A warm reminder of how thinly we hold to life here on Earth

[SkiesAhoy]

City of Cheliábinsk, Russia.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA</a>

Wait for 0:27

[Old Crow]

Crazy isnt it?

[Christovski]

Yeah it nailed a building, hundreds of people were hit by glass but so far no fatalities reported.  Good thing it was just a teeny meteorite!

[Coreybush11]

This is why we need a giant laser space station, BUT NOOOO, THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY SHUT THAT DOWN.

[Old Crow]

This is why we need a giant laser space station, BUT NOOOO, THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY SHUT THAT DOWN.

Then we will build our own space station! With blackjack and hookers!

hey if everybody in the US donates 5 bucks each, we could build something kickass

[Sammy]

A meteorite should be passing us tonight, about 20,000 miles from the surface...
But yeah, apparently they're mere coincidences...

But you'd think there would have been some warning of it coming...

[Christovski]

Well the big thing missing us today is an asteroid, asteroids can destroy the planet so its a big deal to keep track of those

What hit russia was a meteorite part of a meteor shower, where they were all thought to be small and just burn up in atmosphere like most meteor shower, but NOPE one was big enough to boom over russia

[Sniper no Sniping]

This is why we need a giant laser space station, BUT NOOOO, THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY SHUT THAT DOWN.

http://www.technewsdaily.com/16611-military-lasers-warplanes.html

[SkiesAhoy]

The problem with this things is that obvious correlation between size and damage is not always well...obvious. The kinetic energy of even a tiny pebble as this meteor was, astronomically speaking, can be devastating. At 30 meters per second...imagine an actual asteroid entering atmosphere at that speed. Christ.

[Sammy]

The problem with this things is that obvious correlation between size and damage is not always well...obvious. The kinetic energy of even a tiny pebble as this meteor was, astronomically speaking, can be devastating. At 30 meters per second...imagine an actual asteroid entering atmosphere at that speed. Christ.

30,000 mph if I remember rightly.... the one that landed today.

[Cortez (Mr. T. FOO!)]

The problem with this things is that obvious correlation between size and damage is not always well...obvious. The kinetic energy of even a tiny pebble as this meteor was, astronomically speaking, can be devastating. At 30 meters per second...imagine an actual asteroid entering atmosphere at that speed. Christ.

30,000 mph if I remember rightly.... the one that landed today.

Ahaha yeah, most highways have speed limits of about 30 m/s.