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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.
>> 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.
>mean strike by metroid
>metroid
If this means what I think it means, we're boned.
Only with brimstone. Otherwise, it's just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You can do everyone one a favor and make it 7 billion - 1.
Don't nobody piss of my man Sephiroth.
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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.
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Was he wearing a dinosaur suit, by chance?
Table-ized A.I.
Humm, maybe from North Korean Launch? Sling shot from space?
North Korean ICBM ..
effective range world wide / blast area 1 meter
For a country with high population density as well as area, I'd say India was asking for it...
Tamil Nadu has about the same population density as Aruba, San Marino, and Mayotte. India as a state is ranked 33 in the world for density.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
We've eliminated predators
I'm sure that groups like Boko Haram, ISIS and the rest would be surprised to hear they've been eliminated. They do a lot of preying while they're praying.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Surely you meant space-borne railgun? Not being pedantic, as not everybody know what a railgun is yet...
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Was wondering why I didn't receive a call back from Bob in customer service.
Humm, maybe from North Korean Launch? Sling shot from space?
Interesting theory.. It was Littl' Un's toy rocket!
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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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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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Don't worry, the last metroid is in captivity...
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.
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.
Technically correct: the best kind of correct.
If I've done all the math correctly, and we assume that a single human takes up 1 m^2 of area, 8 billion humans only fill on the order of 1/100,000 of the total surface area of Earth. As the population increases, the probability of a meteorite striking a human goes from a really small number to a slightly less small number.
In other words, you're vastly overestimating how much of the surface area of Earth is inhabited by humans.
I prefer to imagine that God chose to smite a random Indian bus driver out of all the people in the world that he could have used a hurtling space rock on.
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we are more likely to be killed by falling debris.
Only if "we" means Homo Sap as a whole. Your personal chances are constant.
I have a few exercises I give my students in which they have to make a guess at a quantity and then make a calculation to back it up. My favorite: If you marked off a tract of land in a 3x3 foot grid, and one person stood at each intersection, how many square miles would accommodate the entire world population, and what would be a country of comparable size?
Of course, after doing the calculation, one might ponder what it would smell like...
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...
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Of course, you also need to take into account the size of the meteorite and the size of its' blast zone. It does not not need to be a direct hit to kill you, and this did not appear to be a direct hit, either.
... to prevent any further cases of meteorites landing in inhabited areas.
I have a few exercises I give my students in which they have to make a guess at a quantity and then make a calculation to back it up. My favorite: If you marked off a tract of land in a 3x3 foot grid, and one person stood at each intersection, how many square miles would accommodate the entire world population, and what would be a country of comparable size?
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$1473!
And people think insurance companies are cheapskates!
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You can do everyone one a favor and make it 7 billion - 1.
Or -10.
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Imagine how many meteorites it took to wipe out the dinosaurs then?
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.
Without running the numbers, I can't be sure, but at a guess I'd say standing about ankle deep in the water off the island of Zanzibar.
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Boko Haram and ISIS are not predators they are prey. The real predators are the various spec op teams on the hunt around the world. These predators are also capable of designating targets for "meteor strikes"
It bounced off of Trump's hair.
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.
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I think that he may be speaking perfectly correct Indian dialect English, which I have been assured is "crisp".
>We've eliminated predators
Only the big ones. We won the battle against bacteria but we are losing the war and so far virusses are still beating almost everything we throw at them.
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Just because they're prey to our special operators doesn't make them any less predators from the point of view of the thousands and thousands of people they are slaughtering in the name of rewinding to the dark ages. They're definitely predators, as their world view requires that sort of predation in order to exist.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
The biggest killers of humans in all history are still out there, brewing up new attacks and devastations.
Disease bacteria. Opportunistic wound-invading, skin-attacking and gut-attacking moulds, viruses and bacteria.
And of, the biggest killer of all - other humans, by various means.
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