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we're due for another tunguska sized event... that hitting a major city would be interesting.
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People focus on meteors but there is all sorts of shit out there that could wipe us out.
For example at any point we could get hit by a gamma ray burst and we would be completely fucked. These things go at the speed of light so there is nothing at all that we could do. There could have been a 5 second one given off 100 million years ago that is going to hit us tomorrow...
That's why I never pay my parking fines on time...Comment
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ya wanna fight me, dickhead? ay?
hnnnhhhnhhnnnnhhhnnhnnn...Comment
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What a bastard , night shift weekend and now I have the kids and the apocalypse to keep me awake.
Tough break
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haha just ozzie jokin there sesh..
umm, what if eta carinae goes supernova? betelgeuse is a candidate too, as you know, but much farther out. time=distance. a strange concept indeed.Comment
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Now they are saying that Sonic Boom was the equivalent of 20 Hiroshima bombs!
Imagine this happening in NY, DC, Chi, Philly, LAComment
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Yeah he is....25 million on opening weekend....though I thought the movie was pretty lame....I went to see it just to waste some time and see the usual big fiery explosions, machine gun fire and chase scenes....couple of plot twists towards the end....but nothing amazing.
My faves out of the series are the first and the third one....., where John McClane is forced to walk through Harlem with a sandwich board was hilarious....Samuel L made that movie great....
Willis needs to hang it up now.Comment
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I'm surprised anyone is going to this crap, Willis looked pretty shame faced about it when he was over to promote it.
The last two are actually managing to make the early ones worse by stinking so much...Comment
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Destruction is a good thing. I'm glad something killed off the dinosaurs. Could you imagine the daily stress level of having to live on a planet full of giant lizards? It's nice not having to worry about the T Rex or the raptors getting us on the way to the grocery store.People focus on meteors but there is all sorts of shit out there that could wipe us out.
For example at any point we could get hit by a gamma ray burst and we would be completely fucked. These things go at the speed of light so there is nothing at all that we could do. There could have been a 5 second one given off 100 million years ago that is going to hit us tomorrow...
That's why I never pay my parking fines on time...No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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Why everyone in Russia has dash cams
How is it possible that a dozen different motorists around the Russian city of Chelyabinsk were able to capture video of a massive meteor flying through the sky? Because almost everyone in Russia has a dash-mounted video camera in their car.
The sheer size of the country, combined with lax — and often corrupt — law enforcement, and a legal system that rarely favors first-hand accounts of traffic collisions has made dash cams all but a requirement for motorists.
“You can get into your car without your pants on, but never get into a car without a dash cam,” Aleksei Dozorov, a motorists’ rights activist in Russia told Radio Free Europe last year.
Do a search for “Russia dash cam crash” in YouTube — or even better, Yandex.ru, the county’s equivalent of Google — and you’ll find thousands of videos showing massive crashes, close calls and attempts at insurance fraud by both other drivers and pedestrians. And Russian drivers are accident prone. With 35,972 road deaths in 2007 (the latest stats available from the World Health Organization), Russia averages 25.2 traffic fatalities per 100,000 people. The U.S., by comparison, had 13.9 road deaths per 100,000 people in the same year, despite having six times more cars.
A combination of inexpensive cameras, flash memory and regulations passed by the Interior Ministry in 2009 that removed any legal hurdles for in-dash cameras has made it easy and cheap for drivers to install the equipment.
And it’s turned into an online phenomenon.
YouTube content policing means some of the most disturbing videos get pulled from U.S. video sites almost immediately, but as Marina Galperina reported at Animal New York last year, sites like the Ru CHP LiveJournal community are filled with disturbing videos of profanity-laden fist-fights, massive crashes and gruesome deaths, all captured on camera and shared for the world to see.
But then there are times like today, when dash cams catch a once-in-a-lifetime meteor falling from the sky, from every possible angle — something that couldn’t have happened just a few years ago.
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