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Why does the timestamp on the video say December 31st 2012?
I have also seen videos of this event dated by January 1970. The explanation is silly: most of the drivers don't care to set the correct date on their dashcams.
Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…
A huge crater somewhere in the desert with fire flames everywhere. It's jaw dropping... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT8vZ-7vxQ I just found this by using the "last hour" filter mmastrac suggested. EDIT: It doesn't seem to be a crater caused by a meteorite. By looking at the youtube video "cfn" (comment below) looks like it's a gas explosion in 2007. Still, amazing.
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In the various videos, there are a few noteworthy artefacts. 1) After the bright white flash, we see debris flying in the opposite direction to the meteor's path, in a parabolic trajectory - i.e. falling. 2) Your AMM system doesn't need to be hypersonic to intercept a hypersonic target. The key here is "intercept". You launch a missile to be where the target is going to be, in a direction >90deg away from the target'…
> 1) After the bright white flash, we see debris flying in the opposite direction to the meteor's path, in a parabolic trajectory - i.e. falling. I thought that at first, but on second watching I'm wondering if that's just lens flare? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t... about 00:19, I'm assuming that's the part you're talking about?
* It only shows when the meteor is close to the center of the lens.
* You can see reflections of two lens elements, one is smaller and brighter than the other. The smaller one is the element closer to the imaging sensor, and moves in parallax to the other one.
Here's a collection of insane videos of the event, some with the enormous sonic boom: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIAm5hq8WWc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_mpGYSBSA Can anyone translate what they are saying in the first one? You can get a good idea of the new videos being posted using YouTube's "last hour" filter: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%D0%BC%D0%…
A huge crater somewhere in the desert with fire flames everywhere. It's jaw dropping... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT8vZ-7vxQ I just found this by using the "last hour" filter mmastrac suggested. EDIT: It doesn't seem to be a crater caused by a meteorite. By looking at the youtube video "cfn" (comment below) looks like it's a gas explosion in 2007. Still, amazing.
Hard to get a sense of scale, but it looks pretty big. Maybe a few hundre feet in diameter?
Also, how much heat is needed to set friggin _dirt_ on fire?
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In the various videos, there are a few noteworthy artefacts. 1) After the bright white flash, we see debris flying in the opposite direction to the meteor's path, in a parabolic trajectory - i.e. falling. 2) Your AMM system doesn't need to be hypersonic to intercept a hypersonic target. The key here is "intercept". You launch a missile to be where the target is going to be, in a direction >90deg away from the target'…
> 1) After the bright white flash, we see debris flying in the opposite direction to the meteor's path, in a parabolic trajectory - i.e. falling. I thought that at first, but on second watching I'm wondering if that's just lens flare? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t... about 00:19, I'm assuming that's the part you're talking about?
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A huge crater somewhere in the desert with fire flames everywhere. It's jaw dropping... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT8vZ-7vxQ I just found this by using the "last hour" filter mmastrac suggested. EDIT: It doesn't seem to be a crater caused by a meteorite. By looking at the youtube video "cfn" (comment below) looks like it's a gas explosion in 2007. Still, amazing.
Flaming Crater, Darvaza Turkmenistan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEjoga1yrn0
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> If the average citizen could be extorted on the highway they'd start to catch on here too :) Actually, after having driven tens of thousands of miles on the interstates a number of years ago I think they would be a tremendous improvement on rest stop safety at the very least. That may be better served by an omnidirectional parking cam (and it would have to be running all the time, or you would need to flip it on),…
Possibly. From a privacy pov, I suppose I'd also prefer a decentralized option like this, where everybody just gets their own small slice of all the data instead of one government collecting all of it in a centralized location. It might be slightly less efficient, but in general it's a better way of roughly getting the data just where it needs to be, as long as it needs to be. Also note that the thing that caught on…
I think that's exactly the world we're heading for, and I prefer it to a world in which some entity has the power to compel the absence of recording, but Schmidt is very likely to be right: privacy is dead.
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That is surreal. My jaw dropped as it came into perspective. Looks like it came straight out of Hollywood.
The part where the meteor gets brighter but isn't moving relative to the sky is pretty scary. When you look up and see a meteor and it just gets brighter instead of moving left or right that means it's headed directly toward you.
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As far as I know the only active ABM system in Russia is around Moscow. Chelyabinsk is not anywhere near the Moscow Oblast.
They've got them peppered through the Urals. Lots of Cold War silos in that neck of the woods, and definitely active ABMs - saw them being driven just outside of astrakhan in the dead of night last year. Also, kaz is full of Russian military hardware. Baikonur for instance is definitely covered by ABMs, as to not do so would be an untenable risk as far as Russia is concerned.
For reference, here's what an ABM transporter looks like: http://www.ausairpower.net/PVO-S/53T6-SH-08-Gazelle-ABM-TL-1...
Or this: http://www.ausairpower.net/PVO-S/Gorgon-ABM-Transporter-Load...
Here's what a portable ICBM looks like: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Moscow_Pa...
Or this: http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/images/rs24tel.jpg
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Why does the timestamp on the video say December 31st 2012?
I have also seen videos of this event dated by January 1970. The explanation is silly: most of the drivers don't care to set the correct date on their dashcams.
In Russia, clock changes you!
