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Some Think This Video Shows a UFO Came to Shoot Down the Russian Meteor…Here’s Why
It has been two weeks since a meteorite came down in Russia, sending a window-breaking sonic boom and injuring nearly 1,500 people. But with the time that has elapsed since, analysis has been conducted of the footage that was captured on vehicle dashcams, causing some to think they can spot a UFO crashing into the celestial rock.
The Siberian Times reported UFO enthusiasts saying they see a UFO around the meteor that hits the rock and smashes it as it’s flying toward Chelybinsk.
“At first, we also believed that the Chelyabinsk meteorite was just an ordinary meteorite, a cosmic body,” Alexander Komanev with the Russian UFO community in Yekaterinburg said to the Siberian Times. “But facts began to emerge. In the internet began to appear videos, at least three of which were similar, on which you can see how an object catches the meteorite.”

UFO watchers believe what is circled in red could be a UFO about to smash into the meteor. (Image: YouTube screenshot)
“Such a number of videos, made from different angles makes us believe that something blew up the meteorite…,” Komanev continued according to the Times.
Here’s some of that footage:
As the video’s description explains (via Google Translate), “look just below the tail and see the UFO that catches up and runs into a meteor breaks it and goes away.”

(Image: YouTube screenshot)
Here’s a non-dramatized version of the video for your reference:
Now, we should point out that there is always the potential for CGI (computer graphics imagery) to fake content in videos such as this, so watch it with that in mind. The particles could also likely be from the meteor itself.
Even still, Komanev thinks he has further evidence that could dispel some of this doubt:
To the untrained eye, it is hard to tell what was happening here, but Komanev suggests that prior to the the meteorite’s fall there was an upsurge in UFO sightings.
His ‘second supporting argument’ is that ‘since 2012 we have registered an increase of UFO activity. We began to receive more testimonies of eyewitnesses.’
He explained: ‘Usually we get two messages about UFO per month. Since the beginning of February we received four messages.’
After the meteorite hit though, he told the Siberian Times the organization has receive no reports of UFOs.
There was also speculation the same day of the event that meteor was shot down by a military missile. Here’s more on that theory from Russia Today:
The local newspaper Znak reported the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. Quoting a source in the military, it wrote a missile salvo blew the meteorite to pieces at an altitude of 20 kilometers.
Regnum news agency quoted a military source who claimed that the vapor condensation trail of the meteorite speaks to the fact that the meteorite was intercepted by air defenses.
The Russian government has denied these rumors though.
A parliament member, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said he thought it could have been the U.S.:
“Those were not meteorites, it was Americans testing their new weapons,” Mr. Zhirinovsky confessed to journalists. “[US Secretary of State] John Kerry wanted to warn [Russia’s Foreign Minister] Lavrov on Monday, he was looking for Lavrov, and Lavrov was on a trip. He meant to warn Lavrov about a provocation against Russia,” he said.
When it comes to the UFO theories, some have taken it a step further thinking the entire object might have been a UFO, not a meteor. The Huffington Post reported Alexei Grazhdankin with the Moscow-based polling agency, the Levada Center, saying past studies have revealed 25 percent of Russians believe in UFOs. He said some of the skepticism in the meteorite strike is due to past events “when news of disasters was concealed or lied about.”
Still, Grazhdankin told HuffPost although a poll has not been conducted to evaluate thoughts from locals regarding the origins of what flew through the sky February 15, he believes the majority of the population would accept the official explanation that it was a meteor.
Fragments of the meteor have been being collected by scientists since the event for analysis. Viktor Grokhovsky, who led the expedition from Urals Federal University, said last week that 53 fragments of the meteor have been plucked from the ice-covered Chebarkul Lake. He said they are less than a centimeter (half an inch) in size, about 10 percent iron, and belong to the chondrite type, the most common variation of meteorites found on Earth.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
(H/T: Daily Mail)
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THX-1138
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:33pmPeople are such idiots. And now we’re giving them all a bunch of technology they could never understand, much less create. And they see magic everywhere they look.
