Video: The obligatory freaky deaky Edmonton meteor clips
posted at 12:31 pm on November 22, 2008 by Allahpundit
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So spectacular is it, I keep expecting a mushroom cloud and some sort of Tunguska shock wave every time I watch. Scientists estimate that it weighed six or seven metric tons — a.k.a. 15,000 pounds — when it entered the atmosphere. And now? They’re looking for the pebbly remnants somewhere around the Saskatchewan border.
Verily, it is an omen of The One’s greatness.
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It is a sign from the Great Liberal Messiah! /lib sarc
DannoJyd on November 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM
You are expecting the Star of Bethlehem?
Kini on November 22, 2008 at 12:34 PM
What is this? Did someone animate the Dow Jones Average from the past week?
Nethicus on November 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM
beautiful!
bridgetown on November 22, 2008 at 12:35 PM
It’s pointing to the place of his birth, where is that Birth Certificate?
abinitioadinfinitum on November 22, 2008 at 12:36 PM
That was pretty cool.
HawaiiLwyr on November 22, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Iran’s test run.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 22, 2008 at 12:38 PM
KING DAVID SAID “THE STARS SPEAK.” The starry events you have seen match the 9-point account in The Book of Matthew. A reasonable person could conclude that we have found the Biblical Star. If we have, then you have heard the stars speak. You have heard the celestial fanfare for the birth of a King. The Messiah.
Alden Pyle on November 22, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Bow in his presence.
Alden Pyle on November 22, 2008 at 12:38 PM
omg…
I hadn’t seen this vid…but wow, not something that happens every day, that’s for sure.
JetBoy on November 22, 2008 at 12:39 PM
You’re right AP, the God “Ogdi” is here…………..
Seven Percent Solution on November 22, 2008 at 12:39 PM
It could also be a sign of the One’s Crash and Burn
Kini on November 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM
New York Times subscriptions…?
Sgt. Hartman on November 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Outstanding!
drjohn on November 22, 2008 at 12:42 PM
We won’t be laughing at the end of next July. That’s all I am saying.
Neo on November 22, 2008 at 12:43 PM
that was cool.
rob verdi on November 22, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I’m just sayin’
29Victor on November 22, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Very cool!
conservative_in_texas on November 22, 2008 at 12:48 PM
That was crazy.
But I thought The One’s personal charm was going to make them cuddly like a kitten and heal the world. Why haven’t the waters turned back yet, by the way? And where’s my check from the rich people? Tick tock, Obama.
meltenn on November 22, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Awesome!
D2Boston on November 22, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Junk from all the stuff we have put up there reentering our
planets atmosphere?
dragondrop on November 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Nyah Nyah missed me.
Speakup on November 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM
something like this:
lobosan5 on November 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM
The Sky is Falling
Global Warming
Kini on November 22, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Or a sign of the horror to come.
ThePrez on November 22, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Saw it driving home and I thought an oil/gas plant exploded 1/2 mile ahead of me until I realized what it was. I was driving in an area that had no lights and bamm the whole place lit up like a flare had been shot. Too cool to describe.
CarrieParker on November 22, 2008 at 1:01 PM
And remember…
Its better to burn out… than fade away….
Romeo13 on November 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM
They’re sayin’ it had to be 15 metric tons of rock to throw off that kind of spark.
mylegsareswollen on November 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Whoa!
We could really use a well-placed Tunguska event, these days.
progressoverpeace on November 22, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Kini, you didn’t get the memo? Hannity said on his show yesterday that the scientist say we have an ice age coming…….again.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 22, 2008 at 1:05 PM
I am not goofing on the global warming here in Florida. I have company coming next weekend.
Cindy Munford on November 22, 2008 at 1:08 PM
That was actually a Raptor making a landing; the Galactica finally found Earth.
Bishop on November 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM
As a former Calgarian, I can tell you this meteor will have no effect whatsoever on the population of Edmonton.
They’re already infested with zombies up there: The rest of the world just happens to call them “Oilers Fans”.
:)
ExUrbanKevin on November 22, 2008 at 1:10 PM
I remember seeing on of similar magnitude in Texas. I think it was around 1971. Brilliant.
carbon_footprint on November 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, Rosie O’Donnell has entered the atmosphere.
Patrick S on November 22, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Imagine the CO2 that thing spewed out. The horror!
whitetop on November 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM
It must be the tool bag that fell out of the space shuttle.
erp on November 22, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Allah,
This is from up top how does Time Mag determine the 25 top blogs? I looked at this list and recognized a Huffington, Kos and Ace HQ, Andrew Sullivan, the others don’t even look remotely familar.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1725323_1727246_1727247,00.html
Dr Evil on November 22, 2008 at 1:24 PM
…or Hillary as Condi’s replacement. Crash and burn?
