February 15, 2013

Meteor Open Thread
— Pixy Misa

Videos of the Meteor below.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 08:04 AM | Comments (536)
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1 ah fresh thread smell

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:05 AM (8sCoq)

2 Thank god for Russian webcam insurance paranoia!

Posted by: EC at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (GQ8sn)

3 Yayyy!

Posted by: Heralder at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (+xmn4)

4 weeee

Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (FIDMq)

5 My comment disappeared

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (8sCoq)

6 SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (wtvvX)

7 I for one welcome our new open thread overlords.

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (UZQM8)

8

I call this Reconnai-SMOD, since it's not actually going to hit us (supposedly).   It's just     gathering information for    the big guy.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (4df7R)

9 Jones in CO, SMOD got it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (bfYGd)

10 SMOD was a reach-across-the-aisle RINO.

There'll be no savior for you.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:06 AM (Ipj15)

11 Or, rather.....

SMOOOOOOOOOOOODSKIIIIIIII!!!!!

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (wtvvX)

12 And as I posted in the last thread, Pro tip:  When you see a fiery object hurtling toward earf, step away from the fucking windows.

Jeez.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (UOM48)

13 “I actually don’t think we should ban handguns,” Obama said. “But keep in mind what we’re trying to do is come up with a package that protects Second Amendment rights but also contributes to reduce violence.”

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence : "Crushed"

Posted by: Bat Masterson at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (e8kgV)

14

I'm pretty sure the meteor was struck down by an erstwhile flying squid.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (4df7R)

15

METEOR VALENTINE

Roses are Red

My Contrail's blue

I am here

To obliterate you

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (uhftQ)

16 wow!

Posted by: L, elle at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (0PiQ4)

17 Rush is saying the meteorite may have broken off from SMOD. 

SMODlet I.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (UOM48)

18 SMOD is such a tease.

Posted by: Armando at February 15, 2013 08:07 AM (5iuEW)

19

This world  be so much more boring if there were no Russian dashboard cams.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (TOk1P)

20 Our SMOD which art in heaven, hallowed by thy flame. . .

Posted by: LizLem at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (8wqqE)

21 I liked how CJ Cherryth stated something most in the MSM have missed.  This Russian rock was one all of our telescopes and such missed.  Just think there might be another 10 ton lump out there that no one knows about or twenty.  Sleep tight now.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (bfYGd)

22 So how big was this thing? I'm guessing basketball-sized.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (E/BRX)

23 And we don't have Michael Duncan to save us anymore.

Posted by: Vic at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (53z96)

24 Roses are Red
My Contrail's blue
I am here one day late
To obliterate you

FIFY

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (wtvvX)

25 8I call this Reconnai-SMOD, since it's not actually going to hit us (supposedly). It's just gathering information for the big guy.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 15, 2013 12:06 PM (4df7R)

It's a fore-SMOD.  We are in for the fore-SMODDENING.

Posted by: Heralder at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (+xmn4)

26 The KABOOM! WHERES THE KABOOM?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:08 AM (l86i3)

27

Damn global warming.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 15, 2013 08:09 AM (rLJaJ)

28 Bring it on!

Posted by: John F'n Kerry at February 15, 2013 08:09 AM (0PiQ4)

29 SMOD's last name is Boehner.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:09 AM (Ipj15)

30 @12 And as I posted in the last thread, Pro tip: When you see a fiery object hurtling toward earf, step away from the fucking windows. kind of like those poor schmucks that went towards the ocean as the tsumani hit... and all the supposedly dumb animals with enough sense to start running.

Posted by: Thelmadatter at February 15, 2013 08:09 AM (mM7K/)

31

So what're the odds all their    bottles of vodka shattered, in addition to the windows?   

 

Expect riots.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:09 AM (4df7R)

32 smod chasers?

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:09 AM (nqBYe)

33 Hey, smart people, is there any radiation accompanying these meteors?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:10 AM (l86i3)

34

13 -

 

Scoamf Translator: "I wish I could ban handguns, but I don't have the political clout to do so... yet."

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2013 08:10 AM (TOk1P)

35 This morning's smodski has nothing to do with this afternoon's flyby SMOD- different orbits entirely


just a really cool coinky-dink

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:10 AM (8sCoq)

36 Do I need to shave my legs for this momentous occasion?

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:10 AM (nqBYe)

37 Or Galveston 1900.  All those people on that island, when the water pulled back from shore, walked out onto that sand.  Just in time for the hurricane storm surge to get them.  Some 6,000 died.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:10 AM (bfYGd)

38 In Russian, Meteor ... wait, that no work.

Posted by: Yakov Smirnoff at February 15, 2013 08:10 AM (J8DGo)

39 If only the meteor had smashed into that Carnival Cruise ship! Now THAT would have been cool.

Posted by: Caunoaucarius at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (Fw/gZ)

40 So, was this little meteor really SMOD's "Silver Surfer"?

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (wtvvX)

41 Will this finally teach us we need to reduce our carbon emissions? Will we never learn?

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (94E39)

42 In about two   hours and change we'll find out...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (9+ccr)

43 >smart people, is there any radiation accompanying these meteors?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 12:10 PM (l86i3)



Only if they contain kryptonite

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (8sCoq)

44 This was clearly a response to Obama's initiative to ban meteor violence by banning all Near Earth Objects. The next demonstration will be in the USA.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (+paCV)

45 I love how the Russian drivers don't even slow down or stop.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (UOM48)

46
Show off.

Posted by: Lurking Super Volcano at February 15, 2013 08:11 AM (mETGQ)

47 - injured due to broken glass from windows. One more thing to add to "First World Problems"

Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (J8DGo)

48 NICE TAIL

Posted by: andycanuck at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (ORGYc)

49 So, I've got to hand it to the people filming. That thing looks (even though miles and miles away) as if it is impacting right on top of you. How they summoned the moxie to keep filming is beyond me.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (0q2P7)

50 Just think there might be another 10 ton lump out there that no one knows about or twenty. Sleep tight now.
Posted by: Anna Puma


Well, it's a good thing we listened to all those serious scientists who insisted we build up our anti-meteor capabilities. It's good know that billions were well spent and not wasted on propaganda-infused folly like global warming...

/AlternateEarth

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (Ipj15)

51 Son of Tunguska.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/30jun_tunguska/

Posted by: locomotivebreath1901 at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (eIxEV)

52 Poor meteor.

"[i/] Just a liiiiiiitle outside... "

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (wtvvX)

53 Only if they contain kryptonite Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:11 PM (8sCoq) I said SMART people.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (l86i3)

54 it should have hit Detroit

Posted by: Lt. Col. Bat Guano at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (Dll6b)

55 Hmmm, the new hashtag assignments came out today.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (J8DGo)

56 clearly a sign from God that we need to pay more attention to his only forgotten son Barack Obama

Posted by: mallfly at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (bJm7W)

57

22 -

 

Where's Dikembe  Mutombo when you need him?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2013 08:12 AM (TOk1P)

58 Over 13 million liscensed hunters in the US. That includes only a fraction of the gun owners. That is a sizable army, and why we will never be invaded by a standing army, foreign or domestic.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (OlN4e)

59

O/T:  I just walked by the hall TV and see TFG on CNN.  The chiron reads something about him handing out the country's second-highest civilian decoration, "among 18 honorees include Sandy Hook victims."

 

WTF?  I repeat, with emphasis, WTF?  Have we got to the point now where being shot qualifies you for a presidential honor?  Because if that's right, Skeeter better load up Air Force One's cargo bay with a shitload of those medals to dump over Chicago when he's flying out for his next swallow of Reggie's love juice.

 

WTF?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (zF6Iw)

60 Hey look!!!! There goes something as strong as a small nuke!! Let run next to a fucking window!!!!! Dumbass russians

Posted by: Navycopjoe at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (FxIhI)

61 @49: That was the vodka talking...

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (wtvvX)

62 PMAGS for ~$45 at Luckygunner.  Gen 1, 2, and 3.

Posted by: EC at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (GQ8sn)

63 Well OSP when Halley's swung around in 1910 people panicked because scientists saw indications of cyogenic gas in the cometary tail.  There was a brisk business in gas masks. 

Or my favorite end of the world due to comet movies, Night of the Comet, debris from the comet caused all exposed people to turn to dust.  Those mildly exposed turned into zombies.  Only those who were in metal structures escaped.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (bfYGd)

64 here's the crater

http://is.gd/DzZ6bs

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:13 AM (8sCoq)

65 I hope this means if i don't have to vacuum today.

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:14 AM (nqBYe)

66

And to think, today the scewedning could have stopped.

 

But, NOOOO. Thanks a lot for nothing, SMOD. You are a poor shot.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 15, 2013 08:14 AM (+z4pE)

67 Or it's simply more alien pod seeding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

Posted by: locomotivebreath1901 at February 15, 2013 08:14 AM (eIxEV)

68 Yikes!  I think I would have panicked if I was that driver.

Posted by: Shoot Me at February 15, 2013 08:14 AM (qiXMt)

69 How they summoned the moxie to keep filming is beyond me.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose


Yeah, those intrepid screws and dash mounts sure have a lot of guts.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:14 AM (Ipj15)

70 Is this where the oceans recede  (for a moment )?

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:15 AM (nqBYe)

71 It's for white kids and teachers who get shot up, MPPPP. Duh!

Posted by: andycanuck at February 15, 2013 08:15 AM (ORGYc)

72 Well OSP when Halley's swung around in 1910 people panicked because scientists saw indications of cyogenic gas in the cometary tail. There was a brisk business in gas masks. Or my favorite end of the world due to comet movies, Night of the Comet, debris from the comet caused all exposed people to turn to dust. Those mildly exposed turned into zombies. Only those who were in metal structures escaped. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 12:13 PM (bfYGd) See Jonsey, if you would have mentioned zombies I could have bought your premise.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:15 AM (l86i3)

73 I call this Reconnai-SMOD, since it's not actually going to hit us (supposedly). It's just gathering information for the big guy.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 15, 2013 12:06 PM (4df7R)

 

That reminds me of a story - during WWII, the Lockheed bomber plant was located near the Columbia studio.  Harry Cohn, the studio chief, had painters go up on the roof of the largest soundstage and paint an arrow pointing in the plant's direction.  Underneath the arrow were the words 'LOCKHEED THAT-A-WAY."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 08:15 AM (zF6Iw)

74 54it should have hit Detroit

Posted by: Lt. Col. Bat Guano at February 15, 2013 12:12 PM (Dll6b)

Might improve the place.

Posted by: Heralder at February 15, 2013 08:15 AM (+xmn4)

75 That crater seems disappointingly..... small.

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:15 AM (wtvvX)

76 Damn that is a small crater. Less than 40 feet it looks. I don't think the meteor was even as big as they suggest.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (OlN4e)

77 WTF? I repeat, with emphasis, WTF? Have we got to the point now where being shot qualifies you for a presidential honor? Because if that's right, Skeeter better load up Air Force One's cargo bay with a shitload of those medals to dump over Chicago when he's flying out for his next swallow of Reggie's love juice.

WTF?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 12:13 PM (zF6Iw)



Keep in mind the douche tool handing them out got a peace prize for doing squat.

Posted by: Berserker at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (FMbng)

78 54 it should have hit Detroit Posted by: Lt. Col. Bat Guano at February 15, 2013 12:12 PM (Dll6b) You'd think that happened already.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (7xPCu)

79 Thank god for Russian webcam insurance paranoia!

It's not really paranoia when everyone really is out to get you.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (SY2Kh)

80 here's the crater

http://is.gd/DzZ6bs

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:13 PM (8sCoq)


Thats just where a piece fell. Main crater at end of last video above.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (zpqa2)

81 >smart people, is there any radiation accompanying these meteors? >>

My company has a plant that is in that area. People have asked me to borrow radiation dosimeters when they needed to visit that plant. The area is already radioactive because of atomic bomb tests done in the region.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (81UWZ)

82


Mike the Moose,

Those are all dashboard cams.  The Russkies have them because people literally jump in front of moving cars for insurance money over there.

Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (UaxA0)

83 Memo to Barry: here's a package that protects the second amendment and reduces gun violence: mandatory nationwide open carry for those aged18-65.

Posted by: Truman North, updating yo ass at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (ZhoXI)

84 Quick, let's paint a bullseye on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (IDSI7)

85 >>>If only the meteor had smashed into that Carnival Cruise ship! Now THAT would have been cool.

I really don't see how Carnival keeps from going bankrupt at this point. Two major incidents in a very short period.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 08:16 AM (0q2P7)

86

 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations

 

 

or.... I'm backkkkk.....

Posted by: Satan at February 15, 2013 08:17 AM (lZBBB)

87 >That crater seems disappointingly..... small.

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 12:15 PM (wtvvX)



it was a very small SMOD

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:17 AM (8sCoq)

88 How they summoned the moxie to keep filming is beyond me. Never underestimate the combined power of vodka and stupidity.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at February 15, 2013 08:17 AM (F3G1y)

89 I blame Bush.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 08:17 AM (IDSI7)

90 Those are all dashboard cams. The Russkies have them because people literally jump in front of moving cars for insurance money over there. Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 12:16 PM (UaxA0) I wondered about that. I thought it was cops jammin to seventies disco.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:17 AM (l86i3)

91 >I really don't see how Carnival keeps from going bankrupt at this point. Two major incidents in a very short period.



was that one that flopped over on its side a Carnival boat too?

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (8sCoq)

92

Hey, smart people, is there any radiation accompanying these meteors?

