I had a hideous couple of days at work.Yeah, excuses, excuses. There is still a lecture.
Lets look at this Russian event. I’ll update as the day goes on, if anyone runs into any good vids, post em. Thanks.
RUSSIAN METEOR UPDATE: On Friday, February 15th at 9:30 am local time in Russia, a small asteroid struck the atmosphere over the city of Chelyabinsk and exploded. According to reports from news organizations and Russian authorities, as many as 1000 people received minor injuries from the shock wave. This is the most energetic recorded meteor strike since the Tunguska impact of 1908.
Researchers have conducted a preliminary analysis of the event. “Here is what we know so far,” says Bill Cooke, head of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “The asteroid was about 15 meters in diameter and weighed approximately 7000 metric tons. It struck Earth’s atmosphere at 40,000 mph (18 km/s) and broke apart about 12 to 15 miles (20 to 25 km) above Earth’s surface. The energy of the resulting explosion was in the vicinity of 300 kilotons of TNT.” (continued below)
“A shock wave propagated down and struck the city below, causing large numbers of windows to break, some walls to collapse, and minor damage throughout the city,” he continued. “When you hear about injuries, those are undoubtedly due to the effects of the shock wave, not due to fragments striking the ground. There are undoubtedly fragments on the ground, but as of this time we know of no recovered fragments that we can verify.”
Videos of the event may be found here and here. In many of the videos you can hear the sound of windows shattering as the meteor’s loud shock wave reaches the ground. Onlookers cry out in Russian as alarms and sirens sound in the background. This pair of wide-angle gif animations is also worth watching: #1, #2.
It is natural to wonder if this event has any connection to today’s record-setting flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14. Paul Chodas of the Near Earth Object Program at JPL says no. “The Russian fireball is not related to 2012 DA14 in any way. It’s an incredible coincidence that we have had these two rare events in one day.”
Cue Asteroids background “music”….
@ Macker:
Ha!
algore announces on MSNBC “see I told you so” Dumb blonde nods head in approval..
@ Bumr50:
ROFLMAIAO!
@ Buffalobob:
Are you sure dumb blonde isn’t bobbing her head instead?
What? Blabbering on about the Russians, but do you even notice that the same thing (well almost) happened over San Fransicko?
@ doriangrey:
Capitalist space debris taking belated revenge?
Bumr50 wrote:
Nope, just fashionable late like a true Rock Star ought to be…
Chelyabinsk…name rings a bell for some reason. Wasn’t there a nuke-u-lar disaster of some sort in thy area back in the 50′s that the commies tries to cover up?
@ doriangrey:
San Fransicko? Now that there is a good one.
@ doriangrey:
We had one here in Houston also! If it hadn’t been very foggy, I would have had a great view of it. It passed right over me while driving to work. At the time I thought it was a power transformer that blew.
My, my, my!!! Lot’s of strange things going on lately. That’s about all I can say.
@ Dolphin:
Hey {Dolphin}! Hope you are doing well.
Bumr50 wrote:
I’m sure it was some evil plot by a capitalist.
Yes very odd going ons…
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/02/16/fourth-grader-receives-assignment-about-infidelity/
Slow day today…uhmmmmmm….
This one to a friend then…the one that made me hold up something super pink!
Darn it…I have really done this thread in.
@ Lily:
Chickadee, that thing has swarovski crystals emblazoned on it.
Yes I had a bad week. But this will do. (Thankfully a rock from the sky didn’t fall on me though!
)
@ Calo:
Nothing but the best heh??
An interesting event, even if fairly common. Would have made a nice hole if it had made it all the way to the ground intact.
@ Mike C.:
Very true. Another lake if it would have rained afterward too. Thankfully it didn’t the ground for the people ..
@ Lily:
PIMF… HIT the ground.
/oh yes it is one of those days so I suppose it will be one of those nights too for me too.
I guess th eoild drillers on the titanium-hulled space shuttles can stand down now…
@ Lily:
Heh, some songs just get stuck in my memory bank despite my protests.
Interesting article on how to quit smoking.
