Meteorite slams into Russia

[Cyrrex]

I was thinking more for their entertainment value, not legal value.  Because those videos are some funny shit.

[Yegolev]

Why Russians have dash cams

Took me forever to figure out which site to allow javascript on in order to watch that.

[WayAbvPar]

Also here anything is fungible anyway. You can have dashcam of like 10 officers beating an unconscious perp who was ejected from his car nearly to death and not a fucking thing will happen.

Completely untrue. He would at least get a littering ticket for leaving broken windshield glass and blood all over the road.

[bhodi]

I just love watching shit like this.

[Lakov_Sanite]

As has been said before, Russia is just real life GTA.

[01101010]

And yet in all those videos so far, not one person pulled a gun and shot the place up. Hatchets, bats, fists, tire irons...cows. Go figure.

[Pennilenko]

I've decided I don't need guns anymore. I'm just going to bring a Russian with me from now on.

[Der Helm]

I've decided I don't need guns anymore. I'm just going to bring a Russian with me from now on.

Bringing a Russian to a gun fight ? What could go wrong ?

[Venkman]

Wasn't sure if this was the right thread: Apparently we're enjoying another near miss today. 'City block' size asteroid comin' to gitcha. Well, ok, about 1mm miles out. But if the Earth was just about 23 hours slower...

This one is 64 to 140 meters wide. For reference, the Russia one was 15m.

[Merusk]

I went to Neil Degrasse Tyson's lecture at Wright State on Thursday and he mentioned today's "Near Miss."    He mentioned it because; (paraphrased) - I'm sick of asteroid talk right now and I told CBS to call me when there's an object closer than 3 moons away.   

Of course, then he went on to tell us all about Apethosis, or Asteroid 2004 MN4.  320m wide and passing within 30,000km (18.6k mi) of Earth on Friday the 13th, 2029.  (Geosync satellites are at 26k mi/ 36k km.)

Welcome to your next doomsday cult.

[Viin]

I thought I just heard that Apethosis was now projected to be much further away than that. (On the most recent TED Radio Hour podcast).

[Ghambit]

I've yet to see mention from Astronomers about the possibility we could be going through a particularly dense cloud of material, given how much debris has fallen as of late.  Gravity is a bitch, and typically it's a slippery slope (rocks like to clump in similar orbits).  My money is on that we're going to see more of these refrigerator to car sized objects before seeing less as we cant adequately track these medium  to small-sized rocks until they're too close.  Point in case this latest one that only had 1 week lead time.

[Merusk]

I thought I just heard that Apethosis was now projected to be much further away than that. (On the most recent TED Radio Hour podcast).

If it was then nothing had been updated about it yet on NASA's site, where I pulled the information from.

Really, it's going to be a miss and a near miss in 2029 in any event.  The real bitch is the question of what Earth's gravity will do to its orbit after the pass.  The same problem that was left out of the discussions with the near miss a few weeks ago.

I've yet to see mention from Astronomers about the possibility we could be going through a particularly dense cloud of material, given how much debris has fallen as of late.  Gravity is a bitch, and typically it's a slippery slope (rocks like to clump in similar orbits).  My money is on that we're going to see more of these refrigerator to car sized objects before seeing less as we cant adequately track these medium  to small-sized rocks until they're too close.  Point in case this latest one that only had 1 week lead time.

We have hits all the time.  The thing is, we occupy a very small portion of the planet % wise so we don't hear about them and they're all pretty small or burn-up in orbit.  The most current hit was estimated to be 10k tons and 55 feet across and it still exploded without significant mass impact.  Refrigerator-sized rocks aren't a problem.   

Even if they do impact, I still wouldn't worry.  People are asking, "Why were Tunguska and the most current meteorite both in Siberia?! Aliens!" The answer is  nope, big fucking landmass.   When 70% of the surface is water and then the bulk of the land is Siberia and China or uninhabited, your biggest concern is the eco-killers we can't to anything about at the moment.   However, since we're not interested in a Space program without some international competition, our only option there is to die.

[Yegolev]

given how much debris has fallen as of late.

Over what timespan are you generalizing?

[Ghambit]

given how much debris has fallen as of late.

Over what timespan are you generalizing?

Just feels like lately there's a darned rock fallin (or about to fall) out of the sky every other day.  I attribute a lot of that to the simple reason we're paying a lot more attention to neos though.

[Yegolev]

I'm not paying more attention to them.

You mean the recent several months, then?

[Sky]

There was no rain until we crawled out of the soup.

[Lantyssa]

There are always rocks falling.  Lightning strikes 40 times every second, we just don't notice it because Earth is that friggin' big.

[Obo]

The chances of Apophis impacting in 2036 were ruled out a couple of months ago.

[Sky]

Then how are we going to recruit Teal'c and overthrow the Goa'uld?

[Pennilenko]

Then how are we going to recruit Teal'c and overthrow the Goa'uld?