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Life scares when it begins to resemble scientific fiction. A shocking video showing a meteor, illuminating the sky over Chelyabinsk, similar to frames from a movie about Armageddon. So what really happened? The New Edition The York Times offers its own version of what happened. “We rarely We think about the Universe and the place of our planet in it, ”says british science fiction association president writer stephen Baxter, – But today the sky opened, and a meteorite reminded us of where we live. “Many this Friday recalled the events of 1908 years when the Tunguska meteorite literally collapsed in Siberia. By According to some scientists, this meteorite is the largest of now famous. However, the version of the origin of the natural anomaly in The area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River varies. Hundreds of tourists annually and scientists from all over the world come to Russia specifically to to visit this unusual place. “The new meteorite, of course, is not as huge as Tungusky, – says journalist and writer Tom Bissel, whose story “Comet Tail” spawned new versions of development civilizations – Can you imagine what happens when is such a thing coming to the city? Atheists begin to pray for forgiveness, and believers, on the contrary, can renounce religion. “In more than 10 years before the fall of the Tunguska meteorite, English writer Herbert Wells published his famous story “Star”, whose heroes forced to helplessly watch as a huge earth approaches celestial body causing global destruction. Of course, everything is not so sad, scientists say, but recent events make to doubt even the most convinced optimists. “I think we became too self-confident in the 90s when such films appeared, like “Armagedon” and “Encounter with the abyss,” – says Baxter. – We began to think that we could resist the threat. But Wells something I knew that it’s not so. ”In 2012, two films were released immediately about the apocalypse: comedy “Looking for a friend at the end of the world” and mystical thriller Lars Von Trier “Melancholy”, which, incidentally, ends very tragically. American screenwriter Damon Lindelof, who penned the acclaimed series “Stay in living, “is inclined to believe that a meteor falling to the Urals is not by anything other than fragments of rockets fired by aliens to save the Earth from a collision with an asteroid. “Naturally, aliens want to enslave us, – the scriptwriter notes .- If The earth will explode, they will lose us. “So who will save the planet? “Of course, Vladimir Putin,” laughs the director of the American cable channel Syfy. – He will come riding a horse and everyone save “. One of the creators of the film” Meteor Apocalypse “Micho Rutare also jokes that if the asteroid stops working computers and phones, “people will be in a panic, because they will have to communicate face to face. “” Asteroids are, of course, bad, but comets are even worse, says science fiction writer Tom Bissel. – Probably the extinction of many species on the planet is directly related with comets. The asteroid trajectory is easy to predict, but comets are so far away from us that one can only wonder if they will fall into us or not. ”
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