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Skydiver’s Helmet Cam Captures a Falling Meteor Almost Hitting Him
PETAPIXEL ^
| april 03,2014
| Michael Zhang
Posted on 04/03/2014 1:21:29 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
For the first time ever, a meteor has been captured on camera falling through the sky after it has finished burning. And thats not all: the baseball-sized space rock nearly slammed into the man behind the camera.
(Excerpt) Read more at petapixel.com ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; freefall; meteor; norway; skydive; skydiver; skydiving; surroundedbyidiots
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To: TheThirdRuffian
What?!? You expect a Freeper to READ THE ARTICLE before posting?
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
04/03/2014 1:58:58 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(my real nickname is Otter)
To: djf
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posted on
04/03/2014 2:02:28 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
To: autumnraine
I know. People seem to enjoy wallowing in stupidity.
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posted on
04/03/2014 2:06:13 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I hope he kept his mouth quiet until he retrieved it. Those suckers are worth millions.
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posted on
04/03/2014 2:12:49 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: SWAMPSNIPER
If this rock and cracked him on the noggin and knocked him cold, then he plowed into the ground with the usual tissue damage, what are the chances the coroner would have reached the meteorite scenario for cause of death?
To: Disambiguator
To: Disambiguator
She’s extremely not guilty. I liked how they were laughing about “if you’d jumped a fraction of a second later you’d have been killed.”
Ha ha ha ha.
Off to Valhalla.
Ha ha ha.
Must also be a Scandy thing.
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posted on
04/03/2014 2:34:27 PM PDT
by
henkster
(I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
To: originalbuckeye
Bookmarking your bookmark.
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posted on
04/03/2014 2:37:08 PM PDT
by
Inyo-Mono
(NRA)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
One more reason not to go skydiving.
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posted on
04/03/2014 3:12:31 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(my real nickname is Otter)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Fabulous photos of it. Amazing to think rocks just fall on us all the time.
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posted on
04/03/2014 3:14:26 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: djf
If you view the video you will see the airplane as a small white blip miles in the distance before the rock passes. In order for the rock to be proximate to him the airplane would have to have been practically hovering above him.
Or do you think someone can throw a rock that close from several miles away?
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posted on
04/03/2014 3:35:28 PM PDT
by
Justa
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Piece of something that came off his chute when it opened. It would have had to be dense like a rock to fall like that.
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posted on
04/03/2014 3:40:51 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
04/03/2014 3:44:40 PM PDT
by
pallis
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Frozen turd from an airline lavatory.
To: dangus
Well I guess it's here somewhere, about 10 miles SSE of Hedmark, Norway:
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posted on
04/03/2014 5:39:32 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: colorado tanker; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Impossible! All rocks burn up in the atmosphere / rocks are picked up by the winds from elsewhere on the Earth ping. Thanks colorado tanker.
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posted on
04/04/2014 3:11:56 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
To: TheThirdRuffian
Thanks, it was a valiant effort. :’)
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posted on
04/04/2014 3:18:37 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
To: eartrumpet
The helmet probably would have had a mark on it, but the odds against it are so low that the suggested explanation wouldn’t have been believed — even with that cam footage, which might have shown the rock hurtling on.
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04/04/2014 3:28:29 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
To: Justa
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posted on
04/04/2014 3:28:52 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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