*kidding*

Fingers crossed that Tara will be shark chum.

We LOVE those movies! We die laughing.

And I love those movies too.

What I read was, Chinese rocket stage or something.

Anyone who remembers the (extremely upsetting) videos of the Columbia disaster would see the similarity in terms of speed and debris spread.


Update: Yeah, that seems to be the consensus-

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-streak-light-20160727-snap-story.html

He was very serious about it. Bought detecting equipment and corresponded regularly with university scientists about the tracks ot new meteors and where the meteorites could have impacted.

He spent many days in the desert, searching.

After several years of fruitless searching, he discovered that he had never tuned his equipment to find meteorites. It was still on the factory default setting for gold.