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>A huge fireball exploded in the Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa.

>The blast was the second largest of its kind in 30 years , and the biggest since the fireball over Chelyabinsk in Russia six years ago.

>But it went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up over the Bering Sea, off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

>The space rock exploded with 10 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

>Lindley Johnson, planetary defence officer at Nasa, told BBC News a fireball this big is only expected about two or three times every 100 years.

>https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-47607696?__twitter_impression=true

How did no one notice this?

>> No.10478135

>>10478082
>>But it went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up over the Bering Sea, off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.
...
>How did no one notice this?

Answered before even asked...

>> No.10478136

>>10478082
because of where it entered and exploded no one saw it / was at risk by it. 10 times the energy of Hiroshima isn't that much really. The Tsar bomba the russians tested during the cold war was 1500 x the bomb used in hiroshima but there were not really any visible effect of it in the west.

>> No.10478158

>>10478082
>fireball this big is only expected about two or three times every 100 years
>already twice within 6 years
hmm

>> No.10478175
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10478175

>>10478082
Because the U.S. Government TRIED to cover up BLOWING UP MY BATTLE SPACE STATION YOU DAMN ASSHOLES !!!!!

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10478282

>>10478158
>not understanding statistics
>being this much of a brainlet

>> No.10478291

>>10478282
having a 1-in-a-hundred event happen twice in a short span of time is pretty rare
how long has it been?

>> No.10478355

>>10478291
9 times out of 10 it happens every time.

>> No.10478716

>>10478291
Take a hundred bucks to a dog or horse track, buy some booze for the bum sitting next to you, and have him explain how odds work.

>> No.10479719

>>10478291
its 50/50