 

No. It's just a flying rock, no more, no less.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (IDSI7)

93 64 here's the crater

http://is.gd/DzZ6bs

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:13 PM (8sCoq)



Looks like a medium size fishing hole.....



I hope SMOD packs more of a wallop than that.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (X6akg)

94 Main crater has a man walking along the edge of it in the upper left hand corner. Its pretty ffn big

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (Dnbau)

95  Link for radiation in the Urals.

http://www1.american.edu/TED/URAL.HTM

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (81UWZ)

96 Apparently I am the only person on Earth out of the loop on the use of dashboard cams in Russia.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (0q2P7)

97 Even Dan Ackroyd could not save Detroit.
http://youtu.be/-x1_4hEhxGU

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (bfYGd)

98 It was me...I farted.

Posted by: God at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (ZzS+r)

99 Posted by: EC Ammoland had an article the other day saying the general price had dropped to $25-$35 if one were to look around. Though a bird in the hand...

Posted by: Daybrother at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (+paCV)

100 I expect that we'll see footage of Putin kneeling before Zod by COB today.

Posted by: Stu-22 at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (k4bdL)

101 seems disappointingly..... small.

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries

***

 

If I had a dollar...

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (uhftQ)

102 Armaggedon? Pope: "not my prob."

Posted by: Eric at February 15, 2013 08:18 AM (4W+gP)

103 That crater seems disappointingly..... small.

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 12:15 PM (wtvvX)

 

Remember that the craters are from PIECES of SMODlet.   If the actual 10 ton rock had hit ground in one piece...

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (4df7R)

104 yeah that crater was just a tiny microsmod

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (8sCoq)

105 A friend was in Russia, or what was the USSR, burning some Counter Proliferation dollars; and saw that crap where the people jump in front of cars and demand money. Guy jumped in front of 7-series BMW in light traffic, gets knocked down one car in front of him. His driver is explaining what is happening, when the Beemer driver gets out - classic thug look. Pulls two pistols, points the right at the gaggle of gypsy curb jumpers, shoots the guy on the ground three times with the left. Waves with the right pistol for the others to drag their buddy out of the street, then drives off.

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (gKGI0)

106 Model it after Obamacare with penalties for not carrying a gun. Provide subsidies to low-income carriers. Think of the STIMULUS Barry!

Posted by: Truman North, updating yo ass at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (ZhoXI)

107

The Russians all have a certain amount of sang-froid as well, so them not running off the road is largely attributable to them just not giving a shit.

Probably though it was an insurance-scamming meteorite.

Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (UaxA0)

108 My company has a plant that is in that area. People have asked me to borrow radiation dosimeters when they needed to visit that plant. The area is already radioactive because of atomic bomb tests done in the region.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 12:16 PM (81UWZ)

 

Oh great that means the msm is going to freak out about radiation from the meteor strike.  Fucking idiots.

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (GULKT)

109 heres main crater:

http://tinyurl.com/behcc2n

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (zpqa2)

110 Ammoland had an article the other day saying the general price had dropped to $25-$35 if one were to look around.


Who has it for that?  I can't find any vendors that have it in stock at that price or near it.

Posted by: EC at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (GQ8sn)

111
The funny thing is that if the insurance industry in Russia wasn't so f'd up we wouldn't have all these videos.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (p/cQy)

112

was that one that flopped over on its side a Carnival boat too?

 

Yes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (zF6Iw)

113 Apparently I am the only person on Earth out of the loop on the use of dashboard cams in Russia.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 12:18 PM (0q2P7)

 

Dashcams are EVERYWHERE in    Russia.   They're good for providing evidence in instances of police brutality or    insurance fraud.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (4df7R)

114 Thats just where a piece fell. Main crater at end of last video above. Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at February 15, 2013 12:16 PM (zpqa2) I don't buy it...there's a crater-looking thing in Russia somewhere that has been on fire for decades, probably centuries, due to escaping natural gas, and that looks like it. I could be wrong.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:19 AM (7xPCu)

115 Looks like the rest of the galaxy has had quite enough of us. I think it was reality TV that finally tore it.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 08:20 AM (IDSI7)

116 have they blamed climate change yet?

Posted by: soothsayer at February 15, 2013 08:20 AM (Ba6aP)

117 here's the crater

http://is.gd/DzZ6bs

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:13 PM (8sCoq)



Caption:

Hey look Boris. That looks like a frozen person  trying to run away from the "meteor"?


Posted by: Lurking Super Volcano at February 15, 2013 08:20 AM (mETGQ)

118 >Apparently I am the only person on Earth out of the loop on the use of dashboard cams in Russia.


Automobile insurance fraud is apparently the national pastime over there. Everybody videos everything

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:20 AM (8sCoq)

119 Thunderb.  You mean the Door to Hell?
http://englishrussia.com/2008/03/25/darvaz-the-door-to-hell/

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (bfYGd)

120 OK, now THATS a crater you might notice, even if you didn't fall into it.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (OlN4e)

121 >>>Oh great that means the msm is going to freak out about radiation from the meteor strike. Fucking idiots.

If the area is already contaminated, an impact knocking contaminated dust into the air can be a radiation dose problem.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (0q2P7)

122 Hey, smart people, is there any radiation accompanying these meteors? Plenty of infra-red, but not the kind of radiation you're thinking about.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (FcR7P)

123 I'm a big fan of the Cloverfield monster, anything less and I will be disappointed.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (l86i3)

124 Oh great that means the msm is going to freak out about radiation from the meteor strike. Fucking idiots.

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 12:19 PM (GULKT)

 

So far the military is saying that radiation levels are normal.    But this is Russia, so take that with a grain of salt, followed by a shot of    tequila and some lime.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (4df7R)

125 Fixing all those broken windows is going to stimulate the Russian economy.

Posted by: Bastiat at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (V70Uh)

126 so, I guess DARPA is showing off some of their new toys. I suppose the GSD First Department is a little distressed.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 15, 2013 08:21 AM (Z9EHQ)

127 BRB GOIN TO RUSIA TO GET ME SOME SUPER POWERS

Posted by: CHUCK HAGEL at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (ZhoXI)

128

yeah that crater was just a tiny microsmod

 

You   mean there's  still hope?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (+z4pE)

129 This is not the SMOD you are looking for.

Posted by: John W. at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (sbL9/)

130 So far the military is saying that radiation levels are normal. But this is Russia, so take that with a grain of salt, followed by a shot of tequila and some lime. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 15, 2013 12:21 PM (4df7R) Use it to chase the Iodine tablets.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (l86i3)

131 Here's another one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0cRHsApzt8

Posted by: Tesh at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (cnjni)

132

97 -

 

Don't sweat it.  They're also popular in Japan, literally because everyone drives so terribly over there, they need them to sort out the messes. 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (TOk1P)

133 since I dont speak russian I cant tell if that big crater is someone punking me or not..but you may be right

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at February 15, 2013 08:22 AM (zpqa2)

134 Has anyone seen any big gooey globs with a taste for Russkies crawling up outta that hole yet?

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:23 AM (OlN4e)

135 A SMODicle (similar to a testicle)?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:23 AM (uhftQ)

136 >You mean there's still hope?


Hope is not a strategy.

Regards,
SMOD

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:23 AM (8sCoq)

137 I like to play with things a while... before annihilation. [laughs evilly]

Posted by: The Emperor Ming at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (fWAjv)

138 With that bright flash...a Terminator must have just arrived...after John Connor

Posted by: Paladin at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (4kpbt)

139 God's kidneystones.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (DrWcr)

140 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero... we need an EA on this pronto!!!

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (UZQM8)

141 Hope is not a strategy. Regards, SMOD Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:23 PM (8sCoq) Nope, but a rail gun is. Or did they cancel that too.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (l86i3)

142 33 Hey, smart people, is there any radiation accompanying these meteors?

Maybe, depending on its composition.  All the uranium on earth came from somewhere during the solar system's formation.  If its here, its elsewhere in this corner of the universe too.

Most are just rocky or iron/nickel though.

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (1rU+d)

143 If you look at the last video on my link Door to Hell.  Looks like the video that is being passed around as the impact crater.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:24 AM (bfYGd)

144 I don't think that "crater" is related to the meteor. It's probably one of those natural gas fire holes and someone spliced it into the end of the video for effect.

Posted by: irright at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (pMGkg)

145 125 >>>Oh great that means the msm is going to freak out about radiation from the meteor strike. Fucking idiots.

If the area is already contaminated, an impact knocking contaminated dust into the air can be a radiation dose problem.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 12:21 PM (0q2P7)

 

MSM = Stupid.  Stupid =  Thinking any radiation in the area autmatically originates from the meteor.  Thus the "Fucking idiots"

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (GULKT)

146 SMOD is a hipster and this was a slap fight.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (Ipj15)

147 Every thousand years, I test each life system in the Universe. I visit it with mysteries, earthquakes, unpredicted eclipses, strange craters in the wilderness... If these are taken as natural, I judge that system ignorant and harmless - I spare it. But if the Hand of Ming is recognized in these events, I judge that system dangerous to us. I call upon the great god Dyzan, and for his greater glory... [leans forward, smiling] and for our mutual pleasure... [leans back again] I destroy it utterly.

Posted by: The Emperor Ming at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (fWAjv)

148 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero... we need an EA on this pronto!!! Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 12:24 PM (UZQM Apparently you did not see starman.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (l86i3)

149 I was disappointed in the last video how much it pointed at the sky instead of showing the impacts on the ground as the meteors were falling.

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (4pNjZ)

150 Nothing bothers these Russians. Something brighter than the sun flies in front of their windshields and they just keep on keepin' on.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (FcR7P)

151 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero

Isn't there a crater in Texas?

Posted by: EC at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (GQ8sn)

152 Where is my iridium?

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (6z+V1)

153 How they summoned the moxie to keep filming is beyond me.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 12:12 PM (0q2P7)
===============

One word: Vodka.

Posted by: Nighthawk at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (RSqz2)

154 With that bright flash...a Terminator must have just arrived...after John Connor

Posted by: Paladin at February 15, 2013 12:24 PM (4kpbt)

 

Given   where it landed,   more likely     it's after      Ivan   Connorski.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (4df7R)

155 CJ Cherryth? Of yellow bound book fame?

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (fW/Ev)

156 143Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero... we need an EA on this pronto!!!

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 12:24 PM (UZQM

 

 

 

 

Ever been to Arizona?

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:25 AM (OlN4e)

157 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero... we need an EA on this pronto!!!

Posted by: cajun carrot

***

 

And I'm chopped liver?

Posted by: Meteor Crater in AZ at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (uhftQ)

158 They keep saying its not linked to the asteroid but there was a big ol' fireball over Japan, too, and I'm skeptical. 

It doesn't have to be an asteroid chunk to be related,  just maybe a space rock got wobbled  maybe.

Posted by: SarahW is on to your misogyny and stuff at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (LYwCh)

159

Sweet and timely whore, take me home.

 

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (nTgAI)

160 Whoops, guess you knew that already.

Posted by: irright at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (pMGkg)

161 I was disappointed in the last video how much it pointed at the sky instead of showing the impacts on the ground as the meteors were falling.
Posted by: logprof


The sky was on fucking fire. What part of that bores you?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (Ipj15)

162 143 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero... we need an EA on this pronto!!! Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 12:24 PM (UZQM There's a big-ass one in Arizona...that's one of SMOD size, a mile wide and pretty damned deep...estimates of the rock blown out range around 400 million tons. Pretty cool to see.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (7xPCu)

163

Hope is not a strategy.

 

But, but, but, I mowed the bullseye into   my  backyard.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (+z4pE)

164 143 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero...

Meteor Crater AZ. 

That would be a real crowd pleaser were it to happen today.

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (1rU+d)

165 AZ, has a really big crater there. The wife and I had a chance to see that one. A must see!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at February 15, 2013 08:26 AM (6z+V1)

166 We need a law against such things.

Posted by: jd at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (MXyBs)

167 154, Arizona - nice one

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (fW/Ev)

168 maybe Norks new weapons program with Iran is not going exactly as planned

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (Dnbau)

169 Fuck ya!!! Vendor just brought chic-fil-a... I get my SMOD thread with a side of ghey nuggets.

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (UZQM8)

170 >Something brighter than the sun flies in front of their windshields and they just keep on keepin' on.


Is big sale on vodka today! Must to be first!

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (8sCoq)

171 154 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero

Isn't there a crater in Texas?

Posted by: EC at February 15, 2013 12:25 PM (GQ8sn)

Ever hear of Meteor Crater National Park?

Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (FIDMq)

172 Think Arizona for a nice meteor crater.   And for a long time, 19th century mainly but also early 20th, scientists thought it was an extinct volcano.

Iridium, look under KT Boundary.  In places like Dominican Republic.  Something Menendez would not be interested in.  Far too old.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (bfYGd)

173 2 Thank god for Russian webcam insurance paranoia! Posted by: EC at February 15, 2013 12:06 PM (GQ8sn) Pretty sure it isn't paranoia. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c12_1349902324

Posted by: alex at February 15, 2013 08:27 AM (4YlNx)

174

Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero... we need an EA on this pronto!!!
Posted by: cajun carrot

 

Probably this should be clarified to read:   "Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters from just the last century to America's zero...!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:28 AM (4df7R)

175 What the heck is that weird looking hammer in the crater? I heard that no one can even move the thing.

Posted by: blaster at February 15, 2013 08:28 AM (pZDxu)

176 http://www.touristinformationdirectory.com/craters/Meteor_Craters_Impact_Craters.htm

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 08:28 AM (1rU+d)

177 164 I was disappointed in the last video how much it pointed at the sky instead of showing the impacts on the ground as the meteors were falling.
Posted by: logprof


The sky was on fucking fire. What part of that bores you?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 15, 2013 12:26 PM (Ipj15)




This is the point in the day where we'll argue about anything.

