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Meteor explodes over Russia

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http://news.yahoo.com/meteor-explodes-over-russia-1-100-injured-175838744.html

I don't know about you guys, but this scares the crap out of me. And yet, it plays second fiddle to CNN's obsession with that cruise ship. Had this happened last year, the 2012 doomsday crowd would have gone even more insane than they did. Between this and Tunguska 1908, Russia can't get a break.

This is also the kind of event that could have been mistaken for a first strike nuclear attack not too many decades ago.

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Where were you in '77?

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That's what they get for being commies!

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This past week's events are starting to seem like a bad ripoff of The Omen movies. Or a really bad "SyFy Channel Original Movie", I'm not sure which.

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CP3S said:

I'd vote for him!

King Arthur Chapman said:

You don't vote for popes!

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TV's Frink said:

I heard the meteor will be the next Pope.

no, in order to be Pope, one must be male and Catholic.    the meteor is neither. 

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French Meteors are female but in a cosmic sense all space rocks are 'univers'al therefore Catholic.

However Erisian Popes can be genderless, inanimate objects once they enter Earth's atmosphere if they carry the correct ID and get a dispensation from another pope.

If you want to make a rock a Pope be one today.

Here take 

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TV's Frink said:

I heard the meteor will be the next Pope.

Pfffft don't be ridiculous...

 

The Inanimate Carbon Rod will be Pope!

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Bingowings said:

The Rutles are bigger than Rod.

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

I heard the meteor will be the next Pope.

no, in order to be Pope, one must be male and Catholic.    the meteor is neither. 

Prove it.

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TV's Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV's Frink said:

I heard the meteor will be the next Pope.

no, in order to be Pope, one must be male and Catholic.    the meteor is neither. 

Prove it.

I was discussing this last night - regarding how I might get to be pope. I suspect they could do some kind of pro forma ceremony (baptism, confirmation, etc), wave their hands, and declare a guy Catholic in order to make him Pope. I was baptized as a baby but not sure if that gets me much further than purgatory. I was more excited by the prospect of the Coptic popehood (even cooler hats) but that was filled in November.

Is it true the meteor was 7,000 tons?

The blue elephant in the room.

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I am pretty sure the guy would have to be declared a Catholic before they could be elected Pope.

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SilverWook said:

http://news.yahoo.com/meteor-explodes-over-russia-1-100-injured-175838744.html

I don't know about you guys, but this scares the crap out of me. And yet, it plays second fiddle to CNN's obsession with that cruise ship. Had this happened last year, the 2012 doomsday crowd would have gone even more insane than they did. Between this and Tunguska 1908, Russia can't get a break.

This is also the kind of event that could have been mistaken for a first strike nuclear attack not too many decades ago.

Could it be Kal-El?

Seriously though, that is scary and fascinating at the same time.

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