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As long as the world's countries are spending trazillibillions of bucks on military related programs instead of space programs, that wont change.
Bummer...

Hahahaha :haha:

Been watching the replays on the news at work today...fascinating stuff.

Some other theories are that it was a micro-singularity or an comet made of antimatter. :hmmm:

At least it wasn't the result of a DPRK calamity :)

Phil "The Bad Astronomer" Plait is doing a DA14 livestream thingy right now if anyone is interested:
https://plus.google.com/+PhilipPlait/posts/M6QhbBan6Vs

I seem to recall hearing on the news when they mentioned this Russian meteorite they also said something about it not being related to another interstellar body that is supposed to pass with in 17,000 miles (fairly close) of earth in the next few days.:hmmm:

Maybe the meteorite over Russia was really all the poop that Iran's space monkey produced in space.The monkey ppo got dumped into space Iran wanted the monkey poo meteorite to destroy Tel Aviv guess it missed.:D


Very interesting though in all seriousness.

That would be DA14, closest to Earth in 9 minutes from this post. :up:

Hope that they got the math right. Someone drops one decimal by accident and it turns out that it is not going to pass us after all.

If Hello Kitty is at the bottom of that hole, we know who to blame. :D

:har::har::har::yeah:

http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4065/82545981.jpg

There was no meteorite, it was a weather balloon that exploded... All is well! Do you see any asteroid passing near? No!

I will take you to airport and show you.

Some CCTV footage of the shockwave, gives you an idea of the force of the thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvHl5Qcnzc