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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/15/2009 : 21:35:51
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This video was shot by a local Texas TV station crew covering a marathon race.
Phil Plait denies that it could have been reentering debris from the recent collision of two man-made satellites. He says it was moving too fast for that.
That was one spectacular fireball. Imagine the effect it would have at night.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/15/2009 21:36:48
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/15/2009 : 21:46:21 [Permalink]
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Thanks for the better version, Dave. (Look at all those panicked people running away from it!)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dave W.
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/20/2009 : 15:21:44 [Permalink]
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| Cool stuff! |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Bright daylight Texas fireball caught on video