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 15, 2013 08:28 AM (X6akg)

178 didn't the huge meteor in the Yucatan cause the ice age allegedly?

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 08:29 AM (Dnbau)

179 There's a big-ass one in Arizona...that's one of SMOD size, a mile wide and pretty damned deep...estimates of the rock blown out range around 400 million tons. Pretty cool to see. Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 12:26 PM (7xPCu) My humor needs work... and a sock

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:29 AM (UZQM8)

180 The western hills are going to have to go deeper.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 15, 2013 08:29 AM (Z9EHQ)

181 >This is the point in the day where we'll argue about anything.



Aw the HAIL you say

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:29 AM (8sCoq)

182 >>>Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero


The following confirmed US Impact craters called to say: "Come explore the majestic wonder of the United States"
Ames     Oklahoma    
Avak     Alaska
Barringer     Arizona    
Beaverhead     Idaho, Montana    
Calvin     Michigan    
Chesapeake Bay     Virginia    
Cloud Creek     Wyoming    
Crooked Creek     Missouri    
Decaturville     Missouri    
Des Plaines     Illinois    
Flynn Creek     Tennessee    
Glasford     Illinois    
Glover Bluff     Wisconsin    
Haviland     Kansas    
Kentland     Indiana
Manson     Iowa    
Marquez     Texas
Middlesboro     Kentucky
Newporte     North Dakota
Odessa     Texas
Red Wing     North Dakota
Rock Elm     Wisconsin
Santa Fe     New Mexico
Serpent Mound     Ohio    
Sierra Madera     Texas
Upheaval Dome     Utah    
Wells Creek     Tennessee
Wetumpka     Alabama

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 08:29 AM (0q2P7)

183 Jean, yellow book fame?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:29 AM (bfYGd)

184 And yes, that and the Grand Canyon are on my list of vay cay cays.

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (UZQM8)

185 Keep playing with your little splodey-splosions, North Korea, we're testing tractor beams.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (FcR7P)

186 This is the point in the day where we'll argue about anything. Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2013 12:28 PM (X6akg) THE HELL YOU SAY!

Posted by: alex at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (4YlNx)

187
So make sure if you see one of these you make a wish on a falling star.  Here's a good one:

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY,  I WISH YOU DON'T LAND ON ME, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (p/cQy)

188 ANYTHING!

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (nqBYe)

189 26 The KABOOM! WHERES THE window-shattering KABOOM?

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fixt

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (1c58W)

190

My company has a plant that is in that area. People have asked me to borrow radiation dosimeters when they needed to visit that plant. The area is already radioactive because of atomic bomb tests done in the region.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 12:16 PM (81UWZ)

 

That's different. Radioactivity from atomic bomb tests? Sure. From a meteor? Nope. That meteor has probably been flying for millions, if not billions, of years, long enough that any hot (i.e., short-half life) radionuclides, the ones that emit a lot of radiation per unit time, would long since have decayed. Long-lived radionuclides by definition are those that decay, and thereby emit radioactive particles and gamma rays, slowly, and so are not much of a hazard.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (IDSI7)

191 Chesapeake Bay is thought to be the work of a SMOD

also, Hudson Bay

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (8sCoq)

192 I think it's funny they thought a big hunk of meteor metal was in the AZ crater and tried to mine for it.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (uhftQ)

193 Nope, but a rail gun is. Or did they cancel that too. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 12:24 PM (l86i3) Hope not. Velocitas Eradico Slow mo vid http://tinyurl.com/av2gty2

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (fWAjv)

194 175 Think Arizona for a nice meteor crater. And for a long time, 19th century mainly but also early 20th, scientists thought it was an extinct volcano. Iridium, look under KT Boundary. In places like Dominican Republic. Something Menendez would not be interested in. Far too old. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 12:27 PM (bfYGd) Those are some pretty fucking stupid scientists to think that it was an extinct volcano. Maybe after they had planes and could see it from the air it was clearer. But still.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (7xPCu)

195 Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at February 15, 2013 12:29 PM (0q2P7) BUT BUT BUT TFG said we all have to sacrifice!!! Stay-Cations for all!11!!11!

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:30 AM (UZQM8)

196 184 >This is the point in the day where we'll argue about anything. Aw the HAIL you say Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:29 PM (8sCoq) Harumph.

Posted by: alex at February 15, 2013 08:31 AM (4YlNx)

197 This was clearly brought upon by Global warm..Climate Change. You will see a lot more of this if we don't take action NOW!!!

Posted by: alphonso gore - masseuse at February 15, 2013 08:31 AM (4eNxd)

198 It doesn't have to be an asteroid chunk to be related, just maybe a space rock got wobbled maybe.

Posted by: SarahW is on to your misogyny and stuff at February 15, 2013 12:26 PM (LYwCh)

 

I have to believe that the asteroid has shed bits and pieces of itself over time as it's been pelted itself by space debris.  No reason those bits and pieces wouldn't have continued moving in the same general direction, some of which     could easily have gotten sucked into Earth's atmosphere.  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:31 AM (4df7R)

199 Who has it for that? I can't find any vendors that have it in stock at that price or near it. Posted by: EC I don't actually know as I use the AK and Bolt platforms but if I recall correctly the guy wrote that he surveyed bunches of companies PLUS private sales and the average price was dropping to $25-$35 for assorted AR mags. (Not MAGPUL) Is this real?: http://tinyurl.com/byqdla9

Posted by: Daybrother at February 15, 2013 08:31 AM (+paCV)

200 That's not a meteor.  That's a weapon of slight destruction send by us evil Americans to defeat the Russian machine.

Posted by: © Sponge at February 15, 2013 08:31 AM (xmcEQ)

201
Since it broke into pieces, would this be classified as a high capacity assault meteor?

Posted by: Lurking Super Volcano at February 15, 2013 08:31 AM (mETGQ)

202 Ever hear of Meteor Crater National Park? Crater Lake, CA. You fly to the west of it when going up to Seattle or Portland.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (FcR7P)

203 181 didn't the huge meteor in the Yucatan cause the ice age allegedly?

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 12:29 PM (Dnbau)

 

No that's supposed to be the extinction level meteor that wiped out the Dinosaurs.

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (GULKT)

204 37 In Russian, Meteor ... wait, that no work.

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In Russia, in Russia jokes you.

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (1c58W)

205 The following confirmed US Impact craters called to say: "Come explore the majestic wonder of the United States"
Ames Oklahoma
Avak Alaska
Barringer Arizona
Beaverhead Idaho, Montana
Calvin Michigan
Chesapeake Bay Virginia
Cloud Creek Wyoming
Crooked Creek Missouri
Decaturville Missouri
Des Plaines Illinois
Flynn Creek Tennessee
Glasford Illinois
Glover Bluff Wisconsin
Haviland Kansas
Kentland Indiana
Manson Iowa
Marquez Texas
Middlesboro Kentucky
Newporte North Dakota
Odessa Texas
Red Wing North Dakota
Rock Elm Wisconsin
Santa Fe New Mexico
Serpent Mound Ohio
Sierra Madera Texas
Upheaval Dome Utah
Wells Creek Tennessee
Wetumpka Alabama



that was just practice

Posted by: Hashem at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (nqBYe)

206

I find it amazing that with all of our technology, in Radars... boosted by our paranoia of the Cold War.... no one knew this thing was coming?

 

And I say that as a Ret USN Electronic Tech, with multiple NEC's in fixing Radars....

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (lZBBB)

207 but didn't the ice age caused by the meteor wipe out the dinosaurs?

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (Dnbau)

208 Model_1066, well in hindsight.  But at the time.  Music of the Spheres, the cosmos is orderly.  Comets have been explained by Newton also.  So a meteor impact was outside their box.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:32 AM (bfYGd)

209 There's a big-ass one in Arizona...that's one of SMOD size, a mile wide and pretty damned deep...estimates of the rock blown out range around 400 million tons. Pretty cool to see.

I get no respect.  Do I have to send my big brother to teach you a lesson the dinosaurs learned the hard way?

Posted by: Yucatan Peninsula Crater at February 15, 2013 08:33 AM (SY2Kh)

210 You know, if that fucking thing had hit around 40 years ago it would have triggered a nuclear war.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:33 AM (OlN4e)

211


Meteor Crater AZ.

That would be a real crowd pleaser were it to happen today.

 

Probably would've been a crowd pleaser then, if the capitol had been in Arizona.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 08:33 AM (IDSI7)

212 Posted by: Jay Guevara at February 15, 2013 12:30 PM (IDSI7) Not only that, but from what cosmic doohickey could a chunk of radioactive anything come from? Meteors are chunks of rock. How ignorant people are these days is indicated by what the media thinks we can be scared by.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:33 AM (7xPCu)

213

Duh. Everyone knows you find Iridium in spark plugs! /

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:33 AM (uhftQ)

214 so 2:15 or so?

eastern or ?

and  should i be caught doing something impractical?

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:33 AM (nqBYe)

215 Mayor Bloomberg introducing legislation to ban all meteors over 12 ounces...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at February 15, 2013 08:34 AM (7ObY1)

216 >I find it amazing that with all of our technology, in Radars... boosted by our paranoia of the Cold War.... no one knew this thing was coming?


Beggin' your pardon sir but it's a big-ass sky

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:34 AM (8sCoq)

217 Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2013 12:32 PM (lZBBB) Even if they did get a heads up in the last few minutes or so.What could they do? I'd rather just be trippin through life when BAM!! all over, then stare at the sky scared shotless.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:34 AM (l86i3)

218 Crater lake is in Oregon. It is awesomely cool.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at February 15, 2013 08:35 AM (RZ8pf)

219 The following confirmed US Impact craters called to say: "Come explore the majestic wonder of the United States"

What I took from that list is even the freaking meteors want nothing to do with Minnesota winters.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 15, 2013 08:35 AM (SY2Kh)

220 Romeo13, radar only works if its in range.  Remember things like your radiated energy drops by square for every mile.  Plus you need a very very long range gate.  Remember the scare when BMEWS went online for the first time and they picked up the Moon, they thought it was an incoming Soviet missile strike until they realized the radar return was not moving.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:35 AM (bfYGd)

221 213 You know, if that fucking thing had hit around 40 years ago it would have triggered a nuclear war. Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 12:33 PM (OlN4e) Maybe. That long ago, there would have been nobody looking for something that big headed our way, but look at it this way: what exactly was the strategic target in the middle of Arizona?

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:35 AM (7xPCu)

222 it should have hit Detroit

D.C.  Then all of our problems would be gone.

Posted by: Paladin at February 15, 2013 08:35 AM (4kpbt)

223 Which ice age is that thunderb? Shit, there have been dozens, maybe hundreds. Nobody has proven WHAT wiped out the dinosaurs, or what caused any of the previous mass extinctions. There is fucking concensus, and consensus is a mass sniffing of assholes.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:35 AM (OlN4e)

224 210 but didn't the ice age caused by the meteor wipe out the dinosaurs?

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 12:32 PM (Dnbau)

 

There have been several ice ages between the times of the dinosaurs extinction and the present day.

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 08:36 AM (GULKT)

225 A massive asteroid hit the earth at Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico about 65 million years. The meteor crater is 180 km from rim to rim and scientists have worked out that the asteroid must have been 10 km across. It is thought that the impact would have caused massive damage, including a giant dust cloud which lead to massive changes in the climate. that one

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 08:36 AM (Dnbau)

226 Well, the United States needs to lead the way and outlaw these assault meteors before they kill anymore people.

Then, they need to force the UN to place sanctions on Space and/or any interplanetary system supplying these meteors and their destructive nature.

Posted by: © Sponge at February 15, 2013 08:36 AM (xmcEQ)

227 221Crater lake is in Oregon. It is awesomely cool.

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at February 15, 2013 12:35 PM (RZ8pf)

 

 

 

 

 

That is a volcanic crater, not a meteor impact.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:36 AM (OlN4e)

228

I'm looking at one map of the impact site, and to the west of the Chelyabinsk Region where it hit there's a place called the Republic of Bashkortostan.

 

This has nothing to do with the meteorite, but my immediate first thought when reading that was, "Someone created a republic for the sole purpose of bashing Kurt?   That seems a little harsh, even for Russia."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:37 AM (4df7R)

229

"Chesapeake Bay is thought to be the work of a SMOD"

 

35 Million years too  early  if you  ask me.

Posted by: Jaws at February 15, 2013 08:37 AM (4I3Uo)

230 if it saves one life!!

Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 08:37 AM (Dnbau)

231 Weather Channel now referring to it as "Meteor Chachi."

Posted by: CNN at February 15, 2013 08:37 AM (Xf6HL)

232

184 >This is the point in the day where we'll argue about anything.

Aw the HAIL you say
Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:29 PM (8sCoq)

Harumph.

Posted by: alex at February 15, 2013 12:31 PM (4YlNx)

 

**points at OSP**  I didn't hear a harumph from that guy!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 08:37 AM (zF6Iw)

233 Smod does good work. Too bad we can't stick around long enough to see it's results.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (l86i3)

234 The AZ meteor hit out in the boonies. There is NOTHING out there. In fact, God help you if you get caught in the open during a thunderstorm. You WILL be a lightning rod.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (uhftQ)

235 233 if it saves one life!! Posted by: Thunderb at February 15, 2013 12:37 PM (Dnbau) We should ask the left: If abortion were outlawed, would it save lives? Explain.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (7xPCu)

236 Geology of the DC area points to a meteor strike.  The rock is riddled with fractures and there are abrupt changes in the physical geology.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (bfYGd)

237 >Then, they need to force the UN to place sanctions on Space and/or any interplanetary system supplying these meteors and their destructive nature.


