Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/footage-russia-meteor-highlights-chaos-confusion-151744816.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lo...816.html</a> Pretty neat stuff/
Originally Posted By wahooskipper 30 years ago they would have thought we sent our nukes. Imagine that scenario for a minute.
Originally Posted By hopemax As an aside to the meteor, my husband says he's been quoting Ghostbusters in his head all day. Over IM he sent, "You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909! " And then just a few minutes ago, he IMed to say that NASA says this was the largest meteor strike since Tunguska (which was actually 1908) But we've been chuckling with 2 Tunguska references in one day.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA The footage is really amazing. Why do so many Russians have dashboard cams?
Originally Posted By hopemax I wondered this myself, so I asked my DH. He said it has to do with a combo of insurance fraud + dirty cops in Russia. People in Russia will most likely believe something is a scam unless they have video evidence.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>I wondered this myself, so I asked my DH. He said it has to do with a combo of insurance fraud + dirty cops in Russia. People in Russia will most likely believe something is a scam unless they have video evidence.<< That's interesting. I had no idea and wondered about the dashcam thing myself. Must...find...article.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Must...find...article.<< <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/russian-dash-cams/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/autopia/2...sh-cams/</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Interesting that that section of Wired is called "Autopia." Serious question: does DL get credit for coining that term? Or did some clever writer come up with the term previously? Wikipedia gives credit to DL (saying the term "was popularized in academic circles by British architecture critic Reyner Banham to describe Los Angeles in his 1971 book "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.") but of course that's 16 years after DL's Autopia opened.
