WATCH OUT FOR THOSE FIRE BALLS

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Posted on 15th February 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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Is it just me, or does Russian music suck? If you think humans are in control of what happens to this earth, just watch these videos. Bruce Willis will not save the day when our time comes.

 

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  1. Administrator says:

    Meteor Travelling At 19 Miles Per Second Explodes Over Russian Urals, 500 Injured – Video

    Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/15/2013 07:40 -0500

    In perhaps the oddest news of the day, workers in the Chelyabinsk region in the Russian Urals were greeted this morning with a spectacular show: an exploding meteor. Bloomberg reports “A meteor exploded in the skies above Russia’s Urals region and sent shock waves that shattered windows, hurting hundreds of people, hours before an asteroid half the size of a football field hurtles past the Earth. The meteor broke apart above the Chelyabinsk region at about 7:25 a.m. Moscow time, the Emergencies Ministry’s division in the Urals district said today on its website. “A serious meteor fell,” billionaire Sergey Galitskiy, chief executive officer of OAO Magnit, Russia’s biggest food retailer by value, said in a post on his Twitter Inc. account. “At our hypermarket in Emanzhelinsk, windows were blown out, the roof shook, there was a strong shock wave.” More than 290 people reported injuries, according to the website of Chelyabinsk Region Governor Mikhail Yurevich. The number may be higher than 500, Interfax reported, citing an unidentified Interior Ministry official.”

    From Reuters:

    People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 1,500 km (950 miles) east of Moscow.

    A fireball blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail in its wake which could be seen as far as 200 km (125 miles) away in Yekaterinburg. Car alarms went off, windows shattered and mobile phone networks were interrupted.

    “I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day,” said Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg in the Urals Mountains.

    “I felt like I was blinded by headlights,” he said.

    No fatalities were reported but President Vladimir Putin, who was due to host Finance Ministry officials from the Group of 20 nations in Moscow, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev were informed.

    A local ministry official said such incidents were extremely rare and Friday’s events might have been linked to an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool due to pass Earth at a distance of 27,520 km (17,100 miles) but this was not confirmed.

    Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said the meteorite was travelling at a speed of 30 km (19 miles) per second and that such events were hard to predict. The Interior Ministry said the meteorite explosion had caused a sonic boom.

    Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said 514 people had sought medical help, mainly for light injuries caused by flying glass, and that 112 of those were kept in hospital. Search groups were set up to look for the remains of the meteorite.

    Unlike the Tunguska meteor of 1908 Siberia fame, there was no actual land collision: “The meteorite may have fallen into a body of water about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from the city of Chebarkul, national television channel Rossiya 24 reported. The meteorite may have weighed 1 kilogram, according to the television company’s website. As many as 20,000 emergency staff and three aircraft have been deployed in the Urals region, the ministry said.”

    Sentiment on the ground that this is nothing but a crashing UFO was promptly squashed by the government, and moments ago the emergency minister denied a report that the meteorite was shot down by Russian military.

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    15th February 2013 at 8:42 am

  2. Eddie says:

    Russian music? Gogol Bordello is pretty good. Oh wait, they’re from the Lower East side. Well, anyway, Russian music SHOULD sound like them.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pfLuFDx7I&feature=player_embedded

    Can’t watch the vids at work. Not enough bandwidth. Maybe Obama will buy me some new computers.

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    15th February 2013 at 8:50 am

  3. Administrator says:

    Eddie

    You should tell the cheap ass boss to get more bandwidth so your employees can watch videos from their Facebook accounts.

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    15th February 2013 at 8:58 am

  4. sangell says:

    Here’s a handy dandy meteor/asteroid impact calculator that allows you to pick your rock’s size, material, speed, angle and distance and determine if you live or die.

    http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/

    The thing you have to really avoid is the radiant heat. No one to get away from it. If trees burst into flame you won’t need to concern yourself with the shock wave, a 1000 foot high tsunami, boulders falling from the sky etc. You’ll just look out the window, see a flash and cook.

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    15th February 2013 at 9:07 am

  5. Administrator says:

    Meteorite hits Russian Urals: Fireball explosion wreaks havoc, over 900 injured (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

    Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds are seeking medical attention for minor injuries.

    Around 950 people have sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk alone because of the disaster, the region’s governor Mikhail Yurevich told RIA Novosti. Over 110 of them have been hospitalized and two of them are in heavy condition. Among the injured there are 159 children, Emergency ministry reported.

    Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk. The third site was found some 80 kilometers further to the northwest, near the town of Zlatoust. One of the fragments that struck near Chebarkul left a crater six meters in diameter.

    Servicemembers from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal.

