[QUOTE=pinecleandog;39597615]Why do so many russians have dash cams?[/QUOTE]
Proof for insurance claims. $50 investment is good for the long run.
[editline]15th February 2013[/editline]
Come to think of it, it makes sense how 500 people could get minor wounds in a city of 1.1mn, people rush to the windows when they hear a bang or see a ball of fire then the window breaks and they get hit in the face. Imagine how horrible this would have been in a bigger city like London.
Does the fact that this happened over 8 hours ago and CNN is still not even bothering to mention this on TV make anyone worried that they know something we don't?
15 minutes my ass, someone better tell Bill Nye that his fucking watch is wrong
These videos are unbelievable. Anyone ever hear someone talk about something like this, or get it on video? It should be on every news outlet for days. What the fuck CNN
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtiK5BmFGzg[/media]
Some wiseacres began to break windows to get compensation
[QUOTE=Recurracy;39597280]Makes me wonder just how big it must've been if a chunk of it tore such a gaping hole the size of a bus through that zinc factory.
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It was probably very very very small. It's pure kinetic energy, it came down at an incredible speed.
Though it might be that this particular building was very shitty constructed and maintained, so the shockwave itself broke it in.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;39597701]Does the fact that this happened over 8 hours ago and CNN is still not even bothering to mention this on TV make anyone worried that they know something we don't?
15 minutes my ass, someone better tell Bill Nye that his fucking watch is wrong
These videos are unbelievable. Anyone ever hear someone talk about something like this, or get it on video? It should be on every news outlet for days. What the fuck CNN[/QUOTE]
It probably happens often, just not near a major urban centre where casualties actually occur. So far every single news agency everywhere did quite abit of reporting on it, CNN is a first I guess.
Yeah it was probably pretty small. At the point of impact. It probably started off the size of a bus or yacht
I hope Apophis doesn't have a trail of even bigger debris when it makes its pass.
Maybe it'll wake up the world and get governments to pour a bit more money into their space programs
Anyone living in Perth, WA you will be able to see the asteroid at 02:10 nearish to the the southern cross then can be followed to Gamma and Beta in Crater.
[QUOTE=Renderman;39596778]Don't jinx us![/QUOTE]
IT WON'T HIT
I love how in the first video, the guy is just completely calm and has no reaction to it
"Oh hey, it's a giant ball of fire that was just right in front of me and could kill me"
"Meh, get me my driving vodka"
Fox keeps calling it an asteroid. It's a meteoroid guys.
The distinction being things don't generally go extinct when meteors hit.
No. Asteroids are for spaceborne near Earth objects. They are called meteors when they hit Earth atmosphere and leave their distinctive trail.
They are called meteorites if they impact the Earth.
It's borderline meteoroid
Meteroiteoid
Forgive me for being dumb but how come the windows and stuff explode/shatter after the thing flew past? or is it the impact that did that?
Shockwave. Either from the sonic wave or the impact.
[QUOTE=lintz;39598155]No. Asteroids are for spaceborne near Earth objects. They are called meteors when they hit Earth atmosphere and leave their distinctive trail.
They are called meteorites if they impact the Earth.[/QUOTE]
Meteors are meteoroids when in space. Asteroids are generally much larger than meteoroids.
Here is a kid website to straighten things out
[url]http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/cometasteroidmeteoroiddifferences.html[/url]
What's up with the trail cloud being already there and then there is the window shatering bang? Was that thing so damn fast that it took the sound so long to cath up, or is that the actual impact?
[QUOTE=Mindfuck 2;39598534]What's up with the trail cloud being already there and then there is the window shatering bang? Was that thing so damn fast that it took the sound so long to cath up, or is that the actual impact?[/QUOTE]
Shockwave and sound takes time to travel
[QUOTE=pinecleandog;39597830]Anyone living in Perth, WA you will be able to see the asteroid at 02:10 nearish to the the southern cross then can be followed to Gamma and Beta in Crater.[/QUOTE]
Awesome, earlier than i thought. Now I just need to remember to go outside to take a look.
I love it how before, in the early days of the mass internet (1995-2004 or so) if something like this would happen, you'd only have one shitty low res video showing what happened that would take 2 hours to download because of the shitty bandwidth you had at home. Now you not only get high-res videos, but multiple angles and you can watch them instantly. God, the internet is beautiful.
lets hope the another meteor won't hit us
This is a once in a lifetime event, it's extremely rare for such a large meteorite to fall to earth and be seen by people.
The bang was enough to shatter windows even hundreds of miles away, I wonder if there were any aircraft nearer the meteorite.
I saw a similarly large meteorite a few months ago over Scotland (saw fragments falling off it and it lasted around 20 seconds, thought a plane was crashing), I was awe struck and really changed me, now I'm more into astronomy.
[QUOTE=Noi;39598934]I get only 12 mbit/s on download (ADSL; upload speed is 1.5 mbit/s). It's slow :(
It takes too long to download 30 GiB file :([/QUOTE]
Pffft haha, you think that's slow? Try my 5mbit connection. It takes AGES to download anything above 2GB
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