And we wonder why the world is going to heck in a handbasket?
I give our species about 20 more years at best. Then it’s back to the caves for a few thousand years.
I’m starting to look forward to it.
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stablepar
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:10pmthe fourth world war will be fought with sticks and stones
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frust@ted
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 3:19pmyou would need boats or planes, if not it would be imposible to be a world war.
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markthespark
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:39pmIdiots I agree but I’m not looking forward to going back to the cave; we’ve only been out of the cave for “2 days” or so. There’s been so much effort to get us to where we are it would be a shame to revert; but I agree that it’s not promising.
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the_truth_or_not
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:03pmLOL I agree THX.
It seems to me that my memory remembers (I dont know what english language rules I just broke) that the Russians shot rockets at the meteor. Looks like that is what happened here in these videos. Give me a break!!!
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:42pmHere’s a thought for ya. Suppose the history of the Earth from the time it was formed 4.6 billion years ago to the present were represented by 12 hours on a clock. How long would you guess humans have been around on that scale? A couple of hours maybe? And hour? 30 minutes maybe?
Wrong! A scant two seconds. On a twelve hour scale, the human race has been here only the last blink of an eye. We humans tend to think the planet is a fairly safe place outside of earthquakes and volcanoes. But that’s only because we haven’t been around long enough to witness the really bad things like big meteor strikes or super-volcanoes.
At least 99% of the big rocks out there that could slam into the Earth, destroying a city, a country, or laying waste to Earth are unknown, just like this one that exploded over Russia. These big rocks are mostly invisible and humans – outside some amateur astronomers – aren’t even looking for them.
It’s not a question of if but when a big one will slam into the Earth. In all likelihood we’ll never see it coming, anymore than we saw the one that hit Russia.
Sleep tight!
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katzkiner
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:01pmGood post Meteor, and you didn’t insult anyone.
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katzkiner
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:06pmThere is a lot of evidence we have blasted ourselves back to the stoneage 1 or 2 times before.
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:45pmkatzkiner, yep.
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w5dxp
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 12:40pmTwo questions: How fast was the meteor moving? Slow enough for a Russian missile to shoot it down?
Given that the universe is about three times older than our solar system, how far could some alien species be evolved over us? If we have been around for 2 seconds, they may have been around for 20 hours.
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khandahar&jalalabad
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:10pm@sendthemeteors
Great post, but with that in mind would you agree that it’s ridiculous to say man has caused global warming. When you make the scale as large as you have it kills the global warming argument. The global temperature in the past has been much hotter than today as well as much colder. But many global warming advocates seem to only point to the past 150 years. Where were the suvs when the last ice age ended?
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Wisdomseeker
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:15pmCould be true or it could be the space based weapons system (star wars). that the Ruskies have and that we have……ckeck out Dr. Steven Greer on Youtube…”The Disclosure Project” AND YOU WILL BELIEVE.
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kadster01
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 11:33am@SENDTHEMETOERS
I should hope those who believe in human-induced climate change would consider what you pointed out.
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:20pmI am not claiming anything, but some people speculate that Chemtrails and HAARP are weapons to defend against aliens.
This clip is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOVQOi2GVvw
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atechgeek
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:04pmI watched the Frasier episode where he was supporting the Candidate Bob Patterson .. and Bob Patterson tells him he was abducted by aliens. Funny stuff.
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tonypro
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:42pmI’ve always thought that video was pretty interesting.
Never could come up with my own explanation, and haven’t heard any that can explain it.
It’s one of the few that make you go, Huh?, what was that?
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thirstybird33
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:21pmGrimmster, unicorns are real. How else would we know what they look like?
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chips1
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:44pmObama believes in UFO’s. He’s been probed many times.
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iampraying4u
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:55pmthey are here to help us
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:00pm@Grime
You are as ignorant as they get.
I have been trying to respond to your idiocy, but wordpress and Murphy has you pathetic back.
It will be forthcoming, loser.
