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[hoagie]

[Lazy Lightning]

Just watching this on another feed - amazing!

[hoagie]

http://hosted.ap.org...-02-15-01-07-50

[unbroken_chain]

here's a complilation... . one view is pretty sick!

 

[tyedyedee]

saw that on the news this morning

 

existential angst, anyone?

[JBetty]

existential angst, anyone?

 

 

 

Actually no.

But thanks for asking.  

[cheeseweasel]

Harbinger.

[Feesh]

Seeing this it made me wonder: did it crash? Did anything burn?

 

 

Do tigers sleep in lily patches? Do rhinos run from thunder?

[unbroken_chain]

existential angst, anyone?

 

 

Just standard, general angst,  non-asteroid affected.

[Feesh]

here's a complilation... . one view is pretty sick!

 

After watching this video I have to say: Russian's listen to some crappy music.

[hoagie]

After watching this video I have to say: Russian's listen to some crappy music.

And no emotional reactions at all. So weird

[Feesh]

And no emotional reactions at all. So weird

I laughed, I cried, I read the book and bought the t-shirt.

...better?

[Chip]

Russians are not known for public dispalys of emotion.

 

There is buzz of the same thing happening in central Cuba today, but because of embargo they don't have the prevalence of Video or the Dashboard video that Russians use to keep corrupt cops in line.

[alsoa]

the prevalence of Video or the Dashboard video that Russians use to keep corrupt cops in line.

 

I'm pretty sure it is mostly due to the high rate of insurance fraud.

 

Edit: On further investigation it is both... and just crime in general.

[Feesh]

Russians are not known for public dispalys of emotion.

 

There is buzz of the same thing happening in central Cuba today, but because of embargo they don't have the prevalence of Video or the Dashboard video that Russians use to keep corrupt cops in line.

Looks like it's true: a meteorite did pass or crash close to Cuba!

I wonder if these two (Russian & Cuban) events are linked, and if so are they shards of some nearby impact or collision.

[Chip]

I'm pretty sure it is mostly due to the high rate of insurance fraud.

 

Edit: On further investigation it is both... and just crime in general.

 

Yeah they seem to have a lot of cop cars hit them and damage their cars, and claim it didn't happen during insurance investigation, so plenty of new Dashcams in Russia to prove the cops did hit them, among other crimes they catch.

[capt_morgan]

thats some assroid right there

[tyedyedee]

are they shards of some nearby impact or collision.

 

this very thought triggered my existential angst pang of this morning

[Jwheelz]

apparently the trajectory of the object that broke apart over Russia is inconsistent with the asteroid that passed by the Earth today... but this is a pretty eye-opening reminder of how small we really are IMO... fact is if a big rock ever hit us directly those in the immediate path would be dead before they even realized what had happened... just to think this was an object probably 30 feet across that exploded 20 miles up in the air and it was enough to shatter windows on the ground miles and miles away, then to compare that to the object which was 17,000 miles away in passing, which was probably about five times bigger at least... you can only imagine what something that size would do over the wrong area, and that asteroid is small compared to many others out there, even other Earth crossers

[PieDoh]

as we accelerrate across the face of time, ever outwards from the origin of the big bang, one may consider: we never are actually in the same place in the universe. not daily, not yearly, not once every 26000 years, never. who knows what floating field of rock our solar system is passing through/will pass through next???

only the shadow knows!!!

[Rionach aka Spec K]

existential angst, anyone?

not surprising