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		10 kg hailstone hits (globaltimes.cn)		17
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Lucubrationist		2012-05-23 10:49:25 AM

Was it blue? What did it taste like?

ClintBartonWannabe		2012-05-23 10:52:15 AM

That unidentified piece of ice? Looks familiar, I think his last name was Berg.

PYROY		2012-05-23 10:52:31 AM

That's like a 1000 grams, more or less.

bump		2012-05-23 10:55:23 AM

Must've been quite a storm. Was the reporter injured? Izzy okay?

Well let's at least toast cause things got better...

bump		2012-05-23 10:56:16 AM

Looks familiar, I think his last name was Berg.

Thread Godwined in 2 p0stz... whoa...

WTFDYW		2012-05-23 11:07:41 AM

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traylor		2012-05-23 11:12:25 AM

PYROY: That's like a 1000 grams, more or less.

10 000 grams, exactly.

LoneDoggie		2012-05-23 11:17:33 AM

quit posting and pray for Omarion.

gweilo8888		2012-05-23 11:22:15 AM

FTFA: "Someone believed that it was not a hailstone but rather meteoric ice."

Little-known fact. Rocks vaporize when you throw them through our atmosphere fast enough, but ice doesn't melt. It's probably because ice is fairly cold. You find it in freezers and such.

/idiots

davidab		2012-05-23 11:52:39 AM

PYROY: That's like a 1000 grams, more or less.

OMG, that is like 15432 grains give or take a little

davidab		2012-05-23 11:55:23 AM

davidab: PYROY: That's like a 1000 grams, more or less.

Fixed - OMG, that is like 154,323 grains give or take a little

/i apologize for blindly following someone else derp

jaybeezey		2012-05-23 11:58:46 AM

can you get just one big hail stone out of a storm? Does that happen?

Should i get the Clams Casino?

Chef recommends....

Tastes kinda funky.

uttertosh		2012-05-23 12:11:17 PM

Photos:

a)2 pieces of hand held ice out of perspective with each other, 1

b) And the skidmark on a bit of wet hillside where their chubby mate Xhuan slipped and parked his ass. (with both of them - 1

10Kg hailsone - 0

That's what I see.

/braggingfisherman's complex, anyone?

glenlivid		2012-05-23 01:26:03 PM

jaybeezey: can you get just one big hail stone out of a storm? Does that happen?

I'm sure it CAN happen. Some kind of upper atmosphere vortex that keeps the thing aloft while it violently pieces together. I can only imagine it happening quickly or there's no way it would stay aloft - so it's completely a freaky set of circumstances.

I think it's more likely than coming from space, or those people probably wouldn't have lived to talk about it.

Hacker_X		2012-05-23 02:50:30 PM

gweilo8888: FTFA: "Someone believed that it was not a hailstone but rather meteoric ice."

Little-known fact. Rocks vaporize when you throw them through our atmosphere fast enough, but ice doesn't melt. It's probably because ice is fairly cold. You find it in freezers and such.

/idiots

That depends entirely on the size of the chunk of ice. For that matter, you get a big enough rock and it might vaporize, but not until impact.

Still, the speed this would have been going if it came through the atmosphere means it shouldn't have survived impact.

gweilo8888		2012-05-23 04:08:12 PM

Hacker_X: That depends entirely on the size of the chunk of ice. For that matter, you get a big enough rock and it might vaporize, but not until impact.

Still, the speed this would have been going if it came through the atmosphere means it shouldn't have survived impact.

Well, yeah, obviously, but for something that--even when stationary--already wanted to melt in a significant portion of our atmosphere to manage to get through the atmosphere to the ground and still be that large, it would've had to have been "we couldn't have missed it" huge.

I figured that was so blindingly obvious that I didn't bother to say it.