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In 2013 in Russia, a meteor exploded over a city and injured thousands of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by cryptoz 10y ago
In 2013 in Russia, a meteor exploded over a city and injured thousands of people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
Something extra interesting about this is the number of videos that recorded it due to the prevalence of car dash cams. This helped scientists quickly reconstruct what happened and is amazing footage to have of such a rare event.
- kordless 10y ago> Russian authorities stated that 1,491 people, including 311 children, sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk Oblast within the first few days.
- bpicolo 10y agoYeah, I saw that. Looks like the shockwaves were the primary mode of injury, though I guess that will always be the primary mode of injury in a large explosion. No deaths that I could see, which is good. I remember seeing the dashcams back then
- sandworm101 10y ago> Looks like the shockwaves were the primary mode of injury Not the shockwaves, but things damaged/knocked over by the waves. If you were standing in a field, the shockwave would do nothing to you. It was harmless. But if you are standing beside a poorly-designed glass building, pieces are going to fall off that building. This was Russia. I would expect that other countries, with different building practices, might suffer far fewer casualties.
- bpicolo 10y agoRight, things damaged BY shockwaves, if we're being pedantic
- benologist 10y agoDo countries legislate shockwave standards in buildings like they do cyclones/hurricanes/etc?
- protomyth 10y agoI would imagine that people would think that's a serious waste of money given the odds. Of course after it happens, someone will go "See!!!".
- sandworm101 10y agoNo, but most anti-earthquake measures, especially in regard to glass falling from buildings, would seem applicable. So too with codes meant for safety during hurricanes, tornadoes and other strong winds.
- mlvljr 10y agoJust stay off the windows till the wave passes (mistake some folks made was seeing the fall, waiting for couple minutes, then getting back to the windows -- to be injured by the pieces of glass minutes later). This was from Russia :)
- happyslobro 10y agoRussia has the worst luck with asteroids.
- GunboatDiplomat 10y agoThey're the largest country by area, so it makes sense they'd get hit the most.
- happyslobro 10y agoWell, Canada is pretty big too, but we don't get any asteroid action. Canada is like "oops, sorry, didn't see you coming. Let me rotate out of your way" and then Russia gets hit.
- JorgeGT 10y agoRussia: "So nice of you Canada, let me thank you with this radioactive satellite". https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kosmos_954 https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Kosmos_954
- Semiapies 10y agoYou might think that, but you've taken a few hits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_crater https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_crater
- jakubp 10y agoRussia has 4x number of people, so I'd expect also a much higher % of the area to be settled.
- lostlogin 10y agoAre poles more or less likely to be hit than equatorial regions? My google flailing is not getting me anywhere.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoAren't most things in space, well most of the closer things like asteroids, spinning around the sun on the same plane as Earth? If that's the case then the poles would have a smaller cross-sectional area than equatorial regions. Maybe the poles would be a good place to build evacuation shelters. Getting there in a hurry could be an issue.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoThe funniest part about the video in this article is that nobody gives a shit. I mean, look at pedestrian crossers.
- foobarian 10y agoSpeaking of, what is it with the Russians and the dash cams? There seems to be a subculture of recording while driving and posting videos of road rage, fistfights, etc.
- Zelphyr 10y agoApparently there was/is a scam where people would walk in front of your car and then sue you for hitting them. So everybody started putting in dash cams to be able to provide evidence against the scammers.
- D-Coder 10y agoI have heard it's due to the corrupt traffic police. Everyone wants their own record of what happened.
- mlvljr 10y agoSometimes the police has no chance to tell the liar from who's not from what accident participants tell, till a dashcam video appears (can even be from a car, that wasn't involved in the accident, but was passing by). Good thing, we're blessed with this, unlike people in CA, for example :)
- prodmerc 10y agoSame thing as the British and CCTVs
- PopsiclePete 10y agoInsurance purposes. Russia is a strange country. It wouldn't be too uncommon to have a drunk Russian jumping onto your car angrily while you're parked at a stop-light, or someone knocking you off the road on a highway.
- bane 10y agoI once saw a small meteor falling, sometime in the early 2000s. I had no idea what it was, just a giant bright sparkling object in the sky...it was kind of terrifying. For days I looked for any information in the news about it and never found anything reported. I never quite knew what it was, and nobody else really believed by description, until all the dashcam videos about this incident showed up on the internet.
- emp_zealoth 10y agoI once saw something during bright, sunny summer day - it looked like a small object that hit the atmosphere pretty much head on (as in it's velocity was perpendicular to the surface). It lasted a second or two, looked like a turbolaser shot or something