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:23pmMaybe a GRIMEY TROLL might look up HR 2977 – 107th Congress.
There, the Ignorant Moron will see that Chemtrails are a FACT !!!
I would copy and paste, but I don’t want to lose the comment that I have been trying to
post for the past 30 minutes.
Wordpress and Murphy’s Law has the GRIME’s back. lol.
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nofreeloadin
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 10:12amI have wondered about chemtrails for years. While I think planes to leave a vapor trail, these are different. They usually are in a pattern in the sky, like a grid, I even witnessed an X pattern with a circle are it, very strange. Even stranger, I took photo’s of these odd trails that stopped and started, looked to me like morse code. I still have these pictures. Something is definitely going on.
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RDYSTGO
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 5:44pmSome people huh??
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RamonPreston
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:25amI have some swamp land I think you would like to buy.
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the TEA patriot - Truth Empowering America
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:20pmTwo meteorites following the same trajectory intersecting. The smaller meteorite traveling faster because of size, density and shape catching up and hitting the larger meteorite that has a greater size and resistance to the atmosphere being slower. Probably? But a UFO or predator drone is more interesting. Thank goodness for Marvin the Martian. Or, maybe it was an elaborate publicity stunt for the new Superman movie opening this summer. The Man Of Steel. My bets on Supes.
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1_Smoot_Tall
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:26pmIt appears the gravity of the Earth or other body caused a fragment to break off while it was still an asteroid. This fragment drifted some distance away from the main piece, and in the opposite direction of the main piece’s trajectory. Or another asteroid entirely was “hooked” by the larger piece as it passed by. Either way, the gravity of the larger piece caused the fragment (or other asteroid) to follow along behind it from a great distance. The fragment was more aerodynamically shaped as you can see. The larger piece entered the atmosphere prior to the fragment. It was abruptly slowed as it descended through the thickening layers of sky. The less aerodynamic larger piece slowed more abruptly than did the fragment. The fragment seems to have “drafted” in the wake of the larger piece allowing it to maintain more velocity. Then, it struck the larger piece with enough force to pass through it – causing it to shatter.
Simple.
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TomSawyer
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:39pmThat is what I said two comments down.
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:44pmActually, the accepted explanation is that friction with the atmosphere heats the meteor to extremely high temperatures, and that volatiles (such as water) trapped in the interior expand until the meteor explodes.
Either that or they are destroyed using a ray gun by extraterrestrials sent to protect the Earth.
You decide.
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ThePostman
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:31pmI think smoot has the explanation, not only for this one, but for all meteors that explode in the sky. I never bought the claim that the air could cause a rock to explode – all it can do is vaporize the surface. The G forces should never cause an explosion on entering the atmosphere.
Assuming, of course, the video isn’t faked. But even if it is, this is still a plausible explanation for what often happens.
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Cavallo
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:43pm@Meteors, You sad twisted propagandist. Anyone can see plain as day that it is Vladamir Putin without a shirt, sky surfing behind it.
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chips1
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:52pmMing the Merciless?
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Dr Vel
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 3:29amWeather balloon trapped in a pocket of swamp gas and Underdog saved the day. Or a top secret Russian anti missile battery going into action against a ‘God missile’. Take your pick.
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beeboop
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:14pmI saw it. It was a light flare from the sun on the windshield as the car rounded the curve.
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NigelTufnel
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:27pmI agree. Whenever you have a camera filming through a windshield you essentially are using two or more lenses and that can have the affect of super-imposing.
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BenInNY
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:08pmLooked that way to me too. Tracked perfectly with the motion of the car vs the motion of the light source. Crap on the windshield.
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TomSawyer
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:14pmMaybe there were two pieces to a meteorite and the one in front slowed down faster then the other because it was composed of different material so other piece ran into the other traveling in the same exact direction.
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123456beatriz
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:39pmI am UFO enthusiastic BUT this looks like 2 parts of the meteorite.
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N37BU6
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:09pmLooks like lens elemental light refraction to me.
