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FourthBase wrote:Imagine how this kind of thing must have seemed to prehistoric humans. It must've blown their fucking minds. Well, a lot of stuff back then would've. But this is a little glimpse into the blown-mind of the humans who must have first invented gods like Jehovah and Zeus or their predecessors.
Canadian_watcher wrote:FourthBase wrote:Imagine how this kind of thing must have seemed to prehistoric humans. It must've blown their fucking minds. Well, a lot of stuff back then would've. But this is a little glimpse into the blown-mind of the humans who must have first invented gods like Jehovah and Zeus or their predecessors.
yeah, those guys were stupid back then. I mean shit.. just look at the ancient art and archaeology. Morons.
barracuda wrote:According to unconfirmed reports, the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. A missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers, local newspaper Znak reports quoting a source in the military.
Is there any possible way this has a relationship to something that really happened?
NASA estimated that the meteor over Russia was about 49 feet wide and weighed about 7,000 tons before it hit the atmosphere. It was about one-quarter the size of the passing asteroid.
As for the back-to-back events, "this is indeed very rare and it is historic," said Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science.
"These fireballs happen about once a day or so, but we just don't see them because many of them fall over the ocean or in remote areas. This one was an exception," he said on NASA TV.
A meteorite that injured scores of people in central Russia when it fell to earth early on Friday plunged into a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, the regional governor said.
“The meteorite that passed over the Chelyabinsk region fell into a body of water 1km from the city of Chebarkul,” said a statement posted on the website of Chelyabinsk governor, Mikhail Yurevich.
FourthBase wrote:Canadian_watcher wrote:FourthBase wrote:Imagine how this kind of thing must have seemed to prehistoric humans. It must've blown their fucking minds. Well, a lot of stuff back then would've. But this is a little glimpse into the blown-mind of the humans who must have first invented gods like Jehovah and Zeus or their predecessors.
yeah, those guys were stupid back then. I mean shit.. just look at the ancient art and archaeology. Morons.
Right, that's exactly what I meant. There's no other way to interpret what I said. I must be an obnoxious asshole who casually spits on the intelligence of our relatively-low-tech, relatively-ignorant, but equally-intelligent distant ancestors, who isn't even aware that this meteor just yesterday blew the collective mind of our supposedly-uber-sophisticated, seen-it-all, high-tech generation.
Canadian_watcher wrote:FourthBase wrote:Canadian_watcher wrote:FourthBase wrote:Imagine how this kind of thing must have seemed to prehistoric humans. It must've blown their fucking minds. Well, a lot of stuff back then would've. But this is a little glimpse into the blown-mind of the humans who must have first invented gods like Jehovah and Zeus or their predecessors.
yeah, those guys were stupid back then. I mean shit.. just look at the ancient art and archaeology. Morons.
Right, that's exactly what I meant. There's no other way to interpret what I said. I must be an obnoxious asshole who casually spits on the intelligence of our relatively-low-tech, relatively-ignorant, but equally-intelligent distant ancestors, who isn't even aware that this meteor just yesterday blew the collective mind of our supposedly-uber-sophisticated, seen-it-all, high-tech generation.
sorry, I guess I couldn't read the novella you imply you have written between the lines there.
My bad.
it's a pet peeve though, when people dismiss ancient civilizations as being unworldly, unsophisticated and relatively child-like based upon the fact that they believed in God(s)/Goddess(es)
Back then they had clean air and beauty, they had ceremony and high art - they understood the rhythms of nature and the stars and the body and they honoured those. They also believed in higher spiritual powers. We know better now - we've learned so much.
Today we have pollution and degradation, flag waving and fart jokes - we laugh at nature's power, scoff at the stars and exploit and poison the body. And we 'discovered' that there is no God, too.
Aren't we just the pinnacle of wisdom?
HAVANA TIMES — Homes in the central Cuban town of Rodas, Cienfuegos shook on Wednesday evening after an explosion overhead, reported ANSA news service.
Witnesses reported the fall of a celestial phenomenon that ended with a huge explosion with a very bright light in the sky that shook their homes, said ANSA citing the Cuban morning TV news program as its source.
Experts are scouring the area in search of any remains that fell to Earth. No reports of injuries or damage to property has come in.
Meanwhile in Russia on Friday, a piece of a meteorite caused extensive material damage and nearly a thousand injures were reported in the Ural region of the country
elfismiles wrote:Carol Rosin on Werner Von Braun's alleged alerting her to the Escalating Faux Threats Towards Global Governance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wsBFSsCbI
(2001 Disclosure Press Conference)
Cosmic Coincidence: Russian Meteor, Asteroid Near-Miss on Same Day
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/201 ... n-same-day
FourthBase wrote:Canadian_watcher wrote:FourthBase wrote:Canadian_watcher wrote:FourthBase wrote:Imagine how this kind of thing must have seemed to prehistoric humans. It must've blown their fucking minds. Well, a lot of stuff back then would've. But this is a little glimpse into the blown-mind of the humans who must have first invented gods like Jehovah and Zeus or their predecessors.
yeah, those guys were stupid back then. I mean shit.. just look at the ancient art and archaeology. Morons.
Right, that's exactly what I meant. There's no other way to interpret what I said. I must be an obnoxious asshole who casually spits on the intelligence of our relatively-low-tech, relatively-ignorant, but equally-intelligent distant ancestors, who isn't even aware that this meteor just yesterday blew the collective mind of our supposedly-uber-sophisticated, seen-it-all, high-tech generation.
sorry, I guess I couldn't read the novella you imply you have written between the lines there.
My bad.
it's a pet peeve though, when people dismiss ancient civilizations as being unworldly, unsophisticated and relatively child-like based upon the fact that they believed in God(s)/Goddess(es)
Back then they had clean air and beauty, they had ceremony and high art - they understood the rhythms of nature and the stars and the body and they honoured those. They also believed in higher spiritual powers. We know better now - we've learned so much.
Today we have pollution and degradation, flag waving and fart jokes - we laugh at nature's power, scoff at the stars and exploit and poison the body. And we 'discovered' that there is no God, too.
Aren't we just the pinnacle of wisdom?
Eh, it's not so much that there was some iceberg of meaning beneath what I wrote. It's more that you could have approached what I wrote with a more generous picture of who I am and what I could have possibly meant. You read me as a douche. (Which I could understand, since I've had my douchebag moments here.) But it turns out, I pretty much feel the same as you, lol, go figure. For example, I was really saying (or trying to say, and failing) that it's no surprise if meteoric events like yesterday's inspired prehistoric humans to imagine the kind of gods they did, because even to us today, with all our facts about the solar system, that shit was crazy. I can only imagine what it must have meant to humans who weren't so detached from nature, who weren't presumptuous know-it-alls, who didn't happen to have (or need) an encyclopedic scientific context to deconstruct and diminish the pants-shitting visceral grandeur of something like that meteor.
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