# Russian meteor explosion **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 15, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739 "2013-02-15T04:50:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/21 "2013-02-15T06:21:42Z")
> [@MOBOOST4U](#): > > 17,150 miles is VERY VERY CLOSE. It really makes you consider how vulnerable we are. > > This might be a stupid question but is there any sort of action plan if we were slated for impact on a catastrophic level? > > Edit: That doesnt involve Bruce Willis or Ben Afflack I assume firing shit at it? We have ICBM plans this us similar to intercepting one of those ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/22 "2013-02-15T06:25:06Z")
> [@MOBOOST4U](#): > > This might be a stupid question but is there any sort of action plan if we were slated for impact on a catastrophic level? > **[Svalbard Global Seed Vault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault)** > > The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage of duplicates of seeds conserved in genebanks around the world. This provides security of the world's food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, disease and ^ That exists because they expect someone to be around after the global destruction to re-plant the seeds. I’m sure if you’re rich and powerful enough there’s a plan for you. For the rest of us… ever seen the movie The Road, or played the game Fallout? IF a true planet killing asteroid was spotted in time (as in it will be here 5 years) there are theoretical things that could be done to deflect it. The problem is we don’t have a real good track record of spotting these things in time. 2012 XE54 passed so close it was closer than the moon and we only knew it was coming 2 days before it passed by. There was another good sized one that passed by really close and we didn’t know until it had already gone by. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/23 "2013-02-15T06:28:58Z")
![http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/34901157.jpg](http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/34901157.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/24 "2013-02-15T06:33:42Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > [Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault) > > ^ That exists because they expect someone to be around after the global destruction to re-plant the seeds. I’m sure if you’re rich and powerful enough there’s a plan for you. For the rest of us… ever seen the movie The Road, or played the game Fallout? > > IF a true planet killing asteroid was spotted in time (as in it will be here 5 years) there are theoretical things that could be done to deflect it. The problem is we don’t have a real good track record of spotting these things in time. 2012 XE54 passed so close it was closer than the moon and we only knew it was coming 2 days before it passed by. There was another good sized one that passed by really close and we didn’t know until it had already gone by. Well, the moon is 238,900 miles. So the one passing at 17,000 miles is VERY FUCKING CLOSE. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/25 "2013-02-15T06:36:23Z")
So the object passing us later today and the one over Russia this morning came from totally different directions and are unrelated. But NASA / DA14 couldn’t ask for a better pre-game show, lol. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/26 "2013-02-15T06:37:08Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#): > > So the object passing us later today and the one over Russia this morning came from totally different directions and are unrelated. Also a scary thought. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/27 "2013-02-15T06:41:05Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > Well, the moon is 238,900 miles. So the one passing at 17,000 miles is VERY FUCKING CLOSE. 17k miles is like the width of a hair in terms of astronomy. ---
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/28 "2013-02-15T06:43:35Z")
> [@JayS](#): > > 17k miles is like the width of a hair in terms of astronomy. And an astroid the size of a house is like pebble in terms of astronomy too, but itll still change our lives as we know it. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/29 "2013-02-15T06:44:15Z")
Honestly, there are a lot of random space things that can kill us (gamma ray bursts for example.) Worrying about them isn’t a completely useless exercise, but there is also very little we can do to avoid them. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/30 "2013-02-15T06:46:52Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#): > > Honestly, there are a lot of random space things that can kill us (gamma ray bursts for example.) Worrying about them isn’t a completely useless exercise, but there is also very little we can do to avoid them. Exactly. Talking about it and getting people to realize it though helps find the funding to at least look for them. Spotting one at 5 years out instead of 5 days could be the difference between awesome show of engineering saving the world or 5 days of total chaos before the world ends. Which begs the question. If a true planet killer was coming in 2 months and the scientists of the world had concluded there was nothing they could do about it, would you even want to know? ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/31 "2013-02-15T06:49:06Z")
My wife was just saying that 100 tons of rocks come in from space every day. Interesting fact. Didn’t realize it was so common. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/32 "2013-02-15T06:50:32Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > Well, the moon is 238,900 miles. So the one passing at 17,000 miles is VERY FUCKING CLOSE. Relatively speaking it is…but 17,000 miles is still 17,000 miles. ---
**Author:** ![somedude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@somedude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/somedude)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/33 "2013-02-15T07:06:11Z")
the sonic boom from that things is outstanding! ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/34 "2013-02-15T07:07:18Z")
You can buy it on ebay, the user name is Russianmafia. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/35 "2013-02-15T07:10:28Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > My wife was just saying that 100 tons of rocks come in from space every day. Interesting fact. Didn’t realize it was so common. It’s because we can’t see it where we live. Go to someplace remote with no light pollution (northern Canada, etc.) and just look at the sky. You’ll see lots of baby versions of this going across the sky every minute or so. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_B](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paul_b/32/5452_2.png) [@Paul\_B](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paul_B)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/36 "2013-02-15T07:35:56Z")
Russians dont give a fuck. Just walk on by while a meteor hits. no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/37 "2013-02-15T08:31:28Z")
Satellites orbit at 22k. Certainly a near miss. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/38 "2013-02-15T08:35:17Z")
NYSPEED scientists, A collision would cause obvious damage but can a near miss do damage? Take out satellites, etc? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/39 "2013-02-15T08:43:56Z")
Ban assault meteors! ---
**Author:** ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russian-meteor-explosion/228739/40 "2013-02-15T08:45:37Z")
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