[Chaos-l] video of daylight meteorite exploding over Chelyabinsk

[Mark Montazer]

Yeah, I suspected the numerous glass injuries were due to gawking. The
shockwave arrived a few minutes after the flash so everyone was at their
windows looking at the smoke trail when it hit.

Those Cold War drills finally came in handy! Glad the kids were safe; that
teacher needs a pay raise.
On Feb 16, 2013 7:15 PM, "Joseph Mack NA3T" <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>
>  I expect if it had been cloudy and relatively dark (it was sunrise), then
>> an announced blast or a blast preceded by a red glow through the clouds at
>> a distance you couldn't estimate, then the initial interpretation of what
>> happened could have been quite different. People would still be running
>> around with geiger counters.
>>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/**02/17/world/europe/russians-**
> seek-clues-and-count-**blessings-after-meteor-blast.**
> html?hp&_r=0http://www.**nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/**
> europe/russians-seek-clues-**and-count-blessings-after-**
> meteor-blast.html?hp&_r=0<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek-clues-and-count-blessings-after-meteor-blast.html?hp&_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/world/europe/russians-seek-clues-and-count-blessings-after-meteor-blast.html?hp&_r=0>
>
>
> "
> Overshadowing these misfortunes, a fourth-grade teacher in Chelyabinsk,
> Yulia Karbysheva, was being hailed as a hero for saving 44 children from
> glass cuts by ordering them to hide under their desks when she saw the
> flash. Having no idea what it was, she executed a duck-and-cover drill from
> the cold war era.
>
> Ms. Karbysheva, who remained standing, was seriously lacerated when glass
> severed a tendon in one of her arms, Interfax reported; not one of her
> students suffered a cut. "
>
> ;-\
>
> Joe
>
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