Meh. If it had been North Korea we would already have seen a propaganda video of how The Glorious Leader is personally responsible for inventing North Koreas new Meteor Attractor Technology.
And how later that day he bowled a perfect game and played and 18-stroke round of golf.
Just reinforces the part where Reality is Unrealistic.
Or rather, for events we don't have personal experience with our expectations are rarely in sync with reality.
Meteors, guns (pretty much everything about guns. How they sound, what their effects are, what it's like to be shot), explosions and so forth.
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Just reinforces the part where Reality is Unrealistic.
Or rather, for events we don't have personal experience with our expectations are rarely in sync with reality.
Meteors, guns (pretty much everything about guns. How they sound, what their effects are, what it's like to be shot), explosions and so forth.
I think what surprises me the most is how long it takes for the sonic boom to reach land. In those car videos, I kind of expected to hear some sort of pop or boom within a few seconds. But watching the other videos it's clear that even if you were directly below the explosion, it took minutes for the shockwave to hit.
Any chance that meteor was shot down? What im finding confusing is the thing exploded in atmosphere, it didnt hit the ground as such. Could say a patriot anti missile battery 1) have hit something like this at whatever speed it goes at and 2) destroyed it if say a nuke was used.
I think what surprises me the most is how long it takes for the sonic boom to reach land. In those car videos, I kind of expected to hear some sort of pop or boom within a few seconds. But watching the other videos it's clear that even if you were directly below the explosion, it took minutes for the shockwave to hit.
Given the velocity of sound and the estimated altitude of the explosion there should have been a delay of about 90-150 seconds (1 minute 30 seconds and 2 minutes 30 seconds) if you were directly beneath it.
Most weren't directly beneath, so it probably would have taken between 2 and 7-10 minutes for the actual blast effect to reach the site of the recording. Outside that radius I doubt the effect would have been powerful enough given that the force dissipates exponentially.
Still, shattering glass over 60 km away is pretty hard core.
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Just reinforces the part where Reality is Unrealistic.
Or rather, for events we don't have personal experience with our expectations are rarely in sync with reality.
Meteors, guns (pretty much everything about guns. How they sound, what their effects are, what it's like to be shot), explosions and so forth.
I think what surprises me the most is how long it takes for the sonic boom to reach land. In those car videos, I kind of expected to hear some sort of pop or boom within a few seconds. But watching the other videos it's clear that even if you were directly below the explosion, it took minutes for the shockwave to hit.
uh, no
it may have appeared that way
but you're looking at a chunk of rock hurtling through the atmosphere at very high speed
your sense of scale doesn't really work in this situation
it's further away than you think it is
Any chance that meteor was shot down? What im finding confusing is the thing exploded in atmosphere, it didnt hit the ground as such. Could say a patriot anti missile battery 1) have hit something like this at whatever speed it goes at and 2) destroyed it if say a nuke was used.
at the speed such a meteor is traveling, contact with our atmosphere is catastrophic
there was no missile, it's just physics at work
Any chance that meteor was shot down? What im finding confusing is the thing exploded in atmosphere, it didnt hit the ground as such. Could say a patriot anti missile battery 1) have hit something like this at whatever speed it goes at and 2) destroyed it if say a nuke was used.
Well for one, the Russians wouldn't use PATRIOT missiles since it's a US system (as a defense guy, I have to capitalize it since it's technically an acronym :P). To answer your question as vaguely as possible, it would be extremely unlikely that the Russian surface-to-air missiles have the capability to track an object moving at the speeds (30,000+ MPH) we're talking about here. They probably picked it up on radar just in time to say "what the fuck?" before it exploded.
Well, at least the systems they admit about publicly can't do that...
Well, here's the public specs so far on their next-gen system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-500_missile It falls well short of what would be needed to intercept a meteorite at low altitude.
If they have anything better than that, it probably wouldn't be sitting out near a random city in the Urals.
If you want to intercept a meteor you have to do so in space (still fairly unrealistic) or with a beam-based weapon.
Meteors have an entry velocity of between 10 and 70 km/s. The fastest object we've ever launched travelled at 16 km/s.
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Except it isn't?
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Seems less crazy after watching clips of drivers in Russia
don't live in russia
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Just reinforces the part where Reality is Unrealistic.
Or rather, for events we don't have personal experience with our expectations are rarely in sync with reality.
Meteors, guns (pretty much everything about guns. How they sound, what their effects are, what it's like to be shot), explosions and so forth.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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I think what surprises me the most is how long it takes for the sonic boom to reach land. In those car videos, I kind of expected to hear some sort of pop or boom within a few seconds. But watching the other videos it's clear that even if you were directly below the explosion, it took minutes for the shockwave to hit.
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Given the velocity of sound and the estimated altitude of the explosion there should have been a delay of about 90-150 seconds (1 minute 30 seconds and 2 minutes 30 seconds) if you were directly beneath it.
Most weren't directly beneath, so it probably would have taken between 2 and 7-10 minutes for the actual blast effect to reach the site of the recording. Outside that radius I doubt the effect would have been powerful enough given that the force dissipates exponentially.
Still, shattering glass over 60 km away is pretty hard core.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
uh, no
it may have appeared that way
but you're looking at a chunk of rock hurtling through the atmosphere at very high speed
your sense of scale doesn't really work in this situation
it's further away than you think it is
at the speed such a meteor is traveling, contact with our atmosphere is catastrophic
there was no missile, it's just physics at work
Well for one, the Russians wouldn't use PATRIOT missiles since it's a US system (as a defense guy, I have to capitalize it since it's technically an acronym :P). To answer your question as vaguely as possible, it would be extremely unlikely that the Russian surface-to-air missiles have the capability to track an object moving at the speeds (30,000+ MPH) we're talking about here. They probably picked it up on radar just in time to say "what the fuck?" before it exploded.
Well, here's the public specs so far on their next-gen system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-500_missile It falls well short of what would be needed to intercept a meteorite at low altitude.
If they have anything better than that, it probably wouldn't be sitting out near a random city in the Urals.
Meteors have an entry velocity of between 10 and 70 km/s. The fastest object we've ever launched travelled at 16 km/s.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden