Videos from dash-mounted cameras seem to have an interesting story to tell from Russia yesterday at around 9:20 local time, when a massive meteor entered the atmosphere and proceeded to explode, injuring somewhere between 500 and 1200 people, depending on who’s numbers you are going off of. Experts are saying this is a big deal because it marks the first time a meteor has injured so many people, and now with an asteroid set to pass close to earth and the potential for more extraterrestrial debris headed our way it is leaving me thinking that maybe the Mayan gods stopped for a bite to eat before they brought the end of the world.
If you have seen any of the footage, you know how crazy it must have been to be driving along and seeing a massive bright streak across the sky as a chunk of rock exploded over your head. The dash-mounted cameras also seem to provide some audio, and from what I can tell from watching these, I feel like the Russian people were not phased whatsoever by this little event. If I were driving along and saw a meteor, I would probably at least give it a “holy shit” or something, verbally acknowledging the presence of this space rock, but apparently in Russia when things are exploding in the sky, you just keep on driving.
I am sure the next flashes in the sky we see will be highly publicized, and if the headlines of the papers around the world read “the world is coming to the end” then we all know the asteroid that was supposed to miss earth didn’t exactly fly past as planned. If they didn’t see yesterday’s little visitor coming, then who says they didn’t quite factor the trajectory of the big one right? Although it was confirmed that the meteor that hit Russia was not debris from its larger cousin, I personally see it as a warning shot. Everyone from the show Doomsday Preppers should be moving to their bunkers soon in my opinion.
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