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Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:11 pm
by UncoordinatedPisces
Just found out about this:

http://news.sky.com/story/1052514/meteorite-shower-hits-russia-injuring-over-900

Well I'll be dammed! :O

I hope all those injured people [s]are ok[/s] are going to be ok though =/ This is something that definitely doesn't happen every day o.o

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:23 pm
by TheLionPrince
My thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims especially those two people in extensive care! :sad:

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:32 pm
by Woeler
They're damn lucky nobody died. The chances for such an event are smaller than 1 in a billion. Only one fifth of the earth is land and even less than that is inhabited by humans.

The fact that nobody died is almost a miracle.

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:34 pm
by OuRaion
No one died.
That's surprising.
I hope those injured people get better though, we don't want to raise the death toll above 0.

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:39 pm
by SlayerOfLight
Finally, a thread that is worth posting in.

We're darn lucky (especially those injured people in Russia) That we got away with it for now, because it could be much worser next time... For all we know there could be a crapload of rocks on their way to earth that are alot nastier then this one was.

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:44 pm
by AdAstrα
Apparently it missed Sweden by just a tiny bit...don't know if I believe that, but yeah. Not sure if fascinated or scared...it just proves how little we know about things like this, and how little we can do to prepare ourselves (nothing)

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:50 pm
by Regulus
It's like humanity just stepped on a snake without realizing it.

Fortunately, it wasn't venomous.

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:55 pm
by FlipMode
[quote="FelixsMate"]
I hope all those injured people are ok though[/quote]

Injured people generally aren't okay, sorry to dash your hopes.

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 15th, 2013, 11:58 pm
by Tora
[quote="FlipMode"][quote="FelixsMate"]
I hope all those injured people are ok though[/quote]

Injured people generally aren't okay, sorry to dash your hopes.[/quote]
I think she's meaning that at least they're are still alive and not dead considering it could have been a lot worse. ;)

Re: Meteor Strike In Russia!

PostPosted: February 16th, 2013, 12:03 am
by Arani
Well, this is interesting O_o All I can say is, glad I wasn't there and I hope the injured get better!