Right. We've got to go after the manufacturers- the Oort Cloud and the Asteroid Belt

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (8sCoq)

238 Weather Channel now referring to it as "Meteor Chachi."

Posted by: CNN at February 15, 2013 12:37 PM (Xf6HL)

 

So it was searching for Joanie?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (4df7R)

239 **points at OSP** I didn't hear a harumph from that guy! Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 12:37 PM (zF6Iw) Hey, I'm the new kinder and gentler OSP. So get off my ass fuckstick.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:38 AM (l86i3)

240 31 So what're the odds all their bottles of vodka shattered, in addition to the windows? Expect riots. --- Not all the bottles... They have vodka over there which come in pouches with pull-tabs "because it is meant to be drunk in one sitting, like the imbiber."

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at February 15, 2013 08:39 AM (e0xKF)

241 Mayor Bloomberg introducing legislation to ban all meteors over 12 ounces...

---

Toonces is introducing a Comprehensive Meteor Fairness Package to ensure all smod's get the same shot at Earth.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 15, 2013 08:39 AM (ATdet)

242 Ellie Walker = Pharmacist

Helen Crump = Teacher

Thelma Lou = ??????


Discuss.....

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 15, 2013 08:39 AM (X6akg)

243 Right. We've got to go after the manufacturers- the Oort Cloud and the Asteroid Belt

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:38 PM (8sCoq)

 

*shakes fist at the sky*   DAMN YOU, OORT CLOUD!   DAMN YOUUUUUUU!!

 

KHAAAAAAAAAAN!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:39 AM (4df7R)

244 Something really really big hit Australia about 300 million years ago also. All the animals got put back together funny.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 15, 2013 08:39 AM (+paCV)

245 Geology of the DC area points to a meteor strike. The rock is riddled with fractures and there are abrupt changes in the physical geology.>>

Prehistoric Fracking?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 08:39 AM (81UWZ)

246 you'd think if this were our last day on earth at least the govt would have sent flowers.

Posted by: ette at February 15, 2013 08:40 AM (nqBYe)

247

Thundrb, the Chicxulub meteorite didn't cause "the ice age" but it probably caused an ice age.  In the 66 million years or so since, there have been several warm periods and cold periods, including the most recent ice age during the Pleistocene that ended about 15,000 years ago. 

tbird, Crater Lake is in Oregon and it's a volcano.  Other than that, you're correct, it is on the west in most LA to Seattle flights.

Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 08:40 AM (UaxA0)

248
There have been several ice ages between the times of the dinosaurs extinction and the present day.

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 12:36 PM (GULKT)


What happened to those ice ages?

Global warming!


Posted by: Aljazeera Gore at February 15, 2013 08:40 AM (mETGQ)

249 Joanie SMODs Chachi

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:40 AM (8sCoq)

250 Buzzsaw, yep.  A pre-emptive Fracking you could say.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:40 AM (bfYGd)

251 Anna, all her books were daw yellow jackets

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 08:41 AM (z6Elp)

252 Nobody has proven WHAT wiped out the dinosaurs, or what caused any of the previous mass extinctions.

***

Isn't arguing about what killed the dinosaurs while congress is still in session rather like Piers Morgan analizing conservative hate speech while Chris Dorner is on the lose?

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 08:41 AM (Hx5uv)

253 143 Seriously, Russia has two fucking meteor craters to America's zero..

-------------

Oh, no! We have a meteor crater gap!

Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 15, 2013 08:41 AM (1c58W)

254 Nobody has proven WHAT wiped out the dinosaurs, or what caused any of the previous mass extinctions..

WHAT DOES IT MATTER NOW???!!

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (wtvvX)

255 uh oh looks like Weather Channel getting read to name another snowstorm something cute

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (8sCoq)

256 59 O/T: I just walked by the hall TV and see TFG on CNN. The chiron reads something about him handing out the country's second-highest civilian decoration, "among 18 honorees include Sandy Hook victims."

WTF? I repeat, with emphasis, WTF? Have we got to the point now where being shot qualifies you for a presidential honor? Because if that's right, Skeeter better load up Air Force One's cargo bay with a shitload of those medals to dump over Chicago when he's flying out for his next swallow of Reggie's love juice.

WTF?




*crickets* from Preezy Skeet-Skeet over Chris Kyle

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (UOM48)

257 Jean, thanks for that clarification.  Was wondering if you had some other allusion.  Was afraid I might have to ask the Mri for a favor.... 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (bfYGd)

258 Hey, I'm the new kinder and gentler OSP. So get off my ass fuckstick.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 12:38 PM (l86i3)



I'm eating a buffalo chicken sub with jalapenos on it. Fuckin hell that hurts.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (da5Wo)

259 So is SMOD actually a Sea Slug?

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (obHYs)

260 There have been several ice ages between the times of the dinosaurs extinction and the present day.

***

And several Republican administrations.  I question the timing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 08:42 AM (Hx5uv)

261 258 uh oh looks like Weather Channel getting read to name another snowstorm something cute

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (8sCoq




The founder of the Weather Channel spins in his grave.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (UOM48)

262 225 it should have hit Detroit D.C. Then all of our problems would be gone. Posted by: Paladin at February 15, 2013 12:35 PM (4kpbt) Nope, TFG is in FL on vay cay cay, getting golf lessons or some shit.

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (UZQM8)

263 Oh, no! We have a meteor crater gap! Posted by: Assault Citizen Anachronda at February 15, 2013 12:41 PM (1c58W) Deficit, I think they like the word deficit.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (l86i3)

264 Widespread Palestinian rioting erupts in West Bank By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF02/15/2013 18:59 Hundreds of Palestinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers near Ofer security prison in support of hunger strikers. ??? Would have been a nice place for a meteor to hit ha?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (9Bj8R)

265 The lower Chesapeake bay is a meteor crater, look at how the rivers bend to it.

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (z6Elp)

266 I'm eating a buffalo chicken sub with jalapenos on it. Fuckin hell that hurts.

Posted by: BCochran1981

***

 

Exactly HOW are you eating it? Have you been watching SouthPark Again?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (uhftQ)

267 I'm eating a buffalo chicken sub with jalapenos on it. Fuckin hell that hurts. Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (da5Wo) I'm jealous...and now hungry.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:43 AM (7xPCu)

268 So is SMOD actually a Sea Slug?

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (obHYs)

 

SMOD Valentine:

 

I THREW MY

DETACHABLE

METEOROID DICK

AT YOU.

PLZ B MINE

 

(SMOD    doesn't really understand this Valentine thing).

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:44 AM (4df7R)

269 As Dr. Robert Bakker has said in 'The Dinosaur Heresies' what the Yucatan strike did was help hasten the end of the dinosaur era.  It was not a direct dino-kill.  Just helped them over the cliff to extinction.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:44 AM (bfYGd)

270 America does indeed have a large meteor crater, Arizona I think.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 08:44 AM (4qgle)

271 Wow, Russian pop music really sucks.

Posted by: Rexsky at February 15, 2013 08:44 AM (4136b)

272 Ellie Walker = Pharmacist

Helen Crump = Teacher

Thelma Lou = ??????


Discuss.....

***

Thelma Lou was a human being.  Not a human doing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 08:45 AM (Hx5uv)

273 Hundreds of Palestinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers near Ofer security prison in support of hunger strikers. ??? Would have been a nice place for a meteor to hit ha? Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 15, 2013 12:43 PM (9Bj8R) I like to think that the Israeli soldiers are sitting there with their high tech arsenal, pointing at the subhumans throwing rocks and bottles, and laughing.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:45 AM (7xPCu)

274 WHAT DOES IT MATTER NOW???!!

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (wtvvX)



Because GLOBAL WARMENING AND OIL.

Now, Kindly SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!!!


Posted by: Al Gorzeera at February 15, 2013 08:45 AM (xmcEQ)

275 I have chores to do my merry gang of ruffians. I promised myself a kickass greasy bar burger when I'm finished. I must go now so keep your head down and your eyes toward the sky. Love you guys.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 08:45 AM (l86i3)

276 Those are some pretty fucking stupid scientists to think that it was an extinct volcano

Meteor crater in AZ is obviously "fresh" when you stand on the rim and look at it.  Yea, I'm thinking the lack of volcanic ash and lava flows might have been a bit of a clue.

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 08:45 AM (1rU+d)

277 Nobody has proven WHAT wiped out the dinosaurs, or what caused any of the previous mass extinctions..

WHAT DOES IT MATTER NOW???!!


Because if a random chance caused them multiple times in the past, it'll probably happen again.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (SY2Kh)

278 *crickets* from Preezy Skeet-Skeet over Chris Kyle

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (UOM4

 

Grrr, don't remind me, Jane.  Cokehead cornball brother flies the flag at half-mast for Whitney Houston, ignores Kyle.  Rotten POS.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (zF6Iw)

279

??? Would have been a nice place for a meteor to hit ha?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 15, 2013 12:43 PM (9Bj8R)

 

Don't want it to hit TOO close to Israel.  Square in the middle of downtown Paki Shithole would ahve been good, though.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (4df7R)

280

 

SMOD was a flop.

 

 

Sigh...

Posted by: Meremortal, Indy since 2007 at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (jTKU5)

281 264 258 uh oh looks like Weather Channel getting read to name another snowstorm something cute Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (8sCoq Want people to take weather seriously, don't name it Snowstorm Suzy, Name it Snowstorm UberKill 5000 - Now with extra death and half the calories.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (obHYs)

282 Cya l8tr OSP.  If 2012 D14 misses.  If not, been a blast.  I should go back to writing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (bfYGd)

283 As Dr. Robert Bakker has said in 'The Dinosaur Heresies'

***

I once attended a lecture by Dr. Bakker on how to draw dinosaurs.  It was amazing.  He was very, very entertaining.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (Hx5uv)

284 Politico Ted Cruz comes out swinging CruzÂ’s sharp-elbowed Senate style underscores the dilemma facing Republicans as they seek a way out of the political wilderness They're on to us...

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (UZQM8)

285 I expect that we'll see footage of Putin kneeling before Zod by COB today.


Naaa....Putty-poot standing there defiantly lowering a still smoking shoulder fire SAM...."Got It!"

Posted by: Paladin at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (4kpbt)

286 My company has a plant that is in that area. People have asked me to borrow radiation dosimeters when they needed to visit that plant. The area is already radioactive because of atomic bomb tests done in the region. Well, the area's hot from atomic bomb tests only in the same sense that Hanford is hot from tests as well. Chelyabinsk is associated with Mayak, the former USSR's nuclear weapons facility from the early days of weapons production. In a number of ways, Mayak is analogous to our Hanford, with hints of Savannah River and Rocky Flats. And the place is highly contaminated in areas from those operations. In fact, the Kyshtym incident occurred right in that neck of the woods when a storage tank with a bunch of nitrates lost cooling, overheated and exploded.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at February 15, 2013 08:46 AM (PMGbu)

287 I thought Thelma Lou was a librarian. Either that or a young woman that Andy freed from a sex trafficking ring run by Arnold in an earlier episode.

Posted by: Daybrother at February 15, 2013 08:47 AM (+paCV)

288 What is infinitely cool to me is that we live in this tiny little solar system and revolving around the sun once is a big deal -- another year has passed. But think of a child's spinner with four blades. You blow on it and it revolves. We live in a spiral galaxy where we are a microscopic dot on the edge of one of four spirals. Continually revolving -- except it takes us 200,000,000 years to return to the same spot -- which is a 'cosmic' year. There probably is a gigantic black hole at the center of our galaxy which is part of the energy driving the movement. Now we may be returning to the same spot at the end of a cosmic year or we may actually have -- like an enormous game of musical chairs -- moved one seat closer to the black hole.

Posted by: Amateur Cosmologist [/i] at February 15, 2013 08:47 AM (feFL6)

289 I'm eating a buffalo chicken sub with jalapenos on it. Fuckin hell that hurts.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (da5Wo)

 

Sure, you think it hurts now. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 08:47 AM (zF6Iw)

290
281 *crickets* from Preezy Skeet-Skeet over Chris Kyle
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (UOM4


Grrr, don't remind me, Jane. Cokehead cornball brother flies the flag at half-mast for Whitney Houston, ignores Kyle. Rotten POS.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 12:46 PM (zF6Iw)



Pretty sure it Krispy Kreme that flew the flag at half mast.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 08:47 AM (da5Wo)

291 279 Those are some pretty fucking stupid scientists to think that it was an extinct volcano Meteor crater in AZ is obviously "fresh" when you stand on the rim and look at it. Yea, I'm thinking the lack of volcanic ash and lava flows might have been a bit of a clue. Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 12:45 PM (1rU+d) Not to mention that it's pool table flat all around until you get around Flagstaff

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:47 AM (7xPCu)

292 So, did Sam the Butcher ever get to bag Alice the Housekeeper?

Posted by: © Sponge at February 15, 2013 08:48 AM (xmcEQ)

293 Sandra Fluke has a large crater

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 08:48 AM (nTgAI)

294

Winter Storm BRAWNDO!

 

Heck, it's better than Persephone, or whatever the fuck these douches plan for the next one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 15, 2013 08:48 AM (K+mtQ)

295 TFG is in FL on vay cay cay, getting golf lessons or some shit.

Been rainy and cold in south FL for two days now.  Coincidence?  I think not.  God is not amused.

