The Sky Is Falling – Wait, That’s a Meteorite!
Saturday, June 13, 2009 14:55 | 77 views
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Can you imagine, you’re walking down the street one day. Minding your own business and carrying on with whatever it is you just happen to be doing at the moment. Not a care in the world and glancing up and seeing a fireball coming straight at you?
Well that’s what happened when a teenager was hit by a meteorite travelling at 30,000mph – and lived to tell the tale.
The 14 year old boy said he just saw a ball of light and the next thing he knew there was a sharp pain in his hand and then was followed by very loud bangs the sound of thunder.
The white-hot meteorite bounced off the schoolboy’s hand and hit the ground so hard it left a foot-long crater in the tarmac – as well as a three-inch scar on his hand.
Kind of puts the thought in your head of just how safe is it to even go outside doesn’t it. The little bugger was some lucky too. If that pea sized rock was traveling so fast as to rip up a foot-long crater he probably wouldn’t have been so lucky if he just happen to leave home seconds sooner or later. He could have been struck in the head.
In the actual news article, they say that there is only one other known case where a person has survived being hit by a meteorite. So I wonder what the number is of people NOT surviving getting hit by a meteorite?
Chances of being struck by a meteorite are around one in 100 million.
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June 13th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
The comments on this story are all from people who think its a hoax. Do they have anything better to do with their time?
June 13th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
@MrCorey – Woah! Seems Andy’s updated plugin barfed up everything.
Comment Luv is off till further notice.
June 13th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
@MrCorey – Why would this be a hoax? There is shit falling to earth every day. Thousands of pieces of space debris comes down. Why is this so hard to believe?
June 16th, 2009 at 1:58 am
‘cos they have nothing else to do with their time than waffle about what could and could not be
June 16th, 2009 at 2:36 am
@MrCorey – They must be Fido users.