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kimihia posted:The CNN person jumps in there to try and HYPE UP THE DESTRUCTION SHOULD WE ABANDON OUR CHILDREN AND RUN FOR THE HILLS??? but Bill Nye deals with her. God. Did no one bother to educate her a tiny bit about it, or was she trying to alarm viewers?
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kimihia posted:The CNN person jumps in there to try and HYPE UP THE DESTRUCTION SHOULD WE ABANDON OUR CHILDREN AND RUN FOR THE HILLS??? but Bill Nye deals with her. The CNN person jumped in to try and hype down the destruction. He was talking about the destructive capabilities and she was like "Oh by the way, all this won't happen." just in case some dude just tuned in and was confused.
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Also if you want a picture of what a life-killer asteroid impact looks like through (very dated) CGI set to the relaxing tunes of Pink Floyd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zvCUmeoHpw Vincent Valentine posted:The CNN person jumped in to try and hype down the destruction. He was talking about the destructive capabilities and she was like "Oh by the way, all this won't happen." just in case some dude just tuned in and was confused. I laughed at this because I could see Bill Nye thinking "Duh? I thought it didn't need to be said" And picture most everyone watching thinking "OH GOD IT WILL LAND ON US AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE"
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Somewhat relevant to this discussion: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/M...in-Chelyabinsk/Voice of Russia posted:A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteor shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses said that houses shuddered, windows were blown out and cellphones stopped working. Check out the video on there - it is kinda freaky at the beginning. Cue the sensationalist media hype machine!
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Colonel Xonik posted:Somewhat relevant to this discussion: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_02_15/M...in-Chelyabinsk/  That video. I am impressed by that fireball. Wonder what the meteorite will end up being classified.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 05:54 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Cellphone video of the sonic blast.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 06:24 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE Amazing in-car video of the meteor, kind of freaky - Hollywood has taught me that this ends in WWIII, the death of the dinosaurs, or Superman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7mLUIDGqmw Another one in the city, a lot of breaking glass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 Another shorter one of the blast.
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T-1000 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE Amazing in-car video of the meteor, kind of freaky - Hollywood has taught me that this ends in WWIII, the death of the dinosaurs, or Superman. Gotta love Russians and their dash cams. 
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/02/w...-sound-it-made/ http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html?nojs=1 There's a bunch of videos on that second link. It's pretty awesome that so many people managed to film this, and pretty lucky that it wasn't a slightly larger rock.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 06:42 |
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Neat, a micro-Tunguska. I hope we get some pics of the impact crater soon 
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Holy poo poo those videos are crazy and awesome. I would not know what to think if I was the guy driving that had the nice hd dashcam video of it, that poo poo looks like the end of the world is going down.
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They hit the thing and blew it up?quote:According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. A missile salvo reportedly blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers. http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-...helyabinsk-283/
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 06:48 |
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I seriously doubt that is true.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 06:52 |
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Meteors travel at ~10000km/s. I highly doubt anyone could track much less intercept one that close and small. Edit: Meh. The Big Pinch fucked around with this message at Feb 15, 2013 around 07:00 |
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The Big Pinch posted:Meteors travel at ~10000km/s. I highly doubt anyone could track much less intercept one that close and small. Holy gently caress that is cool looking, whatever it is. e. apparently it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell Mr. Despair fucked around with this message at Feb 15, 2013 around 07:03 |
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The Big Pinch posted:Claimed impact site.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 06:59 |
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I have a feeling the sonic boom did a lot of damage - including the factory that had it's roof cave in. Not that I'm an expert. This really should help increase funding for watching out for this sort of thing, but it won't. Any idea how big it was?
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 07:04 |
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Lots of pics and videos here http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html
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Dr Tran posted:Lots of pics and videos here http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html 
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Comstar posted:Any idea how big it was? I was guessing at maybe 10ft wide and half a kilton. Doing some rough calculations from one of the videos, I'm guessing the airburst was about 4km away. So it might be much bigger than I thought. Edit: http://www.smh.com.au/world/meteor-...0215-2ei2j.html Says the airburst happened at 10km altitude. The Big Pinch fucked around with this message at Feb 15, 2013 around 07:13 |
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Rickycat posted:Also if you want a picture of what a life-killer asteroid impact looks like through (very dated) CGI set to the relaxing tunes of Pink Floyd: I never understood that Pink Floyd track with that. This one synchs surprisingly well: http://tubedubber.com/#vZiZU42sn6w:...:0:100:0:0:true
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Morally Inept posted:This is a great post. Thanks OP. I know as a kid I would hear about that death meteor that was supposedly going to wipe out the earth and that, supposedly, in the past killed off the dinosaurs. Used to scare the heck out of me. It still should, according to Bill Nye. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xo-TW_cOOQ Edit - I swear I read the whole thread yet still somehow managed to miss the below. Anyways, there's the youtube embed above. :p Devyl posted:Here is Bill Nye explaining what would happen if it hits. Maldoror fucked around with this message at Feb 15, 2013 around 20:33 |
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Can someone explain to me why everyone in Russia seems to have a camera mounted on their dashboard?