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Jarhead 88
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 7:17pmYep, and most of it is probably from filming through his windshield. People are just becoming more and more idiotic, not good.
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:03pmYeah…yeah…yeah…a UFO shot down the meteor. After that a UFO landed and two guys stepped out and went around shooting the pieces of it on the ground until all they had was rubble. Then they dragged a Russian out of his hovel, kicked his azz for the heck of it…and flew off.
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Gargent_Furball
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:02pmI want to Believe.
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grimjack3791
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:14pmFPSRussia blew up the meteroite.
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Gargent_Furball
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:02pmI really think this is a case for The X Files. Let Sculley and Molder investigate.
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CLEttinger
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:33amWell, let us put this to rest real quickly. The Russians never shot it down; the meteor was traveling at 40,000 mph. Nothing man made can go that fast, our fastest missile is the Minute Man ICBM, it’s top speed is 15,000 mph and is not accurate enough to hit a neighborhood, let alone to hit an object on the move, then we have the theory of aliens, seriously? Star Trek fans know they cannot interfere with other planets, lmao. That’s as close as I can come to a serious answer to that.
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tmbell87
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:57amNot entirely true. We do have things that go faster than 15,000 mph. Escape velocity for earth is roughly 25,000mph so all of our rockets, shuttles etc had to be going that fast or faster to escape earth’s atmosphere. I’m just splitting hairs here but I do agree that you are correct in saying that there is no way that the meteor was shot down.
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castuslonginus
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 8:31amIf I may paraphrase Dale Gribble ” THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK.”
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BostonHarold
Posted on March 2, 2013 at 1:45pmOrbital velocity is 17,000 mph. Escape velocity is 25,000 mph. It’s why we went to the moon in stages. The Saturn V was too heavy for a direct shot from the earth to the moon. The earth’s orbital velocity is about 70,000 mph so that was about the speed at which we hit the meteor…which could’ve been coming in at 30,000 mph for a combined closing speed of 100,000 mph. Meteors have been clocked that fast and faster. Atmospheric friction suddenly superheats the icy cold rock from the -250 degrees of space to +8,000 degrees in a matter of seconds…instantly vaporizing it…resulting in a spectacular explosion into a plasma fireball. This thing was about 18 miles up. The smoke trail was french fried superheated atmosphere. Not even Israel’s advanced Iron Dome missile shield is fast enough to take out an incoming object this fast. There is no known defense against such an object. Russian claims that they intercepted it with a missile are pure bool squeeze. Nice try Ivan…
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justsayin456
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:02amAliums walk among us.
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searcher619
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:34amDo they bring cake?
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Pergolesi
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:54amThey come to serve man…
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Jase
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:08pmAren’t those flowers?
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Eastinfection
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 4:48pmAliums are out of season.
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universalphilos
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:57amDId anyone else feel the impending sense of death for three days before the meteor? It was a reason to pray. Hopefully others who felt it too prayed. Whether it be divine intervention, a UFO’s intercept, or man’s military defenses, I am so thankful for this grace given to Earth.
Are there UFOs? They were mentioned in a prophecy, October 27, 1973: “You yourselves have seen unto each of you that which you would call of your UFOs. These have been sent forth from other planetary systems to observe the effect upon the Earth. Yet, they should look unto the effect upon themselves, for our Father has sent forth these words, ‘THE HALFTIMES ARE OVER. PREPARE THERE, EACH WITHIN YOURSELVES.’”
Whether this was one of the “signs in the heavens,” that the world saw, I don’t know.
But I do know our Father has said no one knows, not even the angels of heaven know the exact day or hour (the Messiah will come). Through many prayers the timing may have been moved forward, but the meaning of the prophecy remains clear, even more so, with today’s news.
http://www.angelfire.com/in4/aup_messiah/1973October27.audio.html
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searcher619
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:35amAnd you think your prayer is why nothing happened?
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jeffersonian1776
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:06pmHuh?
