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Meteorite Strikes Indian Village
PS writes "The BBC is reporting that a village in eastern India was struck by a meteorite Saturday evening, wrecking several houses and injuring about twenty people. Fortunately, no one appears to have been killed by the impact or subsequent fires. CNN suggests that a second village near the impact site may have also been struck by part of the meteorite." Human/meteorite encounters are not entirely unheard of.
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Hi. My name is Rob. I'm an attractive young man. I'm a few years over 20 and I work on a geek website. I would like to share with you an incident from a year ago that changed my life.
It was late at night and I was alone in the basement of the geek compound. I'd lost track of the time, but was sure it was at least 1 or 2 AM. I'd lost track of time because I was so busy enjoying my collection of gay porn. The week before, I had stolen a CD with anal sex videos on it out of Michael's room. I don't think he knew it was missing, yet. He had been very busy censoring people for the past week and just didn't have the time to masturbate.
I was watching a video of a black man giving a blow job to a large asian man when I heard a soft moaning noise. I wasn't sure if it was part of the video or if it was real. It was a middle of the night and I was a bit uneasy about being in the basement, even if nobody dared come within 20 miles of the geek compound because of the horrible odor from the building. Quickly, I paused the video and listened closely.
For several seconds, it was dead quiet, but then I heard the noise again. I was sure it was real and it seemed to be coming from the room across the hall. Now I was quite afraid. I sat as still as possible and I heard a grunting noise coming from the same place. Immediately after, I heard a second grunt. Despite my fear, I quickly made up my mind to go investigate. Even though I was terrified, it was very important to me to be able to masturbate in peace.
I stood up, but I was so afraid, I forgot to pull my pants up. My tiny cock was straight as an arrow and hard as a rock, pointing about two inches in front of me. It was quiet now as I walked toward the doorway, still shaking from fear. The room across the hall was dark, and the hallway in between was lit only by flickering lights on the ceiling. Because the company I work for was (and still is) nearly bankdrupt, there just wasn't enough money to replace the light bulbs.
Slowly I walked to the doorway and out into the hall. It was still dead quiet. I glanced to my left and then to my right. I couldn't see anyone in either direction, so I proceeded into the room opposite mine. The door was open and the intermittent light from the hallway provided the only illumination. There was no sign of anyone in the room from the little I could see.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by another grunt. This time, it was louder and I was sure it was coming from inside the room. The noise startled me, though, and I had already begun to shit myself. I wasn't wearing pants, so I can't really say I shit my pants. But the shit hung down from my asshole as I fumbled along the wall to find the light switch. Another grunt came, this time louder, and it startled me enough that some of my shit hit the floor. I was still shitting myself, though. The smell of fresh shit was usually refreshing to me, but I was so afraid I barely noticed.
Finally, after several seconds, I found the light switch on the wall. While the lights flickered on, I heard the same grunting noise, and was sure it was coming from my right. I looked in that direction and saw piles of dirty clothes along the wall and a closet. The closet door was closed. I was terrified, but I knew I had to inspect.
As I approached the closet, I heard the same noise again. My hand was shaking, but I fought the tremors and swung the door open. To my surprise, I saw Jeff bent over with his pants down. Jon was standing over him with his pants also off and his tiny penis was rock hard and covered with blood.
I was mad. I was furious. How could Jon be doing this with my boyfriend. In my anger, I blew my load all over the closet, and at the same time, let out a huge fart.
"How could you? What the fuck?" I screamed as loud as I could. In my anger, I grabbed Jon's hand and pulled him out of the closet. After that, I grabbed his neck and bent him over. I stepped behind him, and with my bare hands, I tore his asshole open. He let out a scream. In
India has too many people anyway. Most of them are worthless organisms whose only talents are eating, shitting, and breeding.
Oh no, the sky is falling, the sky is falling! :)
I can't believe Slashdot fell for such lies! .... X-files?
Have you missed the ground-shaking documentary called
Had you watched even parts of this research project you would know that this was a UFO crash site , cleverly disguised as a meteor crash.
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Interesting, eh?
A meteorite that hits outside the United States!! So the movies are inaccurate after all... you know, like how ID4, Deep Impact, etc. always seems to have outer space stuff hitting the States. ;)
Was it running Linux?
