Meteors break apart and fall on your head, break the sound barrier causing windows to shatter, a roof of a factory fell...



http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013 ... ussia?lite

A huge meteorite flared through the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday, triggering a powerful shock wave that injured hundreds of people.

"Preliminary indications are that it was a meteorite [shower]," the RIA-Novosti news agency quoted an emergency official as saying. "We have information about a blast at 10,000-meter (32,800-foot) altitude."

The Associated Press quoted a spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Vadim Kolesnikov, as saying that the fireball caused an explosion and sonic boom that broke windows in Chelyabinsk, 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) east of Moscow. Reuters cited figures from Russia's Emergencies Ministry saying that 514 people had sought medical help, mainly for light injuries caused by flying glass, and that 112 of those were hospitalized.
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The ministry said helicopter teams surveyed the area, looking for signs of damage and the remains of the meteorite. In a Web update, it reported that the shock wave caused the roof of a zinc factory's warehouse to collapse, but no fatalities were reported.

In Russia and around the world, observers marveled at the fireball and its aftermath. "There have never been any cases of meteorites breaking up at such a low level over Russia before," Yuri Burenko, head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Emergencies Ministry, told Reuters.

Multiple videos were posted from the scene. Several included the sound of a loud boom, followed by a cacophony of car alarms. One video showed the hurried evacuation of an office building in Chelyabinsk.

"I was standing at a bus stop, seeing off my girlfriend," Andrei, a local resident who did not give his second name, told Reuters. "Then there was a flash and I saw a trail of smoke across the sky and felt a shock wave that smashed windows."

The meteorite raced across the horizon, leaving a long white trail in its wake that could be seen 125 miles (200 kilometers) away in Yekaterinburg. "I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day," Viktor Prokofiev, 36, a resident of Yekaterinburg, told Reuters. "I felt like I was blinded by headlights."

News reports indicated that 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.

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How about a nice game of chess?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That sucks.

Probably evidence that that asteroid that is supposed to miss us at 1:24pm is most likely a planet-killer and the government just felt it pointlessly dangerous to tell the public.

Goodbye, everyone. It's been fun.

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Wait until they find out that it was a collision between two nuclear warheads.

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If what you say is true then there needs to be an investigation into that and the people responsible need to be held accountable.

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Using "that" 3 times in four words is impressive.

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Who cares about proper grammer anylonger?

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It's Tunguska all over again! But not!

This thread is a cry for the Yakov Smirnoff mult.

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Joe Rogan can be pretty fucking annoying, but what he did to Mencia was fucking brilliant

I think the biggest story not being reported in all of this is how many dashcams people have in Russia.

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They claim nothing to do with each other.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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They're there because of rampant insurance fraud, but it has had the side benefits of tons of hilarious driving footage.

Hopefully Chimera don't start pouring out of Russia...

An older couple at the scene claims a baby was found near the remains of the crashed and burned meteor so they took him home. That seems nearly impossible and I call bullshit.

Has anyone asked Pat Robertson what God is punishing Russia for with this meteor? Methinks it's for having a broken culture that produced international media sensation PUSSY RIOT, who is on the run after doing a vulgar "this is IMPORTANT ART" performance at a Church for the maximum levels of blasphemy.

Seriously, I'm glad God has enough stones to punish Russia for this. I'm also that Pussy Riot doesn't have the stones to do a performance like that within 500yds of a mosque. People would want a beheading if they did that =D

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Pretty cool...

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20 years from now if we see this, then we'll know it's true.

I've never seen Soviet Superman .... comic or not, that's a itty bit unsettling ...

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- Henry George

It was a series called, "Red Son."

Pretty neat stuff, DonTiny.

In America Superman saves citizens. In Soviet Union Superman kills citizens who Communist Party wants exterminated.