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There is a much better video where you can see it skipping across the atmosphere before plunging in like a rock across a lake.

And the four minute delay of the boom from the atmosphere to the surface is super scary considering how much energy it had.

There's another video with it head-on and that must be what being hit by an icbm looks like, at least for the first millisecond.

Try some of the videos here: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/18kado/ufo_meteorite...

> with it head-on and that must be what being hit by an icbm looks like

I strongly doubt this is anything but a natural phenomenon.

Actually, what's most remarkable is the number of video cams which have surfaced having recorded some aspect of the event. It's amazing there was enough time to have noticed something unusual, deployed one's camera, and recorded the arrival of the shock wave, the broken windows, car alarms, and barking dogs. And then uploaded it to YouTube.

Also, the number of dash cams that recorded the entry and flash, accompanied by techno music. What is it with Russians and dash cams?

> what being hit by an icbm looks like

Here's what a MIRV attack looks like (with dummy warheads):

http://www.osborneink.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MIRV.pn...

With a meteor, the energy is all kinetic. With an ICBM, the kinetic energy is incidental to the delivery method. The payload energy is all nuclear.

Well that's positively terrifying.
Why are the trajectories straight?
That's what struck me about the MIRV test photo the first time I saw it.

Of course, the apparent straight lines are really just the far ends of very flat parabolic curves. Unlike meteors, MIRV warheads are designed to make it to the ground (or the intended airburst location) undamaged and with a 50% probability of coming down within 100m of the target. Once released, the warheads have no maneuvering capability and follow ballistic trajectories, minimally distorted by the rapidly thickening atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targetab...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-V6MZlyCqE (Animated depiction of MIRV flight)

Thank you for those links. The things are coming in damn fast.
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