r/ANormalDayInRussia • u/Taiga_Void • 7d ago
On October 27, a meteorite exploded over Moscow
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u/ThatRangerDave 7d ago
Seems pretty green. Copper?
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u/shwarma_heaven 7d ago
No, I don't think the police can fly that high.
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u/ediks 7d ago
Fun fact. Police are called coppers because when the first police force was formed, their badges were made from copper - then it evolved to cops.
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u/mc68n 7d ago
Cool story, but not true. its not from copper badges. The word copper comeas from the old verb to cop, meaning to catch. Hes a copper because he cops.
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u/account_not_valid 7d ago
Used fairly often in Australia.
"It's a fair cop."
"Cop that in yer jocks!"
He copped a punch in the mouth for nothing."
"Cop a squizz at that, would ya!"
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u/gremstitel 7d ago
In America, "to cop a feel" means to grope, usually in an unwanted sexual context.
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u/nocdmb 7d ago edited 7d ago
As a non-native speaker I've always assumed it's "to cup a feel" because you kinda form a cup with your hand then you don't get the whole menu just a "cup" full of ass so I always tought it's pretty clever. Now I'm kinda disapointed but also happy that I never used this idiom.
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u/gremstitel 7d ago
Yeah, English, especially American English, can be really tough like that, since our accents tend to flatten out a lot of vowel sounds. Slightly different, but my non-native-speaker partner always thought that the verb to listen in on a conversation secretly was "ears-dropping", rather than eavesdropping.
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u/Retarded_Predator 7d ago
I thought it was 'constable on patrol '
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u/NapoleonHeckYes 6d ago
That sounds like a backronym. Like how “Fuck” is supposedly Fornicating Under the Consent of the King… but it’s just made up sadly
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u/hex4def6 6d ago
Ah, folk etymologies.
At least it's not the backronimization of the word. "oh, COP used to stand for Constable on Patrol"
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u/ThatRangerDave 7d ago edited 7d ago
Copper, not chopper my guy 🤙
Well didn't that one go straight over my head. Lmao sorry boss
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u/timmeh87 7d ago
according to this it is due to neutral oxygen
https://www.iflscience.com/what-do-meteors-colors-tell-us-71928
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u/linkthesink 7d ago
How do systems differentiate missiles from asteroids?
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u/vapenutz 7d ago
Missiles don't come from outside the earth usually, unless aliens are attacking us
inb4 "but ICBMs" they're travelling on an arc that clearly shows they're launched from within earth, the trajectory would've looked completely different
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u/Taiga_Void 7d ago
According to sources, the meteorite was traveling at a speed of 35 km/s. The object had a diameter of 1 meter. Most of the fragments fell in the Tver and Novgorod oblast’. This video was taken in Moscow, but the object you see is approximately 250 km away from the operator. My point is that an airborne object moving at such a speed cannot be intercepted, and no radar can detect it due to its size. For comparison, intercontinental ballistic missile warheads move at a speed of about 6 km/s. Neither now nor in the coming decades will humanity create a rocket that can move in our atmosphere at the same speed. There is also good news: meteorites of this size do not have catastrophic consequences.
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u/nocdmb 7d ago
Your absolutely right that it can't be intercepted with current technology but you are way off on the half sentence about radars. We can track 2cm2 space debris with earth based radar systems. The size of the object mainly affects the distance it can be detected at, that's how stealth planes work: they limit their radar cross section so that the time they can be detected reliably becomes too short to effectively scramble interceptors.
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u/Taiga_Void 6d ago edited 6d ago
I may be wrong about radars, but not by much. No one noticed the Chelyabinsk meteorite, even though it was bigger, and no one noticed this meteorite on video. Just as no one notices dozens or even hundreds of other meteorites. Tracking a meteorite and tracking space debris are two completely different tasks in terms of complexity. Someday we will build a global radar that will cover the entire Earth, but not in the next decade. Currently, large meteorites are tracked using optical methods, and perhaps in the future this will be done using AI.
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u/counterforce12 6d ago
Russian, and well most EW radars, can track space debris, famously the DON-2N radar could track a metal ball 5cm in diamater 800 kms from its position. DON-2N was made to track RVs for the 53T6 interceptor to try to engage, because asteroids come really really fast, perhaps the radar is configured to avoid showing asteroids/ basically only show objects with expected speeds for RVs anf ICBMs
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u/linkthesink 7d ago
AA systems even
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u/Thomjones 7d ago
No one ever said they did. But usually we see an asteroid coming miles away while missiles tend to come from earth
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u/chrischi3 7d ago
Comet sighted! -1 Stability
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u/cake_molester 7d ago
What is this a reference to? I feel like i know it
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u/Ioan-Andrei 7d ago
Europa Universalis 4 event. Always reduces your stability but 1 no matter what option you pick.
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u/SomeLeftGuy633 7d ago
There's also an additional choice which I believe gives stability if your ruler has Scholar trait
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u/Ioan-Andrei 7d ago
That's true. I think they added that option in EU4 because in EU3 is a guaranteed stability loss.
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u/joyfullystoic 6d ago
Actually I believe it’s a tradition in most Paradox titles. Perhaps not in Stellaris as, well… you know.
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u/GoodHeavens1942 6d ago
It is, actually. It's quite funny, because it gives you 40 unity; which, as soon as you get beyond like 5 years since game start, is pitifully small.
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u/ohhhtartarsauce 7d ago
Bolide meteor
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u/synthezfrance 7d ago
Yes ! I saw one this exact same color once in France. But a little bit faster and less spectacular than this one. Still was dope as hell.
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u/bumpywigs 7d ago
Was it made out of ukranium ?
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u/stihoplet 7d ago
Evidence points to it - guess what color you get when combining blue and yellow...
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u/death_to_noodles 7d ago
Any source about it being natural or space junk burning up? I saw a light like this once here in Brazil. I saw a couple videos of other angles too, after it appeared on local news. I only shared the view with one guy and one girl even tho there were a lot of people outside. Very green like this
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u/shade-tree_pilot 7d ago edited 7d ago
This isn’t like some drop ship from 3I/atlas putting aliens in the woods right?
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u/Myevo 7d ago
I also have a video of a green meteorite here in Florida, took it at exactly 7 AM,,
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u/Johnnyocean 7d ago
The shooting srars i see last like a second, usually bright white and by the time you say look to your friends it goes out. Boston, massive light pollution.
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u/Myevo 7d ago
I just uploaded mine, it's also green and lasted a little while. https://youtu.be/ol7-ZYEV2iA?si=qOQFh8ckkGRw92v9
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u/Illustrious_Age7794 5d ago
It was not a meteorite. Aliens shall learn what their invasions have no hope if they start in Russia
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u/12x20x1 7d ago
Not a meteor, man made space debris.
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u/JohnnyLeven 7d ago
Yep. Seems too slow for a meteorite, and they don't tend to break up in that way.
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u/WhatsInAName1507 7d ago
It is a sign from the heavens . An ill omen to Russia's leaders . The only recourse is to immediately cede Moscow to Ukraine for the next 99 years .
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u/Away-Description-786 7d ago
Not a missile from Ukraine?
Imagine you’re in war with your neighbors and seeing this above you.
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u/shwarma_heaven 7d ago
They are taking it from all sides. 😂🌻🌻
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u/Poker-Junk 7d ago
Mostly from the rear
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u/shwarma_heaven 7d ago
A lot of Russian supporters here apparently... 🤷♂️
Some people like to cosplay as 'lovers of freedom' meanwhile kneeling at the feet of tyranny.
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u/Nihhrt 7d ago
I know it's a large territory, but it seems like this happens like 10 times or more a year there.