If Russia's Meteor Had Hit the American South, People Would Have Thought It Was the End of the World (video)

Some students in a physics class in Chelyabinsk, Russia, thought war had broken out when this week's blasts from a meteor broke windows at their school. If such a cosmic event had happened here in the American South, I think our Fundamentalist Christians would have thought not war but the end of the world.

Read more at CNN where a "witness says flash shone 'like 10 suns,' felt shock wave pass through his body".

I have stopped paying attention to the schedule of heavenly phenomena because the few times I've gone out to see anything, I've seen nothing. The New Orleans sky remains clouded with city light pollution.