Its eastern India. Please Read article first. The article also goes on to say that the only living creature to be harmed by a meteor in recorded history was an Egyptian Dog which had the misfortune to be at the wrong place at the wrong time :-) . This happened in 1911 BTW.
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today tragedy struck the linux community, as rob malda was found unconscious in his apartment, apparently having died of a sudden heart attack.
funeral will be monday
Is that the aliens using the Earth as a giant bongo drum?
So this rock that terrified all these multitudes of people.. was so small it took out, practically nothing? lol WOw, slow news day.
*There's Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape em off Jim!*
...as long as grass doesn't start growing around the meteorite.
Finally, The Almighty as smote the uncleanly!
"I, for one, welcome our new meteorite overlords."
BBC: "At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India."
Brief summary after the headline.
It's eastern India. not western India. Does any one verify any stories over here?
now supporting:
cmdrTaco for president '04
michael for oval office intern summer '05
After all, he's running out of things to smite people with...
He trys lighting and oops, lighting rods.
Then plague, antibiotics! Damm it!
Famine, damm it, they are flying in lobsters from Maine.
He had to resort the to old fire and brimstone.
Does anyone know if there are any charities accepting aid money yet? It would be nice to help.
At least after this mess is cleaned up, they will have something to tell the tourists. They can take solace in the fact that they aren't the new meteor crater.
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if meteor strikes in the real world look really like the ones in Armageddon? Fiery, a smoky trail, and everything bounces when they hit the ground...
Here I am thinking NASA & co was tracking everyhing bigger than a tennis ball in outer space. How come this thing just goes in without anyone noticing it? We've been swamped with news of some other meter which had like a 1^-1000000 chance to hit and this thing just charges in? WTF?
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Look at the colorful map courtesy of BBC. Orissa is clearly on the right side of the map!
Oh Bruce, Where Arth Thou?
looks like someone can't tell directions.
-- "Why would you quote your self?" -Me.
welcome our meteorite overlords, and would like to remind them that as a trusted hindu diety I could be useful in rounding up other hindus to toil away in their underground space mines.
It was just another UN Resolution getting shot down
A meteorite of not much larger mass could have caused far more widespread destruction. I could be off on my facts here, but I remember reading about a similar event taking place in Russia, devastating several many acres of open forest. Should it have impacted a city, the city would have been leveled. Granted we're all familiar with the meteorite impact apocalypse prospect, all I'm saying is it could be worse. I wonder how many other life forms or even civilizations have evolved on other planets that were completely obliterated because of stellar impacts. Something to fear.
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
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"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
super powers from the meteorite yet? =D
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Free your mind.
if a Beowulf cluster of them had hit the village.
You thought it, but only I had the courage to say it.
..a US senators house? Would NASA's funding for astroid impact studies double?
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I thought the US government had hired Bruce Willis to take care of these meteorite thingies? Did he not manage to blow this one up in time? If not, did he survive the impact? Please, I need to know if Bruce is gonna be ok!!?!
.. then there was a tornado, and a flying saucer, and even a giant robot smashing the vast ammounts of constructions of huts, the mayor was reportedly quoted as saying "weaknesspays" as he rebuilds the village into a vast empire.
Flooding, earthquakes in Japan, drought, giant hurricanes on the east coast, fire... and now meteors devastating small villages.
I'm kidding about the end of the world, but has it seemed to anyone else that there's been an unusually high occurance of natural disaster in the last year or so? Maybe it's just me.
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I read in the local paper (link about half way down - reg required) that the same thing also happened in New Orleans this week. The meteorite, which looked like a snady colored rock containing minerals commonly found in meteorites (tested at Tulane University) punched a hole through Ray Fausset's roof and two floors before coming to rest in the crawl space beneath the house, as reported.
...hope it landed on an outsourced call center.
The stainless steel artificial knee of Harry S. Stamper was found just two miles from the point of impact . . .
Hint: Rockhound had to take me to Taipei to buy some Tampax(R) and then he had to show me how to use them.
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This just in: meteor misses sacred cow....film at 11.
Wow! Imagine if that had hit a beowulf cluster.
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i hate ann coulter.
Oh, come on. You're a Slashdot geek. I know you'd do her if you had the chance.
This comes just a couple of years after the flood in Orissa. Wonder what the Orissans have done to piss off Jesus/Allah/Krishna so much?
