Warchild: Fark broke Russian machine (that never breaks)

It's still working for me, but the original link got farked up fast.

kim jong-un: lousyskater: Hope they have meteor insurance.

They do, unfortunately once it is on Earth it is a meteorite and they didn't get that coverage. DENIED.

(That said, the irony is that meteor damage is likely to net you money. Meteorites are worth a lot of money. And a meteorite that is as fresh as this one, is worth a farkton. If you can get one before it rains or gets wet, its worth a lot to scientists. Basically its a space rock, delivered on their doorstep, with no contamination. The last time we got a hold of any significant amount of untainted extraterrestrial rock was during the Apollo missions. There were a few in between, but not of any significant amount, so something like this is worth millions.

tinfoil-hat maggie: SJKebab: tinfoil-hat maggie: Confabulat: What's with the dual contrails?

It broke up?

That's just mean.  Where's the valentines day spirit?

Sorry, but I'm not into it being single might have something to do with it but I get broken up enough.

Have you ever caused evacuations in a Russian city?

Bathia_Mapes: PowerSlacker: My local Fox affiliate is showing meteorite footage...nothing on CNN.

Awesome.

CNN always seems to be at the end of the line when a breaking news story hits. Fox, MSNBC, Reuters, etc. seem to beat them everytime.

Fox beat CNN to covering the CNN building being hit by a tornado, it's not surprising : )

J. Frank Parnell: Phil just repeats what NASA says on these things. He probably won't say anything concrete until they do.

This video here shows the incoming meteor in relation to the setting sun.  I saw on his twitter feed that he was looking for videos like this (I'm sure he already has it by now) in order to determine if it is related to DA14.

These sorts of calculations are far beyond my ken.  Anyone else want to have a go?

Bathia_Mapes: It's still working for me, but the original link got farked up fast.

It's working again now for me too.

tinfoil-hat maggie: Bathia_Mapes: PowerSlacker: My local Fox affiliate is showing meteorite footage...nothing on CNN.

Awesome.

CNN always seems to be at the end of the line when a breaking news story hits. Fox, MSNBC, Reuters, etc. seem to beat them everytime.

Fox beat CNN to covering the CNN building being hit by a tornado, it's not surprising : )

Heh!

Boojum2k: tinfoil-hat maggie: SJKebab: tinfoil-hat maggie: Confabulat: What's with the dual contrails?

It broke up?

That's just mean.  Where's the valentines day spirit?

Sorry, but I'm not into it being single might have something to do with it but I get broken up enough.

Have you ever caused evacuations in a Russian city?

Well I've never been to Russia so...

SJKebab: J. Frank Parnell: Phil just repeats what NASA says on these things. He probably won't say anything concrete until they do.

This video here shows the incoming meteor in relation to the setting sun.  I saw on his twitter feed that he was looking for videos like this (I'm sure he already has it by now) in order to determine if it is related to DA14.

These sorts of calculations are far beyond my ken.  Anyone else want to have a go?

Nice

tinfoil-hat maggie: Boojum2k: tinfoil-hat maggie: SJKebab: tinfoil-hat maggie: Confabulat: What's with the dual contrails?

It broke up?

That's just mean.  Where's the valentines day spirit?

Sorry, but I'm not into it being single might have something to do with it but I get broken up enough.

Have you ever caused evacuations in a Russian city?

Well I've never been to Russia so...

So that's a nyet?

kim jong-un: SJKebab: 12349876: WorldCitizen: Giltric: Just guessing but it looked like it exploded in or skipped out of the atmosphere.

And the big hole in that building?

The sonic boom caused a weak roof to collapse. My guess.

How do you get a sonic boom to reach ground level if the meteor skips off the atmosphere?

The Earth's atmosphere is relatively thin with respect to the circumference of the Earth. From that perspective something can cut right through the atmosphere and miss crashing into the Earth and it would still look like it just skipped off the atmosphere.

And... sonic booms can travel very far.

If it did skip, then wouldn't it happen at a relatively thin atmosphere, hampering the projection of the sound?

