Talking 'Bout THE END Of The World... by out2theblack

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Talking 'Bout THE END Of The World...

POSTED BY: OUT2THEBLACK
UPDATED: Monday, April 19, 2010 09:37
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Thursday, April 15, 2010 8:22 AM

"...Apparently the meteor in Iowa and Wisconsin freaked people out big time, with scores of calls to 911 -- and folks thinking it was the end of the world."

http://www.examiner.com/x-22153-Cleveland-Pop-Culture-Examiner~y2010m4
d15-Meteor-in-Wisconsin-Iowa-YouTubecom-video-and-sonic-boom-has-people-thinking-its-the-end

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:37 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

That's pretty damn bright. I'd have been more than a bit concerned, until it flashed out, and dissipated.

Summer Glau can simply walk into Mordor

Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first."

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 2:55 PM

PIZMOBEACH

... fully loaded, safety off...

Quote:
Originally posted by out2theblack:
"...Apparently the meteor in Iowa and Wisconsin freaked people out big time, with scores of calls to 911 -- and folks thinking it was the end of the world."

Which is silly what with all the earthquakes we've been having... cuz everyone knows those are signs of a stable planet that isn't about to break-up like a cheap glass gewgaw... just sayin'

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 3:25 PM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
That's pretty damn bright. I'd have been more than a bit concerned, until it flashed out, and dissipated.

Ditto.

The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 3:49 PM

BYTEMITE

Quote:
Which is silly what with all the earthquakes we've been having... cuz everyone knows those are signs of a stable planet that isn't about to break-up like a cheap glass gewgaw... just sayin'

That's really not how it works...

Although you can get a little bit of "a butterfly flaps it's wings and causes a storm across the ocean" with an earthquake. Volcanoes in Iceland went off after the Chile earthquake because the systems are somewhat related. But I can promise you the continents aren't going to melt into the mantle or the mantle isn't going to erupt and toss the continents into space or anything like that. The closest you might get to continents breaking up is the Rift opening up in Africa that's eventually going to flood and become a new Mid Ocean Rift, a similar process is also happening in the Great Basin Region.

I suspect you're kidding, but I just wanted to clarify.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:03 PM

TRAVELER

That was close. I have watch meteors before and never saw any so close as this one. That would have left a dent.

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Friday, April 16, 2010 7:15 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

Quote:
Originally posted by traveler:
That was close. I have watch meteors before and never saw any so close as this one. That would have left a dent.

'...The fireball was caused by a small asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere at a shallow angle. Preliminary infrasound measurements place the energy of the blast at 20 tons of TNT (0.02 kton), with considerable uncertainty. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office estimates that the space rock was about 1 meter wide and massed some 1260 kg. "Fireballs of this size are surprisingly common," he notes. "They hit Earth about 14 times a month, on average, although most go unnoticed because they appear during the day or over unpopulated areas." '

http://spaceweather.com/

"Video of the meteor that I saw over Elma, Iowa"

Submitted to KCRG-TV9 by Tim Beckman, Deputy Sheriff Howard County

http://www.kcrg.com/younews/90918474.html

Photo Credits: University of Wisconsin - AOS/SSEC

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Friday, April 16, 2010 8:01 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

That would certainly knock ME for a loop...I'm not surprised it did others. When the unusual, unexplained happens, it's bound to freak us out, at the very least, momentarily.

"I'm just right. Kinda like the sun rising in the east and the world being round...its not a need its just the way it is." The Delusional "Hero", 3/1/10

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Friday, April 16, 2010 12:37 PM

TRAVELER

We got some chunks from that critter in Wisconsin.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36601726/ns/local_news-milwaukee_wi/

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

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Monday, April 19, 2010 9:16 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

NEW composited Video of Meteor entry :