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Huge Meteor Blazes Across Sky Over Russia; Hundreds Injured
New submitter dovf writes "The Bad Astronomer analyzes incoming reports about the apparent meteoric fireball over Russia: 'Apparently, at about 09:30 local time, a very big meteor burned up over Chelyabinsk, a city in Russia just east of the Ural mountains, and about 1500 kilometers east of Moscow. The fireball was incredibly bright, rivaling the Sun! There was a pretty big sonic boom from the fireball, which set off car alarms and shattered windows. I'm seeing some reports of many people injured (by shattered glass blown out by the shock wave). I'm also seeing reports that some pieces have fallen to the ground, but again as I write this those are unconfirmed." This is the best summary I've found so far, and links to lots of videos and images. He also clarifies something I've been wondering about: 'This is almost certainly unrelated to the asteroid 2012 DA14 that will pass on Friday.'"
Some not so credible newspapers report unconfirmed military sources stating that Russian air defence shot down this bad boy.
Pfffft.
That was Putin skydiving from space.
Shirtless, because he's Putin.
Zombies spotted in Chelyabinsk
Its ok its just the real Iranian monkey coming home :)
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
Siberia is big. It has more gravity. *runs!*
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>> The flash of light and the shock wave had a bunch of folks crapping their pants
...that's peculiar... two men in black suits ringing at my door...
Pfff... the flash and shock wave is the least of their concerns...
Check out the CHEMTRAIL that mofo leaves behind!!!!
This MUST be the work of a 'three-letter-agency', no other explanation will explain that kind of chemtrail. It is even bigger that the ones made by regular flying objects. I would love to elaborate on that, but I have to answer the door...
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Now draw a line from the ceiling. That's the trajectory of DA14. South-to-North.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
The enemy's gate is down.
God can aim at the homos just fine, it's His boyfriend that I'm worried about.
Yep. My favorite scene in Independence Day was when they got to the asteroid and Denzel Washington killed those two aliens and was all like "Welcome to Mars, man! Would you like to know more?"
[Citation Needed]
Russia: so bad even the universe throws rocks at it.
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