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Russian meteor causes blast; hundreds injured

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/index.
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The end has already begun...

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Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
It's gone now PN

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Russian meteor explosion outshone sun

The meteor exploded just above the city of Chelyabinsk just before 9:30 a.m. local time, damaging hundreds of buildings and injuring more than 1,000 people. The blast probably released about 300 kilotons of energy, sending out a powerful shock wave and lighting up the daytime sky, researchers said.

"This event must have been brighter than the sun, if you were there to watch it," Paul Chodas, a scientist with the Near Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told reporters today. "It's just incredible."

The object that caused the Russian meteor was probably about 50 feet (15 meters) wide and weighed approximately 7,000 tons, said Bill Cooke of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

This space rock exploded 12 to 15 miles (19 to 24 kilometers) above Earth's surface, releasing roughly 15 times as much energy as the atomic bomb the United States dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II.

The resulting blast shattered windows and knocked down walls, according to media reports.

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16978396-russian-meteor-ex
plosion-outshone-sun?lite

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Originally posted by PIRATENEWS:


Just a coincidence...no warning whatsoever.

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Just a coincidence...no warning whatsoever.

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With the cuts Obama made to NASA, so he could set up his HC plan, is it such a surprise ?

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Other space objects, such as the meteor that slammed into Russia’s Urals region today and caused hundreds of injuries, couldn’t be detected with existing telescopes, said Detlef Koschny, a scientist at the European Space Agency who is also part of the UN working group.

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Just a coincidence...no warning whatsoever.

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With the cuts Obama made to NASA, so he could set up his HC plan, is it such a surprise ?

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
The proposed 2013 NASA budget( 17,711 in millions of $'s ) is smaller than the 2012 budget( 17,770 ) , which was smaller than the 2011 budget ( 18,448) , and the 2011 budget was smaller than 2010's ( 18,724 ) ...

Cuts, genius. Actual and real cuts.


And it figures your answer to everything is " pass a law ". Yeah, that'll fix it.


Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Part and parcel of the Republican induced Sequester............backfire anyone?

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Make cuts in unnecessary govt programs, like free mobile phones for the poor, and instead put that $ towards Near Earth Asteroid Research. It's more an issue of proper functions of govt, and priorities.

Pretty simple, actually.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

As w/ all govt programs, what was started in the past by other Presidents has only grown. I say abolish it entirely, regardless of who started it. Happy now ?

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
How many *individuals* warned of this particular rock coming?



If governments and collectives of people can't do anything right, why would you want to give NASA more money? Why hasn't an individual, working all on his own without any support from anyone, come up with a way to track meteors small than 50 feet?

And if, as you've so often said, government has a spending problem... WHY would you want to INCREASE the budget for NASA? For all the whining you do about spending and how we need to make serious cuts, shouldn't you applaud any cuts to the budget?

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

If it's not governments role to fund public medicine, I sure as hell don't see why it's role should include fund exploration of space.

You either believe in pure free markets or you do not. Which is it Rappy?

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Also, something that small, relatively speaking, is next to impossible to detect early. Though I guess with this event, more attention will be paid to the issue, and more $ will find its way to creating a better network with more 'scopes looking up. May not do any good, but it's a start.

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Also, something that small, relatively speaking, is next to impossible to detect early. Though I guess with this event, more attention will be paid to the issue, and more $ will find its way to creating a better network with more 'scopes looking up. May not do any good, but it's a start.

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So you're advocating more government spending?

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Also, something that small, relatively speaking, is next to impossible to detect early. Though I guess with this event, more attention will be paid to the issue, and more $ will find its way to creating a better network with more 'scopes looking up. May not do any good, but it's a start.

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So you're advocating more government spending?

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Why does it have to be govt funded ?

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But if you're so in love w/ govt funding, then yes. Cut any number of pointless social welfare programs to fund this, absolutely.

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