30 Second Update - Russian Meteor Shot Down:CONFIRMED?

Them videogames hasnt been healthy for you son, now go to sleep, sheep

Wouldn't need it. You're not trying to race the giant rock, you're trying to intercept it.

Computers have been able to do this with far slower projectiles for decades now.

If it where a railgun or something similar, it should have been mounted on a plane. Because it clearly isn't being fired from the ground. Look at the horizontal angel. But coming from a plane seems almost impossible, because either they have railgun equipped planes 24/7 in the sky all over Russia or they knew this meteor whas coming some hours ahead. And also, I doubt that the energy of a rail charge remains after it has been in contact whith its target. It seems to me it would dissipate on contact whith such a massive object.

Because Railguns only exist in video games, right??

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Dumbass.

The question is how do you calculate the precice trajectory of an object that is burning up as it enters the atmosphere and thus changing shape, size, composition as it descends? If the descending object does not maintain a consistent form, how can it's trajectory & velocity be precisely measured to the extent that it could be obliterated from a ground-based weapons system firing a projectile from a remote location?

that was just swamp gas defending us against that green beast!

They make the Kinetic Projectiles out of Special Materials that are super dense. Like Depleted Uranium.

The hole idea behind a kinetic projectile is that you are hurling a very hard chuck of matter at great speeds to get as much penetration as possible.

Its not an Energy Charge, that dissipates on contact.


A rail gun uses electricity to fire a Projectile.

umm... this is the first time i've seen one break apart and project debris forward...just sayin'

Why would anyone even try to "shoot down" a meteorite?

That makes zero sense.

It's coming down anyway. What? It's gonna fly away?


Does anyone think anymore?

Why does everyone just assume it is a meteor? It could be a HTV-2 and the Russians simply shot it down because it was over their airspace.

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An object with that kind of mass is not hard to track. Bits are breaking off, yeah, but due to massive momentum, the thing will not change direction quickly.

With the heat signature on top if its mass, tracking systems would light up that thing no problem. A human could calculate the tracectory with a pen and paper if he knew how far he was from everything, and it would take you some minutes, but you could do it. A computer can do that math a billion times a second.

You code an algorithm into the computer targeting system that takes account for the burning and decomposition of the incoming object. Its known that the decomposition will effect the angle, so they only have to determine how much to adjust.

Breaking it into smaller pieces greatly lessens the impact.

What we are ALL no remembering is the government has weapons and technology that you couldnt even dream of. They made a huge battleship disappear like 60 years ago and reappear miles away with people fused into the metal.

this was either an alien assistance shot or a VERY secret military defense lazer, bullet, cannon, beam etc that did this.

the video CLEARLY shows something coming from behind it, entering it then breaking pieces off then debris flying forward of the main mass.

great video and 5 stars

Well, Russia did say it had a counter measure to the missile shield that was threatening its borders, I wouldn't be surprised if they have it up and running and on standby in case a stray missile, meteortie or even ufo should enter its territory.

So perhaps this is just confirmation of the fact it works and also gors some way to explaining why we see two smoke trails prior to the dessimation of the meteorite.

solar warden probably wanted to keep the world supply of vodka

*decimation*.

As soon as they shot it, the object broke up into many shards and disintegrated.

If they didnt shoot it down, it would have made impact !

If that had hit the ground as a solid lump of rock, their would probably be millions dead.

end off.

That question would be irrelevant if this talk of it not being a meteor at all keeps coming up. [link to www.youtube.com]

terrorists, rogue nations and asteroids

I would have shot it from in front of it... as it came towards me. I could get several missiles in to increase my chances.

I would shoot from the side failing that, and intercept.

i used to shoot mofos with my railgun in q3.

The large meteor had associated smaller meteors. A trailing, denser, smaller meteor, partially protected in the slip-stream, continued at a faster velocity than the larger meteor, which was slowed and heated dramatically by friction with the Earth's atmosphere.

Would trailing chunks gain speed and go faster than the main rock?

A smaller meteor broke up, fell back, and then gained on the meteor fast enough to blow it apart on impact?

Impossible.

Didn't the Russians say they shot something down, specifically a new us weapon? How come this is so hard to believe that it was shot down?

who needs to catch it? they shoot if from the front or side and let it catch up with what you shot it with.
Who knows how long they knew it was coming and prepared for it?
some of those vids look like a small nuke went off.
much better to blast it to small parts which have less mass and will do less damage than let it hit with its full mass and do untold damage.

If it was shot down there is no doubt that took lots of inertia and mass from it. letting it hit several small areas with limited damage vs hitting a city center at full blast.

Fragments don't fly/drop faster than the large mass they leave... More like the opposite...

Missiles don't suddenly appear, then fly through such a hard target, without exploding, without changing projectary and then suddenly disappear again...

Either this is fake as h3ll or else some type of very stealthy hard/protected projectile/craft did the job...