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Admin · Posted June 12th, 2009, 08:40 AM

Not sure I can totally believe this... I'd love to see a picture of the kid's scar...

Original story is here.

14-year-old hit by 30,000 mph space meteorite
A schoolboy has survived a direct hit by a meteorite after it fell to earth at 30,000mph.

Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw "ball of light" heading straight towards him from the sky.

A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground.

The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand.

He said: "At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand.

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Temple · Posted June 12th, 2009, 09:11 AM

Woah..

I can just imagine this as being a bullet shooting through his hand..
I'm glad he's okay~

~Temple

Naughty KP · Posted June 12th, 2009, 09:40 AM

one thing I can say though. He's ugly as shit.

NKP

Zoe · Posted June 12th, 2009, 10:41 AM

Okay, Zoe's extreeeemely skeptical here. Let's take this in chronological order.

- First off, a pea-sized object moving at 30,000mph is not going to look like a ball of light. It's not going to look like ANYTHING. It's going too damn fast, and it's too damn small, even if it is hot.

- The article describes it as "red hot". I don't think so. It would be "white hot". But that could be the writer's stupid mistake (which is why he is a journalist).

- It states that the object traveling at this speed BOUNCED off his hand and onto the ground. Damage to the hand: 3-inch scar. Damage to the ground: foot-wide crater. While that really should've blown his hand OFF. Want perspective? That "pea-sized" object was traveling MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED TIMES the speed of a bullet. That doesn't leave a 3-inch scar! That goes THROUGH your freakin body and KILLS YOU. And besides, even if this boy was some superhuman who only gets scratched by bullets, if the meteorite bounced off him, it would not have enough momentum left to create a crater like that.

*steps off the soapbox* DONE.

-Ra- · Posted June 12th, 2009, 04:08 PM

I came here to point out the obvious fallacies in this fictional story, but I see Zoe has already done that. No need then. ^_^

Ra,

BAM · Posted June 12th, 2009, 05:14 PM

Ha

Some of the stories posted here may not be real,
but they're still fun to read. I knew this one was fake when I read
it bounced off of his hand, as Zoe pointed out.

Zoe · Posted June 13th, 2009, 06:12 PM

Thanks you guys...but you would think that they would at least check with a physics book to see if their story is even plausible, you know, before publishing it and making total asses of themselves.

Nix666 · Posted June 15th, 2009, 08:05 AM

God.

Are people really that gullible?

I mean, the boy is obviously an attention seeking idiot.

And what journalist in their right mind would- Oh, no wait, hold on. There are no jounalists in their right minds nowadays! :p

But I find this really fake.

And my teacher's here, telling me how it could happen. {Oh yes, my school allows NonTT<3 Not TT though. Strange.. :|} But even if it did happen, surely it'd have more news coverage? I mean, this guy survived a meteorite! Shocking!

Just my opinion. :]

TamaMum · Posted June 15th, 2009, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Nix666

.... And my teacher's here, telling me how it could happen....

Would that be your Science (Physics) teacher or your Religious Education teacher...? :p

-Ra- · Posted June 16th, 2009, 12:58 AM

There's such a thing as Religious Education Teacher?

Ra,

Zoe · Posted June 16th, 2009, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by -Ra-

There's such a thing as Religious Education Teacher?

Ra,

At your school they were called history teachers.

Naughty KP · Posted June 16th, 2009, 06:34 AM

Our Religious education teachers were all morbidly obese and would beleive all sorts of crap.

I remember once I spent the whole lesson playing on my gameboy in my lap hunched over, I told the teacher I was praying. AND SHE BELEIVED MEE!

On another note, this story would only be awesome if the meteor hit paris hilton. Then it's beleivable. Even the gods hate her.

NKP

TamaMum · 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by -Ra-

There's such a thing as Religious Education Teacher?

Ra,

You sound surprised XD
In the UK schools (11+yrs) teach Religious Education as part of the national curriculum.

The studies cover all the major world religions (and include secular world views & philosophies), beliefs, cultural differences & similarities, values & traditions, important events / celebrations and their origins & meanings, etc.

They do exactly what it says - educate our kids about different religions.

I'm hopeful it will help some of them avoid the extremist attitudes they so often see in adults XD

Edit: Our history teachers generally cover historical known / accepted facts rather than beliefs

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Temple Member Posts: 106 Blog Entries: 1 Thanked 11 Times LOLed 18 Times	#2 Posted June 12th, 2009, 09:11 AM Woah.. I can just imagine this as being a bullet shooting through his hand.. I'm glad he's okay~ ~Temple

Naughty KP Senior Member Posts: 1,867 Blog Entries: 239 Thanked 112 Times LOLed 209 Times	#3 Posted June 12th, 2009, 09:40 AM one thing I can say though. He's ugly as shit. NKP

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BAM Member Posts: 169 Thanked 8 Times LOLed 12 Times	#6 Posted June 12th, 2009, 05:14 PM Ha Some of the stories posted here may not be real, but they're still fun to read. I knew this one was fake when I read it bounced off of his hand, as Zoe pointed out.

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TamaMum Senior Member Posts: 793 Blog Entries: 4 Thanked 130 Times LOLed 118 Times	#9 Posted June 15th, 2009, 01:48 PM Originally Posted by Nix666 .... And my teacher's here, telling me how it could happen.... Would that be your Science (Physics) teacher or your Religious Education teacher...? :p

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