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I was interested to learn about the mentioned 2013 meteor that resulted in injuries. Not sure how I didn't hear about that when it happened. My takeaway is that if you see something that looks like it's a bright fireball, close your eyes and turn away. And apparently move away from windows. Funny to see that the "duck and cover" exercises they do in schools are actually useful for (extremely rare) events like this. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

>>gnicho+(OP)
I'm surprised you didn't hear about it either. That was widely covered and talked about IRL at the time. Craziest thing I ever seen. All the dash cam videos just mesmerized me. I still think about it often.

>>zoklet+O1
Yeah, it made a lot of mainstream media. (It was also pretty much the only thing on space-youtube and russian-dashcam-youtube for weeks :-) Sort of "The Dark Knight"-esque use of a massive array of distributed cameras as an observatory...

>>gnicho+(OP)
> Funny to see that the "duck and cover" exercises they do in schools are actually useful for (extremely rare) events like this.

I thought we knew that despite modern criticism that duck and cover was effective for those outside of some range given a nuclear explosion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover#Efficacy_during...

I also think that those exercises haven't been done in schools for quite some time. I never did them despite plenty of fire and severe weather drills.