Chelyabinsk govt is paying a PR company to clean up internet

A riff on the "Vigilant Citizen".

Good job, sire or mademoiselle!

All sarcasm aside, it is always nice to link sources other than Wiki on a blog (although I am guilty of linking directly to Wikipedia as well, natch).

Adding to blog reading list.

Anyone know anything about a meteor being seen over Alabama last night, saw some shit on FB about it but don't know if its true or not?

I agree - usually the thing to do when linking to Wiki is to check the sources at the end of that Wiki's article.

Then again, by that point you might as well link and quote the sources...

thanks, some good info there. I would remove the link to the sound heard around the world though, it has been proven to be a hoax. Same audio used in every one of those vids.

That place is definitely a military hotspot for Russia I would agree.

no link but if you watch each one you can hear the same birds squak at the same place each time. Listen closely and youll notice its all the same audio

Thanks for posting, lots circling around that town. Personally, I find it interesting that this meteorite, said to be the size of a bus, was not monitored like the meteor that recently passed (size of a football field). Also very interesting that this meteorite had an impact similar to a nuclear explosion. It was also said to be shot by Russian patriot defense system, and this is all 1.5 days after Putin urges N. Korea to give up nuclear program. I know it's a reach that N. Korea could have set off a nuke but, it all sort of fits together nicely, like all conspiracy theories do.

So you think we can monitor all meteor activity? This was said to be a "table" sized rock hurtling faster than a rocket can intercept it. I think that Russian missile thing was bs, all videos of it shows only its tail and nothing intercepting. See an explosion, besides itself?

The impact was also not a nuclear explosion. Did you even look at the pics? The damage it caused was from its sound wave, shit 33000 mph or km will do that.

I was wondering what would be the point of "shooting it down". I mean it seemed to be doing a good job of coming down on its own.

Even if they wanted to, something moving at that speed would be improbable to intercept.

Sometimes it may be a good thing to do if it was still high up, as it would be burning up as you see this one did all the way down. The smaller it is the more of it that won't cause damage, so if you could split a really big rock up into much smaller rocks then the less potential damage it will create, though that could also lead to more damage since it may create a larger field of destruction.

The damage from any explosion, nuclear or not, is from the "sound wave," which is usually called the shock wave. There is also heat, and the residue (whether chemical or nuclear) -- but there is no difference between the shock wave of a nuclear bomb and the shock wave of some other explosion releasing the same power.

The meteor did not "impact" and instead it exploded in mid air, with a power that is comparable to small nuclear weapons, but is not itself a nuclear weapon.

Look at the zinc plant and tell me it didn't impact.

If the meteor had directly impacted the zinc plant, there wouldn't be any zinc plant left to take pictures of.

The shock wave obviously disrupted the structure of the zinc plant. However to suggest this was a direct meteor impact, is simply wrong. Just like Tunguska, and similar to nuclear weapons design, this was an air-burst detonation.

Go look at a picture of it and tell me otherwise, your comment leads me to believe you hadn't.

Would you agree this is a picture of the Zinc plant we are talking about?

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYa215tzBO6e2hYMv1gD_h5uA1HKqWkdsIfxvtV5oU7MviQfRvwCKv-GQ

yep

Dude... If a meteor had struck that building, and it also had enough force to damage such a wide area of geography, we would not be looking at the damaged walls of the building. We would be looking at a crater, and no building.

Yes, the building looks like a big round thing hit it. Don't be silly and think that the meteor hit it. The shock wave hit it and made a funny-looking damage pattern that coincidentally looks like a round thing took a chunk out of the building.

I had looked at the pictures before you asked, btw. My thought is I don't understand how you could look at this picture and think what you thought. It's just not possible for an impact to damage such a wide area, strike something in the middle of it, and not vaporize (literally: turn in to vapor) the thing that it hits.

Well, I heard bus earlier in the day. No, I hadn't spent a whole lot of time researching all pieces involved. Link to said video?

And there you go, no missiles seen.

blah blah blah, I want me some conspiracy, damn it!

Aren't Zinc factories a cover story for Uranium processing waste?

If the meteor had directly impacted the zinc plant, there wouldn't be any zinc plant left to take pictures of.

The shock wave obviously disrupted the structure of the zinc plant. However to suggest this was a direct meteor impact, is simply wrong. Just like Tunguska, and similar to nuclear weapons design, this was an air-burst detonation.