{"id":17315,"date":"2013-02-15T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=17315"},"modified":"2013-02-15T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:37:07","slug":"a-meteor-hit-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/a-meteor-hit-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meteor Hit Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/asteroid.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I normally try to keep the news on OBC light-hearted and fun, and have often ignored big(ish) news stories on the basis that they were a huge bummer and I didn&#8217;t feel like casting a shadow over the whole day. However, a news story has erupted this morning that would just be wrong not to report on: a possible meteor shower has been reported over Russia, one that has destroyed buildings and injured 500 people or more. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the terrifying event (watch out for your headphones, shit is LOUD):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0cRHsApzt8?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to astrophysicist Simon Goodwin, &#8220;While events this big are rare, an impact that could cause damage and death could happen every century or so. <b>Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop impacts.<\/b>&#8221; And as Neil DeGrasse Tyson put it, <\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m gonna go back to bed and hide under the covers and never go outside, how about you? Although I gotta ask, do you think this has anything to do with that <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/1eHg7l4M\" target=_blank>Russian politician who wanted to ban sex?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.reuters.com\/article\/idUSBRE91E05Z20130215?irpc=932\" target=_blank>Reuters<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/neildegrassetyson\" target=_blank>Neil DeGrasse Tyson&#8217;s Facebook<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-17315\" data-postid=\"17315\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-17315 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I normally try to keep the news on OBC light-hearted and fun, and have often ignored big(ish) news stories on the basis that they were a huge bummer and I didn&#8217;t feel like casting a shadow over the whole day. However, a news story has erupted this morning that would just be wrong not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[707,9803,9804,1024,844,7572,2404],"class_list":["post-17315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines-dating-news","tag-crazy","tag-meteor-shower","tag-meteor-shower-in-russia","tag-news","tag-space","tag-world-news","tag-wtf","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17315"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17320,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions\/17320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}