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Proof Meteorite Was Shot Down Over Russia
- Thread starter Tony2X
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Putin is the attention whore of all attention whores. We are talking about a guy that hunts tigers, has people plant "treasure" for him to find and pose with for newspapers, and leads flocks of wayward migrating birds North in an ultralight followed by an entrourage of media, mechanics, and spinsters. Do you really think he'd miss an opportunity to show the size of his wang by NOT admitting to shooting down a meteor? I'm surprised he didn't claim knock it out of the sky with his laser beam bionic eyes.
To go one further, I've done a little conversion. 33,000 mph is about 48,504 fps. So lets think about the ballistics of the fastest varmint cartidges, and also consider a hypersonic cruise missle scoots along at about 5640fps using ramjet motors.
The Russians would have needed a missile much faster than the US cruise missil, in fact it would have had to go so fast that it would have burned up in the atmosphere. It would have to be nearly 9 TIMES FASTER than a cruise missile which is already smokin at a 5 times the speed of sound.
Still think it was shot down? This video claims to show a missile enter from the rear amd proceed through the meteor and out the front, when in fact it exploded from the pressures within.
To go one further, I've done a little conversion. 33,000 mph is about 48,504 fps. So lets think about the ballistics of the fastest varmint cartidges, and also consider a hypersonic cruise missle scoots along at about 5640fps using ramjet motors.
The Russians would have needed a missile much faster than the US cruise missil, in fact it would have had to go so fast that it would have burned up in the atmosphere. It would have to be nearly 9 TIMES FASTER than a cruise missile which is already smokin at a 5 times the speed of sound.
Still think it was shot down? This video claims to show a missile enter from the rear amd proceed through the meteor and out the front, when in fact it exploded from the pressures within.
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Nah. Had to be Superman. Iron man woulda had more of a trail.
I think it actually was going somewhere between 33,000 and 40,000 mph.
http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/02/russian-meteor-size-speed-power-kilotons/
Considering that escape velocity of 28,000 is required to attain orbit, an entry speed of 40,000 mph is not at all unreasonable. And you can bet it made a sonic boom. Probably not as noticeable as the explosion, but it had to have one.
http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/02/russian-meteor-size-speed-power-kilotons/
Considering that escape velocity of 28,000 is required to attain orbit, an entry speed of 40,000 mph is not at all unreasonable. And you can bet it made a sonic boom. Probably not as noticeable as the explosion, but it had to have one.
