Norwegian Skydiver Almost Gets Hit by Falling Meteor — and Captures it on Film

[jakeXT]

http://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almost-gets-hit-by-falling-meteor-and-captures-it-on-film/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That is amazing!

To actually be prepared to take pictures and then to take them under such circumstances!

Good for that skydiver.

[Archae]

2. That was a meteor?

It should have been flaming.

I think this is a hoax.

[jakeXT]

3. It's called dark flight

Larger meteors can enter dark flight after deceleration where the meteorite (or fragments) fall at terminal velocity.[35] Dark flight starts when the meteorite(s) decelerate to about 2–4 km/s (4,500–8,900 mph).[36] Larger fragments will fall further down the strewn field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoroid

[Archae]

4. Never heard of that before.

I saw a woman who was hit decades ago, she had one heckuva bruise, and I saw the back of a car that was hit. Pretty much totaled the car.

It just sounds so bizarre.

[hunter]

5. These are amazing times with the internet and so many digital cameras in the world.

Did anyone here really comprehend things like big earthquakes, tsunamis, and big meteors before there were so many videos of them?

The tsunami escape route signs along the coast now mean something to people who have not experienced anything like that who would otherwise have difficulty imagining it.

And if I ever see a bright flash of light in the sky, I'm not going to be standing in front of a window trying to figure out what it was.

[jakeXT]

6. A lot of people didn't know about tsunamis before the big one in 2004

Tilly Smith, from Oxshott, Surrey, was holidaying with her parents and seven-year-old sister on Maikhao beach in Phuket, Thailand, when the tide rushed out.

As the other tourists watched in amazement, the water began to bubble and the boats on the horizon started to violently bob up and down.

Tilly, who had studied tsunamis in a geography class two weeks earlier, quickly realised they were in danger.

She told her mother they had to get off the beach immediately and warned that it could be a tsunami.

She explained she had just completed a school project on the huge waves and said they were seeing the warning signs that a tsunami was minutes away.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1480192/Girl-10-used-geography-lesson-to-save-lives.html

[steve2470]

7. absolutely amazing footage, thank you nt