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
I hope everyone realises that if this had struck Iraq and had "Made in Amnerika" stamped on the side the media would be calling this a liberation.
India/United States
Poplutaion:1,014,003,817 / 275,562,673
Area (sq. Km):2,973,190 / 9,166,601
Density (persons per sq Km):341.0 / 30.1
always seems to have outer space stuff hitting the States
There is a lot of stuff hitting US.
But with such a hight density population it's more easy that a meteor hits a village in India than a American one.
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.
poor doggie
I just wonder how they knew in 1911 what it was that hit him.
Okay, before everyone else posts one of those stupid Slashdot in-jokes... Please post them as replies to this post.
In Soviet Russia, all your asteroid are belong to India!
Imagine a beowulf meteor shower of naked and petrified Natalie Portmans Slashdotting India!
"Where's the BitTorrent link?"
and last but not least...
Darl McBride: "We have good evidence that Indian villagers are stealing our intellectual property to the UNIX system encoded in million-year-old rocks... evidence will be presented shortly. In Sanskirt."
Somebody call Bruce Willis, quick!
The name of the east Indian village translates as "Smallville".
-- Alastair
At least I can get behind outsourcing natural disasters. I'm sure other folks won't like it though.
a giant ball of consitpated goose shit.
I guess IT jobs aren't the only thing heading to India now!
Human/meteorite encounters are not entirely unheard of.
Here's a documentry of the aftermath of a more serious encounter.DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE
ok6 villagers got trampled by a wild herd of journalists and scientists rushing to the place of accident.
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I was at the Field Museum this past week and got a real kick out of the meteor exhibits. They had several large metalic meteors that were out in the open free to touch. Putting my hand on it and thinking about it flying though space, to be rudely blocked by the planet earth. It wasn't it's fault that there was some stupid planet in the way... Anyway, they also had several examples of meteorites hitting houses. In once case it went through the guys garage, through his car and bounced off the cars muffler, ending up sitting on the car seat. Another one took out a guys gutter. The pictures are pretty funny, all the guys looked pretty pissed off, but it was in the 20s or 30s, maybe people didn't smile back then.
Field Museum Meteor collection
It's pretty sneaky and dishonest how they make these revisions without an Update tag, or updating the timestamp.
Thus, it looks like those that complained were delusional or mistaken, when it was really the idiotic editor's fault.
It's no surprise to find that michael was the editor of this story. He is truly a despicable and untrustworthy character.
Why, it's Union Carbide! Haha, take that, jobtakeing Indian scumbags.
For those of us who know we don't have the facts straight, could you enlighten us on how much a many is?
I forget what 8 was for.
Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.
I'd be careful not to piss off any Martians. Wonder what the dog did to them...
First of all, neither NASA, nor anyone else at the moment, has the capability to track "everyhing bigger than a tennis ball in outer space". That would number in the trillions, if not many, many, many orders of magnitude more. Current tracking systems handle all the junk in Earth orbit, and anything HUGE that we've picked up *so far*.
As for why we get news of something with a remote chance of hitting Earth - that's because these objects are typically hundreds, if not thousands of metres across. If one of these hit, it would kill millions of people, and possibly wipe out most macroscopic life as we know it. That's why you hear about them.
What landed in India was a few inches across at best, or you wouldn't see "20 people injured, no deaths". And detecting even a tiny fraction of the things in space at that size is well nigh impossible. Meteors of this size hit the planet all the time, but almost always land in remote areas.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
If the meteorite was running Linux, there would have been far fewer injuries. For all industrial grade, mission critical meteorite applications, there is no other alternative.
When will people run that Windows XP is a shitty OS???
Does this mean that those villagers will have more magic-meteor-stones like the one on Temple of Doom?
Some years ago I saw a special on PBS about a small town near Chicago that was also wiped out by fire, with great loss of life, on the same day as the great chicago fire. Reports of the small town's destruction via firestorm sounded very much like a sub-atomic blast (whose effects would be very similar to a comet or meteorite strike). I was struck by the coincidence and still wonder about the natural conclusion. Anyone else see the program or know the town's name? I came up empty on Google, but don't know what query to ask. (The answer must be 42)
Nobody tell that fucker Bruckheimer. The last thing we need is a sequel.
