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1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake
MancunianMaskMan writes "The BBC writes about the meteorite that fell from the sky 8 months ago: 'The object plunged into Lake Chebarkul in central Russia on 15 February, leaving a 6m-wide hole in the ice. Scientists say that it is the largest fragment of the meteorite yet found.'"
This is one of the ten largest meteorite fragments ever recovered. Unfortunately, it broke into three pieces after being lifted from the lake, and managed to destroy the scale used to weigh it when it hit 570kg.
In Soviet Russia, YOU destroy Meteor!
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
From the Russian site:
"Scientists were initially baffled with reports that the meteorite fragments were hollow, but after arriving at the site stated that this was in fact completely normal as was the trail of slime leading into the nearby forest. Russian military sources state that the ongoing training exercises in this forest are completely unrelated."
Unobtanium. Only possible explanation...
happens all the time where I work.
public affairs photog says "do something scientific looking"
click
et voila
Actually, if you read the manual, soviet russia "jokes" stopped being an obligation when taco left. None the less, given the subject of the story I calculate the overused meme will appear in 51% of all comments. Carry on, comrades.
You over-analyze, mate :)
Just take the joke as a joke, rather than compare the syntax and structure to an established one and yell if they don't match.
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They're actually calibrating the calipers to the standard Russian measurement of One Space Thingy.
In Soviet Russia, slashdot leaves taco!
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After reading the summary and scanning the article (in true Slashdot fasion!) I went to look at the comments... and they are all complete drivel. Tons of stupid jokes and no actual discussion of the event. What the hell has happened here??
Anyway - back on topic: Does anyone else feel like that rock is WAY too big to have only left a 6m hole in the ice? That rock impacting the ice/water would have been an enormous event... it would have vaporized a ton of water and blown the ice away for at least several hundred feet.
Something doesn't add up here.
Why didn't the meteorite leave a hole exactly the same size and shape as the object itself?
Clearly this means explosives were used in a controlled demolition of the lake's frozen surface.
Prohibition was very successful. IT's goal was to drop domestic crime, and it did. In fact domestic crime reached very close to 0(Zero) percent.
Even including the violent crime committed by the mob, it was still down. It was very successful.
Interesting note, anything with any violence at all was splashed on the front page by newspaper who lost money becasue they lost liquor advertising.
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Drinking wasn't illegal. People who saw Prohibition coming and could afford it stocked up on booze, and as long as they weren't making/selling/distributing it, they were legal.