 crabcake
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
 167 Posts
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:50:18 AM
adorable! |
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 Kinga750
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
133 Posts
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:21:34 PM
Reminds me of the super awesome movie "Meteor Man". If you haven't seen it, check it out.On a side note, getting hit by a meteor is probably the coolest way to die ever. |
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 JumpRope
Male, 18-29, Canada
98 Posts
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 12:10:37 AM
He probably has super powers now |
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 Harijuku
Female, 18-29, Europe
391 Posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:22:43 PM
You can tell the kid is german.Nice hair not. |
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 JGESS
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
399 Posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:10:15 PM
isnt that the kid from the MAD comics? |
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 JoeYC
Male, 18-29, Europe
388 Posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:26:18 AM
3 people who have been stuck? im sure many more than 3 have... over millions of years of humankind, all over the world, im sure there are many more un reported cases |
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 vicious_liar
Male, 13-17, Europe
973 Posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:11:34 AM
"So now there are 2 people in the world who have been hit by 1? Aren't the chances like 1/Million something?"In fact, this is the third person to get hit, and now all 3 survived. Obviously, with so many people around here, it's bound to happen from time to time. You can deduct from these statistics that the odds of getting killed by a meteorite are 0 %. Now doesn't that make you feel better? Now you can be sure that won't be the cause of your death! :) |
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 Link_Hiei
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2210 Posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 8:56:30 AM
So now there are 2 people in the world who have been hit by 1? Aren't the chances like 1/Million something? |
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 Batmanners
Male, 18-29, Canada
1889 Posts
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 1:58:40 AM
To Lazyme484Maybe the foot wide crater was just the grass surrounding it? I don't think it actually touched him though, anything going that fast would have sliced, I think it just came so close so fast that the friction around him burned him. I just know that this kid is luckier than 7 lottery winners combined...for a meteorite to hit him and for him to survive. |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 10:36:41 PM
> LazyMe484You err in your argument - once it hits something, its a meteorite, not a meteor  |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
4886 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:35:50 PM
Its an awesome story, but its a bad article, next time find a better one... whoever it is that posts these. |
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LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
4886 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:30:42 PM
A rock that small couldn't make a foot-wide crater in concrete. Thats why I'm calling BS on the article - not on the story though, I'll accept that a person was hit and survived.Lucky kid though, it could easily passed through his skull. The smaller the meteor the smaller the crater, the faster the meteor the larger the crater, BUT if a meteor is as small and as fast as this one is (according tho this article), then it would have melted entirely. The real meteor was probably 4-5 times that size, else it wouldn't have survived entry. ... Also, the kid's account seems wierd, at 30,000 mph, it would be far too fast to see anything at all. What I think happened is the real meteor was slower (relatively) and fragmented on impact (being nearly molten) - and they just didn't find the other fragments being too small/deeply buried. |
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 Binary101
Male, 13-17, Asia
847 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 8:04:01 PM
now no-one will believe his story when he retells it |
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 BoobsAreNice
Male, 18-29, Canada
42 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:17:30 PM
I dont get it, It gives him like a 1 inch scar but makes a 1 foot crater?! Wierrrd..... |
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 beeze72
Male, 30-39, Western US
186 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:01:31 PM
i would rather win the lottery |
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 speedy_3909
Male, 13-17, Southern US
360 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:39:29 PM
:0 Paul is right my guess is that were all dead by 2012. |
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 GothicQueen
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
3434 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 5:39:01 PM
That's pretty cool. |
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SmallWorld
Male, 70 & Over, Midwest US
31 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:48:57 PM
He looks like a girl btw |
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SmallWorld
Male, 70 & Over, Midwest US
31 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:48:37 PM
Then he's the 2nd person to ever be hit by a meteorite. |
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 kevinmiller0
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
171 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 4:06:17 PM
@lilhawk2892: that was sarcasm. The title of the post made it seem like he was catostrophically injured but survived... I see what you're saying too but a couple inches to the left of right he'd be dead. |
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 ConverseUK
Male, 18-29, Europe
1293 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 3:27:05 PM
Ah-ha, that's what I wanted to see...the bit about 'fragments'.My denial stemmed from the fact that the 'meteorite' was a jagged piece of rock which clearly hadn't suffered the effects of falling from space. The fact that it was but a piece of a larger meteorite makes a lot more sense... |
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 Paul1582
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
356 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:51:21 PM
Intergalactic war is upon us. First they hit the dinosaurs, now they're striking people. |
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videogamer
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2452 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:45:57 PM
"WTF if its only like smaller than peble how could it make such a big crater"Imagine a bullet being shot. Now imagine it going 100,000 times faster. That's the power of this meteorite. |
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 maceizballin
Male, 13-17, Southern US
912 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:42:35 PM
awesome! he got a super rare rock AND a cool scar. |
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 RepostPolice
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
67 Posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009 2:35:29 PM
Damn nature, you scary. |
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