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thenewgreen  ·  3905 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did Norwegian a skydiver film a meteorite?

True, plus the other jumper could have intentionally been falling faster than the jumper with the camera when he let go of the rock.

If it is a hoax, it's a bizarre one to conceive.





smoorman1024  ·  3905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk, thenewgreen you really think it was a hoax? I didn't even consider that when I watched it initially?

OK after looking at the statistics of how many meteorite falls their have ever been I'm much more convinced that this could've been a hoax. Meteorite Fall Statistics

That said, they sent a search party to the woods after they got down. So if they do find something down there... well then this was one of the most amazing things that have probably ever happened by chance.

mk  ·  3905 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, as much as I would like to believe it, the far simpler explanation is that they dropped the rock. I'm surprised the geologist wasn't more skeptical.

smoorman1024  ·  3902 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I mean he's a geologist. I'd be pretty easily excitable too if the timeframe of everything I studied was in the tens of thousands of years.