H/T, MoeKatz
Not the way I would choose to do things.
@ Calo:
It happens for some reason.
/Whether you want them there or not!!
@ Calo:
Triple by-pass did the trick for me. I don’t recommend it either..but so far I’ve been cigarette free since November.
(I still want one…but the body says HELL NO!)
The Osprey wrote:
could be, that joint is in the middle of nowhere
Lily wrote:
these are the keys:
no smoking
no diabetes
manage high blood presure
manage cholesterol
get some exercise
eat an aspirin every morning.
One for the guys…..
no Jerry Lee Lewis?
@ Lily:
the thin lizzy song ‘boys are back in town’ is written about a bar they often played in not far from my house.
ginos bar and grill on rt 8. its called mcbride station now
coldwarrior wrote:
CW that is my things I do!!! The only symptom was angina and I smoked.
The angina is what clued in something was really wrong.
/I’m doing pretty good since the by-pass..and no smoking for me. Never thought I could stop so quick. The next thing is I have block veins in my legs…hopefully with meds and exercise no surgery…
@ Calo:
I must log in.
heysoos wrote:
jerry
the tribe misses ya
@ coldwarrior:
Just for you CW!
@ Lily:
some agrenox and walking will get that fixed in no time
@ coldwarrior:
I was thinkin ‘Great Balls Of Fire’
Bumr50 wrote:
keep smokin and you get to come see me.
you dont want to see me.
@ Lily:
Hi Liily. Did you go on a Coumadin program?
@ heysoos:
i knew that, i just wanted to hear some dead
RIX wrote:
no salad for you!
@ coldwarrior:
there’s Mountain Girl…pretty rare
Good story from a year ago at the BBC:
NEOShield to assess Earth defence
Update: NASA has raised the estimated mass of the Russian asteroid to 10,000 metric tons. Largest object to hit the earth since 1908.
coldwarrior wrote:
I was actually serious about the Coumadin. Lilly
said that she had vein blockage.
I guess that wouldn’t be precribed?
@ heysoos:
Donna?
I think she’s too easy to find…
heysoos wrote:
good eye.
RIX wrote:
Nope…the doc thinks that with me stopping smoking and exercise and the by-pass will help. A lot of it was smoking and in my genes…. I have sucky genes.
I know I’m a miracle walking around…even a slight heart-attack I would have been a goner. Even my doc said…it was God. Must have some stuff still here to do I suppose.
RIX wrote:
vitamin k (in green leafies) is the antidote for coumadin
RIX wrote:
One doc says it will work it’s way out with meds and exercise..the other surgery. We will see. First they want me healed from the by-pass.
coldwarrior wrote:
They have me exercising and I take some meds ….. so hopefully I will not have more surgery on my legs.
@ coldwarrior:
I think that I have displayed enough medical
ignorance for today.
the puti calls this her mermaid song
@ coldwarrior:
@ heysoos:
I missed it.
(Never very good at ‘Where’s Waldo?’ or seeing those third-eye images at the mall)
Bumr50 wrote:
her name is Carolyn Adams…she’s still around, the last of the old time Pranksters…Wavy Gravy may still be alive
@ Bumr50:
I think that I would go with Doctor 1, unless it isn’t
working at some point.
@ Lily:
I believe that Richie Valens & the Big Bopper died
in the plane crash with Buddy Holly.
The Day the Music Died.
@ heysoos:
Only ever seen her in documentaries.
RIX wrote:
Oh indeed reaching for med and exercise…then they will do another cath test (I assume) to see what my veins look like in my legs. So we will find out in do time.
/I swear if it’s not one thing with me it’s another!
coldwarrior wrote:
Heh!
RIX wrote:
no salad for you!