/genuine question

Boojum2k: tinfoil-hat maggie: Boojum2k: tinfoil-hat maggie: SJKebab: tinfoil-hat maggie: Confabulat: What's with the dual contrails?

It broke up?

That's just mean.  Where's the valentines day spirit?

Sorry, but I'm not into it being single might have something to do with it but I get broken up enough.

Have you ever caused evacuations in a Russian city?

Well I've never been to Russia so...

So that's a nyet?

I would say so : )

tinfoil-hat maggie: Boojum2k: tinfoil-hat maggie: Boojum2k: tinfoil-hat maggie: SJKebab: tinfoil-hat maggie: Confabulat: What's with the dual contrails?

It broke up?

That's just mean.  Where's the valentines day spirit?

Sorry, but I'm not into it being single might have something to do with it but I get broken up enough.

Have you ever caused evacuations in a Russian city?

Well I've never been to Russia so...

So that's a nyet?

I would say so : )

So never been to Russia, and never hit by a meteor. I think the tinfoil works, going to get some for myself!

sleeps in trees: When is this hitting the nothwest?  I want to show my kids if I can.  I mean if you are going to go out do it well!

/I am serious

it's not hitting earth and the western hemisphere will not see it. The eastern hemisphere will

VTGremlin: Good golly I hope it's an alien invasion. How fun is that going to be!

On a scale of all the alien-invasion books I've read, it ranges from a year long battle to free the world, to a longer entrenched war, to major asteroid impacts or an ecological invasion, to we're all doomed until Dracula gets pissed. So not very fun, I'd bet.

Confabulat: kim jong-un: lousyskater: Hope they have meteor insurance.

They do, unfortunately once it is on Earth it is a meteorite and they didn't get that coverage. DENIED.

(That said, the irony is that meteor damage is likely to net you money. Meteorites are worth a lot of money. And a meteorite that is as fresh as this one, is worth a farkton. If you can get one before it rains or gets wet, its worth a lot to scientists. Basically its a space rock, delivered on their doorstep, with no contamination. The last time we got a hold of any significant amount of untainted extraterrestrial rock was during the Apollo missions. There were a few in between, but not of any significant amount, so something like this is worth millions.

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$200 for a broken meteor? I wouldn't give you 50-cents for it!

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It's a conspiracy!

B.L.Z. Bub: Am I going to die?

Yes, sorry. It may take awhile.

B.L.Z. Bub: Am I going to die?

Yes.

Civil_War2_Time: It didn't "skip" off the atmosphere.

That was what I was trying to imply initially.

Civil_War2_Time: "Skipping" is a term used to describe that it was going faster than 17,500mph (escape velocity per 9.81m/s^2), and thus if it never slowed to that speed, it continued on through the atmosphere and on its way out if there was enough mass left.

You know, I never really thought it through properly.  I always just had that mental image of a rock skipping over a pond when hit at just the right angle, and never thought about it again.  Above in response to Kim Jong Un, I was forced to think it through a bit more and realised the physics are more complicated and so I have no idea what would be "expected" to happen like I originally thought I did.

That said though, I never really considered the possibility of an object aimed "just right" and plowing through the atmosphere, with enough escape velocity at the end to ensure a safe exit.  I always thought of it more as a "bounce" rather than a "pierce".  I suppose the effect is the latter but its thought of as the former?

/tired and rambly now...

Putin will look weak if he lets this go unanswered.

sforce: SJKebab: J. Frank Parnell: Phil just repeats what NASA says on these things. He probably won't say anything concrete until they do.

This video here shows the incoming meteor in relation to the setting sun.  I saw on his twitter feed that he was looking for videos like this (I'm sure he already has it by now) in order to determine if it is related to DA14.

These sorts of calculations are far beyond my ken.  Anyone else want to have a go?

Pretty sure that's the rising sun

Well, reverse the polarity then.

_{In fairness, the clock does say 18:30.  Who the hell looks at the date???}

Shadowtag: Shadowtag: This is all a plot by Obama to justify taking away our space station mounted rainguns railguns.

Well there's that crappy joke ruined.

Did you forget about Cheney's hurricane generator? Of course he doesn't want us to have rainguns!