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Teen Hit by 30,000 MPH Meteorite, Survives?

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  • #52
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Can't leave a foot long scar on something that's only 3 inches.

    (awaits penis joke-its in there somewhere)
    That's what you say to all the women, right, Brian?! :p
    stovelid wrote: »
    Moral: excessive masturbation provides an invaluable, protective callus shield on your hands.
    Well, if I needed another reason, that's a damn good one!

    I don't really, though ...
    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    Edit: you're way off according to my calculations. im assuming the "pea sized" meteorite didnt way more than 2 grams, and with E=0.5mv^2, i get 2.304x10^12 J (joules)

    according to WolframAlpha, 2.304x10^12 J of energy is roughly equal to or roughly 1/11th of the energy produced by nuclear reactors from the ENTIRE world!:eek:
    Has CM been Tea_Bagged?!! :eek:

    Apparently not ... this time!! :pac:


  • #53
    CAPSLOCK365
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭CAPSLOCK365


    Time to move this to the nerds forum?


  • #54
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,189 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Theres a nerd forum? Oh wait


  • #55
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Overheal wrote: »
    Theres a nerd forum? Oh wait
    Actually, this is the nerd forum.


  • #56
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    I'd like to see Dead Like Me again. Any tv channels showing it?

    Only illegal ones. You might need to surf the channel to find it. ;)


  • #57
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    My name is URL wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5511619/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html
    "The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar..."

    "At first I just saw a large ball of light"

    Sounds like something out of Harry Potter to me...


  • #58
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,443 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    sdonn wrote: »
    Sounds like something out of Harry Potter to me...

    lol isn't the new Harry Potter movie coming out soon. Maybe it's some new way of advertising the movie. Like in that episode of the Simpsona when they thought they found an angel's skeleton and it turned out to be a hoax set up by the people who were opening a new mall.


  • #59
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    Something traveling so fast that it leaves a fkn crater would have just pulverized his hand no matter what angle it made contact with it.

    Actually one would think even the impact with earth - which allegedly left that big crater - would have generated enough energy to kill him. I mean if it came off his hand he must have been pretty close to that impact.

    This seems to have 'bull' written all over it.


  • #60
    yurmothrintites
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 705 ✭✭✭yurmothrintites


    A kid with the name Gerrit Blank only deserves to get hit with a meteorite in my opinion. What type of name is that?


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  • #61
    Mmcd
    Registered Users Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Mmcd


    yurmothrintites wrote: »
    A kid with the name Gerrit Blank only deserves to get hit with a meteorite in my opinion. What type of name is that?
    German?


  • #62
    Halla Basin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭Halla Basin


    yah inorite, one time I got hit by a meteorite and I barely felt it


  • #63
    2 stroke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    I doubt if the crater was caused by the force of impact, something the size of a pea would have been slowed by the athmosphere. However a crater could have been formed by extreme heat rapidly evaporating moisture in the soil, explaining a split second delay


  • #64
    powerzjim
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    demon child


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