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Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia
Several readers made sure we know about the possible meteorite that crashed into a field in northern Latvia yesterday. It left a crater 9m across and 3m deep according to the AP; 15m x 5m according to AFP; or 20m x 10m according to CNN. Sky News reporting includes a video recorded while approaching the smoking crater on foot; something is burning in its center. Xinhua has a brief mention with a good portrait of the crater in daylight, with people standing on its rim for perspective. Various outlets report that local authorities tested for radiation and found levels to be normal. Some quote an expert who estimates that, if it was a meteorite, it was probably around 1m in diameter when it hit. Update 16:40 GMT by SM: As many readers have pointed out, this has been declared a hoax.
Update: 10/27 16:41 GMT by KD : Swedish mobile phone operator Tele2 has now fessed up to pulling off the hoax.
Update: 10/27 16:41 GMT by KD : Swedish mobile phone operator Tele2 has now fessed up to pulling off the hoax.
If it is a cylinder from Mars we need to nuke it immediately.
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If it was Latveria, it'd probably be a precursor to Clobbering Time.
This is exactly what happened when the blob landed. I'm sure the local sherif just got absorbed.
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After seeing that site, I wouldn't be surprised at all if this was some funny hoax. (warning: that site will make you browse it for the rest of the day :)
>Scientists and armed forces from the northern European nation will inspect the crater and conduct an investigation.
Investigator #1: You there, the one with the vodka. Did you find anything?
Scientist #1: [shakes head]
Investigator #1: How about you? [points at soldier smoking a cigarette]
Soldier #8: No.
Investigator #1: What about that group over there [points to Latvians in the distance]
Latvians: "mes nav atrasts sudi"
(surprisingly, Google has a Latvian-to-English translator.)
And it was 20 miles across and 10 miles deep according to Fox News. Billions were killed and the earth was thrown out of its orbit. News at 11.
Nothing special
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Meteorite should be cold ? But what makes a light ? Is that an Ice that makes up the light whan meteorite fall is observed? This one looks like a hoax as well: Tacoma Meteor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_OtbXmu9kg
The meteorite fell on a buried cache of thermite and ignited it. Everyone happy now?
I live in Latvia and sometimes wonder if my entire country isn't a badly played hoax.
Balloon boy was a hoax. The real child in the crater was baby superman.
Stephen King in "Creepshow".
I must say, I'm shocked and appalled. Please stop posting your disgusting perverted ASCII art on Slashdot. Some people read this stuff at work for chrissakes!
Yeah, maybe if they were working on it 2-5 years ago at the exact moment the Google Earth shot was taken.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
It's obviously fake, if you've watched: Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers 1 & 2, it's the same crater!.
Bay needed a realistic crater look for all those freaking meteors hitting the Earth. So he spent millions building that thing and now it has to appear in every one of his movies to recoup the costs until 2012--then he can lend it to Emmerich for his 2012 followup (hence we know the 1st 2012 will suck without having the real crater and all CGI).
Ohh... So that's where my warp core fell when we had to eject it.
Good thing, my spaceship designers spent time making sure Warp core ejection was foolproof, installing seat-belts to supplement the inertial dampeners and making sure weapons fire wouldn't feed back throgh random consoles to kill junior officers on my bridge, rather than designing an artificial gravity subsystem that would still work even when the trans dimensional cloak fails and 1/2 the ship materializes in solid rock.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
The meteorite fell on a buried cache of thermite and ignited it. Everyone happy now?
No....cause you yelled at me.