OT: You saw the meteor flash, here's the shock wave

[VAMike23]

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Would have scared the @#&%!! out of me, that's for sure...........

 

[OneTrickPony]

Imagine the one in 1908 that leveled 80 million trees...

 

[Icebear]

Made my message this morning for the Men's Lenter Prayer Breakfast which was titled "Nietzsche's Optimism vs the Darkness of Lent." It included Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" from The Lost Summer" from 1816 following the eruption of Mount Tambora, a piece of dark Romanticism.

 

[MilfordHusky]

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Would have scared the @#&%!! out of me, that's for sure...........

Watching the video scared it out of me. Holy carp! The Mayans were right, but missed the timing slightly.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Made my message this morning for the Men's Lenter Prayer Breakfast which was titled "Nietzsche's Optimism vs the Darkness of Lent." It included Lord Byron's poem "Darkness" from The Lost Summer" from 1816 following the eruption of Mount Tambora, a piece of dark Romanticism.

And that's the kids' sermon.

 

[UConnChapette]

Can you imagine if this had happened when the cold war was still deeply frozen. The world as we knew it could have ended right then and there with an itchy Soviet trigger finger.

Sooner or later our luck here on Earth is going to run out and a massive meteor will collide with us, ala the one that scientists say likely killed off the dinosaurs. The good news is it does not appear that there is any out there that is going to do us in for quite some time.

 

[VAMike23]

Watching the video scared it out of me. Holy carp! The Mayans were right, but missed the timing slightly.

Did you see the dog running at 1:02?

 

[ursusminor]

Can you imagine if this had happened when the cold war was still deeply frozen. The world as we knew it could have ended right then and there with an itchy Soviet trigger finger.

Sooner or later our luck here on Earth is going to run out and a massive meteor will collide with us, ala the one that scientists say likely killed off the dinosaurs. The good news is it does not appear that there is any out there that is going to do us in for quite some time.

Not to be alarmist, but part of the problem is that we don't know what's out there. We've found only a small fraction of the estimated number of near-earth asteroids. We often spot near misses only days before they pass by. We'd need decades of warning to prepare for a mission to deflect an asteroid.

 

[pinotbear]

 

[Plumber Luigi]

Here's a video from a dash cam from, eventually, a parked car. Now it's fairly boring up to the 4:30 mark when the meteor went overhead and then at the 7 minute mark when the sonic boom hit. Notice how much the car shakes from the initial and following booms. At 2 1/2 minutes or so means the passage was 25-30 miles away.