Also, meteors, despite movies, do not set fires, because when they finally impact something on the earth they are typically really cold.
Well, unless it was the EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT. But then the story would be "india found to be missing".
Looks like a cheap play for some publicity.
"Fortunately, the remaining fragments of the meteorite have already been sold for 65 million dollars on eBay, which the local populance has agreed to split evenly. A month long drunken celebration has been scheduled to begin October 1st and everyone's invited."
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
As of 6:30 PM Eastern Time (Sun Sept 28th), there is no mention of the meteorite strike in any major newspaper/news-website in India.
:)
The cnn article quotes its source as PTI (Press Trust of India) but their website itself (www.ptinews.com) doesn't mention any such thing...
Maybe the Indian media is in deep slumber
God I would do anything for a pizza right now. I'm hungry! BBL
I found it:
Oct. 8-14, 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin: over 1,500 lives lost and 3.8 million acres burned in nation's worst forest fire. Cause Unknown
Peshtigo is about 130 miles due north of Chicago.
Same day as the great Chicago fire.
damn...i pushed too hard to get it out.
Er, hello, has anyone seen our bluetooth-controlled homebrew robot. It was kinda zooming along when it sorta flew out of range (ie more than 5m away from us) when Joe, who was controlling it, dropped the RC when his Segway sorta 'bucked' for no apparent reason and he was thrown to the floor (weird that--anyone else had this happen to them?). We think one of its methanol power cells might be leaking too so stand well back if it comes your way 'cos Joe says it might take off with a 'whoosh' and behave sorta like an ion propulsion drive--who knows where the damn thing may land.
If you see our robot, please email us. Don't try instant messaging us cos our copy of Trillian seems to have stopped working and our Cingular GSM cell phone seems to be dead too (weird that--anyone else had this happen to them?)
Joe reckons all our comms breaking down has something to do with our uni campus being built under a power line so he's off to put his foil hat back on, but I did notice our Ukranian lab assistant wandering around with a hammer just now and I was a little suspicious when he asked me if I had any old hardware I didn't want, and I'm sure 'deztroy' isn't the name of his home town, as he claimed.
Keep your eyes open for us. Thanks.
PS: Why is Darl gonna present his evidence 'sanskirt' - is he a cross-dresser? Does he like to be called Darlene out of business hours?
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I mean really, really big.
Bigger than an Olympic sized swimming pool. Bigger than a football field. Bigger even than a San Francisco, which is the largest unit that the human mind can comprehend.
Do you think that NASA can track every object in San Francisco? No, of course not. Even the fedral Narcs haven't figured out how to do that yet (although they're working on it).
Right now, just out beyond Pluto, there could be some whacked out ex-groupie of Wavy Gravy plummeting toward earth in her rusty old VW Microbiotic bus and we won't even know until it takes out Kansas.
Just hope she isn't driving uninsured. Old hippies do shit like that. They think it's some sort of political statement or something.
Anyway, the point is, space is big. Shit happens. Don't worry, be happy. You won't even feel a thing.
KFG
With the ongoing cold war between India and Pakistan, the Indian military might well have shot first, and asked questions later, causing a small nuclear war, and a much greater loss of life than the initial meteorite.
The Almighty just had bad inteligence reports from the US National Security Advisor that India had Weapons of Mass Destruction stored there.
Either that or God missed.
Stupid Space Rock. I blame America.
... We're lucky, guys; had this thing landed in a village in western India (or worse, in Cashmere), India would have blamed Pakistan for the strike and they would be merrily nuking each other right now...
Pheeew!
Seriously though, those guys are really, really, really out of luck!!
Hello! I'm a disaster waiting to happen!
our new meteorite overlords.
When Hillary will blame this on Bush?
Even Homer Simpson knows they burn up in the atmosphere - the only bit that lands is the size of a chihuahua's head...
With sufficient acceleration one basketball-size meteoride can inflict far more damage than a 9/11-style terrorist attack.
I always thought he looked like Yosemite Sam.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
In other news, it turns out that the Galileo had been orbiting the Earth all of this time and not Jupiter, unbeknownst to NASA scientists. Several scientists and engineers have been put on paid leave and funding is being reviewed.
