The last picture of HH was taken in 1961 . He didn't die until 1976. A composite of how he might have looked as an old man.
Posted on 01/03/2013 6:36:29 PM PST by BenLurkin
I found it.
In an email.
From you.
You should see what happens when the dogs bark while you're dictating!
freeperfromnj used to track his local muslim fruit guy as a pre-terrorism indicator.
How's your fruit vendor?
I was watching some pretty amazo videos of it last night.
Love the Russian habit of continuously running dash cams!
The last picture of HH was taken in 1961 . He didn't die until 1976. A composite of how he might have looked as an old man.
“How’s your fruit vendor? “
All smiles at the moment, is that a cause for concern?
Early warning by Fruit and Veg Vendor....Interesting Idea.
Almost as funny as when the phone rings, no doubt. Or one sneezes or coughs.
I have a habit of talking to myself, making (in)appropriate comments to things I’m reading online, and the poor program tries to put the comments into words or short phrases. THAT is funny!
Pretty neat, saw some of the video too.
Oddly enough, the one dash cam I saw showed the meteor, but did not record the sonic boom.
I’m guessing that it simply didn’t play long enough. Some of the videos had a flash-bang delay of over a minute. (20km/30 miles!)
(20km/12miles)
“Dear Diary, I discovered today that my mutterings were recorded by my speech recognition software and that the result of this is most extraordinary!
I seem to have summoned Cthulhu.
I do hope he likes tea.”
The bang never was heard on the dashcam I looked at.
Maybe the noise inside the car [stereo/engine noise] drowned out the outside noise?
But I wouldn’t think so because the smokestacks seen in the one video are visible on the dashcam.
12miles is only 63000 feet.
That thing was low, that is the height Concorde flies at.
Oh yeah. The bang was quite loud, windows broken, frames stove in.
Multiple (500-ish) injuries on the ground.
Will have to watch the News, er, tonight and catch the latest.
The videos are quite impressive,did you catch the first thread,um,last night?
Latest from the BBC.
A meteor crashing in Russia’s Ural mountains has injured at least 950 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.
Most of those hurt, in the Chelyabinsk region where the meteor fell, suffered cuts and bruises but at least 46 remain in hospital.
A fireball streaked through the clear morning sky, followed by loud bangs.
President Vladimir Putin said he thanked God no big fragments had fallen in populated areas.
A large meteor fragment landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in Chelyabinsk region.
The meteor’s dramatic passing was witnessed in Yekaterinburg, 200km (125 miles) to the north, and in Kazakhstan, to the south.
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A huge line of smoke, like you get from a plane but many times bigger”
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Chelyabinsk resident
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“It was quite extraordinary,” Chelyabinsk resident Polina Zolotarevskaya told BBC News. “We saw a very bright light and then there was a kind of a track, white and yellow in the sky.”
“The explosion was so strong that some windows in our building and in the buildings that are across the road and in the city in general, the windows broke.”
Officials say a large meteor partially burned up in the lower atmosphere, resulting in fragments falling earthwards.
Thousands of rescue workers have been dispatched to the area to provide help to the injured, the emergencies ministry said.
The Chelyabinsk region, about 1,500km (930 miles) east of Moscow, is home to many factories, a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.
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Larger asteroids are called planetoids or minor planets, smaller ones often called meteoroids
Once any of these enters our planet’s atmosphere, it becomes a meteor
Many meteors break into pieces or burn up entirely as they speed through the atmosphere
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One Russian politician said the event was not a meteor shower but a US weapons test, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted as saying: “Meteors are falling. Those are not meteors, it is Americans testing their new weapon.”
‘Blinding’
Chelyabinsk’s health department said 985 people had sought medical treatment, including 204 children, Interfax reported. Two people in the town of Kopeysk were in a serious condition, it added.
The governor of Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, was quoted elsewhere as saying 950 people had been hurt, two seriously.
Mr Putin promised “immediate” aid for people affected, saying kindergartens and schools had been damaged, and work disrupted at industrial enterprises.
Many children were at lessons when the meteor fell at around 09:20 (03:20 GMT).
Video posted online showed frightened, screaming youngsters at one Chelyabinsk school, where corridors were littered with broken glass.
Chelyabinsk resident Sergei Serskov told BBC News the city had felt like a “war zone” for 20 to 30 minutes.
Astronomer Elizabeth Pearson: “It’s a rare event, but we could be better prepared for the after-effects”
“I was in the office when suddenly I saw a really bright flash in the window in front of me,” he said.
“Then I smelt fumes. I looked out the window and saw a huge line of smoke, like you get from a plane but many times bigger.”
“A few minutes later the window suddenly came open and there was a huge explosion, followed by lots of little explosions.”
In Yekaterinburg, 36-year-old resident Viktor Prokofiev was driving to work when he witnessed the event.
“It was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day,” he was quoted by Reuters as saying.
“I felt like I was blinded by headlights.”
Debris also reportedly fell on the west Siberian region of Tyumen.
Governor Yurevich reported that the meteor had landed in a lake 1km outside Chebarkul, which has a population of 46,000.
A Russian army spokesman said a crater 6m (20ft) wide had been found on the shore of the lake.
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