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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: daoman89 on February 15, 2013, 09:04:54 PM
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I'm sure everyone has heard about it by now. Crazy how something only the size of a bus can cause such a powerful shockwave. It had the force of a nuclear bomb apparently.
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I think that we're living in the future, and it's terrifying.
This stuff is only supposed to happen in sci-fi movies and comics, right?
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Now Russia's dishes will be a little meatier.
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Where did I put my bag of hearts?
Found it.
(http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/2350/funnycandyheart.jpg)
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it actually happens every decade, but alot happens over the ocean cuz our planet is mostly ocean. some astrophysist was talkin about it, ill find the link. and meis.. i saw what u did there.
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Today.com with Neal Degrasse Tyson about Meteor 13/02/15 Russia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRWpfQljhY#noexternalembed-ws)
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Sburb will save us...!
But yeah, wow. I'd just assumed we knew when that sort of thing was gonna happen days before it actually hit.
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it is extremely hard to notice bus sized meteors b4 they impact, plus theyr rare. theyr also more focused on the ones that could cause massive global destruction. the one that was in russia exploded at about 20 atomic bombs according to news. now imagine the one that recently passed 7000 or 17000 miles passed earth. it was the size of an olympic swimming pool. and the one that landed in mexico 65,000,000 yrs ago was 150 meters i think id have to look it up tho.
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wow i was off lol. dinometeor was 10 km. But to know how powerful, lets talk aboutvthe tsar bomba. it exploded in russia at 57 megatons of tnt. now, the dracometeor (pokemon attack) was estimated at 100 teratons, 2 million times more powerful.
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Did you really just use an attack from Pokemon to give a sense of scale on how powerful this thing was?
But yeah, Russia has a weird history of meteors exploding in the atmosphere.
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Did you really just use an attack from Pokemon to give a sense of scale on how powerful this thing was?
I saw that, too. I have no ****ing clue...
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At least the next won't hurt as much since dracometeor severely lowers space's special attack.
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I agree that is very difficult to predict smaller asteroids like this before they strike. My hope is that in a few decades we will be able to predict events like this before they happen and warn communities about it beforehand, and eventually be able to blow the asteroids out of the sky before they are a threat. Technology is an amazing thing :)
And isn't it great how pokemon can put this all into perspective.
In all seriousness, I feel bad for all the people and families that were affected during this terrible situation...
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Pokemons are weapons of friggin destruction!
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There's a theory floating around that the pokedex entries are written by the main character, due to them having NO sense of scale whatsoever.
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lol i said dracometeor cuz it has meteor in it. but yes, spaces special attack is lowered, but the battle ends after an hour of no action.
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About 4 billion or so years ago, approximately a billion years after our cloud nebula was heated up by a supernova and collapsed and created the planets and the sun, during the planet creation process, collisions were common from all the chaos. It was theorized that another planet slammed into Earth and the pieces of debris that flew off of it were caught in the Earth gravity and eventually became our moon. The moon has all those craters still because it does not have techtonic plate movement, so the erosion doesn't get rid of the craters, like our Earth has. But since everything calmed down, it allowed life to form here and BAM here we are.
The asteroids and meteors come from either the asteroid belt nears mars or the Oort Cloud that surrounds our entire solar system. Usually comets come from the Oort cloud however because they are frozen rock and heat up as they plummet towards our sun creating a tail blah blah blah. Another reason we don't get TOO many collisions now is our brotha Jupiter. His massive gravity tends to reel in asteroids floating around freely thinking they're rebels trying to wreck ****.
Although these are all theories, they do have evidence. And if you know about all of it, it makes sense. Stuff floating around in outer space attract to each other and stick. This was discovered accidentally when an astronaut put salt or something in a bag and noticed everything clumped together. I don't know where I'm going with this but it's interesting to know I guess haha.
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I like the "god farted" theory.
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Except we can't prove he farted lol
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Maybe it was just very silent?
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With the extreme amount of toxic and volatile gases in space, I'm saying a fart is very likely the cause.
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Silent.. but deadly
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Silent.. but deadly
Like a ninja
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There are ninjas in space.
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I would assume that, with all the blackness of space, it would be easy for them to hide.
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EVERY little boy wanted to be a ninja at some point in their lives. EVERY SINGLE ONE! With the exception of the ones that nv heard of them.
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Who the **** has never heard of a ninja?
But yeah, ninja spacemen rock.
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kids in 3rd world countries??
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I always wanted to be a pirate.
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I eventually became a pirate.
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Someone said that they shot it down...
(Ninja-pirateing here!)
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Shot what down? My dreams of becoming a ninja? Because if so, I think it's time fora little revenge...
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Who the **** has never heard of a ninja?
The same people who don't know what a samurai is.
Pirates are part of most local histories, or the latest disney movies. Ninjas however are not as common, or at least people don't think they are...
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ninjas are more badass than pirates.
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Pirates are more historically accurate than ninjas.
So they're more real.
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Are we really going to do a pirates vs. ninjas argument?
Because we all know velociraptors win hands down.
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Well, in scribblenauts, pirates beat ninjas.
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Oooh, yeah velocirapters are badass. Those things are quick, intelligent and ****ing awesome! They win.
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I always wanted to be a velociraptpr.
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Banditos, man. They're where it's at. Why be a velociraptor when you can ride one?
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What about velociraptors riding banditos?