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 08:48 AM (1rU+d)

296 273 America does indeed have a large meteor crater, Arizona I think.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 12:44 PM (4qgle)


--Yes, I saw it from the plane once.  Really cool. 

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2013 08:48 AM (4pNjZ)

297

I'm eating a buffalo chicken sub with jalapenos on it. Fuckin hell that hurts.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (da5Wo)

 

Protestant heretic.

Posted by: buzzion at February 15, 2013 08:49 AM (GULKT)

298 Want people to take weather seriously, don't name it Snowstorm Suzy, Name it Snowstorm UberKill 5000 - Now with extra death and half the calories.

***

Or Storm From the Government That Is Here To Help.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 08:49 AM (Hx5uv)

299 273 America does indeed have a large meteor crater, Arizona I think.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 12:44 PM (4qgle




It's very cool.  We climbed to the rim when I was a little girl.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 08:49 AM (UOM48)

300 Universal preschool will save the children from meteor impacts.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 15, 2013 08:50 AM (GVULV)

301 > Wow, Russian pop music really sucks.

Posted by: Rexsky at February 15, 2013 12:44 PM (4136b)



Try This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTzOh3K11jM

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:50 AM (8sCoq)

302 Winter Storm BRAWNDO!

Heck, it's better than Persephone, or whatever the fuck these douches plan for the next one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 15, 2013 12:48 PM (K+mtQ)

 

I wish they'd give up this storm naming crap.   It's embarrassing.   Anyone who's lived in a storm-prone region just deals with it.   Giving the storms cutesy names is the equivalent of    giving someone an award for    not sucking at their job.   it makes a completely normal occurrence into something much bigger than it is.

 

And seriously - Winter Storm NEMO?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 08:50 AM (4df7R)

303 I live next door to a machine shop owned by a group of Russians. They're great people, but they blast some type of Russian Eminem-like rap music during the summer. It's kind of funny.

274 Wow, Russian pop music really sucks.

Posted by: Rexsky at February 15, 2013 12:44 PM (4136b)

Posted by: Pyrocles at February 15, 2013 08:50 AM (cv5Iw)

304 Meteor crater in AZ is obviously "fresh" when you stand on the rim and look at it. Yea, I'm thinking the lack of volcanic ash and lava flows might have been a bit of a clue.

Posted by: @PurpAv

***

 

I think a football stadium sunk into the ground like that would be cool.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:50 AM (uhftQ)

305

AN SPS-40 Air Search Radar... whom I've slept with....

 

1960's technology... 1/2 million watts radiated energy, 256 NM range... open the gate and I've double bouncedaircraft at a bit more than 700 NM with my 'War tune' channel (tuned to put out right about 3/4s of a million Watts..)... and thats through an Atmosphere...

 

Aegis systems, which I never worked on... unclassified power is 6 Mega Watts...

 

And that is just Seaborne Systems... not even the big stuff the Air Farce has from the Cold War... or anything we have in Space...

 

The sky is not that big, IMO....

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2013 08:51 AM (lZBBB)

306 301 Want people to take weather seriously, don't name it Snowstorm Suzy, Name it Snowstorm UberKill 5000 - Now with extra death and half the calories. *** Or Storm From the Government That Is Here To Help. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 12:49 PM (Hx5uv) Just don't eat the yellow snow.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:51 AM (7xPCu)

307 275 Ellie Walker = Pharmacist

Helen Crump = Teacher

Thelma Lou = ??????


Discuss.....

***
    Thelma Lou would be today's Julia.  A layabout being taken care of by the taxpayer.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at February 15, 2013 08:51 AM (YYyqq)

308 So, the Mayans were just a few months off.

Posted by: Zoltan at February 15, 2013 08:52 AM (LV+DE)

309 296 Sandra Fluke has a large crater Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 12:48 PM (nTgAI) HYOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Posted by: Ed McMahon for Ed McMahons Budweiser Ice Cream at February 15, 2013 08:52 AM (obHYs)

310 257
Nobody has proven WHAT wiped out the dinosaurs, or what caused any of the previous mass extinctions..

WHAT DOES IT MATTER NOW???!!

Posted by: Tex's Assaultin' Batteries at February 15, 2013 12:42 PM (wtvvX)

 

 

 

 

Interesting question. The dinosaurs were highly successful for 150 million years! Then *POOF* Gone like a fart in a hurricane. You don't think there are implecations for the puny (and just got here) race of man?

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:52 AM (OlN4e)

311 I think a football stadium sunk into the ground like that would be cool. Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 12:50 PM (uhftQ) The barbecue pit for the end of the world party.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:52 AM (7xPCu)

312 What happens between Chubbychix meteor and me stays between Chubbychix meteor and me.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 08:52 AM (Hx5uv)

313 Sandra Fluke has a large crater

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 12:48 PM (nTgAI)



Sandra Fluke can insert the entirety of The Bases Loaded Big Unit at Alice Cooperstown restaurant.

(Hint:  It's 22 inches long and served on a whole baguette fully loaded)

Posted by: © Sponge at February 15, 2013 08:52 AM (xmcEQ)

314 Just keep eating, folks.

Posted by: The Dinosaurs at February 15, 2013 08:53 AM (272s8)

315 299 273
America does indeed have a large meteor crater, Arizona I think.

******


Yep, east of Flagstaff. Definitely worth going to see.

Posted by: Stu-22 at February 15, 2013 08:53 AM (k4bdL)

316 Meteor crater in AZ is obviously "fresh" when you stand on the rim and look at it. Yea, I'm thinking the lack of volcanic ash and lava flows might have been a bit of a clue.
Posted by: @PurpAv
***

I think a football stadium sunk into the ground like that would be cool.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 12:50 PM (uhftQ)

 

Especially during the rainy season

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 08:53 AM (nTgAI)

317 304 > Wow, Russian pop music really sucks. Posted by: Rexsky at February 15, 2013 12:44 PM (4136b) Most of what Russia tries to do to emulate western culture sucks.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:53 AM (7xPCu)

318

Those of you expressing dismay over SMOD's supposed failure, have you not heard of the concept of an advance scouting party?

 

This was not the main invasion. 

Posted by: BurtTC at February 15, 2013 08:54 AM (TOk1P)

319 What's Megan McCain's twitter address?
I'm sure she has some trenchant analysis for us rubes.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 08:54 AM (Ipj15)

320 The barbecue pit for the end of the world party.

Posted by: model_1066

***

 

The BBQ would be the fans. Ouch.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:55 AM (uhftQ)

321 Most of what Russia tries to do to emulate western culture sucks.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 12:53 PM (7xPCu)

 

I emulate Russia.

Posted by: Obamao the Magnificent and Most Merciful at February 15, 2013 08:55 AM (YYyqq)

322 In Soviet Russia, rock throws you.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at February 15, 2013 08:55 AM (SY2Kh)

323 Or Storm From the Government That Is Here To Help. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 12:49 PM (Hx5uv) Calm down Orson Welles, we want to get people prepared not cause a mass panic.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 08:55 AM (obHYs)

324 A short video of the flaming crater is here: http://tinyurl.com/acf2ase

Posted by: MoJoTee at February 15, 2013 08:55 AM (e1kfW)

325 313 Interesting question. The dinosaurs were highly successful for 150 million years! Then *POOF* Gone like a fart in a hurricane. You don't think there are implecations for the puny (and just got here) race of man? Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 12:52 PM (OlN4e)[/1] We have 140 million years left? Cool!

Posted by: rickl at February 15, 2013 08:55 AM (zoehZ)

326 Ack!

Posted by: rickl at February 15, 2013 08:56 AM (zoehZ)

327 Especially during the rainy season

Posted by: The Jackhole

***

 

Az = Desert. We panic and run around hysterically when that wet stuff falls from the sky.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:56 AM (uhftQ)

328 I think a football stadium sunk into the ground like that would be cool. Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 12:50 PM (uhftQ) The Winter Classic. Phoenix vs Winnipeg in the Crater!

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 08:57 AM (obHYs)

329 If only we could aim one at Washington D.C.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 15, 2013 08:57 AM (f9c2L)

330 I'm just surprised that there have been no accusations that the meteor was of Jewish origin yet. But I'll give the usual suspects time to get their lunatic shit together....

Posted by: Stu-22 at February 15, 2013 08:57 AM (k4bdL)

331 (bumped)
From the streaking horizon videos and contrails it clearly looked like it was 1 piece, that then broke into 2 large pieces that flew side-by-side for a long time, so I expect we will find the second entry wound soon.

I think that "Zinc" factory might have collapsed due to poor construction+overloading by the companies industrial expansion and then the sonic over-pressure was too much and it simply broke. Maybe a football sized hypersonic-roid helped at best.

Posted by: MoJoTee at February 15, 2013 08:57 AM (e1kfW)

332 ...and boom goes the dynamite.

Posted by: wooga, stuck in 2005 at February 15, 2013 08:58 AM (7SwK/)

333 Jean, Cherryh just posted and commented on an article from Mother Jones.  On the differences between Democrat and Republican brains and perhaps they need each other.

Is that a SMOD-worthy event?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 08:58 AM (bfYGd)

334 MSNBC : Sarah Palin causes a meteor to hit Russia because she ran an add that featured crosshairs 

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 08:58 AM (nTgAI)

335 The Winter Classic. Phoenix vs Winnipeg in the Crater!

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla

***

 

We could fill it with water and hold naval battles.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 08:58 AM (uhftQ)

336 The hippies and the government treat Meteor Crater as some sort of rare and unique freak of nature that shouldn't be touched. Hey assholes, ever taken a look at the moon? These things are common and I hardly think that humans can or want to alter something that massive. But if it were my place, I'd have snipers stationed 24/7 ready to splatter any asshole tagging the rock with spray paint.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 08:59 AM (7xPCu)

337 Is being more Russian popmusik!

having the eye candi!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKl-Ng084U&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 08:59 AM (8sCoq)

338 333I'm just surprised that there have been no accusations that the meteor was of Jewish origin yet. But I'll give the usual suspects time to get their lunatic shit together....

Posted by: Stu-22 at February 15, 2013 12:57 PM (k4bdL)

 

 

 

 

Too bad it didn't land on Tehran. Then it would have most assuredly a jewish rock.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 08:59 AM (OlN4e)

339 If there's anything to the Broken Window theory, the Russian economy should be getting a hell of a stimulus sometime this afternoon. Glorious Glaziers Union!

Posted by: comatus at February 15, 2013 08:59 AM (qaVK+)

340 Anna, only if a talking horse says it for the Dims

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 09:00 AM (z6Elp)

341 I think a football stadium sunk into the ground like that would be cool. Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 12:50 PM (uhftQ) Oddly enough, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette has a stadium like that... not oddly enough, flooding can be an issue

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 09:00 AM (UZQM8)

342 We could fill it with water and hold naval battles. Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 12:58 PM (uhftQ) Combine the two, Coyotes vs Jets in a naval battle. Triremes or Dreadnoughts?

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 09:00 AM (obHYs)

343 I think that "Zinc" factory might have collapsed due to poor construction+overloading There's going to be a million insurance claims. "Hey, look what that asteroid did! Why, it looks like shoddy workmanship and years of disrepair hit me!"

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 09:01 AM (FcR7P)

344 and if a ten ton rock kills the both of us to die by your side well the pleasure the privilege is mine

Posted by: Morrissey at February 15, 2013 09:01 AM (KLzY3)

345 Meteor Shit!!

Posted by: Jordy Verrill at February 15, 2013 09:01 AM (fJoZd)

346 >>>Nobody has proven WHAT wiped out the dinosaurs, or what caused any of the previous mass extinctions.. Probably herpes.

Posted by: wooga at February 15, 2013 09:01 AM (7SwK/)

347

The dinosaurs were highly successful for 150 million years! Then *POOF* Gone like a fart in a hurricane


The dinosaurs were unable to compensate for climactic shifts by creating clothing or shelter.  Man will be around a long time, absent any global and 100% fatal disease, that is carried on the wind.  Even a huge meteor strike will simply send us back to the stone age.  That is not a death sentence for humanity.  Our civilization would be over, but the pre-glacial melt societies are all wiped out too.  Who knows how magnificent those were? 

There is no feasible means for wiping out all humans other than a malicious intelligence (be it machine or alien), or an impossibly virulent disease that can be transported on the air alone.

Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 09:01 AM (UaxA0)

348 Oddly enough, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette has a stadium like that... not oddly enough, flooding can be an issue

Posted by: cajun carrot

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Flooding? That's unheard of in LA.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:02 AM (uhftQ)

349 the Russian economy should be getting a hell of a stimulus sometime this afternoon. Glorious Glaziers Union! When the gov't replaces your window, make sure it's not a sheet of ice they gave you.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 09:02 AM (FcR7P)

350 Bistatic radar is the way to go, vice radiated power for entry objects. You need aperture, not power.

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 09:02 AM (z6Elp)

351 Triremes or Dreadnoughts?

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla

***

 

Why not do both?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:02 AM (uhftQ)

352 what does it mean????

Posted by: double meteor hippie at February 15, 2013 09:02 AM (KLzY3)

353 333 I'm just surprised that there have been no accusations that the meteor was of Jewish origin yet. But I'll give the usual suspects time to get their lunatic shit together.... Posted by: Stu-22 at February 15, 2013 12:57 PM (k4bdL) Proof! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAZhtT-dUyo

Posted by: Chuck Hagel at February 15, 2013 09:03 AM (obHYs)

354 Most of what Russia tries to do to emulate western culture sucks.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 12:53 PM (7xPCu)


Leningrad Cowboys are rather interesting.

