A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed into the walkway outside his home. The offending space rock has since been bagged & tagged. 🧪 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - ThreadSky

coreyspowell.bsky.social • 40 days ago

A Canadian man narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite that crashed into the walkway outside his home.
The offending space rock has since been bagged & tagged. 🧪

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-meteorite-strike-first-audio-1.7430018

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barkmanwrites.bsky.social•39 days ago

Has anyone blamed Trudeau for it yet?

theplanetisdying.bsky.social•39 days ago

I'm glad the dog wasn't hit either!!! It's literally inches away from the chain/spike!!!

stefanurb.bsky.social•39 days ago

so far I know there was just one case in 20th century documented, that a person was directly hit by such a small one and got injured (luckily, not worse)

theresistor.bsky.social•39 days ago

There was a lady? Who was struck in her house while in a chair I think? The bruise in the picture is so bad

melpowell.bsky.social•40 days ago

No ref saw it, so there was no call and the guy didn't even get a power play...which is a significant setback for a Canadian. (I'm not one but I'm a serious fan who speaks fluent hockey.

drkumarrv.bsky.social•39 days ago

Wow this looks like a plot from the movie- ‘Final Destination: Universal Proportions’

trishpaton.bsky.social•40 days ago

The thing I find cool is that this is the first time we’ve ever had a recording of a meteorite hitting the ground.

nanotubular.bsky.social•40 days ago

Would be a unique cause of death had it hit him. "My husband was killed by a meteorite" is rarely heard...

katharinehayhoe.com•40 days ago

In one of my favorite books, the faithless husband is killed by a fallen chunk of frozen pee that fell out of an easyjet

coreyspowell.bsky.social•39 days ago

Now I'm dying to know: What is the novel?

katharinehayhoe.com•39 days ago

A Rural Affair by Catherine Alliott

nanotubular.bsky.social•40 days ago

Timing is everything!

vengazaverde.bsky.social•40 days ago

During my grad studies, there was an amazing inland rock exposure in my field area (almost everywhere else was lichen or moss-covered - this was large and pristine). The working hypothesis was either an elk heard pissing, or a large jet ejecting waste. The jet hypothesis was favoured.

beerbabe.bsky.social•40 days ago

This sounds like something Carl Hiassen would write lol

dutchtreat.bsky.social•40 days ago

In Dead Like Me, the protagonist gets killed by a toilet seat that fell off a deorbiting space station.

manyakitty.bsky.social•40 days ago

They used that in Northern Exposure.

nanotubular.bsky.social•40 days ago

I didn't know that, thanks!

manyakitty.bsky.social•40 days ago

And to GREAT effect. It's definitely worth watching the episode.

nanotubular.bsky.social•40 days ago

I remember the show but I don't watch it. I'll check it out though. Besides meta, I've given up watching News so I have lots of down time to fill.

manyakitty.bsky.social•40 days ago

Same here. Enjoy!

misterpuff.bsky.social•40 days ago

Satellite.

Space Junk.

pumapurr.bsky.social•39 days ago

He just missed out on a hell of a story to tell the grandkids.

inkenheimer.bsky.social•40 days ago

Wow. When my time comes, I really can't think of a better way to go. Yeah it would be scary and painful for that millisecond, but I'd own the epitaph of the millennium.

reeb99.bsky.social•39 days ago

That's wild. Sounds almost like a very poor quality cement chunk being dropped from the top of a building and shattering.

c99z0nijn356.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's disheartening to see the youth so disillusioned with the American Dream. They're protesting because they feel the system has failed them, and honestly, it's hard to argue with their points.