    Police officers, environmentalists and EMERCOM experts at the site of a meteorite hit in the Chelyabinsk Region. Small 0.5-1 cm pieces of black matter resembling rock were found around the ice hole caused by the meteorite. Photo courtesy of the press service of the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for the Chelyabinsk Region.(RIA Novosti)

    Experts working at the site of the impact told Lifenews tabloid that the fragment is most likely solid, and consists of rock and iron.
    A local fisherman told police he found a large hole in the lake’s ice, which could be a result of a meteorite impact. The site was immediately sealed off by police, a search team is now waiting for divers to arrive and explore the bottom of the lake.
    Samples of water taken from the lake have not revealed any excessive radioactivity or foreign material.

    Russian space agency Roskosmos has confirmed the object that crashed in the Chelyabinsk region is a meteorite:
    “According to preliminary estimates, this space object is of non-technogenic origin and qualifies as a meteorite. It was moving at a low trajectory with a speed of about 30 km/s.”

    According to estimates by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the space object weighed about 50 tons before entering Earth’s atmosphere.

    Russian space agency Roskosmos has confirmed the object that crashed in the Chelyabinsk region is a meteorite:

    “According to preliminary estimates, this space object is of non-technogenic origin and qualifies as a meteorite. It was moving at a low trajectory with a speed of about 30 km/s.”

    According to estimates by the Russian Academy of Sciences, the space object weighed about 10 tons before entering Earth’s atmosphere.
    ­A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from space objects such as asteroids or comets, ranging in size from tiny to gigantic.

    When a meteorite falls on Earth, passing through the atmosphere causes it to heat up and emit a trail of light, forming a fireball known as a meteor, or shooting or falling star.

    A bright flash was seen in the Chelyabinsk, Tyumen and Sverdlovsk regions, Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria and in northern Kazakhstan.
    The Russian army has joined the rescue operation. Radiation, chemical and biological protection units have been put on high alert. Since the explosion occurred several kilometers above the Earth, a large ground area must be thoroughly checked for radiation and other threats.

    According to preliminary reports, the worst damage on the ground in Chelyabinsk was at a zinc factory, the walls and roof of which were partially destroyed by an impact wave. The city’s Internet and mobile service were reportedly interrupted because of the damage inflicted near the factory.
    Chelyabinsk administration’s website said nearly 3,000 buildings were damaged to varying extents by the meteor shower in the city, including 34 medical facilities and 361 schools and kindergartens. The total amount of window glass shattered amounts to 100,000 square meters, the site said, citing city administration head Sergey Davydov.

    Buildings were left without gas because facilities in the city had also been damaged, an Emergency Ministry spokesperson said, according to Russia 24 news channel.

    The Emergency Ministry reported that 20,000 rescue workers are operating in the region. Three aircraft were deployed to survey the area and locate other possible impact locations.

    Witnesses said the explosion was so loud that it seemed like an earthquake and thunder had struck at the same time, and that there were huge trails of smoke across the sky. Others reported seeing burning objects fall to earth.

    A spokesperson for the Urals regional Emergency Ministry center claimed it sent out a mass SMS warning residents about a possible meteorite shower. However, eyewitnesses said they either never received it, or got the message after the explosion had occurred. The Emergency Ministry has since denied sending out the SMS warning, and said the spokesperson that spread the false information “will be fired.”

    Classes for all Chelyabinsk schools have been canceled, mostly due to broken windows. Institute students have been dismissed until next Monday. Authorities also ordered all kindergartens with broken windows to return children to their families.

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    15th February 2013 at 9:07 am

  6. Eddie says:

    The cheap boss (me) remembers a time before we had computers, and we got along just fine.

    In those days I could (personally) do the daysheet, read the ledger cards, bill the accounts receivable, balance the checkbook, and even file the tax returns. I often ask myself “How is this better, exactly?”

    We actually have decent bandwidth, it’s just the tiny amount of RAM memory that bogs me down. The employees, using their cell phones, have no such constraint. so, I’m really a good boss, right?

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    15th February 2013 at 9:08 am

  7. flash says:

    Besides medical care,I would imagine there more than a few Ruskies in dire need of an underwear change.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279020/Russian-meteorite-Moment-meteorite-exploded-doctors-treat-500-people-injured.html
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    15th February 2013 at 9:09 am

  8. Eddie says:

    ” If trees burst into flame you won’t need to concern yourself with the shock wave, a 1000 foot high tsunami, boulders falling from the sky etc. You’ll just look out the window, see a flash and cook.”

    Sounds like it could ruin your whole day.

    God should be a better shot. Lots of better targets than Chelyabinsk.

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    15th February 2013 at 9:14 am

  9. fool on the hill says:

    Eddie,

    The pentagon has my vote.

    Better ordinance than the imaginary airliner.

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    15th February 2013 at 9:34 am

  10. sangell says:

    God should be a better shot. Lots of better targets than Chelyabinsk.
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    Oh he will and it will make believers of us all when he puts a big rock into the ocean. Think that Japanese tsunami was big? Wait to you see what a wave a mile high can do to a coastline.