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deeberj
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:19pmNot every prophecy is truth. Ever heard of false prophets? Just saying there’s a prophecy means nothing to me. Who said it?
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napoleon_solo
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:43pmSay what?
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brigott
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:54amUm, if it “smashed into” the meteorite, it did not “shoot it down.”
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lvjohn
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:52ambarak obama spewing hot gas shot down the meteor, he’s a real hero. Not.
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RamonPreston
Posted on March 3, 2013 at 12:30amMy wife said it was my beans that did it. Guaranteed to make your eyes water.
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jakartaman
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:43amIf you believe Einstein that time does not exist and is only a convenience -
I would suggest that that was my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson saving me and the earth
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SendTheMeteors
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:57amThis is the same thing those people in Heaven’s Gate thought they saw too: a spaceship coming to save them.
Hey, if you look closely you can see the face of Satan in the photo too.
Thanks Blaze. I thought I was going to have to buy a copy of the National Enquirer to get the truth about this photo.
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Silvertruth
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:14amI thought they gave their contributors free copies… why would you need to buy one?
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searcher619
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:38amWe live in a 4D world. We need 4 bits of information to locate anything in our universe. 3 physical coordinates, and a unit of time. X, Y, Z, Time. Time most certainly does exist. The question is what time actually is. W/O it the universe would be static. Nothing would move or anything. It would be like a simple still photo.
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TomSawyer
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 12:10pmEinstein also said you can not go backwards in time.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:09pmI think Bigfoot threw a rock at it to save the Russian people. He is an unsung hero.
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Cavallo
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:40amIt’s Alex Jones in a cape!
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Fubared
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:16amHe has a lot of frontal drag with that Michelin tire he is toting. He would have to arch his back really hard to maintain a straight flight path; perhaps the smaller dot underneath is Tofu with his jet pack aiding AJ?
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fdraiden
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:55amIt’s Moochelle in a burka!
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battles
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:37amHow many more decades will people be stuck on UFO stupid?
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Cavallo
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:37pmFor as long as Coast to Coast AM is on the air.
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Eastinfection
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:36amIt was the Star Blazers thwarting an attack by the Gamilons!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oniErmeuE
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searcher619
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 1:40pmI’m amazed someone here even knows what Star Blazers even is.
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deeberj
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 2:21pmWhy so amazed? I watched that show with my oldest son.
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DeVain
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:36amEven the aliens in Russia can’t drive.
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kettererbg
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:34amIf this true, don’t mess with the guys in the UFO.
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Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:21amI didn’t know Russians wore tin foil hats in the middle of winter.
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huey6367
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:07amI didin’t know the Russians could afford tin foil.
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Stoic one
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:24amHUEY6367
Since February 2009 they have been able to afford more and more each day…..
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katzkiner
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:20pmMoscow is the millionaire capital of the world now. Oil, 13% tax rate, fearless he-man Putin for a ruler, what a country. Mexicans and Muslims take note. A richer nation to loot.
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huey6367
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:19amIt was Bush’s fault. Everyone knows that.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:00am.
Look’s like stupid has no boundries…..
I really need that Grant money to study my theory…..
I think Stupid & Ugly People are the result of a Quickie…..
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civilwarcometh
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:07amSpank are you saying the best part ran down mommy’s leg???
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:20am.
Civil, that’s why I need the Grant money to find out…..
I have an ugly friend who’s Dad cusses his Mother all the time for running out of D cells…..
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Fubared
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:18amOuch. He should look into solar, rechargeable D’s.
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thesnitch
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:24amI would love to help out in this study.. let me know if you get the grant.
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GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:59amSilver Surfer?
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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:19amThats how DC Comics plans on killing off Robin…
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Gonzo
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 9:50amWell, that IS the most logical explanation I suppose.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:05amWhat was the name of that gun in the movie Transformers 2. You know the one on that Battleship they fired at the pyramid? Rail Gun?
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Gonzo
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:16amNever saw it.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on March 1, 2013 at 10:27amGONZO: Here it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUusHbKEji4
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