Zorro on November 22, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Well ExUrbanKevin as an Edmontonian I quote you someone you can certainly relate too…”Droll, very droll”, Fred Flintstone
CarrieParker on November 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM
That sure was a big bag that astronaut lost!
blatantblue on November 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM
If the U.N. truly wants peace, it should divert money from global warming “research” (snicker) to development of a hibernating, stink-seeking drone targeted specifically at these odoriferous cave-goats.
whitetop on November 22, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Come on people. This is the arrival of the first Martian lander. Don’t any of you read the classics?
thekingtut on November 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM
I’ve seen meteors break up and turn different colors. There’s a scientific name for it but I forgot it.
Also very cool are the trails left from rocket lunches at twilight. It will be dark but the sun still reflects off of them and they are iridescent.
Blake on November 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Or it could be one big assed Imperial probe droid.
thekingtut on November 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM
My first post must not have worked because my second did.
I was driving on the south Edmonton ring-road (HWY 216) going east and witnessed this first hand. At first I thought it was a gas well flare that exploded however I soon realized it was a meteor. The entire area lit up for a few seconds and the meteor appeared to fade out. But since people well SE of me saw it I guess it was moving to fast and faded out of my sight line.
Too cool beyond words…once in a lifetime.
CarrieParker on November 22, 2008 at 1:46 PM
LOL
That is spectacular, but shouldn’t we have known it was coming with all our meteor tracking techno?
Ash on November 22, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Pod people invasion in 3…2…
Oh wait, it’s past November 4th already so…
“All your Consitutions are belong to us!”
catmman on November 22, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Whoa – you had to go there, did you? You did have the good sense to leave Calgary, so I’ll let it go.
Go Oilers!
landshark on November 22, 2008 at 1:54 PM
blatantblue on November 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM
That’s some tool bag! I guess we know now why it cost so much!
P. Monk on November 22, 2008 at 1:58 PM
+1
Tanya on November 22, 2008 at 2:01 PM
That first video is awesome! I have to say though, if I was watching this in person I might have pooped my pants.
kongzilla on November 22, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Jericho project
vinman on November 22, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Cool….
DL13 on November 22, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Are they sure this wasn’t the $100,000 toolbag they lost from the Space Station walk the other day….LOL
Fires1 on November 22, 2008 at 2:31 PM
This day will be forever celebrated as the 0bama Holiday…
Or Kwanzaa, one.
warbaby on November 22, 2008 at 2:35 PM
And oh yeah, I forgot:
Celebrate Victory in Iraq Day, 11/22/08
God Bless Our Troops
http://www.zombietime.com/vi_day/
warbaby on November 22, 2008 at 2:37 PM
If so, then why would it go to Edmonton? There are no wise men or virgins in that place! :)
FYI I’m a native Albertan and have family in Edmonton.
KillerKane on November 22, 2008 at 2:40 PM
*laughs* Reminds me of a joke.
An assistant manager at a Safeway store in Seattle gets called into the store manager’s office.
“Good news!” said the store manager. “I pulled some strings and got you a job as a store manager at a new location we’re opening in Coquitlam, Canada!”
“Coquitlam!?” exclaims the assistant manager. “Only hookers and hockey players live in Coquitlam!”
“My wife is from Coquitlam!” shouts the store manager.
“Really?” replies the assistant manager, “what position does she play?”
Nethicus on November 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Ahhh haha
I got a huge laugh out of that, Nethie.
SlimyBill on November 22, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Oy! hahahah
Sweet!
SlimyBill on November 22, 2008 at 3:08 PM
If I had seen this, I would be earnestly in prayer. If a large enough asteroid to wipe us out entered the atmosphere, it would look no different than that, since you don’t know how far away it is.
keep the change on November 22, 2008 at 3:08 PM
Bolides for Barack!
Limerick on November 22, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Looks like a “falling star” to me.
A sign of things to come? i.e. The “One” will fall!
PaKeystoner on November 22, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Say…isn’t that how a lot of the zombie movies start?
cryptojunkie on November 22, 2008 at 3:43 PM
That video is made of awesome!
mjk on November 22, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Oh my goodness, that was amazing!
CP on November 22, 2008 at 3:45 PM
dang, that looked like it may have made it to the ground. Holy crap!
johnnyU on November 22, 2008 at 3:57 PM
They might have and didn’t want to cause a panic or not if its an omen from you know, God, but it was kind of far from Chicago and you’d think it would have barked somebodies shin.
Speakup on November 22, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Global warming will cause more frequent, more intense meteor showers. Meteors will become substantially larger, and meteorite destruction will be widespread. Poor and minorities will be the most harmed.
petefrt on November 22, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Global warming will cause more frequent, more intense meteor showers. Accumulation of meteorites in the oceans will cause sea levels to rise up to 20 feet in ten years. Poor and minorities will be most harmed.
petefrt on November 22, 2008 at 4:22 PM
I’ll bet one of my old friends is there now. You guys have any idea how much decent chunks of meteorite are worth? He has made millions chasing new meteorite falls, and picking up the pieces of old ones.
