nuclear bomb drills. LOL He confesses he was terrified at the idea of strangers coming and taking the teacher away. Would his mom still be allowed to pick him up? It makes me wonder what the purpose of that was... maybe trying to bring up a generation scared of the Soviets?
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