Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
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Re: Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
The Onion describes it perfectly as usual *language warning* http://www.theonion.com/articles/more-t ... les,31321/
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Re: Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
OK, fair enough, since I posted that OP a lot of evidence has come in to indicate that the two events are unrelated but there are still some people unconvinced:
http://theconversation.edu.au/meteorite-soars-over-russia-12252
Asteroid expert Phil Bland, ARC Laureate Fellow at Curtin University: “Is it connected to the flyby? A lot of folks would say ‘no’. Personally, I’ve always kind of liked the idea that there are streams of asteroid debris – so you can have smaller stuff that precede and trail a bigger object,”
However, I'm willing in the light of the additional evidence which has surfaced since the time of the OP to acknowledge that it was a really weird super-coincidence. Happy now?
http://theconversation.edu.au/meteorite-soars-over-russia-12252
Asteroid expert Phil Bland, ARC Laureate Fellow at Curtin University: “Is it connected to the flyby? A lot of folks would say ‘no’. Personally, I’ve always kind of liked the idea that there are streams of asteroid debris – so you can have smaller stuff that precede and trail a bigger object,”
However, I'm willing in the light of the additional evidence which has surfaced since the time of the OP to acknowledge that it was a really weird super-coincidence. Happy now?
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Re: Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
Just a thought. If you are going to make a definitive statement, two things. Back it up with facts or better still if you have no facts, maybe look at a career in the mainstream media.
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Re: Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
rookie314 wrote:Just a thought. If you are going to make a definitive statement, two things. Back it up with facts or better still if you have no facts, maybe look at a career in the mainstream media.
Or maybe I can make a few hundred thousand a year as ARC Laureate Fellow at Curtin University. And, yes, I'd fail you.
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Re: Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
The information was available before the OP's original post.
Truths can be backed up by facts - do you have any?
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Re: Asteroid chunk injures 1000+ in Russia
Fancy wrote:The information was available before the OP's original post.
Yes, mea culpa for not going through the 1,569,372 articles online at that time to find the handful that claimed the opposite and just jumping to conclusions on the handful I did read. Please sentence me to 20 lashes with a wet noodle. Next time I'll be more careful.
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BC under the Endeepee won't be just like North Korea: the gulags will have nicer views.
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BC under the Endeepee won't be just like North Korea: the gulags will have nicer views.