Record Meteorite Hits Norway

equex256 writes "Early Wednesday morning, a meteorite streaked across the sky in northern Norway, near Finland and Russia. A witness (Article in Norwegian) went up the mountain to where it hit and reported seeing large boulders that had fallen out of the mountainside, along with many broken trees. Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper, that he would compare the explosive force of the impact with the Hiroshima bomb. This meteorite is suspected to be much larger than the 90-kilo (198-pound) meteorite which hit Alta in 1904, previously recognized as the largest to hit Norway. From the article: 'Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms.'"

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Re:Hiroshima?

[AWhiteFlame]

> Guess the whole line of "location, location, location" really is true.

I know this is off topic, but is it me, or whenever I hear something repeated 3 times or more, all I'm thinking is "Developers, developers, developers, developers.."

Non-ASCII characters?

[TheoMurpse]

Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard

So why can we use these non-English characters, but cannot use Japanese or Korean characters? They, after all, offer as much information to English speakers as "Ø" does. I sure as hell don't know how to pronounce that letter.

Now, if someone says that Norwegians do know the pronunciation, well then I'd counter with the fact that Japanese know how to pronounce Japanese characters, but that never stopped the editors from banning them from Slashdot. Allow all non-ASCII characters, or none at all, please.

And Wikipedia tells me: Ø is basically equivalent to 'o' with an umlaut from German, so I can only deduce that the proper Anglification of the letter would be "oe", as in my last name. This letter does not exist in the English language at all, so I assert that it has as much right to be in English documents as Korean characters do.

I saw it too

[Keyframe2]

Not long ago, the Black Gate of Armonk swung open. The lights went out, my skin crawled, and dogs began to howl. I asked my neighbor what it was and he said, 'Those are the nazgul. Once they were human, now they are Sony's PR Marketing Team.'

Re:Giant Røck

[EvanED]

So if I have, say, one day in Oslo, where should I go?

What about two non-contiguous days?

(Just FYI I'll be flying into Oslo in a week, spending about 12 hours there, then leaving. I might be dead then after a 7 hour bus ride to NYC, a 7 hour flight NYC to Stockholm, and an hour flight Stockholm to Oslo, so I don't know what I'd do then. But the ride back I'll be getting in a Sat morning and staying over until Sun morn, and that's after only like 3 or 4 hours travel, so I might be able to do something.)

Re:Hiroshima?

[zxSpectrum]

If it did, GWB would probably just declare "War on Meteorites", and Americans would all be so much safer.

Uh. Wait.

Re:Giant Røck

[zxSpectrum]

New York times has a bit about Oslo on a budget.