Another Chelyabinsk meteor strike 'SEVEN times as likely' as feared

theregister.co.uk ^ | 6th November 2013 | Iain Thomson,

[BenLurkin]

NASA's checked its space rock maths and it's not good news

"If you look at the number of impacts detected by US government sensors over the past few decades you find the impact rate of kiloton-class objects is greater than would be indicated by the telescopic surveys," said Bill Cooke, meteoroid environment office lead at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at a press conference on Wednesday.

"Over the past few decades we've seen an impact rate about seven times greater than the current state of the telescopic surveys would indicate."

[353FMG]

Couldn’t it be that the meteor was the product of global warming?

[Farnsworth]

Global warming in space is really bad

[BenLurkin]

"want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad."

[BenLurkin]

And my favorite line:

Richie Norris: [after watching the Martians kill Congress on TV] Why did they do that?

Hispanic woman at donut shop: Maybe they no liking the human being.

[bgill]

[353FMG]

The temperature rise on the planet Earth sheds it’s excess heat to outer space.

Whatever happens on Earth affects the solar system and the rest of the universe because of our unique flat shape.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

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