A man in Moscow looks at a computer screen displaying a picture reportedly taken in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, showing the trail of a falling object above a residential area of the city.
Although you wouldn't know it by the language, this Russian driver is pretty calm. He says: "What the f***? What is that? This is a f***ing meteorite. F*** me. F***ing hell. Holy fuck. I guess I got on my thing (eds: dash-cam)."
Dmirty Medvedev on the meteorite: It shows that "not only the economy is vulnerable, but the whole planet."
Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for the Rosatom state nuclear energy agency, says:
"The Rosatom state corporation has six major plants in the Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk regions. All of them are working without any change, according to the regular schedule. The meteorite shower has not affected the functioning of these installations or public services in any way."
Dashcams are a big deal in Russia. Usually we just get weird crazy driver sequences...but today there actually seems to be some purpose.
The leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky says that the meteorite shower was actually a new weapons test by the U.S., and that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried to warn his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, but he couldn't get in touch with him. [article in Russian]
By most accounts, this seems to have been a meteorite.
Look at the top left of the screen:
Didn't take long for the memes to begin:
Check out the driver's reaction to the blast of light. Plus the camera picks up the meteorite quite well -- embedding was disabled, so you need to view it on YouTube
