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

[dragnet2]

Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday morning, before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt

The number of injured has continued to rise through the day as new reports come in from across a swath of central Russia.

Most of those hurt are in the Chelyabinsk region, the news agency said. The vast majority of injuries are not thought to be serious.

About 3,000 buildings have sustained damage -- mostly broken glass -- as a result of the shock waves caused by the blast

About 20,000 emergency response workers have been mobilized

Amateur video footage showed a bright white streak moving rapidly across the sky, before exploding with an even brighter flash and a deafening bang.

The explosion occurred about 9:20 a.m. local time, as many people were out and about.

One large chunk was discovered in a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, RIA Novosti cited the Chelyabinsk governor as saying.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Cute..

"children like you"?

The fictional story was just another example of the myriad liberal attacks on anti-communists -- the book / movie aside, liberals, et al felt that we had to be nice to the U.S.S.R. lest we play into the hands of Soviet hard-liners, there would be war and it would be our fault.

As for the story line.. yes, I would have been against what the fictional president did and instead have him confront the Soviets with their half of MAD.

Personally I did not believe the Soviets had the capabilities to respond in kind. That is why the so called "Cuban missile crisis" did not worry me one whit.

[dragnet2]

wow, thanks for the link.

Pretty impressive huh?

It must have blown them away when they found out what caused it.

[UCANSEE2]

... and their farts don’t smell.

However, the point I was (poorly) trying to make was that Astronomers report what they see. It is the media and government who control what the public is made aware of.

[dragnet2]

No...There are readily available publications, venues and other sites put out by astronomers for astronomers.

In addition, the media no longer controls everything ya read like the old school newspapers and TV news, which were and are totally manipulated, censored and controlled...It's why they hate the Internet so bad.

BTW, this event did not need to be embellished, censored or exaggerated etc, as it was spectacular all by itself. Besides, it was totally outside government control as it was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who immediately put it out on the Internet...

[UCANSEE2]

BTW, this event did not need to be embellished, censored or exaggerated etc, as it was spectacular all by itself. Besides, it was totally outside government control as it was witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people who immediately put it out on the Internet...

Well.... I can certainly agree with that.

[Elsie]

Throw a ping-pong ball at a speeding cement truck?

[Elsie]

No no NO!

That's an OLD picture that shows a MISSILE chasing down something.

The meteor did NOT have that kind of picture.

[Elsie]

It is the media and government who control what the public is made aware of.

And SPINS it during the awaring process, too!

[Eva]

LOL! Thanks. I have since looked at other pictures, but most have been of the meteor shower that was caused by the meteor, in England and Europe.

[Elsie]

Sorry; we thought this was the white sand beaches of Cancun.

Beam us up; Scruffy!

[Elsie]

Checkout time 53:12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jeW30vLwds

I just checked with GoogleTranslate and Chelyabinsk in English means: Grover’s Mill.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Nowhere Man]

Didn’t the USS Lake Erie shoot down a bus sized satellite a few years ago? I heard that the Russians scrambled interceptors but couldn’t do anything. The US Navy could possibly have detected and brought down this thing.

IIRC, we do or did have an ASAT missile that was mounted on an F-15. I wonder the same thing if it would have been possible to intercept the meteor using an AEGIS missile system or the Patriot or if we did into the past, a Nike-Zeus or Ajax or even a BOMARC.

[Nowhere Man]

I don’t think any military on the planet has a system capable of shooting down an incoming object with a speed of 33,000 MPH.

I remember in David Ahl's book of Computer games, there was a simulation based on that where you type in the BASIC Program and you track an object coming in at that speed and you try to intercept it with the equivalent of a Nike-Hercules or BOMARC missile (this was written in the 1970's). It is very tough to do but not impossible. IIRC, the Nike can reach Mach 3.65 or so and the BOMARC Mach 2.8, a far cry from the meteor's speed of Mach 43 or so but give the right conditions, some luck and a prayer, it can be done. I would suggest using multiple interceptors though.

[Nowhere Man]

Hundreds of kilotons?! Damn. Yeah, if that could down straight onto Chelyabinsk, there wouldn't be any Chelyabinsk this evening.

Another thing, IIRC, when they were the Soviet Union, Chelyabinsk was one of the places where they did their nuclear research.

[Elsie]

bttt

[Elsie]

Your tagline brought this to mind....

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 “Good-bye Jim”
by James Whitcomb Riley

Old man never had much to say-
‘Ceptin’ to Jim,-
And Jim was the wildest boy he had-
And the old man jes’ wrapped up in him!
Never heerd him speak but once
Er twice in my life, and first time was
When the army broke out, and Jim he went,
The old man backin’ him, fer three months;

And all ‘at I heerd the old man say

Was, jes’ as we turned to start away,

“Well, good-bye Jim:

Take keer of yourse’f!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Peered-like, he was more satisfied

Jes’ lookin’ at Jim

And likin’ him all to hisse’f-like, see?

‘Cause he was jes’ wrapped up in him!

And over and over I mind the day

The old man come and stood round in the way

While we was drillin’, a-watchin’ Jim-

And down at the depot a-heerin’ him say,

“Well, good-bye, Jim:

Take keer of yourse’f!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never was nothin’ about the farm

Disting’ished Jim;

Neighbors all ust to wonder why

The old man ‘peared wrapped up in him:

But when Cap. Biggler he writ back

‘At Jim was the bravest boy we had

In the whole dern rigiment, white er black,

And his fightin’ good as his farmin’ bad-

‘At he had led, with a bullet clean

Bored through his thigh, and carried the flag

Through the bloodiest battle you ever seen,-

The old man wound up a letter to him

“At Cap. Read to us, ‘at said: “Tell Jim

Good-bye,

And take keer of hisse’f.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim come home jes’ long enough

To take the whim

“At he’d like to go back in the calvery-

And the old man jes’ wrapped up in him!

Jim ‘lowed’ at he ‘d had sich luck afore,

Guessed he ‘d tackle her three years more.

And the old man give him a colt he ‘d raised,

And follered him over to Camp Ben Wade,

And laid around fer a week er so,

Watchin’ Jim on dress-parade-

Tel finally he rid away,

And last we heerd was the old man say,-

“Well, good-bye, Jim:

Take keer of yourse’f!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuk the papers, the old man did,

A-watchin’ fer Jim-

Fully believin he ‘d make his mark

Some way-jes’ wrapped up in him!-

And many a time the word ‘u’d’ come

‘At stirred him up like th e tap of a drum-

At Petersburg, fer instunce, where

Jim rid right into their cannons there,

And tuk ‘em, and p’inted ‘em t’ other way,

And socked it home to the boys in gray,

As they scooted fer timber, and on and on-

Jim a lieutenant and one arm gone,

And the old man’s words in his mind all day,-

“Well good-bye, Jim:

Take keer of yourse’f!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think of a private, now, perhaps,

We’ll say like Jim,

‘At ‘s clumb clean up to the shoulder-straps-

And the old man jes’ wrapped up in him!

Think of him- with the war plum’ through,

And the glorious old Red-White-and-Blue

A-laughin’ the news down over Jim,

And the old man, bendin’ over him-

The surgeon turnin’ away with tears

‘At hadn’t leaked fer years and years,

As the hand of the dyin’ boy clung to

His father’s, the old voice in his ears,-

“Well, good-bye, Jim:

Take keer of yourse’f!”

 

[patrick3000]

After the cold war ended we finally found out that our government was lying and the Soviets were about as militarily powerful as a de-clawed kitten. But hey, it’s OK if the government lies to us so long as the military-industrial complex gets their paychecks right?

[Elsie]

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