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by SideburnsOfDoom 16 days ago
> Interesting this also happened in South Carolina and Ohio within the past few months.

Not that interesting, apparently this scale of meteor happens on average multiple times a year, just not usually over such an urban area.

The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor (1) was larger and caused ground damage and injuries from e.g. flying glass from broken windows.

> Sounds like the beginning of an alien invasion movie. Sleeper ships buried themselves into every state.

Based on the last Alien invasion book that I read (2), it would rather start with air bursting the bioweapons, spreading the plagues to weaken us. Which ah, also fits this incident.

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

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Against_the_Chtorr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution

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I think it's pretty interesting when something happens that rarely occurs in a populated area.
It's interesting in the personal sense that I have read multiple news articles about it, and checked to see if people heard it (they did).

It's not interesting in the scientific sense of being an outlier, unusual and noteworthy. It isn't, it's a common enough occurrence.