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Russian meteor blast injures at least 1,000 people (3000 damaged buildings)-VIDEO-
CNN.com ^ | 2/15/2013 | Phil Black, Boriana Milanova and Laura Smith-Spark

Posted on 02/15/2013 11:00:09 AM PST by dragnet2

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To: dragnet2

I can’t say I blame them. Like she said, she never wants to experience anything like that ever again. Her ears were ringing after the blast for about 5 minutes or so, according to her. It was loud, by her account.


61 posted on 02/15/2013 3:09:48 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: dragnet2

I notice that they instinctively went to duck and cover, it seems that the majority of injuries were the type that would have been avoided, by D&C.

People need to be trained to not go look through the windows at whatever explosive noise, or bright flash, just occured.


62 posted on 02/15/2013 3:13:16 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is a longtime supporter of homosexualizing the Boy Scouts (and the military).)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

Russians can be a pretty tough lot....If this happened over here, people would freak

Wait till one about the size of an aircraft carrier moving at 20k mph impacts near a population center....Not if, it’s when will happen.


63 posted on 02/15/2013 3:16:10 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq9ZeBn5qA8 This is an awesome vid.


64 posted on 02/15/2013 3:22:16 PM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

This one’s wild, at Red Rocks, you’ll have to ignore some annoying left coast yuppies for a few minutes to get to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0BifYPQQJE


65 posted on 02/15/2013 3:37:45 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Strategerist; Yollopoliuhqui
They generally constantly try to highlight the hazard, not downplay it.

Experience shows that astronomers try to be honest about any 'hazard'.

It is the media and the government who control what is revealed to the public.

Of note is that governments have built NEAR (telescopes that watch for Near Earth Asteroids, comets, etc) Stations all over the world.

The problem is that fast rocks with no headlights are hard to see, and there are an almost limitless amount of 'tracks' they can take.

Besides, most of the NEAR meteor info is available to the public rite-cheer.

Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: At bottom of page.

66 posted on 02/15/2013 4:39:51 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: CPO retired
The US Navy could possibly have detected and brought down this thing.

Why bother?

It seems to have brought itself down just fine.

67 posted on 02/15/2013 5:22:17 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: Patriot Babe

The Day of the Triffids!


68 posted on 02/15/2013 5:29:04 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Hey RATS! Control your murdering freaks.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Experience shows that astronomers try to be honest about any 'hazard'.

Ya they're all Republican...In fact, Astronomers are "Saint like"...They don't go to bars, get drunk, punch each other out, vote Democrat, buy their kids Red Rider's or vomit on the in-laws porch. etc., etc.

They plant bushes and massage sod.

69 posted on 02/15/2013 6:43:16 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

I’m starting a green energy company around large meteorite strikes. It involves carbon fiber and titanium trampolines and lasers and stuff, perhaps even Blu-Ray with WiFi built-in and cross-controlled from a single iPad all on a carbon footprint the size of a postage stamp. The carbon credits alone should pay for the project.

Are you interested in funding me?


70 posted on 02/15/2013 7:06:47 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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71 posted on 02/15/2013 7:19:32 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It was a city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) 200 miles north of Chelybinsk.
Chelyabinsk is a home for a lot of defense research and manufacturing too.


72 posted on 02/15/2013 8:14:47 PM PST by cunning_fish
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Not so much bio-weapons, but Chelyabinsk Oblast (the equivalent of a state or province) had several top-secret nuclear facilities in it.

The city itself was more famous in Russia for becoming the center of T-34 tank production during WW II. The T-34 factories were disassembled, moved from the west of the country a thousand miles east to and beyond the Urals, and reassembled. Chelyabinsk became known as “Tankograd” as a result.

}:-)4


73 posted on 02/15/2013 8:39:48 PM PST by Moose4 (SHALL. NOT. BE. INFRINGED.)
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To: dragnet2

Turns out this wasn’t a lone object. They think this was part of a meteor shower. Some showers can last for up to 10 days. I hope there aren’t more of these coming at us.


74 posted on 02/15/2013 9:41:17 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: dragnet2

About 10 of these enter our atmosphere per year but for the most part they land in the ocean.


75 posted on 02/15/2013 10:23:46 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: AnAmericanAbroad

A FReeper’s beeber was stuned!


76 posted on 02/15/2013 10:25:01 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Night of the Comet!


77 posted on 02/15/2013 10:29:14 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: chessplayer

Fireball Streaks Across Bay Area Sky (San Fran)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989083/posts


78 posted on 02/15/2013 10:31:27 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

“What if that had happened during the Cold War and the Soviets believed that was one of our nukes?
Be thankful that the Cold War is over for we have a president who just might do what the Hollywood-commie-loving pukes did in the movie “Fail Safe”.

To placate their commie heroes the Hollywood crowd had the President of the United States order an immediate nuclear strike on New York City. (At the time I think NYC had a Republican mayor and Obama probably would pick a Republican state to nuke.)”

So you would rather ALL of russia and america die rather than one city in each country? Thank God children like you will never be in positions of power


79 posted on 02/16/2013 12:56:05 AM PST by patrick3000
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To: dragnet2

80 posted on 02/16/2013 5:39:42 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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