[News] Big meteor hits Ural mountains in Russia

[bhamv3]

My favorite thing about all of this is that there are now Russian Truthers who claim it wasn't a meteor but rather a missile from the US. They think we're trying to start the cold war all over again.

So, the US hits them with a meteor, wiping out a city, and that gives them an excuse to go to war?

I think I saw a movie with this plot once.

 

[figmentPez]

 

[Tress]

Like a boss.

 

[Frank]

In Soviet Russia, fucks don't give a single you.

 

[PatrThom]

Aaand we have an update:
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-chelyabinsk-meteorite-01526.html

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

Aaand we have an update:
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-chelyabinsk-meteorite-01526.html

--Patrick

Bullshit. The universe is only about 6,000 years old.

 

[blotsfan]

Someone needs to tell those Europeans that a comma is not the same as a decimal point.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Someone needs to tell those Europeans that a comma is not the same as a decimal point.

They appear to be using it as a comma and not as a decimal. 4,452 million years old is the same as 4.452 billion years old.

 

[blotsfan]

Ah. I missed that part about the solar system, and figured 4 billion years was too much to be reasonable. Guess not.

 

[Dave]

Ah. I missed that part about the solar system, and figured 4 billion years was too much to be reasonable. Guess not.

Remember, our whole universe was in a hot, dense state but nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started...

 

[Ravenpoe]

I would assume (though perhaps not correctly, I'm not an expert) that most of the meteorites that strike the earth would be about as old as the solar system, being debris left over from the initial nebula. Given the vast distance between other star systems, it seems far more likely that they'd be from our neighborhood.

 

[CrimsonSoul]

Remember, our whole universe was in a hot, dense state but nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started...

That's like inflation right?