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- jaybol, on 11/25/2008, -1/+23i love and hate when NASA issues an AVOD as an APOD. They can get away with it...because they are NASA.
- Canadaa, on 11/25/2008, -1/+21there's a $10,000 reward for whoever finds the first piece. ready, set, GO!
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/11/24/mete ... - lovemorgul, on 11/25/2008, -1/+18I live in Edmonton and I saw it while coming home from work. Incredible sight.
- vivvivtzz, on 11/25/2008, -0/+12so thats what daytime looks like at night.
- ginestony, on 11/25/2008, -1/+11I would've sharted myself if I saw that
- vroom101, on 11/25/2008, -1/+11Spectacular views of the fireball itself . . .
Video #1, recorded by Andrew Bartlet: http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/fire-in-the-sky/#c ... (watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/fire-in-the-sky/#clip114721)
Still photo from Andrew Bartlet's video: http://www.ctv.ca/mar/photo.html?pname=http://imag ...
Via: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew ... (www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081120/alta_fireball_081121/20081121?hub=Canada)
Video #2: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_29397.aspx - scoot2006, on 11/25/2008, -0/+9great balls of fire
- speed3b, on 11/25/2008, -1/+10NASA doesn't chose the APOD, its a prof from Michigan Technological University and another from University of Maryland College Park. Most everything on the site is user submitted and chosen by one of the two depending on the day.
- medalta, on 11/25/2008, -1/+8Sorry Folks, but all the really cool stuff happens up here in Canada
- inactive, on 11/25/2008, -4/+11It is what it is
- xXSheepyXx, on 11/25/2008, -2/+9Goodness Gracious...
- ScottyAnimal, on 11/25/2008, -2/+7Optimus Prime!
- divinediva, on 11/25/2008, -2/+7Cool like The Fonz.
- Scheibe, on 11/25/2008, -1/+6I've seen a quite a few meteorites but not any fireballs
- jvjackson, on 11/25/2008, -4/+9this was up yesterday front page...
- TheAbdBoy, on 11/25/2008, -0/+4They'll never find it. I've watched Transformers, that's how they arrived to earth.
- mess7777, on 11/25/2008, -1/+4echo echo echo
- Rodik, on 11/25/2008, -0/+3is it not?
- rheaume, on 11/25/2008, -0/+3Thanks for the link, why are people digging you down? Thats a friggin awesome compilation of tons of meteors being filmed! Bookmarked :)
- Jsmuli2, on 11/25/2008, -0/+3I have a couple of hershey's kisses in my undies just from watching that video.
- BarrelRofl, on 11/26/2008, -1/+3You could almost see the ninjas.
- rheaume, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2Stephen King :)
- LogicBomB, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2Awesome. Every one blocked at work. GG firewall. GG.
- im2green, on 11/25/2008, -1/+3We witnessed a similar event in Texas the day after this recording (8:30pm CST). There were reports from Digg users of Meteors viewed in Arkansas and California also. Is there someone in the astronomy field that can shed light on these events? I understand we are struck continuously from space debris, nonetheless these seem particular interesting.
- mrinject, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2edmonton is not central
and southern ontario is a hell of a lot more south - Fuzzycop, on 11/25/2008, -2/+4I wonder if this was actually some space lady's tool bag?
- deeboe, on 11/25/2008, -1/+3There is a good chance I would have pissed my pants if I saw that.
- AlexanderBlue, on 11/25/2008, -0/+2Try goosebumps instead. The clean up is easier.
- DanOnTheMoon, on 11/25/2008, -1/+2Scrin Attack! Run for your lives!
- jefffisher10, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1Yeah... why are people digging you down?
-Cool vid... - Napiertt, on 11/25/2008, -1/+2If you found out where it landed, don't poke it with a stick!!!
- Myers3979, on 11/25/2008, -1/+2I would have thought it was some nuclear missile and then went around looting places and doing whatever I wanted because I thought the world was ending. Eventually this would lead to my arrest and appearance of a complete idiot and jackass. So I would end up going to prison and I would have to leave the meteor out of the story or else I would look like a dumb ass and someone would make me their bitch. Then if I got out of prison I wouldn't be able to find a real job because everyone would know I was an ex convict, my family would have left me by now and through the depression I would turn to smoking crack, because I couldn't afford anything better. After becoming an addict I wouldn't have anyone that cared enough about me to have an intervention so I would most likely end up back in jail or on the streets performing fellatio for money because by then it wouldn't bother me as much from having to do it so much in prison. Most likely I would end up blowing my wife's new husband and it would be really awkward.
- robwhite1979, on 11/25/2008, -1/+2I live about 150km north of Edmonton in Athabasca and saw this on my way home from work. I witnessed a meteor shower a few years ago but this was about 100x more intense even from this far away...
- hidromatic, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1F@%K NASA
- superbeast04, on 11/25/2008, -2/+3Hrm, lets have a look at your hypothesis.
Distance from Edmonton to southern border: appx 500 km
Distance from Edmonton to Northern border: appx 3800 km
Now, perhaps they don't teach math so well in Edmonton, but I believe I remember hearing at one point that 3800 > 500.
Thus, my city is in Southern Canada. The fact that there are almost no large populated cities in the North is inconsequential. They just said "South", so a geography and math FAIL for you good sir. - hidromatic, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1ALIENS!!!
- hidromatic, on 12/10/2008, -0/+1how come they still haven't found it?
Was it already retreived by the M.I.B.?
no seriously!
.ahhh... - inactive, on 11/25/2008, -2/+2Something just came from space.
Something just came, from space. - polyGone, on 11/25/2008, -1/+1I saw something like this over NEPA a couple years back. It was absolutely amazing. It's kind of hard to describe it to other people, though, because the magnitude of what's happening is ginormogantic.
- superbeast04, on 11/25/2008, -0/+0Yes, it looks pretty hot, I would avoid it as well.
- FadieZ, on 11/25/2008, -1/+1ffs, this was in top ten yesterday.
- superbeast04, on 11/25/2008, -0/+0No way, the video was taken in Edmonton, and they figure it hit somewhere by Macklin, which is about 300km away as the crow flies.
It was just actually that bright. I was talking on the phone to my mom at the time (both of us were driving), and we both said at the exact same time that the sky just suddenly turned into daylight. She lives about 4 hours away from me. - craignewman, on 12/05/2008, -0/+0Wonder if that mountie had to clean out his cruiser afterward.
- hollywoodphony, on 11/25/2008, -3/+2Wow! This was so cool (the first 8 times I saw it on digg).
- xpinchx, on 11/25/2008, -4/+3Holy crap I would crap my pants if I saw that in person.
- Craig304958, on 11/25/2008, -3/+2Is that somewhere near Oklahoma?
- clarino1, on 11/25/2008, -4/+3The article refers to "south central Canada".
I suppose one might be able to call Edmonton "south central Canada" but only if you have no idea where it is or have never paid any attention to where the population of Canada lives. Edmonton is on the Northern fringe of 'urban populated' Canada, and is the northernmost urban centre of more than 1M people in North America.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=edmonton&spn=0.207812 ...
It would be like calling Denver or Salt Lake City south-central US. - BIGJOE1975, on 11/25/2008, -3/+2Aliens!!!
Or not :-( -
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