Quote:In Nazaré, Portugal, the ocean is known as a place of death, not of riding waves,” pro surfer Garrett McNamara admits. If that’s the case, McNamara must be the tamer of the sea. Because on Monday, January 28, he surfed what’s thought to be a 100-foot wave, the largest swell ever ridden by a surfer....

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/01/30/surfs-way-up-garrett-mcnamara-claims-to-ride-record-wave-in-portugal/#ixzz2JXLmZsAW

(02-15-2013, 01:46 AM)john Wrote: Meteorite comes down in Russia and is captured in many videos.

(02-15-2013, 02:22 PM)My Alter Ego Wrote:

(02-15-2013, 01:46 AM)john Wrote: Meteorite comes down in Russia and is captured in many videos.

John, thanks for finding and posting those videos It's amazing how people seemed to look at this as something just outside of a "normal/everyday" happenstance.

Quote:Russia Meteor Was Largest in More Than a Century

By GAUTAM NAIK And ALAN CULLISON

The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material, scientists said, making it the largest such object to hit the Earth in more than a century.

Large pieces of the meteor have yet to be found. However, a team from the Urals Federal University, which is based in Yekaterinburg, collected 53 fragments, the largest of which was 7 millimeters, according to Viktor Grokhovsky, a scientist at the university.

Data from a global network of sensors indicated that the disintegration of the Russia fireball unleashed nearly 500 kilotons of energy, more than 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323764804578312264130040432.html?mod=e2tw