Guest dog14787 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 Boy hit by meteorite! I hope he kept it, as valuable as it probably is its almost like hitting the lottery, but Wow, what are the odds of getting hit by a meteorite, geeesh.
Bullpen Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 What we really gotta figure out here, is who the hell is going to get sued over this!
Guest dog14787 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 What we really gotta figure out here, is who the hell is going to get sued over this! Exactly, if you can't walk down the road without getting hit with a meteorite somethings wrong.
VABills Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 What we really gotta figure out here, is who the hell is going to get sued over this! NASA? They should have seen it coming. better do it quick though, the big O wants to shut them down and use the money for who knows what.
ieatcrayonz Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 The first line of the article: A 14-year old German boy was hit in the hand by a pea-sized meteorite that scared the bejeezus out of him and left a scar. I don't know whether the sky is falling but journalistic standards sure are. Since when did the "word" bejeezus replace the proper English word crap?
stuckincincy Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 What we really gotta figure out here, is who the hell is going to get sued over this! The Gerard Kuiper estate.
ans4e64 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 How could the thing be going so fast as to bury itself into the pavement of a road, but bounce off the kid's head?
Guest dog14787 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 How could the thing be going so fast as to bury itself into the pavement of a road, but bounce off the kid's head? Grazed his hand
stuckincincy Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 How could the thing be going so fast as to bury itself into the pavement of a road, but bounce off the kid's head? I worked for a West German company for several years. They have hard heads.
Chandler#81 Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 The first line of the article: I don't know whether the sky is falling but journalistic standards sure are. Since when did the "word" bejeezus replace the proper English word crap? Many blogs from Europe contain poor, street language. By our standards anyway. Then again, we are a smug whippersnapper in their eyes. How the hell didn't it kill the kid when it stuck in the road after bouncin' off his melon??
Lori Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 The first line of the article: I don't know whether the sky is falling but journalistic standards sure are. Since when did the "word" bejeezus replace the proper English word crap? You'll have to ask the nerds at SPACE.com; it's their story. http://www.space.com/news/090612-boy-hit-by-meteorite.html
shrader Posted June 12, 2009 Posted June 12, 2009 How the hell didn't it kill the kid when it stuck in the road after bouncin' off his melon?? There's definitely a bit of exaggeration going on in that story. If it hit him hard enough to send him flying and bury itself in the road, it would have to do a good amount of damage to his hand.
Guest dog14787 Posted June 13, 2009 Posted June 13, 2009 There's definitely a bit of exaggeration going on in that story. If it hit him hard enough to send him flying and bury itself in the road, it would have to do a good amount of damage to his hand. If you pull up Lori's link and then go to the original report ( the Telegraph reports) it sounds like the scar he received is a nasty one. I'm fairly confident it was probably the impact with the road that may have knocked the young fella off his feet, it just happened so fast his account of what happened is probably a little hazy.
Booster4324 Posted June 13, 2009 Posted June 13, 2009 If you pull up Lori's link and then go to the original report ( the Telegraph reports) it sounds like the scar he received is a nasty one. I'm fairly confident it was probably the impact with the road that may have knocked the young fella off his feet, it just happened so fast his account of what happened is probably a little hazy. It is a tiny scar. One that looks like it would heal in a week or so.
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