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Shot what down? My dreams of becoming a ninja? Because if so, I think it's time fora little revenge...
The meteor.
Velociraptors riding banditos? Plz, Xenomorphic velociraptors is where its at. XD
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What about a ninja-velociraptor riding a pirate?
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I'm going back on-topic now. Russian meteor. Imagine Stalin's shining visage upon this space rock.
I think I have you all beat.
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Now, imagine him with a pirate hat while riding a velociraptor.
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I'm based in things that are actually happening.
So what I'm getting at here is that we need to make that happen.
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You're right! We need to bring back the Velocirapters!
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Thinking like that is why space keeps attacking us.
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What? It won't be like Jurassic Park lol
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"Clever Stalin."
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Why don't we just bring back Hitler too.
The nerve of some people...
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The Holocaust was horrible. I dated a jew and one of my english professors was jewish and he told me some horrific stories that they did to the jews... Thank god hitler is gone for good. I hope nobody here thought they were good people.
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Ich werde essen meine fuhrer die furzen!!! Sieg heil! Sieg heil!!
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I'm gonna have to stop this joke right here. We're pretty much teetering on the line of good taste (although, if this weren't the internet, we'd have already crossed that line, stolen its car, and drove across three states before finally coming to a halt).
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Didn't mass effect mention asteroids as weapons of mass destruction?
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Never played it.
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Seeing how those rocks can cause an explosion of 100 terratons, i'd think do lol
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Didn't mass effect mention asteroids as weapons of mass destruction?
It's a pretty common sci-fi trope to strap rockets to asteroids and smack them into planets.
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It's a pretty common sci-fi trope to strap rockets to asteroids and smack them into planets.
Common even? Interesting, where else may I encounter this glorious idea? And I suppose that FF7 doesn't count seeing how magic was involved.
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If that meteor hit the planet, it would've destroyed the entire planet's crust with that inferno and shockwave.
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Common even? Interesting, where else may I encounter this glorious idea? And I suppose that FF7 doesn't count seeing how magic was involved.
There's an indie game that just got kickstarter'd that's basically that.
It's some sort of RTS with planetoids that you can launch towards/capture/use as weapons.
...i can't remember the name, though, other than it's by some people quite famous in the RTS industry.
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The bug in Starship troopers were able to weaponize meteors.
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I used to be scared to death of those movies when I was a small boy.
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It shouldn't be too hard to weapon-ize meteors: The same tech that makes it possible to move them out of the way can be used to do the opposite.
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Is it worth it though, or would it turn out to be more cost effective to just send a bomb?
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I liked what dead space did with space mining where they sent mining ships into space to haul in asteroids and mine them for minerals and such. Of course, they even had planet crackers where they tore entire planets apart and mined them but still.
PS: apparently the thing that struck is in fact a meteorite and not a meteors a friend rudely pointed out. Meteors are stuff that don't reach the surface, meteorites are stuff that creates an impact. Comets are stuff travelling around a star and asteroids are solid forms of mass rather than ice.
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I hope you rudely punched your friend in the face.
Good info, though.
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I knew a meteor that lands on earth is called a meteorite. I just didn't think it'd be a big a deal to mention it. So u can tell ur rude friend to suck it lol
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I hope you rudely punched your friend in the face.
The subject was brought up and he was part of the conversation, people talked about it and he freaked out.
It was that kind of "OH MY GOD WHATS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??! ITS NOT A METEOOOR, ITS A ****ing METEORITE! METEORS DONT REACH EARTH THEY ARE JUST SHINY STARFALLS! THIS THING STRUCK DOWN AND RUINED THE LIVES OF PEOPLE AND IS THEREFORE A METEO-RITE."
To which I answered: "uh... what?"
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He's had a hard time of it. His father was an abusive meteorologist.
"What speed would a 1 meter meteor have to be travelling to break free of the moon's gravitational pull passing three kilometers from its surface, son?"
"What, daddy?"
"Do you want me to get the belt, son?"
"No father nooo!"
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"Daddy I found a meteor on the ground!" :D
"You found a what!? Are you a ****ing idiot!? It's a meteorITE son! JFC! I didn't know I raised a dumbass! Go crawl back into your mother so you can cook longer! GAAAAAWWWWD!!!" *Punches priest in the face cause they're at church*
Anybody would be damaged from that. The poor kid...
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I'm amazed he turned out as well as he did, really.
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id lmfao if that was a true story
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id lmfao if that was a true story
Just wait for the kids of the brony generation.
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Almost as bad as the "your/you're" dad.
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ppl usually correct grammar when they lose debates or arguments
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You misspelled "people", forgot to capitalize it, and forgot to use a period.
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ppl usually correct grammar when they lose debates or arguments
Certain individuals are prone to correct the grammar of their peers when experiencing a sense of defeat either in debates or arguments.
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LOL. sometimes arguments contain two people. The one person completely ignoring the point of the other and yelling about the same thing when clearly the other person makes sense and other people are saying "dude, he said such and such,". Like on a fire emblem awakening video on youtube. Some guy said it would be a good idea to reward people for playing the game on classic, so it would encourage them to try it instead of doing it on casual. And this other dude freaks out and says that wouldn't be fair and stop trying to tell the company how to make their game. So the other guy responds 10 more times saying "I said something extra for completing it on a higher difficulty" and the other guy was still freaking out. It was actually quite amusing but still, some people just don't know how to listen let alone try to.