Posted by: ette. at February 15, 2013 09:03 AM (nqBYe)

355 T minus 81 minutes to SMOD

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:03 AM (8sCoq)

356 Meteor Shit!! A thousand dollars for a broken meteor, Mr. Verrill? You must be joking!

Posted by: Professor up to the college at February 15, 2013 09:03 AM (PMGbu)

357 Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette has a stadium like that... not oddly enough, flooding can be an issue Flooding or... Regatta Season!

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 09:03 AM (FcR7P)

358 Triremes or Dreadnoughts?
Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla

Well, triremes are green energy.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 09:03 AM (Hx5uv)

359 >The dinosaurs were unable to compensate for climactic shifts by creating clothing or shelter.


No Home Depot or LLBean yet

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:04 AM (8sCoq)

360 357 T minus 81 minutes to SMOD

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 01:03 PM (8sCoq)


 Considering going to  In and Out burger..... Damn with this diet, if SMOD is coming...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at February 15, 2013 09:04 AM (9+ccr)

361

41 333I'm just surprised that there have been no accusations that the meteor was of Jewish origin yet.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 12:59 PM (OlN4e)

I've heard of icebergs, which are large blocks of Jewish ice. Would a Jewish meteor be a meteorstein?

Posted by: Guido at February 15, 2013 09:04 AM (XLuH2)

362 I can see Russian meteors from my porch on my laptop

Posted by: Torch at February 15, 2013 09:04 AM (eKSgT)

363 hey if it were a jewish meteor the muslims would have to get a new rock for mecca.

Posted by: double meteor hippie at February 15, 2013 09:04 AM (KLzY3)

364 Even a huge meteor strike will simply send us back to the stone age. That is not a death sentence for humanity.

The vaunted "reset button"

Posted by: @PurpAv at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (1rU+d)

365 Why not do both? Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 01:02 PM (uhftQ) Genius. After the lockout the NHL owes us this.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (obHYs)

366 296 Sandra Fluke has a large crater

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 12:48 PM (nTgAI)


I was thinking trench....Challenger Deepesque

Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (FIDMq)

367 362 >The dinosaurs were unable to compensate for climactic shifts by creating clothing or shelter. No Home Depot or LLBean yet Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 01:04 PM (8sCoq) Tiffany's didn't carry any brontosaurus parkas back then, either.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (7xPCu)

368 Flooding? That's unheard of in LA. Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 01:02 PM (uhftQ) I know, right?

Posted by: cajun carrot, Live from New Orleans at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (UZQM8)

369

Flood it, fill it with sharks.

Cover people in blood, have them fight while hanging from monkey bars.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (uhftQ)

370 I'm just surprised that there have been no accusations that the meteor was of Jewish origin yet.

***

I don't think Chuck Hagel has commented yet.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (Hx5uv)

371 Well, it's kind of Russian pop music..mixed with Finnish..and the Red Neck Anthem ( yes! The Leningrad Cowboys with the Soviet Red Army Choir) : http://xrl.us/9uv7

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 15, 2013 09:05 AM (53riN)

372 Triremes or Dreadnoughts? I'm for Triremes one week, Dreadnoughts the next week.

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 15, 2013 09:06 AM (tOkJB)

373 357 T minus 81 minutes to SMOD Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 01:03 PM (8sCoq) AtC must be all hot n bothered and in her best stompies for this occasion...

Posted by: cajun carrot, Live from New Orleans at February 15, 2013 09:06 AM (UZQM8)

374 Even a huge meteor strike will simply send us back to the stone age. That is not a death sentence for humanity.

***

More of an excuse why Obama's economic plan hasn't worked.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 09:06 AM (Hx5uv)

375 We should do this while AZ has a Hockey team...

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:07 AM (uhftQ)

376 I was thinking trench....Challenger Deepesque Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 01:05 PM (FIDMq) I'd name it Squidzilla Herpes Humongous

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 09:07 AM (7xPCu)

377 I came to realize today that I personally have more ammo than any of my local gun shops.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 09:07 AM (4qgle)

378 The extinction of the dinosaurs was COMPLETED by the meteor. There is evidence that some sort of virus or bacteria had been doing a number on them for quite a while before then.

BTW-Just found out that a microwave oven can be used to store electronics in the event of a CME or EMP. But then you won't have all the fun of building your own faraday cage. It is fun. Shut up.

Posted by: CozMark at February 15, 2013 09:07 AM (WAHqd)

379 The Leningrad Cowboys with the Soviet Red Army Choir) : http://xrl.us/9uv7 Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 15, 2013 01:05 PM (53riN) Top Comment mikeoforlando 2 months ago . . Apparently, The South won the Cold War. . . Reply · 43 That is a fucking thread winner...

Posted by: cajun carrot, Live from New Orleans at February 15, 2013 09:07 AM (UZQM8)

380 Triremes. Once you go tri...

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:08 AM (uhftQ)

381 There is no feasible means for wiping out all humans other than a malicious intelligence (be it machine or alien), or an impossibly virulent disease that can be transported on the air alone.

Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 01:01 PM (UaxA0)

 

 

 

I think arrogance is the most likely cause of man's extinction.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 09:08 AM (OlN4e)

382 The dinosaurs were unable to compensate for climactic shifts by creating clothing or shelter.


No Home Depot or LLBean yet

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 01:04 PM (8sCoq)


Texting wasn't happening.

Posted by: T. Rex at February 15, 2013 09:08 AM (mETGQ)

383

I'm eating a buffalo chicken sub with jalapenos on it. Fuckin hell that hurts.


And in twelve hours, it's gonna hurt all over again!

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at February 15, 2013 09:08 AM (KESFj)

384 Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 01:07 PM (4qgle) Got any 308 win you willing to part with? In a greedy, capitalists like manner of course...

Posted by: cajun carrot, Live from New Orleans at February 15, 2013 09:08 AM (UZQM8)

385 380, Milestone 3 on the road to Galts Gulch

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 09:09 AM (z6Elp)

386 369 296 Sandra Fluke has a large crater Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 12:48 PM (nTgAI) I was thinking trench....Challenger Deepesque Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 01:05 PM (FIDMq) Actually it's more like this http://tinyurl.com/cykoy43

Posted by: Georgetown University at February 15, 2013 09:09 AM (obHYs)

387 More of an excuse why Obama's economic plan hasn't worked. Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 01:06 PM (Hx5uv) You mean he has one......besides pilfering the treasury for his cronies?

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2013 09:09 AM (Sg0G/)

388 How do we know--it's not a big flying-- space squid?

Posted by: tasker at February 15, 2013 09:09 AM (r2PLg)

389

"Squidzilla"
Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 01:07 PM (7xPCu)

Oh I love that.

 

Posted by: Guido at February 15, 2013 09:09 AM (XLuH2)

390 I think arrogance is the most likely cause of man's extinction.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 01:08 PM (OlN4e)

I think your wrong.

Posted by: Hubris at February 15, 2013 09:10 AM (WAHqd)

391 So how many more minutes before the space herpes arrives?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:10 AM (bfYGd)

392

>>I'm just surprised that there have been no accusations that the meteor was of Jewish origin yet.

 

Hopefully the Israelis will "accidentally" "leak" a memo about the targeting failure...

Posted by: Mama AJ, Assault Poiser at February 15, 2013 09:10 AM (SUKHu)

393 Most of humanity are hot house flowers, unable to survive even the most trivial inconvenience.

3 days without an electrical grid and you will see most of us dying off like flies, starting with the elderly and infirm and the very young in incubators.

A month later? Difficult to contemplate.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 09:11 AM (4qgle)

394 SMOD's mother smells of elderberries.

Posted by: eleven at February 15, 2013 09:11 AM (fsLdt)

395 If the next meteor hits Iran... Hagel might have a mental meltdown.

Posted by: tasker at February 15, 2013 09:11 AM (r2PLg)

396 353 Bistatic radar is the way to go, vice radiated power for entry objects. You need aperture, not power.    

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 01:02 PM (z6Elp)

 

 

You actualy need both now days... theres so much background noise in the spectrum from all the various frequencies used hetrodyning and creating sidebands that useable range has decreased...

 

Had HUGE problems with that during Desert Storm... we had so many ships in the Gulf, radiating so much energy, that returns were getting lost in the ambient noise (major reason I slept in my Radar Room....).

 

Point is though.... its possible... but the question then becomes... 'IF' you know its coming, do you tell the populace?  Creating Panic? Do you tell your Emergency services folks (knowing that word will leak?)... or do you sit on the info, and hope the populace never finds out you knew?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2013 09:11 AM (lZBBB)

397 I came to realize today that I personally have more ammo than any of my local gun shops.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 01:07 PM (4qgle)

 

Same here and 5.56 and .223 are going for $1.00 a round... I may cash out some

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 09:12 AM (nTgAI)

398 392 "Squidzilla" Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 01:07 PM (7xPCu) Oh I love that. Posted by: Guido at February 15, 2013 01:09 PM (XLuH2) Yeah, it kind of rolls off the tongue. And very descriptive, too.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 09:12 AM (7xPCu)

399 The dinosaurs were unable to compensate for climactic shifts by creating clothing or shelter.


No Home Depot or LLBean yet


Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 01:04 PM (8sCoq)

FEMA wasn't there to tell them what to do.

Posted by: WalrusRex at February 15, 2013 09:12 AM (Hx5uv)

400 They can't win for losing: Carnival rescue bus breaks down while bringing passengers home http://is.gd/NWG2l7 "Thousands of passengers erupted into cheers Thursday night as the crippled triumph finally pulled up to the dock. As they stepped onto dry land, and into the arms of their loved ones some couldn't contain their excitement. Carnival then chartered a caravan of buses to transport folks out of Mobile, Ala. To add insult to injury, at least one of those buses became stranded on the way to New Orleans, reports CBS News correspondent Anna Werner."

Posted by: toby928© presents at February 15, 2013 09:12 AM (QupBk)

401 2:24PM ET

It'll be SMOD City

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:12 AM (8sCoq)

402 "Even a huge meteor strike will simply send us back to the stone age. That is not a death sentence for humanity."


Paul Krugman sees nothing wrong with this. Spending! Jobs!

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 15, 2013 09:13 AM (NzBQO)

403 Last scene in last video is ... not a fake but it has nothing to do with the meteor. It's a sinkhole that ran into a natural gas deposit and caught fire. It's been burning like that for decades.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at February 15, 2013 09:13 AM (mJkp9)

404 BREAKING NEWS - ANOTHER METEORITE HIT THE PLANET, THIS TIME IN CUBA, SOURCE RAINEWS24 Cuba, 15.02.2013 Residents of a locality 'in the central region of Cuba said they had seen an object that fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, which shook the houses of the place: it is learned from testimonies collected by local television. In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the province of Cienfuegos, witnesses described a very bright light that has come to have large size, comparable to that of a bus, before exploding in the sky. "Residents of a locality 'in the central region of Cuba said they had seen an object That fell from the sky and exploded with a great noise, Which shook the houses of the place: it is learned from Testimonies collected by local television. In a report released this morning by Rodas, town in the provinces of Cienfuegos, witnesses described on a very bright light That has come to have large size, comparable to That of a bus, before exploding in the sky. " ??????

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 09:13 AM (fWAjv)

405

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 01:11 PM (4qgle)

 

 

 

 

Exactly! Our civilization is as fragile as a flower. It sustains hundreds of millions on a razor edge of failure. A large solar storm would set us back 40 years in communication. We are here but make no mistake, we are just barely here.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (OlN4e)

406 All you assholes hoping DC (the city) gets vaporized today, can you also throw in a caveat that SMOD is delayed by a few hours, cause DC (the commenter) has a date tonight, and would prefer not to be, y'know, dead. kthx.

Posted by: DC in Towson, assault human at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (Ap7B4)

407 I think arrogance is the most likely cause of man's extinction. Non heirloom seeds. Having to get seed stock from one company only.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (GFM2b)

408

2:24PM ET

It'll be SMOD City

 

SMOD is a pussy.  Word is it has lil weener too.

Posted by: eleven at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (fsLdt)

409 Flying death squid = Cthulhu

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (8sCoq)

410 3 days without an electrical grid and you will see most of us dying off like flies, starting with the elderly and infirm and the very young in incubators. A month later? Difficult to contemplate. Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 01:11 PM (4qgle) They should've called Vault-Tec

Posted by: cajun carrot, who's getting another major case of Fallout: NV at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (UZQM8)

411 Point is though.... its possible... but the question then becomes... 'IF' you know its coming, do you tell the populace? Creating Panic? Do you tell your Emergency services folks (knowing that word will leak?)... or do you sit on the info, and hope the populace never finds out you knew? Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2013 01:11 PM (lZBBB) ____________________ Good question. I know a lot of people hated when Tom Ridge did the color coded terror alert system. The Democrats went all paternalistic and said essentially that the public couldn't handle the truth. I always thought they had a right to know. Now a meteor...that does get somewhat different.

Posted by: tasker at February 15, 2013 09:14 AM (r2PLg)

412 378 We should do this while AZ has a Hockey team... Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 01:07 PM (uhftQ) Hopefully the Yotes stay in Phoenix, their attendance looks better from the few games I've seen on center ice.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (obHYs)

413 Triremes. Once you go tri...

Posted by: Tilikum the


You're screwed three ways?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (Ipj15)

414 Da Comrade Arthur, the Door to Hell.  A sinkhole that swallowed a whole drilling rig.  To prevent any poisonous gas from escaping they ignite the gas and it has been burning for 35 years.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (bfYGd)

415 But then you won't have all the fun of building your own faraday cage.>>

I'm saving up to build a 60' x 40' one. The General sells them.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (81UWZ)

416

I think SMODÂ’s actually a moron:  It took one look at Earf and said “Yeah, IÂ’d hit it.”

