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Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India
knwny writes: In what is believed to be the first such incident in modern times, a meteorite strike in India killed a man and injured three others. According to police sources, a loud blast was heard at the site of the strike which also left a four-feet deep crater. Preliminary investigation by forensic and bomb experts showed no sign of any explosive substance at the scene. The second link has a picture of the supposed crater which I believe will interest Slashdotters with experience in this area.
A cow might have died.
In the same of the sand. In India mean strike by metroid far. Never has make occur for all is not.
Isn't this the very definition of a God smiting somebody?
>> a meteorite strike in India killed a man and injured three others
Isn't that a level 9 spell? Were there any related "prismatic", er, rainbow attacks in the area too?
It's sad for his family and condolences. But man, what a unique way to go! Probably high up on my list of ways to go. No pain, no fear, just one minute you're there and the next your in the history books for being one of the few to be taken out by a meteorite.
As we inhabit more and more of the planet, as we continue to expand and grow, up from 7billion to 8billion and more, we cover more and more territory, and therefore, we are more likely to be killed by falling debris.
Of course, without a nice big one, we'll not be reduced enough to make a difference. We've eliminated predators, the only things left to kill us is ourselves or a nice big chunk of rock from space.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
That was no ordinary Meteorite strike. That was the Loo God speaking to India.
The Loo God says:
POO IN THE LOO
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And stop wasting millions of pounds on trips to Mars and build loos instead.
For a country with high population density as well as area, I'd say India was asking for it...
Don't nobody piss of my man Sephiroth.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
That man needs to go buy a lottery ticket ... oh wait.
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CNN shows a roped off area in what appears to be a small thicket, while the second link shows a crater in a rice paddy. If you read the article in the second link, the 4th paragraph mentions another incident believed to be a meteorite struck a rice paddy on Jan 26. So the caption on that image is probably incorrect.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Was he wearing a dinosaur suit, by chance?
Table-ized A.I.
Article there was a previous similar "blast" on Jan 26 and a meteorite expert investigating that just happened to be nearby so he could rush over to the new blast sight. Sounds absurdly unlikely. No. What we have here is somebody testing a space-born rail run on unsuspecting civilians.
Such a unique occurrence deserves a picture.
North Korean ICBM ..
effective range world wide / blast area 1 meter
Looks like somebody pissed off the DM.
. . . a smart one would avoid notice. Like not registering on optics. And striking out of nowhere, leaving a drained corpse behind.
Oh, nevermind, they operate in the open, even have a website. . .
irs.gov. . .
Why exactly would that picture be of interest to slashdotters?
I'm genuinely curious - what realistic conclusions could anyone reasonably draw from that picture?
While it's distinguishable from a molehill due to what seems to be it's size I fail to see what other conclusions could be drawn. Maybe it's not an anthill? :P
Jeez. Trollbait editorialization...
Was wondering why I didn't receive a call back from Bob in customer service.
Paul Verhoeven predicted this in 1997 in Starship Troopers. The end is near...
The WSJ article says fragments thrown out from the impact were what killed one person and injured others (and damaged things). Not really what we all expected, i.e. a meteorite fell right onto someone - in which case there'd be little to no identifiable organic material left.
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...as one can easily see. This is a crater in the middle of a paddy field. The regular array of tufts of greener is planted rice. The crater is order of a meter across or maybe a bit less (scale from the array of rice plants) and is formed in soft paddy mud that has had all of the rocks and solid material removed over as many as hundreds of years. This strike didn't kill anyone.
From the article, the second strike was near a tank -- which is basically a large open well sometimes surrounded by or even formed out of stone or masonry, typically NOT located in the middle of a muddy, flooded rice paddy -- injured several people and killed one, which means that it had more energy than the rice paddy strike and likely hit ground solid enough to cause significant shrapnel. A rice paddy is pretty close to a perfect environment to NOT cause a lot of shrapnel.
Just sayin'. I'm guessing the newspaper had a stock photo of the first hit and figured most people would be too ignorant to detect the "error" and wanted to be first to press to get wider reading and didn't wait on somebody going to photograph the actual crater.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
Three-headed baby found in Romania: can speak a different language from each mouth. Weird shit always pops up in unverifiable locales, like 3rd world shit holes.
9 sq ft per person * 8,000,000,000 = 72,000,000,000 sq ft = 2,583 sq mi = Wrangell, Alaska
Land area of Earth = 196,600,000 sq mi
2,583 / 196,600,000 = 0.00001313835 = 0.0013%
Given the small impact crater (60cm according to CNN) and the police statement that they have a piece of whatever fell to earth this seems unlikely to be a meteorite to me. If it was big enough to leave remains, and moving as fast as a meteor then I don't see how the crater could be so small. More likely IMO to have been a bit of space junk from one of the many satellites and stuff up there.
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From TFA:
a college employee, who had gone to drink water suffered serious injuries and was declared dead
And then there's a photo of a crater in the middle of a muddy rice paddy. And I thought Flint Michigan had problems with drinking water.
Have gnu, will travel.
Sounds like an act of Flying Spaghetti Monster. If only he was wearing his colander, he would have been spared.
I don't see any drag marks, or any indication of disturbance around the crater.
Definitely a meterrorite attack. They're becoming more sophisticated every day!
That's what you call a "shooting" Star!
Get it? Dead by a "Shooting" star?
Ok I'll walk myself out...
Elok
... to prevent any further cases of meteorites landing in inhabited areas.
$1473!
And people think insurance companies are cheapskates!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
You know, when I heard about Meteor killing someone, I was relieved, but still a little disappointed to find out that it only killed one person. I was given the impression that if Sephiroth was allowed to complete his plan, everyone would die. Now I just don't feel like all that effort was worth it if I didn't actually save the world.
Imagine how many meteorites it took to wipe out the dinosaurs then?
Does anyone know if there was any warnings of the inbound meteorite shower? You'd think in this day and age we'd be able to warn potential impact zones when the meteorites are not likely to breakup enough in our atmosphere.
The True Story of History's Only Known Meteorite Victim
"On a clear afternoon in Sylacauga, Alabama (see map), in late November 1954, Ann was napping on her couch, covered by quilts, when a softball-size hunk of black rock broke through the ceiling, bounced off a radio, and hit her in the thigh, leaving a pineapple-shaped bruise..."
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He was probably on his way to cash in his winning lottery ticket.
What he was saying will be fought over for centuries to come.
Neither does the article. How big is the hole? What sort of blast would it have been? Sonic boom? How about a dazzling flash? Hell's teeth, the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk killed a dashcam when it popped.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Still an odd way to go. RIP.
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