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    15th February 2013 at 9:35 am

  11. Dorkus Maximus says:

    This may be the solution to russian fire balls:

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    15th February 2013 at 9:52 am

  12. M. Oleman says:

    Eddie, the old days were better and I don’t need rose colored glasses to see it. We would have heard about the meteor on the evening news or read about it in the paper. Or been clobbered by it. Everything was so much simpler.

    Anyway the internets is just a fad. Just a fad I say!

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    15th February 2013 at 10:07 am

  13. flash says:

    @Sangell

    Canary Islands for $100?

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    15th February 2013 at 10:07 am

  14. AWD says:

    We were just a few hundred miles away from a species ending meteor (the big one that missed). In advance of RE, I feel obligated to post this picture:

    asteroid-impact.jpg

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    15th February 2013 at 10:09 am

  15. Gubmint cheese says:

    “CNN anchor suggests meteor hurtling toward Earth could be a result of global warming…”

    You just can’t fix stupid.

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    15th February 2013 at 11:12 am

  16. Eddie says:

    Galactic Warming.

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    15th February 2013 at 11:21 am

  17. JIMSKI says:

    Tell you what. I am on my way to work and that shit happens in the sky I am going home. Fuck that shit. Seen to many bad sci fi movies that start just like that shit. It’s hunker in the bunker time.

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    15th February 2013 at 11:37 am

  18. howard in nyc says:

    boss man here at the burning platform, and most of the rest of us, have been warning that the sky is falling for years now.

    those bitches should listen to us. maybe now they will. (doubt it)

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    15th February 2013 at 11:41 am

  19. AWD says:

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    15th February 2013 at 11:44 am

  20. Stucky says:

    Meteor schmeteor. What you (gals) need to worry about is flying sperm.

    ————— -

    “Farmington police are searching for a man who threw or ejaculated semen on two women while at Walmart on two separate occasions. Detectives were able to get surveillance pictures of the man, but he has not been positively identified yet. Police said he appears to be a Native American man between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 6 inches and weighing about 165 lbs. He appears to be in his 30s to early 40s. The man arbitrarily chooses his female victims, according to police. Police said there are two confirmed victims, but more may be out there.”

    Semen.jpg

    http://www.koat.com/news/new-mexico/albuquerque/Police-Man-threw-semen-at-2-shoppers/-/9153728/18553178/-/4iaqud/-/index.html

    ————— -

    Couple observations ….

    1) I’ve seen pictures of Jim Quinn from his OWS posts. The person above looks just like him. I am not saying Admin is randomly seeding Walmarts, just the uncanny coincidence.

    2) The police say the perp either “threw or ejaculated” his boys. Bullshit politically correct bullshit. You can NOT “throw” spermies. The boys have no solid form. It’s not like a fuckin baseball you pick up and throw at 90mph. Even if you could, it would stick to you hand. No no no. This amazing fellow somehow has the ability to quickly ejaculate in public. Wow, I can’t even pee if another guy is looking at me.

    3) Women should view this as the highest form of compliment. It’s fuckin hard enough to merely walk up to a babe and say “hi”! But walking up to her, wiping it out, and ejaculating on her fake Louis Vuitton bag …. wow! … that girl should feel very very special.

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    15th February 2013 at 11:52 am

  21. Administrator says:

    LLPOH is a Native American and I think he lives in Farmington. He has a Napoleon complex, so he must be short. I think we’ve got our man.

    Stuck

    Blow me

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    15th February 2013 at 12:06 pm

  22. AWD says:

    ” A Native American man between 5 feet 3 inches and 5 feet 6 inches and weighing about 165 lbs”

    Sounds more like Lipoh to me.

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    15th February 2013 at 12:08 pm

  23. IndenturedServant says:

    I have witnessed 10′s of thousands of incoming meteors. I’ve been lucky enough to see two large ones but never anything that big! If you could recover fragments from a witnessed fall you could end up extremely rich.

    At 1:25pm CST today there will be an asteroid passing within 17,000 miles of Earth. (the asteroid and meteor are not related) That is damn close in astronomical terms. Definitely close enough for Earth’s gravity to alter it’s future flight path. What many don’t realize is that the enormous gravitational field of Jupiter acts like a giant cosmic hoover and protects Earth from many impacts. Many orbital scientists believe life might not exist on Earth if Jupiter was not out there taking one for the team.

    We also have a very good chance of seeing at least three nice, bright comets this year. The first in in a about three weeks, another in May and the best one could be bright enough to see in broad daylight this November. The first two are sneaking up on us from the southern hemisphere right now and the November comet is currently in Gemini right but extremely faint.
    I_S

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    15th February 2013 at 12:22 pm

  24. Stucky says:

    I was able to see that comet about 15 years ago (forgot its name) at night with the naked eye. It was simply beautiful … I would stare at it for an hour or more.

