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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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Feb 15, 2013 - 01:30am PT
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wow! amazing how bright it got.
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John M
climber
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Feb 15, 2013 - 01:38am PT
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That was a lot of broken windows. Wow..
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YosemiteSteve
Trad climber
CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 15, 2013 - 01:43am PT
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It's crazy, but this thing almost feels like a hoax in some way. All of these shots of broken windows, but we never actually see any glass fall.
I do think it's real, but man, sometimes it's hard to tell these days.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Feb 15, 2013 - 02:48am PT
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Thanks YS! Crazy!!
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Feb 15, 2013 - 02:58am PT
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Wow, these Russians are so nonchalant! I be screaming at least out of excitement at how cool this was. And problem something a bit more graphic for the ones that appeared to be approaching the area of the vehicles! :-)
Do all Russians drive around recording their daily routes? Or maybe these were police or other official vehicles that are required to record?
Very cool!
Eric
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pell
Trad climber
Sunnyvale
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Feb 15, 2013 - 04:17am PT
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Do all Russians drive around recording their daily routes?
Almost all. A wide-angle loop-writing camcoder is really cheap. Sometimes it is the only chance to have a fair trial in Russia.
Here is an example why Russian drivers need camcoders:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Without camera this driver would get several years sentence (probably it's not bad at all, ref. 0:33 - it is mad to drive so close to pedestrian at that speed).
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Pollock Pines, California
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Feb 15, 2013 - 07:02am PT
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i was half way up a route at sugarloaf,
climbing in the early morning light on
the west-facing aspect of my mountain
when the coloma meteor passed thru
our california sky.
for a second or two, the rock face
brightened as if high noon had arrived
with short notice.
so i turn around to see who's sparking
an arc welder at the bottom of my climb
and i see a bright giant glowing fireball
shooting (not to fast though, more like
a fast jet than a shooting star)
down the 50 corridor.
about 40 seconds later it detonates
and shakes all serenities within
two forevers, including me and
my hand jam in the mountain.
i had no phone or device,
so i was certain that we'd been bombed,
and that san francisco was in deteriorating
shambles. i calmly finished my pitch,
then rapped down, downed a beer,
and jugged my rope toward
the end of the world.
the only foe of the moment
was that my dog high-tailed it
outta there when the explosion occurred,
and it took me two trips back up to
sugarloaf to find her.
sweet sky candy on that one.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 15, 2013 - 09:44am PT
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not sure what is scarier the meteorite or the way that driver passed another car as they were passing a school bus.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Feb 15, 2013 - 10:15am PT
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I wonder what NASA would do if they found out that an end of the world meteorite or other kind of large space debris was going to hit the earth soon?
Do they tell the population?
There's nothing we can do to avoid it so why have a "Lord of the Flies" party?
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10b4me
Boulder climber
Somewhere on 395
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Feb 15, 2013 - 11:13am PT
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It's time for a new ice age
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