Wildtime
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In 1978, we had a Soviet spy satellite spread debris over Saskatchewan and Alberta before crashing into the NWT. Then, last fall we got this big ass meteor pancake South of Lloydminster:
Anyways, our Alberta Emergency Management Agency only had about 16 minutes to react (after NORAD contacted Ottawa, who passed on the message to AEMA). What would you do if your emergency system was activated and you only had a quarter of an hour to react?
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And today we found out that a school-bus sized piece of space debris from a Russian spacecraft was on a trajectory heading towards Calgary, before being diverted during re-entry to just South of South Africa. Astronomically speaking, we're getting more than our share of extraterrestrial smackdowns, we're the Earth's Rihanna to space's Chris Brown...Anyways, our Alberta Emergency Management Agency only had about 16 minutes to react (after NORAD contacted Ottawa, who passed on the message to AEMA). What would you do if your emergency system was activated and you only had a quarter of an hour to react?