@ RIX:
I believe you are correct…and which reminds me of this…
Bumr50 wrote:
this is her on the right with Wavy
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.burkhartstudios.com/burkhart/photos/celebrities/mountain_girl.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.burkhartstudios.com/burkhart/photos/celebs.htm&h=346&w=500&sz=125&tbnid=0A4yQ23HpFEq2M:&tbnh=94&tbnw=136&zoom=1&usg=__1wubMi0xl9WfGS_K-HdvzFvX9-w=&docid=Q2cMxyNduYfUeM&sa=X&ei=oOQfUc3YBMWBiwL3jYDYCA&ved=0CHcQ_h0wDA
@ Lily:
have them do a carotid doppler while they are in there poking around. and a ct head / ct-a, with contrast. and a coag panel.
RIX wrote:
Oh no…sometimes you just have to go through the experience then you know!
/and lets hope you don’t go through it…prayers up for you that never happens to you!!!
coldwarrior wrote:
Obama says that is not necessary. Take an aspirin
coldwarrior wrote:
waldensianspirit wrote:
i do, every day. 325 with breakfast.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Thank the Lord…this happened before that evil bill has taken full effect. *shudder*
coldwarrior wrote:
so do I…I lost my right leg to peripheral arteriole disease….very unfun
heysoos wrote:
unfun is the key word there.
Smoking is the climate change/warming of the health industry. Everything is caused by smoking.
@ heysoos:
Unfun indeed! Something to pick you up and not think about it.
Guggi wrote:
keep telling yourself that.
@ Lily:
heh…one of the ten coolest sons ever written…exactly what I’m all about sonically…thanks
lets see how fast i can set up this new router.
Guggi wrote:
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What
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@ heysoos:
Thought you needed a pick-me-up there! Thought you would like it too.
Calo wrote:
Example here what smoking does to ones body. No fun. Like to smoke…but it is no good.
@ Lily:
I’m example #2.
@ Calo:
Yep and we are both waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too young to be suffering what we are suffering from.
coldwarrior wrote:
@ Guggi:
I thought all the evil AGW was caused by hormones running amok in a rest home.
@ Calo:
Some can’t see…until it’s too late….
Vaping is the future of smoking.
@ Calo:
Really?
/damn the things I don’t know about. Darn it!!!!
@ Lily:
Hang in Lilly. The exercise is a good thing
@ RIX:
Yep! I’m still out of wack a bit…but I’m getting better each day…
Hubby says I need some tat’s to go with them so I can be the perfect motorcycle momma!
/I have some really badass scars though!
He’s crazy!
Should NASA Be Doing More Asteroids?
The lungs were never intended to be a stomach
Calo wrote:
Witz komm heraus du bist umzingelt.
Every time Obama opes his mouth he spews another lie.
These high risk plans are last resort for a lot of people
with pre-existing conditions.
This is not reform, it’s destruction.
coldwarrior wrote:
fast.
@ RIX:
Not kidding here…thanks Rix…it’s late at night that I get a little afraid. But it is starting to ease off some now.
And thank you so much for keeping my spirits up! It really helps and I really thank you for it.
Yeah baby! Nuthin like a chick with tats!
Lilly, my pleasure. Just get well soon.
@ coldwarrior:
Ah here you go Mr. Fast ….
@ RIX:
Will do my best!!!!
@ RIX:
The internest is an interesting place to read up on interesting people.
Lily wrote:
me and mrs coldwarrior have sung that song at top voice!
@ coldwarrior:
Glad it made you two happy!!!
A happy song…
@ Lily:
me and mrs coldwarrior took the puti to see dave, it was her first concert. she was 2 at the time and loved it.
Another song that has happy ….
@ coldwarrior:
Oh that is so cool!!! Here is a little song for Puti then…
My grand-daughters first concert was this band and just like mimi (me) she loved them!!!!!!!!
@ Lily:
we are the ants.
lol
@ Lily:
Good group back in the day,,”Take it Easy on Me.”
this new cisco router is pretty cool. i’m impressed.
There’s a lonely new thread up top…
Well, I thought it was a thread…
@ Lily:
Those “green fireballs” aren’t that uncommon. I have seen several of them. If you spend a lot of time driving at night, you increase your opportunity of seeing one. And, of course, it helps to be in a rural area with fewer obstructions to seeing a wide swathe of sky.