On 15/02/2013 16:06, Darren Addy wrote:
People may not realize it, but this is one of the most incredible
stories of our lifetimes, from an astronomical and historical
perspective. It is incredible to me that the mother of someone on this
list actually felt the shockwave from this thing. Wowsers. I'd like to
give a big thank you to earth's atmosphere for "doing its job" and
slowing this thing down and breaking it up so that it was not an even
more destructive event.
This guy who lives not far from the city that was struck has a
compilation of videos and photos going here:
http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place
The videos highlight the issue of people not knowing what to do in the
event of an exceedingly rare catastrophic event. Looking out of the
window at a highly supersonic object passing by is almost on a par with
running onto the beach exposed by the backflow of a tsunami. Which is
not to say we should have these events more often so that people know
what to do.
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