Meteor over Russia

Hell of a crew over there at CNN. They sure know how to pick 'em! Too much ... they're killin' me!


I wish one of these things would land in my yard. I could then afford new windows after the sonic boom ... because ALL of it would be on eBay before it even cooled.

rberq wrote:Russia again. Here's the one from 105 years ago.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/Tunguska.htm

That was a cataclysmic event..."The explosion leveled an estimated 80 million trees over an 830 square-mile area in a radial pattern from the blast zone."

I'm in awe every time I read about it.

Me too - I remember seeing the black & white pictures of that in some book at school when I was real young. I stared at the pic for 10 minutes trying to imagine the power of that. I still remember the picture EXACTLY without even clicking the link - hundreds of acres of trees toppled like matchsticks. Amazing.