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (g+Cz1)

417

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 01:13 PM (fWAjv)


SMOD scouts?

Posted by: YIKES! at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (mETGQ)

418 267 Widespread Palestinian rioting erupts in West Bank By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF02/15/2013 18:59

Hundreds of Palestinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers near Ofer security prison in support of hunger strikers.

??? Would have been a nice place for a meteor to hit ha? Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 15, 2013 12:43 PM

Could you imagine how the muzzies would be going apeshit had these meteors flown over a Middle East country?

JOOOOOO METEORS !!!!

Posted by: kbdabear at February 15, 2013 09:15 AM (mCvL4)

419 Most of humanity are hot house flowers, unable to survive even the most trivial inconvenience.

3 days without an electrical grid and you will see most of us dying off like flies, starting with the elderly and infirm and the very young in incubators.

A month later? Difficult to contemplate.

Posted by: navybrat at February 15, 2013 01:11 PM (4qgle)

 

On second thought  I think I will hang on too that ammo

Posted by: The Jackhole at February 15, 2013 09:16 AM (nTgAI)

420

Last scene in last video is ... not a fake but it has nothing to do with the meteor. It's a sinkhole that ran into a natural gas deposit and caught fire. It's been burning like that for decades.

 

SMOD needs a little "help" IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: eleven at February 15, 2013 09:16 AM (fsLdt)

421 For anyone there who had knowledge of DA-14, and it's projected path today, they must surely have thought it was the end of life as they knew it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 09:16 AM (piMMO)

422 Seems to be a lull.....time to turn your keyboard over and shake it out.



How many different snack food crumbs can you identify?

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 15, 2013 09:16 AM (X6akg)

423 Are the meteors circumcised?

Posted by: Chuck Hagel at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (r2PLg)

424 398 If the next meteor hits Iran... Posted by: tasker at February 15, 2013 01:11 PM (r2PLg) The resulting fatwas would make me lol...

Posted by: cajun carrot, who's getting another major case of Fallout: NV at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (UZQM8)

425 Just remember the solar storm that tripped breakers in Canada.  Knocked the lights out in New York City.  Our power grid is very fragile.  If you add a solar event that can act like an EMP.  Decades until full recovery.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (bfYGd)

426 From the previous thread, the Barone article was interesting although it does not bode well for us in the future unless we pick off one of the ethnic groups. What, short of amnesty, will bring the Hispanics back?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (piMMO)

427 I said SMART people.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 12:12 PM (l86i3)



Well, there might be some X-rays generated by electrical discharges when the meteor interacted with the atmosphere at very high velocity. As far as I know, no recovered meteorites have contained any appreciable amount of radioactive minerals. Traces, sure, just as do most earthly rocks, but no concentrations of uranium or thorium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (673KB)

428 Holeeeee fuck.  I did not know this.

Per Fox, the only way we know about SMOD is a dentist in Spain spotted it on his telescope.

The NASA Muslim outreach program is really paying off, isn't it?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (UOM48)

429 OH GREAT


Today's SMOD was first discovered by a Spanish dentist

WTG NASA

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:17 AM (8sCoq)

430 Triremes. Once you go tri...

Posted by: Tilikum the

You're screwed three ways?

Posted by: weft cut-loop

***

 

Don't knock it til you tried it.

Oh, you're a Republican...then you have tried it.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:18 AM (uhftQ)

431 "Exactly! Our civilization is as fragile as a flower. It sustains hundreds of millions on a razor edge of failure. A large solar storm would set us back 40 years in communication. We are here but make no mistake, we are just barely here." Actually, I think a decent Carrington event would clear out decades of legacy crap.

Posted by: Jean at February 15, 2013 09:18 AM (AP6/F)

432 How many different snack food crumbs can you identify?

Posted by: Tami at February 15, 2013 01:16 PM (X6akg)

 

<_<

 

>_>

 

You know what's sad?   I do this all the time.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 09:18 AM (4df7R)

433
Yeah, it kind of rolls off the tongue. And very descriptive, too.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 01:12 PM (7xPCu)

Oh definitely. I've toyed with the sock SQGUIDO but I'm not feelin it. lol You nailed it and I here it's real. if you haven't seen this. It's full of 'factual' info.

http://tinyurl.com/27da869

Posted by: Guido at February 15, 2013 09:18 AM (XLuH2)

434 NDH, they have crunched 2012DA 14's orbit.  It's orbit intersects Earth's orbit at least twice a year.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:18 AM (bfYGd)

435 Hopefully the Yotes stay in Phoenix, their attendance looks better from the few games I've seen on center ice.

Posted by: Ed Wood VS Godzilla

***

 

We shall see. They still are losing money.

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at February 15, 2013 09:19 AM (uhftQ)

436 431 Holeeeee fuck. I did not know this. Per Fox, the only way we know about SMOD is a dentist in Spain spotted it on his telescope. The NASA Muslim outreach program is really paying off, isn't it? Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 01:17 PM (UOM4 Wait, there's a dentist in Spain?

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 09:19 AM (7xPCu)

437 I like that, when something unexpected happens, the Russians do not scream "Oh my gawd!" 25 times in a row.

Posted by: El Gordo at February 15, 2013 09:19 AM (gnHpW)

438 Actually, Amateur observers find many of the undetected space rocks.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 09:19 AM (OlN4e)

439 I wonder how many satellites are gonna get the ban hammer today.

Posted by: cajun carrot at February 15, 2013 09:19 AM (UZQM8)

440 Wait, there's a dentist in Spain?

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 01:19 PM (7xPCu)

 

I can believe that.  Now, if they'd said England, I'd have to call BS.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (DrWcr)

441 430 From the previous thread, the Barone article was interesting although it does not bode well for us in the future unless we pick off one of the ethnic groups.

What, short of amnesty, will bring the Hispanics back?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 01:17 PM (piMMO)


--Amnesty won't bring the Hispanics either.  Stopping more Mexicans from settling in the country will help.

Posted by: logprof at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (4pNjZ)

442 Wait, there's a dentist in Spain?

 

 

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 01:19 PM (7xPCu)

 

 

Spain.... not England.... geeezzzzz

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (lZBBB)

443 Are the meteors circumcised?

Posted by: Chuck Hagel at February 15, 2013 01:17 PM (r2PLg)


No pork products so it's kosher or in your case halal.

Posted by: YIKES! at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (mETGQ)

444 Its even an amateur sky watcher who finds the killer rock in the movie Deep Impact.  Also in the novel Lucifer's Hammer.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (bfYGd)

445

I wonder how many satellites are gonna get the ban hammer today.

 

I don't think SMOD has what it takes.

Posted by: eleven at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (fsLdt)

446 Damnit this thread fired of-- The Cars Hearbeat City in my head. Off to go find it.

Posted by: tasker at February 15, 2013 09:20 AM (r2PLg)

447 off--mother of gaia

Posted by: tasker at February 15, 2013 09:21 AM (r2PLg)

448 This is how to fish http://is.gd/kYIxrZ

Posted by: toby928© presents at February 15, 2013 09:21 AM (QupBk)

449 >I likethat, when something unexpected happens, the Russians do not scream "Oh my gawd!" 25 times in a row.

Posted by: El Gordo at February 15, 2013 01:19 PM (gnHpW)


Yeah can you imagine Triple Rainbow Guy?

"What does this mean??!?"

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:21 AM (8sCoq)

450 All you assholes hoping DC (the city) gets vaporized today, can you also throw in a caveat that SMOD is delayed by a few hours, cause DC (the commenter) has a date tonight, and would prefer not to be, y'know, dead. *** Anyone hoping DC gets taken out is, I presume, hoping for Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania to get taken out as well because it would do one hell of a number on a great swath of the east coast. Then again, it would solve our electoral vote problems. *wink wink* Have a great date, DC.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 09:21 AM (piMMO)

451 I must say, if I saw that in the air, I would assume we're being nuked. Back from seeing my father. He's doing fine. How can I tell? Within five minutes he was on my every last never. Hurray! Things are back to normal! *sucks down cherry slush from Sonic like a fucking grown up*

Posted by: alexthechick - Chaotic Evil Hobbit. at February 15, 2013 09:21 AM (VtjlW)

452 447 Its even an amateur sky watcher who finds the killer rock in the movie Deep Impact. Also in the novel Lucifer's Hammer. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 01:20 PM (bfYGd) Armageddon as well.

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 09:22 AM (fWAjv)

453 441 Actually, Amateur observers find many of the undetected space rocks.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 01:19 PM (OlN4e)


Yep, not to be captain obvious...but space is f'n huge...the sandra fluke event horizon is but a speck

Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 09:22 AM (FIDMq)

454 Well glad he is feeling better AlextheChick.  Got an intersting event today.  Will SMOD wipe us out before or after UPS delivers new shoes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:22 AM (bfYGd)

455 You know what's sad? I do this all the time.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 15, 2013 01:18 PM (4df7R)



Me too. 

Posted by: Tami[/i] at February 15, 2013 09:23 AM (X6akg)

456 Yep, not to be captain obvious...but space is f'n huge...the sandra fluke event horizon is but a speck

Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 01:22 PM (FIDMq)



So it's not a super massive black hole.

Posted by: YIKES! at February 15, 2013 09:23 AM (mETGQ)

457 AtC, glad to hear your dad is doing better.

Re the Russian driving toward SMODlet, I'd have made a high-speed u-turn and driven like a bat our of hell the opposite direction.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 09:23 AM (UOM48)

458 --Amnesty won't bring the Hispanics either. Stopping more Mexicans from settling in the country will help. *** It's looking more and more like a successful white guy, absent any felonies on his record or baby-mamas to support will never again win office.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 09:23 AM (piMMO)

459 So we're paying NASA jillions of dollars, and it's backyard astronomers finding the SMODs?


I want my money back

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:24 AM (8sCoq)

460 Anyone hoping DC gets taken out is, I presume, hoping for Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 01:21 PM (piMMO) Screw it. I'll take one for the team.

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 09:24 AM (fWAjv)

461

Just woke up.  Cleaned the kitchen, now having coffee.

 

Are we all gonna die?  No?  Shit.

Posted by: Soona at February 15, 2013 09:24 AM (QoPcj)

462 462 So we're paying NASA jillions of dollars, and it's backyard astronomers finding the SMODs?


I want my money back




Now, now.  We're building Muzzies' self-esteem, so there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 09:25 AM (UOM48)

463 Just woke up. Cleaned the kitchen, now having coffee.

Are we all gonna die? No? Shit.

Posted by: Soona at February 15, 2013 01:24 PM (QoPcj)

 

Look at the bright side.  You'd be pretty pissed if you wasted time cleaning your kitchen just to get annihilated by a meteor.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 15, 2013 09:26 AM (DrWcr)

464 I'm putting off cleaning the bathrooms until after 2:24. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 09:26 AM (UOM48)

465 Now, now. We're building Muzzies' self-esteem, so there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 01:25 PM (UOM4

 

We want them to feel good about themselves when they detonate their bomb vests.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 15, 2013 09:27 AM (DrWcr)

466 Great. John F'kn Kerry threatening to cut aid to Israel related to sequestration.  Over at Drudge.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2013 09:27 AM (O/fK8)

467 Well, it's kind of Russian pop music..mixed with Finnish..and the Red Neck Anthem ( yes! The Leningrad Cowboys with the Soviet Red Army Choir) :

http://xrl.us/9uv7

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at February 15, 2013 01:05 PM (53riN)

 

Oh, my sweet hammer and sickle, that's good.  Can I say I got a little misty-eyed imagining  Ronaldus Maximus rocking out to that?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 15, 2013 09:27 AM (zF6Iw)

468 Black holes. Besides being a racist term, I am aggrivated when I hear cosmologists refer to the "singularity", which they say has radius of exactly zero, and a term which they also use to describe black holes, which may have radius of up to several miles. That does not compute.

Posted by: maddogg at February 15, 2013 09:27 AM (OlN4e)

469 @PurpAv: Meteor crater in AZ is obviously "fresh" when you stand on the rim and look at it. Yea, I'm thinking the lack of volcanic ash and lava flows might have been a bit of a clue.


They were still arguing about how old the earth was back then. Physicists at the time thought that the Earth could not be more than 17,000 years old because a ball of carbon and oxygen the size of the Sun could not keep burning longer than that and produce the amount of light and heat that it does.

( to be fair, Lord Kelvin retracted his famous mis-statement when he was shown the numbers for newly discovered nuclear fission )

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:28 AM (wYVte)

470 468 Now, now. We're building Muzzies' self-esteem, so there's that. Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 01:25 PM (UOM4 We want them to feel good about themselves when they detonate their bomb vests. Posted by: Insomniac at February 15, 2013 01:27 PM (DrWcr) And that semtex ain't exactly free, you know.

Posted by: model_1066 at February 15, 2013 09:28 AM (7xPCu)

471 So far the military is saying that radiation levels are normal. But this is Russia, so take that with a grain of salt, followed by a shot of tequila and some lime.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 15, 2013 12:21 PM (4df7R)



I think the biggest risk at the moment would be getting trampled by other souvenir-hunters scrambling to grab a piece of the SMODlet. Soon to be found on eBay!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 09:28 AM (673KB)

472 Great. John F'kn Kerry threatening to cut aid toIsrael related to sequestration. Over at Drudge.

Posted by: Infidel at February 15, 2013 01:27 PM (O/fK

 

Impossible!  Teh Joooos run the State Department!