    I’ve been able to see Saturn’s rings (with a telescope). That was freaking awesome as well.

    This asteroid is “only” 150 feet across …. I don’t understand how something so small and passing the earth so quickly, how it can alter Earth’s future flight path.

    Nice info about Jupiter, I_S. I love Jupiter! But I’ll bet AWD hates it …. being that it’s a big fat planet, and all.

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    15th February 2013 at 12:58 pm

  25. AWD says:

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    15th February 2013 at 1:42 pm

  26. IndenturedServant says:

    @Stucky,
    The asteroid is not affecting the path of the Earth. (actually it is, but not in a significant way) The Earth is affecting the path of the asteroid. Apologies if I was not clear on that. The effects of gravity are very far ranging. NASA used gravity of the moon to get the astronauts there and back to Earth.

    A friend of mine conducted the Cavendish experiment which can be carried out by just about anyone in their own home using the gravitational field of an apple to attract another apple. He posted details and instructions here: http://www.physics.usu.edu/shane/science/cavendish/
    I_S

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    15th February 2013 at 1:52 pm

  27. IndenturedServant says:

    @Stucky, The comet you are thinking of was either Hyakutake or Hale-Bopp. Both were stunning night time objects especially if you made an effort to get yourself to a truly dark sky location to observe them. Google images of both and let me know which one you saw.
    I_S

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    15th February 2013 at 5:24 pm

  28. bruce says:

    Why don’t the politicians around the world just put a ban on meteors, asteroids, comets and all heavenly fireballs over a certain size or distance from earth. This should never happen again and the government should take steps ti insure does not. Then we can all be safe just like we are from drugs and guns.

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    15th February 2013 at 6:41 pm

  29. Stucky says:

    I_S

    It was Hale-Bopp. I was living in West Michigan — clear skies and little light pollution — and the sight was glorious.

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    15th February 2013 at 7:47 pm

  30. Novista says:

    I_S

    One winter night, 1966 or so, I was doing maintenance in a microwave station, SW Ohio close to the border. Finished my hardware maintenance, took my coffee outside before doing paperwork.

    The biggest bolide, damn it was spectacular. I drew up a diagram immediately, sent off to the American Meteor Society. Got a reply, apparently no one else reported it, I can still see it in my mind’s eye.

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    15th February 2013 at 9:02 pm

  31. IndenturedServant says:

    Here is one of the images I took of Hale-Bopp.
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    Here is the same comet a few nights later as I recall. I doing a public even for a Japanese girls school and stepped away to shoot this. You can see how much light pollution affected this image compared to the previous one.
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    I_S

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    15th February 2013 at 9:41 pm

  32. IndenturedServant says:

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    15th February 2013 at 9:43 pm

  33. IndenturedServant says:

    Well shit!

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    15th February 2013 at 9:43 pm

  34. sangell says:

    Looks like that Russian meteor was a lot bigger than thought.

    “Initially, the Russian Academy of Science estimated the object’s mass at about 10 metric tons (11 US tons). With more data in hand, researchers now say the object had a mass of 7,000 metric tons (7,700 US tons) and a diameter of about 50 feet.

    The blast released energy comparable to a 300- to 500-kiloton nuclear warhead, says Bill Cooke, who heads the meteoroid environment office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunstville, Ala. By Comparison, the Nagasaki nuclear bomb had a yield of 20 to 22 kilotons.”

    That’s pretty unnerving that such a large object could hit undetected. Obviously it is not the same explosive power as a 300-500kt bomb in terms of ground effect because it ‘goes off’ much higher in the atmosphere than a man made thermonuclear blast but had this thing descended over a major metropolitan area we would have had many deaths.

    Iron meteorites are the real danger. They have low albedo, high density and can penetrate much deeper into the atmosphere before breaking up. As a note aside, the Weather Channel had a show on Martian weather last night. Interesting and, of course it concluded with restoring the Martian atmosphere by releasing the frozen CO2 to warm the planet, increase surface pressure and allow for liquid water. It suggested using CFC’s to cause a super greenhouse effect and said such a method could raise the temperature sufficiently in a mere 800 years. I’d suggest a short cut. Put a few Saturn V’s rocket motors on the larger and closer of Mars’ moon, Phobos, and crash it into the Martian surface. Its a 22km sized rock only about 7,000 miles above Mars and it would heat the atmosphere enough to melt most of the CO2 in few hours as molten material was blasted all over the planet.

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    15th February 2013 at 10:30 pm

  35. AWD says:

    That was too close. We need to ban asteroids immediately!!!

    19649

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    15th February 2013 at 11:27 am

  36. AWD says:

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    15th February 2013 at 12:00 pm

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