Russian Meteor

In case you haven't heard (or read), a meteor streaked across the Russian  sky last Friday morning our time. I read about it via Twitter late in the afternoon. This was one of the first videos I watched:

My initial reactions were: "Oh my, this looks like a scene straight out of a movie!", "This is scary!", "Is the world ending na?" and "Why didn't anyone see this coming?!" especially since an asteroid was due to pass by very close to Earth a few hours later. It turns out that NASA and the like monitor only objects that can cause catastrophic worldwide damage so this one kind of escaped their radar.

I was reminded of the Hale-Bopp comet  which was visible to the naked eye on January - May 1997. I may or may not have seen it on the exact day of my birthday, but I have a memory of standing on our street and looking up at the sky, seeing an object shaped like a comet which was seemingly not moving. This was years before I started blogging, now I kinda regret not keeping a diary then. Actually, I used to keep diaries, we were even required to keep one in our Writing class. However, I filled mine with angsty I-hate-my-strict-mom sentiments, and when my mom learned about it, drama exploded, hehehe.It would have been interesting to read what I felt back then.

I try to keep this blog frivolous because I feel that I am hardly qualified to comment on current events. But hey, a meteor is too scary and too real enough not to comment on.