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Title: "Drop and take cover when you see the bright flash from a meteor fireball", U.S. doctors urge
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Published: Jan 19, 2014
Author: Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Post Date: 2014-01-19 01:14:13 by Tatarewicz
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Sacramento Bee Blast damage in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk last February saw thousands of windows blown in by the shockwave, which arrived a couple of minutes after the bright flash. U.S. doctors working with Federal emergency preparedness programs are encouraging people, once they see a similar bright flash, to get away from windows during those crucial few minutes. At the time of the Emergency Management Agency of Utah (UEMA) conference on Jan 9, 2014, Physicians for Civil Defense issued the following statement: All Americans, starting with first responders and emergency managers, need to know this basic life-saving principle: "Drop and cover if you see a sudden very bright light." Such a light will be followed by a deadly shock wave within seconds. Those who drop and cover will probably survive. Those who do not are likely to be killed or suffer severe injury. During the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion, a fourth-grade teacher in Chelyabinsk, Yulia Karbysheva, saved 44 children from potentially life-threatening window glass cuts by ordering them to hide under their desks when she saw the flash. Ms. Karbysheva, who remained standing, was seriously lacerated when the explosion's blast wave arrived and windows shattered. A tendon in her arm was severed, but not one of her students suffered a cut. "Large meteor strikes are sufficiently probable that both the U.S. and Russia are working on ways to divert them. In 1908 a meteor strike flattened 800 square miles of Siberian forest," stated president Jane M. Orient, M.D. Physicians for Civil Defense distributes information to help to save lives in the event of disaster. www.physiciansforcivildefense.org Contact: Jane M. Orient, M.D., (520) 323-3110, janeorientmd@gmail.com
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
It's funny that you should post this cause I was looking up into the skies early this evening for signs of sudden streaks of meteors flying cross the sky. One of these days I will see one of them. I'm almost expecting them to come my way.
Today's kids will gather around the windows, holding up their iPads/iPhones to "capture the moment".
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
U.S. doctors working with Federal emergency preparedness programs are encouraging people, once they see a similar bright flash, to get away from windows during those crucial few minutes.
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Face life in the fetal position kiddies! "Drop and take cover when you see the bright flash from a meteor fireball", U.S.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#4. To: abraxas (#3) (Edited)
I was hit in the head by a meteorite one time,
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#5. To: Turtle (#4)
Were not.
#6. To: Cynicom (#5)
Maybe it was hail.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#7. To: Turtle (#6)
Not that either.
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
Raindrops.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#9. To: Turtle (#4)
That explains so much.....lol! I was hit in the head by a meteorite one time,
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#10. To: Turtle (#8)
Anything hitting a hollow sphere will make a noise.
#11. To: Turtle (#4)
No, it was the neighborhood kids throwing rocks at you! I was hit in the head by a meteorite one time
-Alex Kurtagic
#12. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Contrary to the Party Line story we do not really know what the Tunguska event was. Yes, it could have been a meteor, but the evidence is not conclusive. It is one of those "Scientific Facts" that is more assumption than evidence. No meteor crater, or pieces of meteorite, have been found to definitively support the hypothesis. There are several speculations in addition to the lamestream "we know it all" assumption. "Large meteor strikes are sufficiently probable that both the U.S. and Russia are working on ways to divert them. In 1908 a meteor strike flattened 800 square miles of Siberian forest," stated president Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Tunguska Event
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Any sufficiently advanced evil is indistinguishable from stupidity. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
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