Today, Asteroid 2012 DA14, measuring 45m wide safely passed Earth, traveling between the geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. While astronomers were watching this, a meteorite hit the skies over Russia, causing a shockwave that injured hundreds and caused widespread panic.
Dafuq? Seriously, with this many telescopes aimed at the skies on this particular day, why didn’t anyone notice beforehand? Strangely too, people were comparing 2012 DA14 to an asteroid that flattened thousands of square miles of forest in Siberia back in 1908.
Russians thought the resulting explosion across their sky was WWIII breaking out. Indeed, it could very well have sparked a new war. It’s long been rumoured in Russia that there’s a secret protocol known as, “Dead Hand,” a supposed autonomous system buried in a bunker deep beneath the Earth that will launch an all-out nuclear assault against the United States in the event of a nuclear holocaust on Russian soil. It’s said it measures for earthquakes emanating at the surface. A meteor strike could very well set off it’s sensors. Trouble is, no one knows if it exists. All anyone really has to go by is a mysterious claxon-alarm being broadcast on a localized radio signal, and old stories from the Cold War. Russia has never denied Dead Hand, and why would they? It’s better that they let the American think they have a failsafe device. So it’s either real, or it’s not. If it’s real, nobody really knows if it’s still functioning, or what will set it off. Take the recent nuclear test by North Korea. Would a certain level of radioactivity in the atmosphere set it off? What’s it even connected to, and are those missiles still functioning and aimed at enemy targets?
Personally, I assumed the meteor and 2012 DA14 were one and the same. It seemed too coincidental to be anything different, but the asteroid was viewed as having passed Earth by.
No comments:
Post a Comment