Posted by: Chuck Hagel at February 15, 2013 09:28 AM (DrWcr)

473 So we're paying NASA jillions of dollars, and it's backyard astronomers finding the SMODs? If I may quote me: my main mission is "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science" What the fuck do we care about stuff in space?

Posted by: Charles Bolden at February 15, 2013 09:28 AM (FcR7P)

474 If all we're gonna get is midget SMODs, one needs to plink the San Andreas.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at February 15, 2013 09:28 AM (i7B17)

475 So we're paying NASA jillions of dollars, and it's backyard astronomers finding the SMODs?


I want my money back



On the plus side, muslim self-esteem is up 8% this year.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at February 15, 2013 09:29 AM (8ZskC)

476 Since they had no clue about age of the earth, they had no explanation for any geologic mechanisms.

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:29 AM (wYVte)

477

Is it wrong that this story kind of warms the cockles of my cold heart?

 

ValentineÂ’s Day Bloodbath: WaPo Lays Off Workers in Hush-Hush Manner

Media Bistro:  http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/washington-post-layoffs-valentines-day_b96626

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 09:29 AM (4df7R)

478
SMOD scouts?

Advance SMODlings, probing the earth's virginal tender spots, so that SMOD will know just where to 'Hit It'.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at February 15, 2013 09:29 AM (KESFj)

479 I heard on one of the alphabet channel newscasts that the Asteroid is going to pass through earths atmosphere. Great fact checking boys.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 09:29 AM (81UWZ)

480 NASA is supposed to live stream the SMOD flyby

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:30 AM (8sCoq)

481 ValentineÂ’s Day Bloodbath: WaPo Lays Off Workers in Hush-Hush Manner
Media Bistro: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/washington-post-layoffs-valentines-day_b96626

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at February 15, 2013 01:29 PM (4df7R




Wonder if Suzi Parker got the axe? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 09:30 AM (UOM48)

482 I'm putting off cleaning the bathrooms until after 2:24.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 01:26 PM (UOM4

 

 

------------------------------------------------

 

 

Heh.  I'm going to put off cleaning the floors until tomorrow, just in case there's some  wayward rocks following the big one.

Posted by: Soona at February 15, 2013 09:30 AM (QoPcj)

483 If all we're gonna get is midget SMODs, one needs to plink the San Andreas.

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at February 15, 2013 01:28 PM (i7B17)

 

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.

Posted by: Insomniac at February 15, 2013 09:30 AM (DrWcr)

484

I think the biggest risk at the moment would be getting trampled by other souvenir-hunters scrambling to grab a piece of the SMODlet. Soon to be found on eBay!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 01:28 PM (673KB)

 

Ah, you're not thinking like an entrepreneur.   Any    Russkie worth his or her salt will simply go into the backyard, dig up some rocks, chip them up and maybe scorch them with a blowtorch to look like they'd been fired through the atmosphere, and sell THOSE as    pieces of SMODlet.   

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (4df7R)

485 http://tinyurl.com/b6k8qe6

[One student] said the fights were over pride. ‘I know it’s a pride thing between Muslims and black people,’ she said. ‘They want their pride back for something. I don’t know.’ She also said ‘boys were hitting girls’ and that some people were lying on the floor, with their hands over their heads, in surrender.…

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (bGlsD)

486 Is it wrong that this story kind of warms the cockles of my cold heart? ValentineÂ’s Day Bloodbath: WaPo Lays Off Workers in Hush-Hush Manner Media Bistro: http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/washington-post-layoffs-valentines-day_b96626 *** I hate to imagine anyone losing their job but, if it helps to bring about the end of one of the stalwarts of leftist propaganda, then bring it on.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (piMMO)

487 JPL link


watch the destruction live

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/asteroidflyby.html

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (8sCoq)

488 Amateur astronomers' find doubles number of possible Earth-like planets Amateur Astronomers Find Planet in Four-Star System Amateur astronomers find 42 new planets - including a world that could hold life ------ NASA chief says agency's goal is Muslim outreach, forgets to mention space

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (fWAjv)

489 I suggest getting an early start on the post apocalyptic looting, rioting, and rapine.

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (wYVte)

490 AtC, aren't parents fun???!!!?!?!??





451 This is how to fish http://is.gd/kYIxrZ

Posted by: toby928© presents at February 15, 2013 01:21 PM (QupBk)




No, this is how you fish.



http://tinyurl.com/b6nokdq


Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 09:31 AM (da5Wo)

491 I heard on one of the alphabet channel newscasts that the Asteroid is going to pass through earths atmosphere. Great fact checking boys.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 01:29 PM (81UWZ)

 

Oh for    the love...

 

Tell me you're joking.   Please.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 09:32 AM (4df7R)

492 Imagine the fun some moron with a few flash bang grenades or a shit load of cherry bombs could have in certain urban areas at 2:24.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 15, 2013 09:32 AM (UOM48)

493 FNC reported earlier today that it's nearest point to Earth will be Indonesia.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at February 15, 2013 09:33 AM (piMMO)

494 Jane D'Oh put them on a timer for detonation.  The panic shooting afterwards...  well bullet storm springs to mind.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:33 AM (bfYGd)

495 I think the biggest risk at the moment would be getting trampled by other souvenir-hunters scrambling to grab a piece of the SMODlet. Soon to be found on eBay! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 01:28 PM (673KB) Hey! I found some in my back yard!

Posted by: BignJames at February 15, 2013 09:33 AM (Sg0G/)

496
I heard on one of the alphabet channel newscasts that the Asteroid is going to pass through earths atmosphere. Great fact checking boys.

I still remember the graphic CNN had up when Columbia was lost.....they said it was traveling at 15 X the speed of light.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at February 15, 2013 09:33 AM (KESFj)

497 NDH, Indonesia?  Now that would be funneh. TFG's childhood home wiped out by SMODlet.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:34 AM (bfYGd)

498 Nood post about Nazi   PeloKKKi.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/u][/b] at February 15, 2013 09:34 AM (4df7R)

499 Sticky Wicket: An object the size of Columbia hitting the Earth at 15x the speed of light would crack the planet open like a melon hit by a .38.

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:34 AM (wYVte)

500 Gyah Pelosi.  She would suck the life out of an asteroid.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:35 AM (bfYGd)

501

Watch it live!

http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2



PS - Talking about a devastating EMP or solar storm, it is true that it would cause inconvenience, but it's not like the people living in the Solomon Islands or the jungles of Borneo are going to care much, or change their lifestyles one whit.

Humanity will endure.

Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 09:36 AM (UaxA0)

502 From NASA, on this morning's smodski

SMOD entered atmosphere at 18km/sec
energy released estimated to be 'hundreds of kilotons'
size approx 15m
mass 7k tons
fireball brighter than the sun

Posted by: Jones in CO at February 15, 2013 09:36 AM (8sCoq)

503 Anna puma: Not their fault. Obama's ditzy hippy chick mom divorced and ran back home to her commie parents when Mr. Sotero became a well to do oil executive.

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:36 AM (wYVte)

504 Ancient aliens! Traveling through time! Inside meteors!

Posted by: Ancient Aliens, on the "History" Channel at February 15, 2013 09:37 AM (k4bdL)

505 Humanity will endure. Posted by: imp at February 15, 2013 01:36 PM (UaxA0) Not if I get my way.

Posted by: Cass Sunstein at February 15, 2013 09:37 AM (Sg0G/)

506 UN just outlawed meteors over 20kg. Most countries are expected to regulate smaller ones. Now who says politicians can't get things done in a hurry?

Posted by: Xavier at February 15, 2013 09:37 AM (gkfvW)

507 Crater Lake, CA. You fly to the west of it when going up to Seattle or Portland.

Posted by: t-bird at February 15, 2013 12:32 PM (FcR7P)


That one is of volcanic origin. Mt.Mazama blew her top, and scattered ash for hundreds of miles. A bigger blast than St. Helens.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 09:38 AM (673KB)

508 Xavier: The BATFE will be out in force to arrest the next one that hits us.

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:38 AM (wYVte)

509 Kristophr, not saying take out all of the Dutch East Indies.  They have had enough misery with Tambora and Krakatoa.  Just a precise smiting.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:39 AM (bfYGd)

510 I still remember the graphic CNN had up when Columbia was lost.....they said it was traveling at 15 X the speed of light. Posted by: Sticky Wicket at February 15, 2013 01:33 PM (KESFj) That's just silly. According to CNN it was going 18x the speed of light.

Posted by: RWC at February 15, 2013 09:39 AM (fWAjv)

511 Tell me you're joking. Please.>>

It was on in the background so I wasn't paying full attention but it sure sounded like that's what they said.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 15, 2013 09:40 AM (81UWZ)

512 That one is of volcanic origin. Mt.Mazama

It's in fucking Oregon, dammit. Ignorant caltards spew bad info. The also invaded Oregon and are still spewing bad votes.

This is what happens when you let excessive libertarianism dissuade you from doing the right thing: throwing caltard immigrants into giant scorpion pits.

Posted by: Kristophr at February 15, 2013 09:41 AM (wYVte)

513 Model_1066, well in hindsight. But at the time. Music of the Spheres, the cosmos is orderly. Comets have been explained by Newton also. So a meteor impact was outside their box.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 12:32 PM (bfYGd)


And there are well-recognized extinct volcanos in Arizona near Flagstaff, so the general idea would not be ridiculous.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 09:41 AM (673KB)

514 Chariots of the God's Childes. They taught the Incas everything they know.

Posted by: Palmer at February 15, 2013 09:41 AM (obHYs)

515 If you want to get some brain melting information regarding solar system/galaxy distances..Ive watched a few clips on youtube by khan academy. 

Posted by: Red Shirt at February 15, 2013 09:43 AM (FIDMq)

516

SMOD Song. Just change two words.

http://tinyurl.com/2dlsh9f

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at February 15, 2013 09:44 AM (i7B17)

517 Looks like that JPL livestream chat server has crashed.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 09:46 AM (bfYGd)

518 520 Looks like that JPL livestream chat server has crashed.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 01:46 PM

Must be Raj Koothrapali Skypeing with his parents in India again

Posted by: kbdabear at February 15, 2013 09:52 AM (mCvL4)

519 Looked at live NASA... That sucker is moving fast...SMOD that is...

Posted by: Hello, it's me Donna let it burn really.really bummed at February 15, 2013 09:54 AM (9+ccr)

520 Megyn Kelly on now tracking SMOD

Posted by: kbdabear at February 15, 2013 10:02 AM (mCvL4)

521 No, this is how you fish.

http://tinyurl.com/b6nokdq

Posted by: BCochran1981 at February 15, 2013 01:31 PM (da5Wo)


Well, I got to say, there ain't nothing shabby about her bait.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 15, 2013 10:03 AM (673KB)

522 http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

They have gone to live coverage with commentary.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 10:03 AM (bfYGd)

523

One 94-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War was seen running through the streets of whatever town this happened near, his pants obviously soiled, screaming "ÍÅÌÖÛ ÈÄÓÒ!!!!!!!!!!!! ÍÅÌÖÛ ÈÄÓÒ!!!!!!!!!!!!"  ("THE GERMANS ARE COMING, THE GERMANS ARE COMING!!!!!!!" 

He then collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack.  This being Russia, his body was soon covered in pidgeon shit, and nobody came to remove it for a proper burial.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 15, 2013 10:04 AM (03IDC)

524 They think the Russian meteor was only 15m in size.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 10:06 AM (bfYGd)

525 They can see DA-14 in Australia using binoculars.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 10:10 AM (bfYGd)

526 526 Sharkman,


We call it a national hysteria, they call it "Friday" comrade.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 15, 2013 10:11 AM (LRFds)

527 Casualties are now at ~1200 if I heard correctly....

Yeah thank God Barry is at the helm...

we're ready for smod eh?

Posted by: sven10077 at February 15, 2013 10:12 AM (LRFds)

528 http://eyes.nasa.gov/

What they use to create their solar system sims.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 10:13 AM (bfYGd)

529 Could you imagine how the muzzies would be going apeshit had these meteors flown over a Middle East country? JOOOOOO METEORS !!!! Posted by: kbdabear at February 15, 2013 01:15 PM (mCvL4) Or some asshole goat fucker would be at the right place at the right time, a crowd would claim he came from the crater and a new muhammed would be born

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on KINDLE finally at February 15, 2013 10:20 AM (l86i3)

530 2012DA-14 orbit is 366 days.  After this close encounter its orbit will shrink to 317 days.  Possible close pass in 2046 and possible impact in 2080.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 10:24 AM (bfYGd)

531 It is going to pass over the North Pole.  Closest approach has happened.  So looks like we survived.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at February 15, 2013 10:25 AM (bfYGd)

532 Bye, SMOD!

Posted by: rickl at February 15, 2013 10:27 AM (zoehZ)

533 534 Ms Puma,


Curses foiled again Comrade!

//SMOD Fan

Posted by: sven10077 at February 15, 2013 10:30 AM (LRFds)

534


We call it a national hysteria, they call it "Friday" comrade.

Posted by: sven10077 at February 15, 2013 02:11 PM (LRFds)

 

Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 15, 2013 10:33 AM (03IDC)

535 http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html NASA news conference supposed to be streaming at 4pm eastern.

Posted by: Synova at February 15, 2013 11:30 AM (7/PU+)

536 Chariots of the God's Childes. They taught the Incas everything they know. Can it, Palmer.

Posted by: MacCready at February 15, 2013 01:21 PM (PMGbu)

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