Ep. 18, Page 71

smbhax on Nov. 21, 2012

The universe showed us that sci-fi has nothing on it today by distracting everyone with 150-foot asteroid making a close pass by Earth, and then hitting Russia with a 50-foot asteroid that flashed over a remote area as an incredibly bright fireball before exploding several miles up in (***you may want to turn your speakers down for this one***) a loud, window-shattering kaboom , causing falling glass and other injuries to 1,000 some people. NASA says [nasa.gov] this is the largest such event since the meteor that exploded over a nearly unpopulated area of Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908 [en.wikipedia.org], flattening trees for miles around--although in that case, the cause wasn't understood until much later (and the first expedition didn't even reach the area for a decade).