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Post by kaima on Feb 15, 2013 0:47:12 GMT -7
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Something is falling in Russia, and it is not known just yet what it is .... **Those videos and others posted in Internet are so rare, to see actual sky event in real time. This, seemingly, thanks to new Russian drivers habit to place front and back-viewing cameras on their dashboard or windshield to document accidents. Some of the videos posted on YouTube of real accidents caught in real-time are bone-chilling. Because of known time and trajectory astronomers can estimate whether these meteorites are related to flyby asteroid.** Check it out at the link www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2013/02/14/what-is-happening-in-chelyabinsk/Explosions in Chelyabinsk; Meteor Suspected (UPDATED) On February 14, 2013, In Video, By Peter Hassett More written and more videos at www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2013/02/14/what-is-happening-in-chelyabinsk/What is going on? Kai PS. The dramatized headline with my tip of the hat to Fox Faux News
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Post by Nictoshek on Feb 15, 2013 6:24:05 GMT -7
Zhirinovsky: no meteorites, it’s new US weapons testby Aleksandras Budrys at 15/02/2013 11:54 The leader of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party and vice speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky accused on Friday the United States of testing new weapons over Russia immediately after reports of a meteorite explosion appeared. “There have been no meteorites. It was a new American weapons test,” Zhirinovsky said. “(US State Secretary) John Kerry tried warning (Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov) on Monday, but failed,” Zhirinovsky said, obviously referring to reports that Lavrov on a visit to Africa had failed to answer Kerry’s repeated phone calls. _
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Post by kaima on Feb 15, 2013 9:17:50 GMT -7
I love it. Maybe we can send an unemployed Dick Cheney to Russia to explain to them how far we brought Star Wars!!!
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Post by Nictoshek on Feb 15, 2013 10:13:39 GMT -7
Another Tunguska event?The incident in Chelyabinsk bears a strong resemblance to the 1908 Tunguska event – an exceptionally powerful explosion in Siberia believed to have been caused by a fragment of a comet or meteor. According to estimates, the energy of the Tunguska blast may have been as high as 50 megatons of TNT, equal to a nuclear explosion. Some 80 million trees were leveled over a 2,000-square-kilometer area. The Tunguska blast remains one of the most mysterious events in history, prompting a wide array of hypotheses on its cause, including a black hole passing through Earth and the wreck of an alien spacecraft. It is believed that if the Tunguska event had happened 4 hours later, due to the rotation of the Earth it would have completely destroyed the city of Vyborg and significantly damaged St. Petersburg. When a similar, though less powerful, unexplained explosion happened in Brazil in 1930, it was named the ‘Brazilian Tunguska.’ The Tunguska event also prompted debate and research into preventing or mitigating asteroid impacts. rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/
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Post by Jaga on Feb 15, 2013 12:43:56 GMT -7
I knew there will be a conspiracy theory involved the meteor shower. I am glad nobody is dead, but many people witnesses it and we have the videos. We need to remember that Russia is the laregst country in the world so the probability that this would happen in Russia is higher than in any other country. Chelabinsk is somewhere in Siberia. Eric, have you ever been there? I did not travel beyond the most Western adn European parts of Soviet empire. Yes, I never was in Russia, I was stil in SU a couple of times.
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Post by Eric on Feb 15, 2013 13:09:42 GMT -7
No, I have never been to Chelyabinsk, but one of my former students is from there.
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Post by Nictoshek on Feb 15, 2013 14:23:52 GMT -7
When you start hearing news reports like these....then you have to begin to wonder. bit.ly/12LQO0T
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Post by Jaga on Feb 15, 2013 21:56:33 GMT -7
Chelyabinsk is near the Ural mountains and close to Kazakshtan. Transiberian railroad rides along it. But it was relatively small until WW II (by the way, in 1938 1000 Finnish communists were murdered there). During WW II it was one of the main industrial centers were Katyushas were produced since Soviets had to more Industry further inland and protect it from attacking German forces.
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