Gerrit Blank, 14, was on his way to school when he saw "ball of light" heading straight towards him from the sky. A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock then hit his hand before bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground.
The teenager survived the strike, the chances of which are just 1 in a million - but with a nasty three-inch long scar on his hand. He said: "At first I just saw a large ball of light, and then I suddenly felt a pain in my hand. "Then a split second after that there was an enormous bang like a crash of thunder." "The noise that came after the flash of light was so loud that my ears were ringing for hours afterwards. "When it hit me it knocked me flying and then was still going fast enough to bury itself into the road," he explained. Scientists are now studying the pea-sized meteorite which crashed to Earth in Essen, Germany. "I am really keen on science and my teachers discovered that the fragment is really magnetic," said Gerrit. Chemical tests on the rock have proved it had fallen from space. Ansgar Kortem, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said: "It's a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and scientists. "Most don't actually make it to ground level because they evaporate in the atmosphere. Of those that do get through, about six out of every seven of them land in water," he added. The only other known example of a human being surviving a meteor strike happened in Alabama, USA, in November 1954 when a grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a house, bounced off furniture and landed on a sleeping woman.
Locketart wrote:How does it not go through his hand?
thats what I was wondering
and damn thats a freaky lookin' kid
XemnasXD wrote:also im not going to stop calling him a cosmic douche, anyone that knows everything about everything, then creates you knowing full you won't end up following the rules he's made up for you, then punishes you for all eternity for it....come on...thats just being a d*ck.
"When it hit me it knocked me flying..." + "A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock" + "30,000 mph" +"hit his hand before bouncing off" + "three-inch long scar on his hand"=
Even if it hit his hand from an angle, it still wouldn't explain him "flying off"...none of this makes sense. I smell a bunch of attention whoring douchebags making shit up to make the story bigger.
inky wrote:"When it hit me it knocked me flying..." + "A red hot, pea-sized piece of rock" + "30,000 mph" +"hit his hand before bouncing off" + "three-inch long scar on his hand"=
Even if it hit his hand from an angle, it still wouldn't explain him "flying off"...none of this makes sense. I smell a bunch of attention whoring douchebags making shit up to make the story bigger.
Exactly what i thought T_T How can something hitting him from such a wide angle that it does not go though his hand sent him flying, or how could anything SMALL that goes insanely fast sent him flying, it'dd go straight though, it cant bounce of his hand, it cant sent him flying either >.< Attention whoring indeed
its true its on yahoo... but that kid would be in pain for weeks, or i know i would if i got hit by a 30,000 mph object even if its small.. a bullet can go through ur hand and it goes slower then 30,000mph why can't a FLAMING hot which burns the skin go through your hand...
heres more meteror survivors
(meteors love to bounce) On November 30, 1954, Alabama housewife Ann Hodges was taking a nap on her couch when she was awakened by a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) meteor that crashed through the roof of her house, bounced off a piece of furniture and struck her in the hip, causing a large bruise.
On June 21, 1994, Jose Martin of Spain was driving with his wife near Madrid when a 3-pound (1.4-kilogram) meteor crashed through his windshield, bent the steering wheel and ended up in the back seat.
DumboDii wrote:I think the pressure wave sent him flying. Not the meteor itself.
Maybe..I mean, they do burn off quickly when passing through the atmosphere but still doesn't explain a lot of things. Story is probably true but exaggerated for the press.
nohunta wrote:Lul. How do you figure this superpower bs? If u ask me it was bee sting and there just so happened to be a meteor on the ground where he was stung.
^ More likely than that bs story we were given.
Bee sting's are 3 inches long now? I reckon he was self harming just as the meteor hit.
It probably didnt even hit him, i mean it coulda come close and burned a fuckin line of flesh. i would imagine if it had made direct contact he would have exploded.
Foilin wrote:It probably didnt even hit him, i mean it coulda come close and burned a fuckin line of flesh. i would imagine if it had made direct contact he would have exploded.
Anywho, yeah the story sounds pretty unbelievable, I can't see how it didn't go through his hand but sent him flying through the air. Though I don't think he would have exploded
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The average velocity of meteoroids entering our atmosphere is 10-70 km/second. The smaller ones that survive the trip to the Earth's surface are quickly slowed by atmospheric friction to speeds of a few hundred kilometers per hour, and so hit the Earth with no more speed than if they had been dropped from a tall building.
Locketart wrote:How does it not go through his hand?
thats what I was wondering
and damn thats a freaky lookin' kid
I was wondering about that as well, but maybe the rock grazed the kid's hand at an angle instead of hitting it dead on. I don't know if that would be enough to deflect a tiny object falling from space, or if it would still go through his hand like a hot knife through butter though.
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