President Bush has vowed to seek out and capture the space terrorists who caused this destruction. Dr. Fred Edison, Nurse Edna Edison, and Weird Ed Edison, he's looking your way.
When India and pakistan were on the brink of war last year, the worry ofUS and many others was that an incident like this (on a larger scale ofcourse) would be mistaken for a missile strike, thus leading to an all out nuclear war. So, not only is it good that nobody was killed by the meteor, its also better that it happened at a much less tense time.
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It would have been pleasing if the meteor would have hit Bangalore and all the other IT offshoring locations and turned them into smoking craters.
Of course, it would be even better if it hit some CIO/CEO's homes/offices in the US/UK/Australia/etc. Unpatriotic assholes turning great nations into 3rd world cesspools. If they have their way, all the cities of America will be like New York, as depicted in the movie Soylent Green.
Is an "ear spitting" noise one that causes your ears to spew wax? Eeew.
There's actually not much point in trying to track all these objects. A lot of them are in eccentric orbits (like comets) and thus untrackable most of the time. The rest are no threat because they're in regular orbits that don't interesect ours. The ones that were in intersection orbits got swept up a very long time ago -- that's how planets are formed. The danger comes when these orbits change, after being disturbed by interaction with another object. So if we every get serious about looking out for killer asteroids, we won't try to track every one we already know about -- we'll just keep a general watch for new objects or old objects in new orbits.
Also, really small objects are no threat, because they burn up in the atmosphere. Objects big enough to punch through do hit pretty often, but I've never heard of anybody getting hurt by one. Which I guess indicates that we're not as big a planetary feature as we like to think, and also explains why there's such a short memory for these events. As indicated by the attention the Indian impacts are getting.
More common is damage to buildings and machinery. Speaking of which, if you find that your car has had a hole punched in it by something falling from the sky, do not get it repaired until you've determined the cause -- here are collectors who pay good money for cars with meteorite damage. But don't plan your retirement before you've made sure it's not just blue ice.
Not quite fair. It's not the media's fault that most people know jack about astronomy, and can't distinguish a harmless rock from a killer asteroid. Which is pretty important. Armageddon-style planet killers are rarer than intelligent Hollywood movies, but some scientists think that rocks big enough to wipe out a city happen every 100 years. And in fact, it's been almost that long since the Tunguska event. Which, alas, most people know about mainly from watching The X Files.That evil meteor is at it again! Where is Bernard, Laverne and Hoagie when you need them?
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I am not an expert on this subject, though I played one on TV (really... but that's a long story). I know enough about meteorites to be a little dangerous.
Though the CNN article credits Press Trust of India, a search on PTI's site found nothing (for me at least).
When the articles talked about burning fragments, it didn't ring true. So, I went to Google to do a little quick research.
Except for those really huge impacts, smaller meteorites are relatively slow movers in the lower reaches of the atmosphere and lose their heat rather quickly. Let me steal some work from:
Date: Mon Nov 30 23:28:41 1998
Posted By: Robert Macke, Grad student, Physics, Washington University
Area of science: Astronomy
If you have a baseball-sized meteorite of density 3.2 g/cc, using a value of 1.2 kg/m^3 for the density of air, you will find that the meteorite will slow from its approach velocity of roughly 11000 meters per second to its terminal velocity of 60 m/s in a mere 28 seconds, having traveled only 3 km. (By comparison, the speed of sound is roughly 315 m/s.) It then spends another 100 mins or so falling before it hits the ground, giving it ample time to cool down below its original temperature it gained during entry into the atmosphere. (At 60 m/s, it's moving like a fastball, but not much more. It'll still cause a lot of damage if your car or house is in the way, but it wouldn't start a fire or create any appreciable crater. It would probably be a bit warm to the touch.
Any learned assistance would be appreciated. I'm not adverse to being shown to be wrong in a subject that I have little more than passing knowledge.
I'm based in Melbourne, Australia at the moment, 9:33 pm on Saturday I saw a green light streaking across the sky dropping orange sparks, it was very cool. I'm thinking I might have seen the meteorite in question before it met Earth.
...as the French and American researchers ask "Where did it come from?" ;-)
I clicked the link to this article expecting a discussion about a meteor defense system, how much would it cost, how long would it take to build it, and even if it is feasible, how do we get to build it in a divided world who can't even build a punny space station.
