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Teen Hit by 30,000 MPH Meteorite, Survives?

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  • #32
    Blazer
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    telling a load of lies i reckon..travelling at 30,000 even the tiny piece would be red hot..and at that speed it would rip right through his hand..be more than a fcuking band aid on it then..

    prob saw it land and say "sweet..let's ring Sky/Sun and told a whole load of unbelievable lies and see if they print it..."


    be interesting to see if Sky print my comments...very doubtfull though :D


  • #33
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Mathew Reilly wrote: »
    telling a load of lies i reckon..travelling at 30,000 even the tiny piece would be red hot..and at that speed it would rip right through his hand..be more than a fcuking band aid on it then..

    prob saw it land and say "sweet..let's ring Sky/Sun and told a whole load of unbelievable lies and see if they print it..."

    Well he says "a split second after it hit" (his hand), he heard a loud bang. There's not a chance in hell he would have been able to notice any split second if it was traveling so fast

    I'd say a piece of shrapnel hit his hand after the meteorite hit the ground


  • #34
    Blazer
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Well he says "a split second after it hit" (his hand), he heard a loud bang. There's not a chance in hell he would have been able to notice any split second if it was traveling so fast

    I'd say a piece of shrapnel hit his hand after the meteorite hit the ground

    never thought of that..good thinkign dude...I'm very sick so a bit slow this week ;)

    he's still a tool though :pac:


  • #35
    PK2008
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    It bounced off his arm yet made a crater in the ground??

    Thats some amount of fapping!!!


  • #36
    Purple Gorilla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 865 ✭✭✭Purple Gorilla


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    I'd like to see Dead Like Me again. Any tv channels showing it?
    Twas cancelled but they released a Direct-to-DVD movie in like April. I watched it last week and it was immensely good
    Mathew Reilly wrote: »
    telling a load of lies i reckon..travelling at 30,000 even the tiny piece would be red hot..
    Could be his **** hand. It would be used to extreme heat/friction


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  • #37
    nyarlothothep
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    Wow, hit by meteorite, that must rock.


  • #38
    challengemaster
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    VinnyTGM wrote: »
    Surely it would have done more damage to the lad if it was travelling at near to 40 times the speed of sound.

    Or, 1/22,369 the speed of light depending what way you look at it.

    Or, something with approx. 179,860 Joules of kinetic energy


  • #39
    Riddle101
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    I call bulls*it on the part where it says all he got was a huge scar. The thing left a crater in the earth, and all the boy gets is a scar. I bet the boy wasn't even near the meteorite when it hit the earth and he just decided to stick his hand on in the crater to pick something up but burned it. If you ask me, they're just trying to make the story more juicy by making it sound as if the boy was an inch from death, anyway I don't care I just wonder if there are any more meteorites about the hit the earth:(


  • #40
    twinytwo
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5511619/14-year-old-hit-by-30000-mph-space-meteorite.html



    How the hell did something that left a foot wide crater in concrete not do more damage to the kid?

    someone is not up on their physics... and it did hit him in the hand... would depend on the mass of the object... i mean what does more damage a 2 ton truck going at 100mph or a .5 gram bullet at the same speed


  • #41
    kowloon
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    I'd imagine only a fraction of that energy would have transfered into the hand, much like an armour piercing shell being fired at a paper target.


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  • #42
    enniscorthy
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Magneto II is born.



    DEFO


  • #43
    jill_valentine
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Well he says "a split second after it hit" (his hand), he heard a loud bang. There's not a chance in hell he would have been able to notice any split second if it was traveling so fast

    I've been on the receiving end of gunfire. You can hear the bullet land behind you well before you hear the sound of the gunshot itself.

    It's weird.


  • #44
    stovelid
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    Moral: excessive masturbation provides an invaluable, protective callus shield on your hands.


  • #45
    Tea_Bag
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    challengemaster wrote: »
    1/22,369 the speed of light depending what way you look at it.

    thats assuming the speed of light is constant, which it isnt, because, (unbeknown to secondary school science teachers seemingly) it changes according to the medium its going through, much like every other speed measurable. scientists managed to reduce the speed of light to 50mph, shooting it through sodium...
    challengemaster wrote: »
    179,860 Joules of kinetic energy

    Im assuming your calculations are right, because im lazy and tired.

    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
    ( 0.091) x world nuclear electricity energy production (~~ 25 TJ )
    or roughly 1/11th of the energy produced by nuclear reactors from the ENTIRE world!:eek:
    tech77 wrote: »
    "Nasty three-inch long scar on his hand" my ar$e

    More like took off his entire arm while hitting his fingernail on his pinky finger...
    tech77 wrote: »
    He has possibly the coolest scar story ever.
    Chicks will absolutely dig him.

    Unless he walks around with a print-out of that fabricated story on the internet, who the hell would believe him that it was something from outer space that gave him the scar *cough* dissability fund for the missing arm..


    (disclaimer: sorry for the science stuff, but this is scientific so its not like im taking it way out of proportions..)


  • #46
    citizen_p
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    How the hell did something that left a foot wide crater in concrete not do more damage to the kid?
    i was thinking the same.....

    and how the hell did it "bounce" off his hand.... it shouldve gone straight thru


  • #47
    Pygmalion
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    Read this story earlier and site says it grazed his hand on it's way down.
    I'm assuming it's been quickly distorted to a direct hit and bouncing off.

    I'm off to bed now, when some other news site reports that it's ripped through his leg post a link here, could use a laugh.


  • #48
    CAPSLOCK365
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭CAPSLOCK365


    Starship never warned us about that bit.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    They managed to take a picture of the lad but not of the scar nor the "crater", surely it wouldve been better to take a picture of the crater/scar and not the mopatop?


  • #50
    challengemaster
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    Tea_Bag wrote: »
    Im assuming your calculations are right, because im lazy and tired.

    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:
    Really?
    That's nice, but by working backwards from your calculations, you have v=48,000,000 m/s...I set m=0.002kg also...

    How the shít did you manage that one, from 30,000mph which is 13,411.2 m/s

    You sure you changed everything to SI units?


  • #51
    Tea_Bag
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    challengemaster wrote: »
    v=48,000,000 m/s...
    Well there's your my problem (mythbusters no?)
    challengemaster wrote: »
    13,411.2 m/s
    you are correct good sir
    challengemaster wrote: »
    I set m=0.002kg also...
    Ha ha interesting.

    once again, appologies..;)


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  • #52
    randylonghorn
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    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
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    Time to move this to the nerds forum?


  • #54
    Overheal
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    Theres a nerd forum? Oh wait


  • #55
    randylonghorn
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Theres a nerd forum? Oh wait
    Actually, this is the nerd forum.


  • #56
    liah
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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?


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