On 2/15/2013 12:28 PM, RussellMc wrote:
> Wow! Watch this. Its real, apparently.
> Oh wow!  What can you say?  Maybe wow !!!
> I suspect the driver may have become slightly nervous about 12 seconds in=
..
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=3Dplayer_embedded&v=3DfTqss1Lddx8
>
> I took a long exposure photo of the night sky late last week.
> There was one of these in it.
> Rather further away. Rather smaller.
> The camera moved :-(.
> A lovely jagged line where there should be a straight one :-(.
>
>
>         Russell

Not just real, but recent!

 From an AP news story today:

> *MOSCOW, Russia* ---  A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded=20
> over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday,=20
> its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly=20
> 1,000 people.

There's money in them there meteors:

> The panic and confusion that followed Friday's meteorite crash quickly=20
> gave way to Chelyabinsk residents' entrepreneurial instincts. Several=20
> people smashed in the windows of their houses in the hopes of=20
> receiving compensation, RIA Novosti news agency reported.
> Others quickly took to the Internet and put what they said were=20
> meteorite fragments up for sale.


And humor:

> One of the most popular jokes was that the meteorite was supposed to=20
> fall Dec. 21 last year --- when many believed the Mayan calendar=20
> predicted the end of the world --- but was delivered late by Russia's=20
> notoriously inefficient postal service.
>
> Others joked that the meteorite was par for the course for=20
> Chelyabinsk, an industrial town long held to be one of the world's=20
> most polluted areas. The area around Chelyabinsk is also home to=20
> nuclear and chemical weapons disposal facilities.

And reason for worry:

> Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia noted that the area where the=20
> meteor exploded was 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the Mayak nuclear=20
> storage and disposal facility, which holds dozens of tons of=20
> weapons-grade plutonium. He said the Russian government has=20
> underestimated potential risks of the region.

Joe W






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