A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to earth which shattered windows and damaged buildings, injuring more than 500 people.People heading to work in Chelyabinsk heard what sounded like an explosion, saw a bright light and then felt a shockwave, according to a Reuters correspondent in the industrial city 950 miles east of Moscow.The fireball, travelling at a speed of 19 miles per second according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos, had blazed across the horizon, leaving a long white trail in its wake which could be seen as far as 125 miles away.Car alarms went off, windows broke and mobile phone networks were interrupted. The Interior Ministry said the meteor explosion had caused a sonic boom.. . .A local ministry official said such incidents were extremely rare and Friday's events might have been linked to an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool due to pass earth. However, the European Space Agency on its Twitter website said its experts had confirmed there was no connection."There have never been any cases of meteorites breaking up at such a low level over Russia before," said Yuri Burenko, head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Emergencies Ministry.Russia's Emergencies Ministry said 514 people had sought medical help, mainly for light injuries caused by flying glass, and that 112 of them were kept in hospital.Despite warnings not to approach any unidentified objects, some enterprising locals were hoping to cash in."Selling meteorite that fell on Chelyabinsk!," one prospective seller, Vladimir, said on a popular Russian auction website. He attached a picture of a black piece of stone that on Friday afternoon was priced at $49.46.
Russians didn't shoot down shit. That's a fucking awesome, except for the poor souls who had it land on them. Reports of a 1000 injured. That ain't shit compared to what's coming.
Why couldn't they have just sent a cosmonaut up to land on it and blow the shoot out of it weeks ago?
2. Bruce Willis was busy promoting his new movie.
But it does take place in Russia.
1. Because it was only about the size of a Smart Car.2. Bruce Willis was busy promoting his new movie.
3. Michael Clarke Duncan Bull is dead.
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