[jose]

Meteor on police dash cam, Edmonton, Alberta:

or try this:

Not in my back yard! (I hope)

 

[Leif the Lucky]

Now that is a crazy thing to see.

 

[DaggerD]

I was once camping during a river trip on the Snake River in Hells Canyon (deepest river gorge in North America). It was at night and I had stepped away from the fire to watch the stars. I saw a falling star that just kept going and going. It finally burnt out above the river between me and the other side of the canyon. It was probably less than 5 or 6 hundred feet of the ground. Pretty cool.

 

[jackal]

Well smart.

 

[cicio]

So did you make wish or dos that just work on stars??

 

[murderface8]

thats cool
in 1908 something exploded over tunguska, in siberia,
and flattened over 40 miles of forest.
scientist's said a meteor exploded overhead
whats up with that?

 

[jose]

Yeah, I made a wish for World Peace and a new LRB M14!

That Tunguska thing was wild. I think it flattened more like 400 square miles, but I am not sure. It was a huge airburst. Trees were flattened in a radial pattern in all directions away from the blast center. In the center, trees remained upright, but with all of the limbs stripped off. Big fireball and forest fires were associated with it. Leonid Kulik, a Russian scientist, mounted an expedition to Tunguska in 1927. There was still considerable evidence of the blast at that time. A more recent expedition a couple of years ago found evidence of two or three small craters seemingly related to the blast.

Estimates of the blast's magnitude range from 5 to 30 kilotons of TNT.

Imagine what would happen if something like that happened today over a populated area.

 

[jose]

Excuse me please.

That was 5 to 30 MEGATONS!

BA-DOOOOOM!!

 

[tattooed_hatred]

thats cool as hell i saw something about that on tv

 

[Darsemnos]

So did you make wish or dos that just work on stars??

That WAS a shooting "star." Just a big one.