What blew up the Russian Asteroid
Thankfully, Veterans Today has the answer. Well, part of the answer:
One haunting telescopic video clip of the meteor’s explosive destruction reveals what appears to be a piloted craft intersecting the meteor’s descent at blinding speed. Navigating to the far side, the craft appears to be responsible for the explosive demise of the meteor into smaller fragments. In the age of photoshop and image manipulation we might dismiss this clip as a hoax except for one thing; the explosion sent meteor fragments in only one direction and away from the alleged craft as one would expect if the meteor had been zapped with an energy weapon. The alleged craft materialized from what appeared to be a “cloaked” state in order to blast the asteroid. Following the blast it appears the craft re-entered and remained in a cloaked state. But before disappearing, the craft emerged from behind the explosion and appeared to “wobble” slightly as if affected by the shock wave.
I still don’t know exactly who is responsible though, and since I already used my phone a friend, I thought I would go with Poll the Audience:
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Romulans. Had to be. Romulans are HOT!
HAARP, I BLAME EVERYTHING ON HAARP
It was the giant alien cockroaches. I’ve seen ’em.
Ex- PH2,
The only way we can verify that it was a giant alien cockroach is if we determine that the pilot of that ship wanted a glass of sugar water after the asteroid was blown up.
I’ll get J & K on it!
None of the above. It was a clandestine vodka still operated by the Russian mafia. It had just been discovered by the authorities, but was booby-trapped and and blew just as the meteor was inbound.
FWIW, asteroids, like anything else that’s flying at good speed and explodes, will send the majority of it’s shrapnel in a cone facing towards the angle of flight.
Pieces on the back side of the rock, like on an artillery airburst round, and even on bombs, are spending their energy when detonated pushing against the energy expended in flight. Therefor, they mostly cancel out the forces involved and fall straight down.
There’s nothing “magic” about it. Just mostly Newtonian physics. 🙂
The EEEEVIL Rumsfeld did it!
Hey!! How come I only get one vote??? Isn’t the proper thing to vote early and often now?
Couldn’t be the Romulans, it was the Klingons because the ship was cloaked….. 🙂
@10 I can’t tell you if the story changed later, but in the orginal Star Trek, it was the Romulan ships that had cloaking devices, not the Klingons.
The reason I wonder if the story changed later is, in the original series, the Romulans were related to the Vulcans. In a later Star Trek (Next Generation, I think) it was indicated that they were related to the Klingons.
Any Trekkies out there that can address this?
Heh, did I screw up the ST reference?
Likely, I haven’t watched it in years, except when they save the whales. I watch that one occasionally to sleep.
What? It wasn’t Boooooosh?!
@7 Oh sure be all logical, mathematical, scientifical, and stuff….next thing you’ll be telling us for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction….
Ask that former Air Force weather guy from the Aussie TV interview on here the other day. He probably knows the pilot.
Frack. It was me. Stupid “green” energy conduit keeps shorting out the cloak.
Cloaking device was of Romulan origin. It was obtained by the Klingons during a short-lived alliance with the Romulans. The Klingons then improved the technology.
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/cloaking-device
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/cloaking-device-klingon
@11
The Romulans were a violent faction that, at the time of Surak’s rise to prominience (sp) on Vulcan, refused to accept his teachings of peace and non violence. They left in several ships and traveled for a couple of generations before they found the twin planets where they settled.
The Romulans and the Klingons were allies against the Federation, that is how the Klingons got access to cloaking devices.
@11 I can take a stab at explaining it, if you are willing to keep in mind this doesn’t reference the “rebooted” StarTrek universe.
Romulans and Vulcans are more than releated, they are same race. The Romulans were a group of Vulcans lead by Roulas and Remus who, shortly after the advent of interstellar travel by their race left the planet. The Romulans largely rejected the teachings of Vulcan, feeling that emotion had a place in their race. As a side note, this was Skybok’s biggest crime in the minds of many Vulcans in Star Trek V.
Neither race formally acknoweldges this split and while they take great pains to ignore it, its not something that is deined by leadership of either race.
