The new Russian meteor is out of the lake

[eyesoftheworld]

The new meteor that fell on Russia (why always Russia!??) has been pulled from the lake. This appears to be the main part of
the object and it's huge!
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/meteorite-chunk-lifted-from-russian-lake-20131017-2vo63.html

Hope that link works.. it's The Age newspaper from Melbourne, Australia.

 

[eyesoftheworld]

Oh! Hope it's not full of weird bacteria - what with all those happy people standing around.

 

[adam7117]

Wow - it's pretty big. Guess whatever was on it now resides in the lake.

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

Wow - it's pretty big. Guess whatever was on it now resides in the lake.

Or was disseminated all along the trajectory...

 

[Palinurus]

Wow - it's pretty big. Guess whatever was on it now resides in the lake.

Or was disseminated all along the trajectory...

Probably (a bit of) both actually, I would say. ;)

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

It cost $100,000 to lift 500KG of space rock out of water in 2013, and we're supposed to believe that Egyptians lifted stones in excess of 1 ton all the way to the top of a huge pyramid 5000 years ago with nothing but their hands and a little bit of spit shine.

In any case, with the way things have been going, it's probably a matter of months before one of these hits a populated area and causes casualties. And when it does everybody will be in a big panic, but the governments will put everyone back to sleep and it will seem like it's just a one in a lifetime event, until the downpour probably a few months after that.

 

[SeekinTruth]

I wonder what the next one(s) will bring as far as off-planet microbes go? And these things could be cumulative/interacting, making for the mother of all plagues, so to speak.