LegendHasIt on November 22, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Not as cool as the Chicago one in 2002. Saw that one live. Holy Freaking Crap. It was behind me as I walked to my car; first I thought there was a car coming around a corner, behind me – then I realized that was impossible from where I was – THEN THE SKY TURNED BLUE AT MIDNIGHT.
playblu on November 22, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Perhaps they’ll find a baby in the crater, sent here to save mankind from Obama.
EnglishMike on November 22, 2008 at 4:40 PM
I had a great view of the “Peekskill Meteorite” one night back in 1992 or so when I was driving into Pittsburgh. Here’s a good video from Mt Washington. What you can’t tell in any of the videos is that the fire was green. When I saw it, I didn’t know what it was. A plane with an engine fire? I didn’t know, but I suspected it was a meteor because of the color. Later that night it was on the news after it had slammed in to some woman’s Cutlass in a trailer park in upstate New York.
forest on November 22, 2008 at 4:57 PM
Yeah, and he’ll be one of the first stumbling about, muttering “brains….brains”.
cryptojunkie on November 22, 2008 at 4:58 PM
RYMB!
29Victor on November 22, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Frankincense and myrrh.
Skipper50 on November 22, 2008 at 5:49 PM
I’m shocked to hear the tonnage of the thing (estimated of course)
About five years ago, My wife and I were walking one night in Torrington, WY when we saw something of comparable brightness and all that.
Next day we expected big news about it. Nothing. No mention of it at all. I know Wyoming is sparsely populated but I figured even in Wyoming on a late Saturday night someone besides the two of us saw it. We figured it was not very big, just burned bright. However, it might have been the size of this thing.
kybowexar on November 22, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Very funny!!
Mattmax on November 22, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Doomed I tell ya,where Doomed!
Me thinks,that if 15,000 lb rock
detonated,it would be a very big
Ka-Blewy!
canopfor on November 22, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Scene at the police station: Yeah, yeah we saw the star in the north but DNA says it was your boyfriend that got you pregnant.
Speakup on November 22, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Earth can be a really pretty place, but it’s the things “out there” that really take my breath away.
artlover on November 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM
If it didn’t warp the fabric of space and time, I’m not interested.
But, seriously.
I understand the meteorite was pardoned by Palin before it collided with the earth…
Mister Ghost on November 22, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Where is Chicken little?
(y’know AL Gore?)
John The Baptist on November 22, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Yeah, I’m not sure about the year, but I think that’s the one that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I was in bed with my eyes closed, and my whole room lit up for a moment. I was too scared to move–I just froze and talked myself into thinking it was a dream. I found out much later it hit hundreds of miles away.
juliesa on November 22, 2008 at 7:24 PM
OK, when do the brain eating zombies start over-running the continent? It shouldn’t take too long to wipe out Canada.
Wyznowski on November 22, 2008 at 7:27 PM
This guy knows what it really was.
- The Cat
P.S. Anyone seen Bruce Willis lately?
MirCat on November 22, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Groovy. What fortunate timing.
LimeyGeek on November 22, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Why in Hell couldn’t someone looking for asteroids not see something that big? WE ARE DOOMED!
SouthernGent on November 22, 2008 at 8:34 PM
If you mean it makes you think of Iranian or Chinese ICBM warheads re-entering the atmosphere, I believe you may be right.
The videos are impressive, though.
Blacklake on November 22, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Well, as far as I can tell, we’re still all sitting here typing away. I’m not over concerned (yet).
Anyway, that was freaking awesome.
flipflop on November 22, 2008 at 9:11 PM
This youtube comment made me laugh:
“RIP Santa Claus”
JimRich on November 23, 2008 at 12:24 AM
Beautiful!
Mojave Mark on November 23, 2008 at 12:26 AM
I actually witnessed one of those up close. I was in the Navy and we were on a deployment. I was standing a watch outside at night, and then the whole night sky just lit up in this bright blue light. I could actually hear it and everything. It was amazing.
SoulGlo on November 23, 2008 at 12:42 AM
It looked an awful lot like the saucers landing in the 1953 “War of the Worlds.” Maybe we should check Obama’s birth certificate again, just to be sure. If it says “MARS” on it, that could be a red flag. It could explain the apparent mind-rays that mesmerized the lefty crowds.
Tantor on November 23, 2008 at 1:23 PM
I think scientists call it “breaking up and turning different colors.”
Pelayo on November 23, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Might be a preview of things to come…
Maxx on November 24, 2008 at 2:18 PM
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