Although most of what you say is defensible ... which of these scenarios makes the most sense:
1) a meteor explodes naturally on contact with the atmosphere, and yet sends out a highly elongated missile-like projectile with a pointed end, instead of the expect 'blob' - and which projectile accelerates ahead of the meteor's path at much greater velocity ... 2) or ... a grazing approach of a missile which knocks off debris, continues on, but adds enough energy to cause an eventual explosion... 3) or ... a photoshopped film clip by a group of kids who know more about graphic images than about creating a coherent mystery based on physics... I vote for 3 BTW the only evidence that the meteor was not "brought down" is the eventual explosion and collision itself, so you have committed a logical error in that assumption. Technically, we do not know now if it was "on its way" to this outcome, or not. -----Original Message----- From: de Bivort Lawrence At least two problems with this speculation: 1) The meteor wasn't "brought down" -- it was already on its way to collision with earth. 2) It is highly unlikely that a missile would survive smashing through a meteor and be able to continue on its course apparently intact. Cheers, Lawry On Feb 17, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzG881Vii8 > > I don't think this could be photoshopped frame by frame so well, and so > quickly, but who knows... given the economic realities in Russia, a bunch of > twenty something geeks with nothing better to do, and the promise of YT > "monetization" ... yeah they could pull it off. > <winmail.dat>
