Meteorite falls in Russia

http://www.liveleak.com/c/Meteorite_falls_in_Russia

Massive sonic boom from meteor A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteor shower, has sparked panic in three major cities.

Posted this in the random thread before. It's funny how the terrible drivers in Russia led to this being caught on film.

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I was expecting a baby flying out or a headless horse walking down the road.

Insane, incredible footage. That plane crash has been upstaged.

The impact site.Honestly I am not sure if this video can be confirmed yet.

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Russians don't seem that impressed by it

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The impact site.Honestly I am not sure if this video can be confirmed yet.

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Feels like it should end with Ron Perlman's narration of "War. War never changes."

That's not the impact site, that's a gas fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell

Here's an actual one of the impact spots:

It's caused a fair bit of damage, though fortunately no fatalities have been reported as yet.

Apparently something similar happened in San Francisco today?

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Appears it did: On heels of Russia meteor explosion, San Francisco Bay area residents report fireball sighting

Damn they say the Russia meteorite had the power of 10 hiroshima bombs when it disintegrated in the atmosphere. That is pretty crazy. Also that 1200 people got injured and noone dead. Pretty amazing.

Considering how violent Earth's past has been when it comes to meteorites we are quite spoiled to not have to endure more scary ones on occasion.

^That reminds of of the one that happened over a century ago. It was 1,000 times bigger than Hiroshima but was in a really isolated area. I watched a documentary about it which was intriguing because no one really knows for sure what happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Luckily this new one was much smaller given that it happened in a populated area.

Describes it perfectly.

Cool, calm and collected.

whereas people in Vermont freaked the hell out due to a jet's sonic boom last night

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^That reminds of of the one that happened over a century ago. It was 1,000 times bigger than Hiroshima but was in a really isolated area. I watched a documentary about it which was intriguing because no one really knows for sure what happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Luckily this new one was much smaller given that it happened in a populated area.

Damn that is scary man. We are such sitting ducks.