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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby Duke of Luns » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:53 am

:shock: is right. Stuff like that doesn't happen everyday, cliche' as it may be, it feels like it's out of a movie.

I hope no one is seriously hurt.
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby Va'al » Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:01 pm

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A meteor crashing in Russia's Ural mountains has injured at least 950 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.

Most of those hurt, in the Chelyabinsk region where the meteor fell, suffered cuts and bruises but at least 46 remain in hospital.

A fireball streaked through the clear morning sky, followed by loud bangs.

President Vladimir Putin said he thanked God no big fragments had fallen in populated areas.

A large meteor fragment landed in a lake near Chebarkul, a town in Chelyabinsk region.

The meteor's dramatic passing was witnessed in Yekaterinburg, 200km (125 miles) to the north, and in Kazakhstan, to the south.

"It was quite extraordinary," Chelyabinsk resident Polina Zolotarevskaya told BBC News. "We saw a very bright light and then there was a kind of a track, white and yellow in the sky."

"The explosion was so strong that some windows in our building and in the buildings that are across the road and in the city in general, the windows broke."

Officials say a large meteor partially burned up in the lower atmosphere, resulting in fragments falling earthwards.

Thousands of rescue workers have been dispatched to the area to provide help to the injured, the emergencies ministry said.

The Chelyabinsk region, about 1,500km (930 miles) east of Moscow, is home to many factories, a nuclear power plant and the Mayak atomic waste storage and treatment centre.

One Russian politician said the event was not a meteor shower but a US weapons test, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted as saying: "Meteors are falling. Those are not meteors, it is Americans testing their new weapon."
'Blinding'

Chelyabinsk's health department said 985 people had sought medical treatment, including 204 children, Interfax reported. Two people in the town of Kopeysk were in a serious condition, it added.

The governor of Chelyabinsk region, Mikhail Yurevich, was quoted elsewhere as saying 950 people had been hurt, two seriously.

Mr Putin promised "immediate" aid for people affected, saying kindergartens and schools had been damaged, and work disrupted at industrial enterprises.

Many children were at lessons when the meteor fell at around 09:20 (03:20 GMT).

Video posted online showed frightened, screaming youngsters at one Chelyabinsk school, where corridors were littered with broken glass.

Chelyabinsk resident Sergei Serskov told BBC News the city had felt like a "war zone" for 20 to 30 minutes.

"I was in the office when suddenly I saw a really bright flash in the window in front of me," he said.

"Then I smelt fumes. I looked out the window and saw a huge line of smoke, like you get from a plane but many times bigger."

"A few minutes later the window suddenly came open and there was a huge explosion, followed by lots of little explosions."

In Yekaterinburg, 36-year-old resident Viktor Prokofiev was driving to work when he witnessed the event.

[from BBC News]
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby BeastProwl » Fri Feb 15, 2013 4:09 pm

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"Americans testing a new weapon."
What good would a giant from orbit fragmentation grenada do us? It was space rock, as odd as it seems, meteorites arent just in the movies. Jeeze, next thing you know people will start getting sick and we'll be in another cold war.
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby Wigglez » Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:36 pm

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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby wilcosu35 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:48 pm

It's the arrival of Tiberium. or better known now as Uralerium. We can expect the emergence of NOD soon.

I really hope those people will be OK. it's not something that happens every day, spacerock crashing in a city
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby Va'al » Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:00 am

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But in all seriousness, I hope people are recovering well, can't seem to find much in the news.
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby Spleenzorio » Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:34 pm

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Michael Bay is really stepping up his special effects for TF4! :michaelbay:
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby Stuartmaximus » Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:59 pm

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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby d_sel1 » Tue Feb 19, 2013 1:06 am

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Va'al wrote:A meteor crashing in Russia's Ural mountains has injured at least 950 people, as the shockwave blew out windows and rocked buildings.

One Russian politician said the event was not a meteor shower but a US weapons test, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted as saying: "Meteors are falling. Those are not meteors, it is Americans testing their new weapon."
'Blinding'

[from BBC News]


Zhirinovsky is basically a Russian Nazi, am I correct? Don't Russian conspiracy nuts, that was a meteor. But wait till we show off all that reverse engineering alien technology from Roswell on your ultra-nationalist butts! :lol:
Seriously, has this dude heard of Tunguska? Or does he blame that on the British Empire or the Second Reich?
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Re: BREAKING NEWS: Meteorite Crashes In Russia

Postby robaczka » Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:14 am

Did you saw how many people try to sell pieces of the meteorite?
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