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I heard it was something to do with insurance, like it's really hard to prove who's at fault in an accident without one. It has lead to countless 'we love russia' compilations on youtube so that's definitely a bonus, I think.
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Can someone explain to me why everyone in Russia seems to have a camera mounted on their dashboard? From what I've heard, Insurance Fraud is incredibly easy to pull off over there. Dashboard cams provide proof that the scammer drove around like a maniac.
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Lance Streetman posted:From what I've heard, Insurance Fraud is incredibly easy to pull off over there. Dashboard cams provide proof that the scammer drove around like a maniac. If you search a bit you'll find videos of people who are intentionally walking in to the street or jumping out behind cars to get hit so they can sue. There are some pretty fun compilations of people being caught redhanded.
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Bad Astronomy has a quick post up.Comstar posted:I have a feeling the sonic boom did a lot of damage - including the factory that had it's roof cave in. Not that I'm an expert. quote:This really should help increase funding for watching out for this sort of thing, but it won't. Against larger rocks, we're doing a pretty good job. Take a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqC1QjlVUYk Personally, I'm pretty confident that if anything bigger than 50 meters is headed our way, we'll know about it in advance. The real thing is, predictions will be able to know not just that a rock will impact the earth, but where it will strike. If we find a 75 meter rock in 2014 that's on course to hit the eastern seaboard of the US in 6 months, I think we'll try to do something about it. Likewise Europe. But if it's not going to hit a poor region with low population density, who pays for an intercept mission?
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Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but you can stream the asteroid flyby live on this nasa feed... you can see it already! http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2 It's supposed to be closest at 2:15, I'm curious how much larger it will look in this feed by then (if at all).
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Klyith posted:Personally, I'm pretty confident that if anything bigger than 50 meters is headed our way, we'll know about it in advance. The real thing is, predictions will be able to know not just that a rock will impact the earth, but where it will strike. If we find a 75 meter rock in 2014 that's on course to hit the eastern seaboard of the US in 6 months, I think we'll try to do something about it. Likewise Europe. But if it's not going to hit a poor region with low population density, who pays for an intercept mission? Honestly, the chances that we could do anything about most of them are pretty slim. 2012 DA 14 weighs 190,000 tons, that's a lot of mass to move especially when our largest rocket can only put 9 tons into an interplanetary orbit.
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evensevenone posted:Honestly, the chances that we could do anything about most of them are pretty slim. 2012 DA 14 weighs 190,000 tons, that's a lot of mass to move especially when our largest rocket can only put 9 tons into an interplanetary orbit. Given enough lead-time though, chaotic effects will tend to predominate so that even a small sub-newton force can make a difference. Stick a couple long-running engines with high specific impulse far enough in advance, and you'd actually be pretty safe. But with only 6-months notice (probably not even enough time to match the orbit of the asteroid!) we're probably boned. ComradeCosmobot fucked around with this message at Feb 15, 2013 around 18:44 |
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Polo-Rican posted:Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but you can stream the asteroid flyby live on this nasa feed... you can see it already! Ugh... they keep moving the camera. I think I'm getting space-sick.
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2012DA14 just passed by a couple minutes ago.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2013 19:27 |
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I think I just saw this from my window in Scotland. It was a reddish colour and jumped about the sky a little whilst moving. Saw it for about two minutes. Have I imagined this?
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Beep Street posted:I think I just saw this from my window in Scotland. It was a reddish colour and jumped about the sky a little whilst moving. Saw it for about two minutes. Have I imagined this?
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T-1000 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c-0iwBEswE Amazing in-car video of the meteor, kind of freaky - Hollywood has taught me that this ends in WWIII, the death of the dinosaurs, or Superman. Aw man that really nice HD dashcam one was removed, anybody have another link to it?
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fletcher posted:Aw man that really nice HD dashcam one was removed, anybody have another link to it? I know, that one was perfect, showed it clearly from start to end. Every single detail.  Maybe it showed too much.
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fletcher posted:Aw man that really nice HD dashcam one was removed, anybody have another link to it?
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T-1000 posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAmN2Yy50g has it at the beginning, maybe not as high quality. Yep that's the one. I want the pretty 1080p!! I think Russia Today must have bought it off the guy and then had him take down his version.
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I randomly saved it last night - is it bad files to post it somewhere for download?
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drat, that sound is pretty jarring. It's traveled in total silence through space for god knows how many years, then suddenly HELLO EARTH HERE I AM KABOOOOM! NASA has an animated GIF of asteroid 2012 DA14. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/a...a/pia16737.html
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