Timelapse of the Perseid Meteor Shower in Joshua Tree Park has been added as a related post - related requested by braschlosan on that post.

I am so badly jaded by this point that i consider almost everything with power in the western world to be corrupt.

I used to say that those who were intelligent and caring enough to lead and forge a better world for all of us are least suited to get there, but i have since changed my opinion to a worse one; those who are most suited to getting into a position of power are those without empathy for others, who can and will abuse anyone and anything to further themselves - they are known as professional psychopaths, and i think we are led by them.

In our country right now, on average, the richest pay less tax than the poor, and the extremely rich can afford to pay no tax. Our MP's cheat expenses (which are already outrageous) and have second houses paid for them, they set up laws to help them dodge tax and make changes to our social systems so that they can sell them off to their friends. They recently even wanted a further pay hike because apparently all of those things followed by a guaranteed golden handshake/pension is not enough. Meanwhile, and this is not hyperbole, there are elderly people dying because they can't afford to heat their homes during the winter, and food banks have risen meteorically because others can't afford to feed their families.

This feels like some sort of medieval nightmare, where the kings and lords are living a life of plenty, stuffing their faces with roast pigs whilst the commoners starve and eat grass outside the castle walls.

I am genuinely concerned for the world, and i am bewildered by the fact that none of my friends seem to care as much as i do. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing - apathy is how this world will burn.

Even better Russian dash cam video than the Chelyabinsk meteor.

That was probably a lot like it felt and looked when the meteor came down in Russia. I can't imagine the frequency or amplitude of that wave was much different.

Move over bacon, now there's something meteor!

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Don't stop! MUST ESCAPE METEORS!!

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The thing that amazes me is how accurately this sort of meteor entry has been depicted in countless movies and 'artist's impressions'. Add a lens flare in there, and it'd look nice and CGI.

Yes, absolutely, the meteor in Russia was a major event. And people got hurt.
It's big news to those among the injured (superficial wounds that most of them were - but still important) and it's important to meteorologists & astronomers.

Interesting to the rest of us, yes. but not important to me in the sense that it doesn't affect me. It doesn't. Nor does it affect the majority of the world.

But the world economy affects everyone. The stuff that is going on now will not just affect us today and tomorrow but far into the future. These are events that can change the outlook of society.

So as I promote this one lonely video that was in danger of being overlooked Vs. the more than numerous (and still counting) videos surfacing this morning concerning the event in Russia. I am not being facetious, but I am being poignant.

I think you're being facetious--but just to make sure. The meteor broke a bunch of windows and ~1000 people got cut by the glass. Pretty much any newsworthy thing outweighs it. It's just a neat spectacle.

Totally agree that this is super important, though.

*Promote to bring attention to this one so people can see it between the cat videos and the the Russian meteor videos.

As devastating as the Russian meteor is, and as many of the videos there are for that, I somehow think this issue far outweighs it.

The US national and International banking fraud, crisis and law evasion is an issue that will affect us all as these multi-national money-loving corporations and banks plan and steal not just the nations money but the money in the international world as well.

Bringing these Banks into alignment with checks, balances and the LAW is a daunting task but also one that MUST be done.

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Suddenly everyone gets serious about meteor defense. Sweet.