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SandboxGeneral

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Sep 8, 2010
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These are asteroids... we're all gonna die.

YouTube: video

But probably due to not asteroids.

That was wild. My cat was in great fear. He kept trying to get on top of the MBP to get a closer look at the animation. Maybe it wasn't fear and that he just wanted to play with the moving asteroids. :p Seriously though, that was cool.
 

whooleytoo

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Aug 2, 2002
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Cork, Ireland.
Imagine what could have happened if this occurred back during the Cold War. Someone gets a telephoned report of a vapour trail, a huge fireball and a very loud bang in Southern USSR, and decides to push the button before it's too late...
 

Gutwrench

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There's a few checks in place even then fortunately. Heck they almost did once...

I remember back in 2002 a meteor exploded over the Mediterranean Sea at the height of the tension between India and Pakistan. Had the meteor exploded a little closer to India and Pakistan it could easily have been mistaken as a nuclear attack and caused a real exchange.
 
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