FORCES OF NATURE · 15 FEB 2013 · CHELYABINSK
The stone the sun hid
15 February 2013, a Friday morning over the southern Urals. In our timeline a twenty-meter stone burst twenty-three kilometers above Chelyabinsk, and its worst wound was broken glass, filmed on a thousand dashboards. This is the timeline where the stone was three times as wide, and came in low over the city.
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15 FEB 2013 · 09:20
A Friday morning over the southern Urals, the sky a low grey. In the city of Chelyabinsk more than a million people are driving to work and school across the packed snow. On a thousand dashboards small cameras are running, as they run in most Russian cars, kept there to settle the arguments of the road. This is Tankograd, the plant-city that built the Soviet Union's tanks, and the reactors of Mayak stand a hundred kilometers to the north. At 09:20 a white seam opens in the eastern sky. In our timeline the stone that drew it was twenty meters across, burst twenty-three kilometers up, and left nothing worse than broken glass.
In the timeline recorded here, the stone is three times as wide. It comes in low, over the city itself.
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