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A new way to die

  • 08-02-2016 7:23pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,857 ✭✭✭✭


    You might get hit by a bus, very rare.
    You might get hit by lightning, extremely rare.
    Or you might get hit by a meteorite, possibly unique.

    http://time.com/4211780/meteorite-india-college/#4211780/meteorite-india-college/

    If another big one hits, we might all get wiped out. But there were no humans around whenever it happened before. Or there is a very good chance that smaller ones will land in a wilderness or in the ocean.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Has to have happened before at some stage.

    Your really having a ****ty day when a rock that started its journey thousands of years ago decides to go and murder you.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    More like billions of years in most cases. Mad stuff. I seem to recall hearing of a meteorite that was thought to have splashed down in St Stephen's Green park pond in Dublin in the 80's?

    It's odd more people haven't been hit by them, little ones are coming in and hitting the ground pretty regularly. There was one in the US a few years back that totalled the back end of a car, but no injuries.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,857 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Has to have happened before at some stage.

    Your really having a ****ty day when a rock that started its journey thousands of years ago decides to go and murder you.

    The dinosaurs were wiped out by one 70 million years ago. But that was 68 million years ahead of any humans on earth. A big one hit Siberia in 1908, but there were no human settlements anywhere close.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    The dinosaurs were wiped out by one 70 million years ago. But that was 68 million years ahead of any humans on earth. A big one hit Siberia in 1908, but there were no human settlements anywhere close.

    The tunguska incident?


    But seriously. How unlucky do you have to be, that a rock, that probably hit another rock that set it on its way, travelling for all those many, many, many years, manages to get on a course for earth, gets to Earth, survives the atmosphere, and you happen to be standing in that exact spot and that exact moment the feckin yoke decides to land. The odds must be absolutely off the scale. A cosmic joke?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    That one in Russia was > 10,000 tonnes, you wouldn't have much chance if it hit a city



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Sounds like something The Smiths would write a song about.

    A poor Indian man, from the city of Chennai
    He was killed by travelling space-rock
    What an interesting way to die


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I love the car cam footage of the Russian lad seeing that thing come in, who calmly reaches up and pulls down his sun visor. Russian dudes, the end of the world is coming, don't give a f… The apocalypse is it? Hang on, I'll put on me shades. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,694 ✭✭✭BMJD


    this is why I have a hat hard on all the time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Sounds like something The Smiths would write a song about.

    A poor Indian man, from the city of Chennai
    He was killed by travelling space-rock
    What an interesting way to die

    Got mauled by a Leopard first. Death by space rock was a relief.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    He's with God now… R.I.P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    I was thinking 'at least he didn't suffer or know what happened' but the source says he died after suffering severe injuries. And three others injured.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    mad muffin wrote: »
    He's with God now… R.I.P

    Sure for all we know he's the dude who flicked the rock towards him!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,284 ✭✭✭StewartGriffin


    BMJD wrote: »
    this is why I have a hat hard on all the time

    Whatever turns you on, buddy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    mad muffin wrote: »
    He's with God now… R.I.P


    Should be a major surprise for an Indian.


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