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[Undead Bane]

Hey guys n girls, you SHOULD see that.
The thing went as low as ~5000 meters (around 3.10686 miles)

First link, the video of the meteor descending:
http://www.youtube.c...v=iCawTYPtehk#!

Second link, the sound of EXPLOSION:
http://www.youtube.c...d&v=b0cRHsApzt8

Aaaaand the third one. It is a russian LJ post, it has lots of useless text, but it also has many videos and some photos of the results of the explosion:
http://zyalt.livejou...0.html#comments

Once in a lifetime thing =)

And also proves you DON'T want to stand in the way of heavy kinetic round =)

Edited by Undead Bane, 15 February 2013 - 03:43 PM.

[Tahribator]

. . . and this is on MWO General Discussion, because?

[Redshift2k5]

Great videos. Not entirely relevant, but great

[AC]

Kinda makes you realize how easily whole cities could be wiped off this planet without warning.

[PurpleNinja]

Tahribator, on 15 February 2013 - 03:08 PM, said:

. . . and this is on MWO General Discussion, because?

It was dropship who was shot down.
Clan invasion is starting.

Edited by PurpleNinja, 15 February 2013 - 03:16 PM.

[Orgasmo]

AC, on 15 February 2013 - 03:13 PM, said:

Kinda makes you realize how easily whole cities could be wiped off this planet without warning.

They can track the large ones.. So if we're gonna die, at least we'll see it coming.

[Vapor Trail]

More:

http://www.guardian....explosion-video

According to Fox News the Russian Meteor was approximately the size of a tiny battlemech. (15m wide and 10 tons).

Edited by Vapor Trail, 15 February 2013 - 03:25 PM.

[Adridos]

Orgasmo, on 15 February 2013 - 03:16 PM, said:

They can track the large ones.. So if we're gonna die, at least we'll see it coming.

I don't know about you, but I'd prefer it the other way around.

Knowing that you're going to die in X hours must be the worst feeling in the world.

[Oppresor]

This was a close shave; the experts recon we are due one the size of tonight's meteor every hundred years; the last one was 1908. http://t.news.uk.msn...earth-in-fly-by

[Sleepy Head]

AC, on 15 February 2013 - 03:13 PM, said:

Kinda makes you realize how easily whole cities could be wiped off this planet without warning.

Kinda makes you realize how vulnerable Earth is in general. Our planet is dust in the wind so if anything even small comes blazing into our atmosphere we are "dun f'r".

[Undead Bane]

Tahribator, on 15 February 2013 - 03:08 PM, said:

. . . and this is on MWO General Discussion, because?

oh, sorry.

LRMs ARE OP, ECM IS HORRIBLE, OMG, NERFNERFNERF!


Better now? =)
It's just interesting =)


Also, there was a live video of 45m one coming close. A thing like that can wipe out a BIG city if it hits.

Edited by Undead Bane, 15 February 2013 - 03:28 PM.

[Vapor Trail]

Oppresor, on 15 February 2013 - 03:23 PM, said:

This was a close shave; the experts recon we are due one the size of tonight's meteor every hundred years; the last one was 1908. http://t.news.uk.msn...earth-in-fly-by

Different asteroid. That one was DA14 and was about 14,000 times the mass of the Russian Meteor.

Edited by Vapor Trail, 15 February 2013 - 03:31 PM.

[Kahoumono]

Of course its relevant, I want to see orbital bombardment look like this. Or jumpships burning in like this.

[FupDup]

In Soviet Russia, meteor explode on you!

[Pyrrho]

Also, we should not forget that this meteorite that buzzed Russia's tower was small compared to 2012 DA 14, which passed within 17,200 miles of us today. The two objects are not related except in their scariness.

[Vapor Trail]

Kahoumono, on 15 February 2013 - 03:31 PM, said:

Of course its relevant, I want to see orbital bombardment look like this. Or jumpships burning in like this.

No orbital kinetic bombardment (that I know of) in the lore. Jumpships rarely (if ever) enter the inner system. They generally stay out by the charging stations. Warships may be different, but those are a bit rarer. Even so, they're rarely risked.

[NRP]

Kinetic energy in full display. It's quite sobering to think about just how easily we can be erased from existence.

[Undead Bane]

Vapor Trail, on 15 February 2013 - 03:33 PM, said:

No orbital kinetic bombardment (that I know of) in the lore. Jumpships rarely (if ever) enter the inner system. They generally stay out by the charging stations. Warships may be different, but those are a bit rarer. Even so, they're rarely risked.

Ehm... Actually, Turtle bay. =)

[Scrawny Cowboy]

Orgasmo, on 15 February 2013 - 03:16 PM, said:

They can track the large ones.. So if we're gonna die, at least we'll see it coming.

The photo where it landed in that warehouse looked nasty. Don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be around that or anything larger.

Great news post OP.

[Livewyr]

That meteor was an OP LRM replacement in development by PGI to be sold for 20,000 MC.

But it's not P2W.