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Topic: Meteor injures more
than 980 in Russian city |
Meteor injures more
than 980 in Russian city
Washington Post, by Will Englund
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Original Article
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Posted By:earlybird, 2/15/2013 12:06:07 PM
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| MOSCOW — A meteor streaked across the sky and broke up Friday morning over the Ural Mountain city of Chelyabinsk, unleashing a tremendous shock wave that smashed windows, collapsed roofs and injured more than 980 people. The intense flash of light was recorded on video as far away as Nizhny Tagil, nearly 300 miles to the north. The trail of the meteor was also visible in Kazakhstan, more than 80 miles to the south. Regional Health Minister Marina Mokvicheva in Chelyabinsk said 985 people sought medical help for injuries and 43 were hospitalized.
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Comments:
Estimated to weigh 10 tons.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 2/15/2013 12:13:38 PM (No. 9178153)
Will Obama be calling for asteroid proofing millions of American homes after the Russian meteor shower? Since he has healed the planet, Obama now has to save the planet from what CNN believes is climate change in space.
"Under my plan, I will create thousands of good paying jobs, jobs that can´t be exported, while protecting millions of middle class families from the dangers of asteroid strikes. My plan won´t add a single dime to the deficit because I will ask Congress to impose an asteroid surcharge on anyone earning more than $250,000 per year. It´s only fair that the rich do their share when it comes to protecting American middle class families from these fiery meteor showers. I have asked Joe Biden to head ......"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nycvoter, 2/15/2013 12:18:04 PM (No. 9178163)
Is CNN blaming this on global warming or George w. Bush. I can´t keep up with what´s in these days. I am a stupid conservative and don´t know the answer.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 2/15/2013 12:19:29 PM (No. 9178166)
Compared to the close call we will have this afternoon, it´s a small one.
Imagine if it had been 100,000 tons.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Whamdbambam, 2/15/2013 12:48:10 PM (No. 9178220)
Sounds like it´s time to outlaw asteroids. It´s for the children.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Refried, 2/15/2013 12:50:59 PM (No. 9178228)
It was a plot by the war mongering imperialists!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 2/15/2013 1:03:12 PM (No. 9178256)
The video looked like something out of a 1950´s outer space movie, didn´t it? Imagine how terrified the residents were! So glad nobody seriously hurt or killed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/15/2013 1:07:45 PM (No. 9178266)
Russians certainly are stoic. None of the drivers in the video seemed to care. I´d have driven into a tree.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bob913, 2/15/2013 1:17:32 PM (No. 9178288)
Beware of "The Thing"
The Russians are turning into giant carrots.
They discover the spaceship
http://tinyurl.com/bdmfulb
The Thing
http://tinyurl.com/a76djme
Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/15/2013 1:21:27 PM (No. 9178297)
If I had seen this in person, I would have thought the end times were coming.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GOPJihad, 2/15/2013 1:55:29 PM (No. 9178362)
Consider all of the enterprise prevented, cash wasted, and lives adversely impacted by the human-caused "Climate Change" cult.
Consider that the dire consequences it warns of are often far less damaging than the policies its foists upon billions of people around the world.
Now consider the very real danger of meteor impact on the Earth.
Of course, providing for the capability to defend against such TRULY life-extinguishing events would mean money being spent on engineers, scientists, contractors, etc., and not the Free Stuff Army ("FSA"). But how are you going to dictate how folks should live their lives and maintain their livelihood if the threat is, on its face, beyond the control of politicians and apparatchiks?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
KTWO, 2/15/2013 2:04:53 PM (No. 9178372)
#2 is probably right. Global Warming, man made variety, must somehow be blamed.
But the asteroid proofing program suggested by #1 would waste a lot of money. So it may be done too.
To start, people earning over $1m should be taxed to pay for MeteorDomes over the very poorest neighborhoods.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
woodsman, 2/15/2013 2:05:29 PM (No. 9178373)
They all had their morning Stoli #7
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rafter, 2/15/2013 2:34:19 PM (No. 9178418)
OMG!! Kiss your TASS good-bye!
This occurred approx 9am local time in Siberia.
Open the bottle of wodka now... special event... excuse to drink all day!!
American Kommies are in full support of this.
For Nancy Pelosi, it´s Open Wine & Open Whine Friday... SKOAL!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PaleAle, 2/15/2013 6:19:32 PM (No. 9178819)
Cool! Mother Nature is pretty awesome! I hope nobody was seriously injured...otherwise, what an amazing event to be able to have witnessed.
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