Instead I find all top comments are "+5, Funny". And that in a site inhabited by some of the most technically capable people in the world. No wonder our politics will never grasp the need for such a project. Maybe it is just a Sunday effect, but I can't help wondering if the species who will use us as fossil fuel will manage to use their time better.
If this happened in the US, 1) they would at first blame it in terrorists, 2) It would be on CNN for days, 3) Yet another "amageddon" movie would be made about it, or at least a made-for-tv crappy movie, and 4) People would protest demanding more protectiong...
But... this happened in india, so nobody cared...
Tomorrow there will be a mudslide that wipes out 400 people looking for survivors of the meteor. And then the monkey man will show up.
The proper term is "Native American" jerkoff!
Any chance that village's name is Smallville?
As some of you may recall, Orissa was the state in which the Australian Missionary Steines and his two minor sons were burnt alive by radicals.
Soon after that, there was severe flooding in Orissa, killing hundreds and displacing thousands.
Two years ago, there was a severe heat wave across the state of Orissa, which killed almost a hundred people.
Now, meteors from space fall on, of all places, Orissa.
You do the math.
The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away
"all the guys looked pretty pissed off, but it was in the 20s or 30s, maybe people didn't smile back then."
Beer was illegal back then. What were you expecting?
Could this be similar to the famous 1908 Siberian explosion? Has the earth's core stopped spinning? Darn you, Art Bell.
Will the next story be the Asteroid on a collision course, do we need to send the shuttle, drill, blow up the asteroid.
btw. Armegeddon is playing on the F/X Channel now!
I am the unwilling control for my Origin.
And tomorrow they will arrange "three" hits to counter india's "two" hits.
- People who believe other people have no right to live, got no right to live ...
Good way to convince IT to stay in America if you ask me.
I guess even God is pissed about outsourcing all those jobs to India...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
thought i'd correct as I am an oriya.
When a post becomes too insightful, it often becomes funny.
A meteor becomes a meteorite once it hits the ground, so for one to strike an Indian village someone would have to break into the Smithosonian, steal one, and drop it from a plane.
Congratulations on your frequent use of the word, "Fuck" in both your posts and in your sig.
Not only does it call attention to your mastery of effective use of language, it immediately offends many people who read your posts, thus driving home your point all the more forecefully.
Bravo!
I want to see a virus that can withstand the temperature of falling through the atmosphere!
No, maybe I'd better rephrase that. Damn, I'd *hate* to see a virus that could withstand the temperature of falling through the atmosphere. Man, that'd be a *vicious* one!
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
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Beautiful old neighborhood in Detroit, hundreds of glorious, grand houses. It's a shame to hear it's been destroyed. What? "Indian village," with a lower case "V?" Oops, nevermind.
lol.. i was thinking the same thing :P
Really folks, we aren't that stupid. If it's any comfort for you guys, the Indian Army has been heavily investing in radar of late, mostly from US and Israeli companies.
More than mere navel gazing.
Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.
I don't get it. They spend seven years investigating the cause of death for a dog? Or they were wandering past his grave and said "Ohh, look, a meteor sticking out of that dead dog's head"??
I remember reading about a monk who in the 1600s was hit in the leg by a meteorite. He died from his injury because it had damaged his femoral artery. Can't be bothered finding more info, but I'm sure *someone* has the time and inclination.
a tiny riverboat ferry that hit an Indian village at least 2000 would of drowned.....just passing through with a homemade brew and the keg, it is a sloshing
I eat my grapes at room temperature, cuz the cold ones hurt my teeth
This is great news! Maybe a couple less dotheads means unemployment will drop? Couple less of those dotheaded job stealing camel jockies over here to take our jobs from us. Wahoo!
The tinfoil hat group isn't going to like this. They will need something a little stronger to protect themselves from these. ;-)
The truth shall set you free!
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The pictures are pretty funny, all the guys looked pretty pissed off, but it was in the 20s or 30s, maybe people didn't smile back then.
Who started that trend of smiling for picts anyhow? Picture taking is not a pleasent experience, and I can't fake it. I prefer the old days where it was fashionable to look stoic. My mom always says, "Smile, or you will ruin the whole picture for everybody else who works so hard to smile". Jesus Polaroid Christ!
Next time I will just say, "Look!, a meteor!" and distract them all.
