JC
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They also demonstrated their capability to swear in three languages, which equals Oh my goodness here

IMHO even from PR perspective this stunt is weak – they just lost a bunch of clients, starting with government and if they meant to give some message with this it certainly didn’t get through (thought tele2 says that this is launch for their new campaign, which will clarify what was going on here) and they got lots of negative media coverage, picturing them as irresponsible and unethical

Yesterday night it turned out that it was hoax – a marketing stunt by Tele2, the second largest mobile communication operator in the country. The company has promised to cover all expenses of all emergency services and scientists involved in the case.

Now, a question: what would be public reaction to hoax like this, if it had been staged in your country? Would people just laugh and dismiss it? Would there be public outrage over wasted resources? Would Interior Ministry and subordinated institutions pledge to terminate their contracts with Tele2 and select new operator?

Someone requested a translation, so here it is. Nothing earth shaking…

” I don;t know”
“Don’t go closer”
“I want to see”
“It stinks”
“We will never see something like this again”
“Something fell”
“See the hole”
“The hole is huge; it’s too dark”
“It was no plane”
“What are we going to do?”
“We have to call someone, but who?”

Thanks for that.

Thanks to Chris @ 32 too.

I have to say that I’m glad that we have such a nice bunch of people here. Minister of economics that doesn’t speak English, phone companies that dig holes for fun, and so on.

Main idea why the dug that hole? So people for one day would speak about something else and not crisis. Well, at least they succeeded in that – most of people are either enraged or amused.

LOL The meaning of this words is the same..

I want to see it.
You will never see things like this.
Something has fell.
That pit is huge .
I want to see further that pit. I don`t know what has fallen. It was not a plane. Something is burning there
. We have to call someone

what should we call?
Let`s call 112
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IT is all fake conversation

this was fake

JC

>Smallish, mediumish, and largish meteorites are not hot because most of the heat that
>goes into a falling meteoroid leaves in the form of the ablated material– as the surface
>heats up enough to melt or sublimate, that material quickly blows away from the object.
>Only a very thin (millimeters) surface of a shrinking meteoroid is ever hot at any given
>time.

And I’d be careful about getting burnt from it because the centre of it is likely still <100 kelvin.
If I remember correctly the meteoroid in South America didn’t create much ejecta – if it lands in softish earth and compresses a crater, then you won’t get much thrown out, but then it won’t be a large crater relative to the meteoroid.
Entertaining anyway …

J/P=?

I’m from Latvia. Yeah this whole “meteor” thing became quite big. Anyway, for the person who asked what the guys said in the youtube video – basically they said – “OMG, do you see that? What is it? Should we call someone? Damn, it really stinks here”, and so on.

But, I kinda laughed my ass off when I heard that all this meteor thing was a marketing trick by one cell phone service company. Well, they got their attention. No idea, what will happen to them now, because all the security services were put on alarm. Anyway, great and original idea.

Kudos for the imagination.

” I don;t know”
“Don’t go closer”
“I want to see”
“It stinks”
“We will never see something like this again”
“Something fell”
“See the hole”
“The hole is huge; it’s too dark”
“It was no plane”
“What are we going to do?”
“We have to call someone, but who?”

In soft ground, impact scene should look like a splash, unless it is very humid of course.

Why Latvian military and gov studies the debri for like 50 hours and only than issued a statement and released foto of what appears 2 b a fake crater?

LOL