So a meteor struck in the middle of a town in southern Russia yesterday. The Beeb has some pretty cool video. Well, it wasn’t very cool if you were one of the people who was injured by windows blowing out or part of a building getting knocked down.
But at least as an abstraction, come on, a meteor strike. Dude! It looks like the cookie monster came and ate a part of that brick wall.
And as a follow-up: this appears to be why there’s so much dashboard video of the meteor.Report
I’d heard about the Russian dashboard cam thing before. Russia does not sound like a fun place.Report
Actually, under communism the Russians couldn’t even get a good meteor strike. ^_^
Now that private individuals can print T-shirts saying “I survived the Chelabynsk meteor”, the heavens rain down.
But if this doesn’t give the people of the Earth a wake-up call about the dangers of global warming, I don’t know what will.
*waits for some media pundit to spout off again*Report
I admit, I’m confused. What does this have to do with global warming?Report
George is performance art. Best not to think too hard about it.Report
Anytime there’s an asteroid alarm, earthquake, or tsunami, someone in the media idiotically but amusingly links it to climate change. The latest was a few days ago when CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Bill Nye if the close-shave asteroid was the result of global warming. Slate link.
Bill Nye isn’t even a meteorologist, so what would he know about meteors?
Yeah, that’s two jokes for the price of one!Report
Oh George. It’s John Kerry’s fault.Report
I wouldn’t call it media idiocy; some less educated people are understandably confused about what science says about our planet’s geology, ecosystem, and space environment. The media should be willing to answer questions that well-educated people might think unnecessary.Report
Like any question with the word “Kardashian” in it.Report
The meteor melted Edward James Olmos’ face http://www.chetretorted.com/2013/02/the-meteor-melted-edward-james-olmos.htmlReport
When I saw that headline, the first thing I thought was, “There are hundreds in central Russia?”Report
Russia is like the anti-Canada.
One of the ways it is like the anti-Canada is that lots of people live in the really, really Godforsakenly cold parts of it, instead of just the really Godforsakenly cold parts.Report