Crazy bright. I wonder what the average luminosity of a meteorite is.

>> ^LordOderus:
First: Why is the video quality always crappy. This is NASA we're talking about. They have access to the best technology in the whole world! But for some reason, any video they take of "unidentified objects" always looks like it was shot with a god damn cell phone.

A lot of the footage used was not recent, which would explain the lack of quality.

Second: Most of the time, you have nothing to use as a reference point for size or distance. The background is often the moon or the earth and it is hundreds of miles away (if its the earth) or thousands of miles away if its the moon. That object passing in front of the camera could be 2 cm from the lens and the size of a pin head, or it could be miles away and the size of a football stadium, there's just no way to tell.

This is true. Although, there was the Tether Incident.

Third: Why is it that most of the footage just looks like crap floating past the camera. Isn't the most likely explanation because crap is floating past the camera? Space is filled with crap. Dust, little bits of meteorites and such. Some estimates suggest that 37,000-78,000 tons of space crap hit the earth every year. That's not counting all the garbage us humans have tossed into Low Earth orbit. A study in 1999 suggests that there is 4 million pounds of shit we left floating in orbit around earth. Some of these debris are whipping around the planet at 17,500 mph.

I agree, and a lot of it probably is just this. But there are curious anomalies, of which we can see a few in this video.

I'm one of those people that really thinks there is life out in the vastness of the Universe somewhere. The odds are just in favor of it. But I really don't know what to believe when I see these UFO videos and such. The majority of UFO sightings from earth are easily explained as mundane things. Planes, Stars, Planets, you name it. These videos shot from space though rule out a great many of the more realistic possibilities. However I always find a few big problems with any footage you see taken in space.

First: Why is the video quality always crappy. This is NASA we're talking about. They have access to the best technology in the whole world! But for some reason, any video they take of "unidentified objects" always looks like it was shot with a god damn cell phone.

Second: Most of the time, you have nothing to use as a reference point for size or distance. The background is often the moon or the earth and it is hundreds of miles away (if its the earth) or thousands of miles away if its the moon. That object passing in front of the camera could be 2 cm from the lens and the size of a pin head, or it could be miles away and the size of a football stadium, there's just no way to tell.

Third: Why is it that most of the footage just looks like crap floating past the camera. Isn't the most likely explanation because crap is floating past the camera? Space is filled with crap. Dust, little bits of meteorites and such. Some estimates suggest that 37,000-78,000 tons of space crap hit the earth every year. That's not counting all the garbage us humans have tossed into Low Earth orbit. A study in 1999 suggests that there is 4 million pounds of shit we left floating in orbit around earth. Some of these debris are whipping around the planet at 17,500 mph.

I find the possibility of life outside our own planet intriguing, and I really hope it's true. I also really hope that if life does exist out there, I live long enough for us to discover it. But as it stands now, I'm still pretty skeptical that they've ever been here.

>> ^lucky760:

Nothing is real until it has been observed! This clearly needs thinking about. Are we really saying that in the 'real' world - outside of the laboratory - that until a thing has been observed it doesn't exist? This is precisely what the Copenhagen Interpretation is telling us about reality."


meteorites crash through people's rooftops. so, nope...

it's not all that strange as long as you stop looking at things from a hominid perspective, seeing a 3D world, with linear real-time causations etc.
fundamentally the universe is maths, just mathematic probabilities, laws and limits at certain values - of a possibly infinite array (this is just one branch of possibilities where things like us could occur).
so, when understanding it like this - the smallest detectable limits of this place all just comes down to probabilities, it's all just made of maths. not building blocks, not stuff, but just potentials.

Yes meteorites are very cool, but if it were some cool alien shit it would be even cooler!

Nope, it's a hoax. Meteorites are not hot, the are actually very cool when hitting the ground.

As cool as it is, It is a "Fake"

"Latvian mobile operator Tele2 was involved in staging a hoax on a meteorite allegedly falling in the country on Sunday, the operator's marketing and sales director said Monday.
Latvian mobile operator Tele2 was involved in staging a hoax on a meteorite allegedly falling in the country on Sunday, the operator's marketing and sales director More.. said Monday."
- http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3b5_1256594548

Not at all! I'm sure you could find any number of universities that would pay through the node for an infant that crawled out of the crater. Probably even more so than for just the meteorite...

aloha, fisk!

was just reminded of my favorite horror movie, by this comment, and wanted to make sure i upvoted the trailer again after the re-sift.

so i run a search, upvote it, and scroll down to see if any good scenes had been tossed up here, only to discover that this is a dupe. and what's more, apparently i was the original sifter!

so, if you've got a favorite clip languishing in your p-q or something, reply to me and i'll toss it a promote. if not, i'll just pick something i like and bump that.

This show still holds my personal record for going downhill - faster than a meteorite entering the atmosphere (and mind you, the very beginning wasn't stellar, either). But when we stopped watching it at a couple of episodes in S2, it was (and for me probably always will be) the worst "popular"/overhyped show in existence. As such, I can't have a trailer for it on the very first page of the Sift. Downvote (probably my first on a Sift by ant, too).

i would say its far more likely that these glowing balls and what have u are just representations of commits and meteorites, anything that's closer to the stars becomes more significant so building tall buildings and thinking of birds as a huge religious thing is not hard to believe.

the philosophy of the mind and trying to understand what it is is going to baffle people that do not have the ability to scan brains.

>> ^cybrbeast:
Well actually, this is more humane than normal weapons....


There is no "humane" way to kill someone violently. Trauma is trauma. 5000FPS terminal velocity will generate some hellish effects on target with a considerable amount of fragmentation... Think of it as standing at ground zero when a meteorite strikes.

>> ^brain:
Meteorite isn't the correct term. This is a video of a "Meteor" (or fireball).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor#Meteor


Thanks, adjusted the title, but still left meteorite in tags, since they believe it actually reached the ground (or ocean for that matter)

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by kulpims.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Meteorite-in-Sweden