Bada Bang, Bada Boom!
You know, it's kind of weird. There is a certain type of event that you have read about, thought about, a thousand times. You've wondered how it would be. And then, out of the blue, these things turn real, and you can't help getting that feeling that this is all just too surreal. The pictures that have been reaching us from Russia over this day fall right into that category. Meteorite impacts have been the subject of many movies, books, and more cheap Discovery Channel Documentaries than you can shake a stick at. All seemed to have a certain idea of how it would play out. Until today While most of us here in Ireland were still peacefully slumbering, an unknown visitor arrived at Earth. We do not know where it came from, it had no name, we don't even know exactly what it was. What we do know now is that its visit to our planet was the endgame for this unknown cosmic traveler. Approaching from the east, out of the rising sun, the cosmic interloper made contac