Table-ized A.I.
Maybe it was the NASA Disco Ball, launched into orbit in 1999 by Space Shuttle Discovery.n aut/dnaut4.h tml
http://www.uncarved.demon.co.uk/disco
Amazingly, this wonder was brought to us by the same person who cancelled the request for in-flight photographs of the Columbia space shuttle!
"it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven".
Go back to the Aramaic and bring your jargon filter. It really says "it is easier for a *rope* to pass through the eye of a needle than..." but the KJV translator didn't understand that in the author's dialect of Aramaic, the etymology of the chosen word for rope was what it was made from (i.e. camel hair). Like you might use the word twine (a rope made from two strings) or hawser (a heavy line for hoisting) and dearly confuse some poor translator hundreds of years hence...
As an aside, anyone who thinks the Bible is inerrant is just being silly. It is an amazing collection of works, and the myths contained within really are as wise and useful as most Christians believe, but that doesn't make them factual or even true. As a further aside, it's too bad that that's considered a troll instead of an invitation to serious conversation, but what are you going to do?
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Meteorites are NOT hot when they hit. The heat comes from the impact energy, and is dispersed much to quickly to heat up any fragments of the impact body. Also during atmospere entry, the friction heat is absorbed by the outermost layer which 'boils' off. The lump of matter in the middle does not get hot. Google for 'ablation' if you want more info.
Parent post is an accurate description. Grandparent must be describing physics on some other planet.
In order for a meteor to fall, at terminal velocity, for 100 minutes, it would have to reach terminal velocity 360km above earth. The atmosphere at that altitude is only around 0.00000000001 kg/m^3, not 1.2 kg/m^3.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
$50,000 US might make you well off by the standards of the average Indian, but it would hardly make you a "millionaire". At best, you'd be able to live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.
Once you'd used some of that to buy a plot of land, a house, a car and some modern comforts (TV, PC, etc) you'd be surprised at how little would be left over. Please, stop perpetuating the myth that every thing is 20+ times cheaper in India or anywhere else.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
The Nakhla meteorite you are referring to killed just one dog. Several people have been injured by meteorites. (I remember at least one local newspaper story of a guy who got a fist-sized meteorite through his windshield at 80 km/h, and was injured when he drove off the road.)
A meteor does not necessarily reach ground, it may burn entirely in the atmosphere. In contrast, a meteorite hits the ground.
In 1908 the Tunguska meteor injured several people, one of them died a few days later. Dozens of reindeer got killed, and they were 30 km away. I assume some wild animals closer to the site were also killed, but the site was searched only in 1920s so we have no record on that. The blast was equivalent to 15 Megatonnes, so only one dead human is really good luck.
Um, I've always wondered exactly what this means. Pictures sent back from probes that didn't confuse inches with centimeters suggest that Mars is strewn with rocks. So what happens? A rock is just sitting there one day, bored with the dual moonset, and decides to leave? With no fuel, or other way of defeating gravity? One minute it's just sitting there, the next it's hurtling through space?
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Yeah, being in a Great Depression will do that to ya.
(More seriously, it's only been post-WWII that people have regularly smiled for photos. It's a cultural thing.)
I always though it had something to do with the exposure time, didn't it used to be in the 15-30 second range or something. Or was that way way back when photography was just starting.
Has anyone else seen those exhibits?, my dates are probably way off.
Not because of the meteor itself, but because India and Pakistan apparently have no ballistic missle early warning system to speak of. A large enough meteor hit could easily be mistaken for a first strike.
Luckily, this one was fairly small.
If you'd paid attention in your history classes, you would remember that the smile was invented around 1918, but was patented. No one was able to smile without paying royalties to the inventor. Fortunately, the patent has since lapsed into the public domain and people are free to smile.
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"McCarthy destroyed communism/socialism/marxism in USA"
That was the one good thing he did. The USA socialist movement was controlled by the USSR, and as such it was composed entirely of traitors who favored the Soviets doing to the USA what the Soviets had done to the Ukraine.
How is there anything bad about defeating this genocidal movement which is evil no matter which way you look at it? Defeating communism is at least as good as defeating Nazism.
"If anything, the so-called Christian-right is one of the most pro-war crowd in all of Western world. "
No, it is not. You have no examples of this.