Meteorite wrecks houses in India

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[scotslad]

At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India. Reports say hundreds of people in the state of Orissa panicked when the fireball streamed across the sky.

Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying several houses.

An official in Orissa said the authorities were assessing the damage and trying to recover what was left of the meteor.

Reports from Orissa said windows rattled as the meteor passed overhead.

"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight everywhere," one resident said.

Rarity

Experts estimate about 100 tons of extraterrestrial dust grains fall to earth each day.

Occasionally, a dark pebble or fist-size object will rain down, with boulder-sized objects or bigger being a historical rarity.

The only recorded fatality from a meteor was an Egyptian dog that had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in 1911.

Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.

[aruanan]

with boulder-sized objects or bigger being a historical rarity.

This part's not true. Objects weighing hundreds and thousands of pounds burn up in the atmosphere many times each year.

[Centurion2000]

Wasn't there that one blast over the skies of New Guniea that duplicated a 10 kilton atomic explosion in 1991 ?

[Darksheare]

First off, I want to issue this statement.
Gran, gang, I have nothing at all to do with this.
I was NOT teleporting anything between dimensions, I was NOT experimenting with interdimensional phase waves, I was NOT playing God with subatomic particles, I did NOT change any orbital paths of any celestial bodies, I was NOT anywhere near any portals, nor was I involved in any way with the meteor (Zirky!) shower.
Thank you.

But it was a good meteor shower I hear.

[Davea]

This Greenland hit was pretty big.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/40144.stm

[AnAmericanMother]

Meow!

[Davea]

There was a 12 kiloton explosion in the atmosphere a little while ago.....http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020916/meteor.html

[Soaring Feather]

Sooooo you say Dark!! LOL

I know you did it!!

[Consort]

External kidney stones.

[Axenolith]

If that was moving at 12.4 miles per second six feet off the ground the impact with the earths surface would leave a smoking hole about 100+ feet across...

[Davea]

Here's another kiloton blast over the Pacific..http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010823083438.htm

[Davea]

"If that was moving at 12.4 miles per second six feet off the ground the impact with the earths surface would leave a smoking hole about 100+ feet across..." I've taken divots that big. But I always replace them:-)

[Darksheare]

Okay. .okay..
I'm caught..
But I won't revealwhat I was working on.
Nope.
No way.
Nothing can get me to reveal the dimensional shambler.
Oops.

[Centurion2000]

This was a rather ominous passage from that website link above.

Every year there are about 30 meteors that explode in the atmosphere with power greater than a kiloton — the equivalent of a thousands tons of TNT — Worden said.

[Darksheare]

Yeah.
I'm waiting for another Tunguska(spelling?) impact to happen.
If that had happened during the nuclear age, it might've set off a panicked launch of missiles before anyone bothered to check it out first.

It's enough to worry about, but not enough to hide under the table quaking in abject terror over.
*chuckle*
We've had some darn lucky near misses too lately.

[Mo1]

Yea, sure .. I've heard that excuse before

[Darksheare]

It was an unexpected byproduct!
And I didn't know the party was THAT loud either..
And the drinks getting spilled on the controls and all..

[wideminded]

Funny, I don't see anything as groundbreaking as Thrmodynamic Laws, Kepler's Laws of Motion or the General Theory of Relativity .. so no, he's a genius but not inventing anything new.

Talented yes , original .... nothing as big as the others. Had he been educated in America or England, he would have been extraordinarily formidable.

Mathematicians generally speaking don't invent things. They discover theorems. Sometimes these results don't find application in other sciences for a long time, even hundreds of years. Ramanujan was not a physicist so he would not be coming up with a physical theory like the examples you mention, which are all quite old. Ramanujan died in 1920 but some of his results are being used by physicists today. Ramanujan was "extraordinarily formidable" and he did discover new things that no one ever thought of before. When he came to England he was already respected by the top mathematicians there. Perhaps if he had received more training in England he would have done more or perhaps his unique talent would have been ruined.

Another problem is that most important "inventions" and physical theories can be explained in some way to the general public. But sometimes the most important mathematical discoveries are too abstract to be explained to the general public, many of whom have developed an aversion to even the simplest mathematics.

[Frankss]

The Indian made tooling and machinery that we sometimes buy, is inferior in every way. It is rough, innacurate,comes pre-rusted, and wears out fast, similar to the Chinese stuff. It is CHEAP though. Go to the sale bin at a hardware store and find a $1.00 hammer made in India. Now find an Estwing brand hammer made in USA $25 There is a difference and it's not just the price.

[Mo1]

ahhhh .. so now the truth is coming out ;0)

[null and void]

Besides, the ancient Indians invented '0'.

So did the Mayans, between carving the hearts out of living humans, and gouging eyes out of all the POW's they captured...