The Romulans were the first to develop cloaking technology, and as noted in its original form required that the ship decloak prior to firing its weapons (the technology was such a powerdrain that…ok I’ll stop with the digressions now…).
The Romulans and the Klingons entered into an alliance with each other against the Federation durring the TOS original run. In exchange for several Klingon warships, the Romulans gave them the basics of cloaking technology, which was later used against them by Picard and the Klingons in TNG.
In Star Trek VI was reveled that the Klingons had imrpoved the cloaking technology to the point that they could fire while cloaked.
Well, it really was another secret squirrel operation which cannot be discussed until it is declassified. But, Whatsits and his buddy Whosits with the evil twins and their sammich twitcher may have been involved. I only know this because I was at my assigned post on the space shuttle and saw the whole thing. (What? You thought it was no longer flying??)
Will someone let me know when the results of the survey become public? They are not showing up here. Probably some more of that super duper secret stuff.
@14,
Sorry about that. 🙂
I propose it was the infamous “Atlantian Death Ray” used by the Russians who recovered Atlantian Technology after discovering the lost civilization of Atlantis in the Black Sea.
It’s the only logical explanation, after all…….
WOW. Guys are fucking high right?
President Bush used the same machine he used to cause Hurricane Katrina.
It was Zaphod Beeblebrox. Due to an incredibly close pass to Earth by the S.S. Heart of Gold and under the influence of the Infinite Improbability Drive, the meteorite became a rather large ball return containing several bowling balls which were mistaken for pieces of the meteorite.
Duh. I’d have thought that was rather obvious.
TopGoz: I thought it became a whale and a potted petunia. And that the potted petunia’s last thoughts were “Oh no, not again.”
RIP, Mr. Adams. We hardly knew ye.
Renolds Wrap … lots and lots of Renolds Wrap!
My take is that the known peophile, Bill Brockbrader, destroyed it with his pshchic ability.
It was LT Ellen Ripley from the Suloco. She did it with a flamethrower and a bunch of frag grenades thrown from the open door – no air lock – of the Suloco.
Nobody mentioned Chuck Norris.
That’s spelled ?????? ?????? for any Russians out there.
One of Don Shipley’s hairs was out of place.
@17, 18, 19: Thanks for the info! I love all things ST, but I’m too lazy to be a real Trekkie. 😉
I did it. I’m sorry. It was an accident. Really. I won’t do it again. Promise.
Jeebus. You guys know nothing. It was Godzilla! Godzilla saved us all from the Mothra.
See, they were battling, and that last explosion was all it took…
@ #32: Was it one too many burritos?
You all know that it was the Hebrew Hammer!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4Z_HrBETc8s/UOx4lpd4BEI/AAAAAAAAAJg/S68Qez8ioy4/s1600/Hebrew_Hammer.jpg
@34. No, OWB. It was a slingshot. That’s all I can say. You understand. Very hush-hush. I probably said too much all ready.
@ #36: Got it. And that explains part of my observations that day from the shuttle. If I had pics I would share them with you. If I could. Which I cannot.
JOOOOOS!!!
Also, quite coincidentally, Ace had this link up of the PBS version; its a very good science-y explanation. Quite the geek video:
http://www.universetoday.com/101070/watch-novas-meteor-strike/
It was these guys:
Remember the Zygorpian Stealth Saucer I was talking about? We were already over Russia, and MOI, a Door Gunner with a wild hair up my a**,….YUP, that chunk of rock was moving FAST, I got it, luck was on my side! Something about meteorites, they DO mess with cloaking systems!
Was a blue police box sighted? Could have been the Tardis…
-Ish
Where is the link to this video? It never ceases to amaze me that these nutjobs, in this case Veterans Today, will report this stuff. AW1 Tim is correct. Meteors, depending on their composition, can air-burst all on their own without some mystery aircraft “de-cloaking” and blasting it away.
its the super Jew man! dont ya know about the super jew?
This video explains it all. Ignore the baby trying to eat the laptop. He’s not an alien…. is he?????
http://www.marshfieldnewsherald.com/VideoNetwork/2251473966001/Mysterious-pond-circles-build-viral-buzz
Myteriously, the video has DISAPPEARED from CNN. . . 🙁