{"id":34360,"date":"2026-05-31T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34360"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:42:40","slug":"why-doesnt-this-happen-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34360","title":{"rendered":"Why doesn&#8217;t this happen here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;going off on a lighter note this morning to talk about the meteor that came in over the northeast yesterday&#8230;a double bioom was reported and I just watched a 15 second video that had the sound on it and it was pretty loud&#8230;NASA says that the meteor was about 3 feet across and hit the atmosphere at 75,000 mph&#8230;the explosion was the equivalent of 300 tons of TNT&#8230;and my only question is: &#8220;why doesn&#8217;t that happen here?&#8221; It would be so cool to see\/hear something like this as long as it doesn&#8217;t hit anyone or cause damage like the Russian meteor did 15 years or so ago&#8230;I just love natural phenomena and I still remember the earthquake I felt when I was having lunch with T at the Cantina in GR&#8230;shook like a huge truck was driving by and we bounced up and down for a few seconds&#8230;and that is really unusual for Michigan with no fault lines anywhere in the state&#8230;I wonder if I should hold up a target with the caption &#8220;hit here?&#8221; I would if it would work&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;going off on a lighter note this morning to talk about the meteor that came in over the northeast yesterday&#8230;a double bioom was reported and I just watched a 15 second video that had the sound on it and it was pretty loud&#8230;NASA says that the meteor was about 3 feet across and hit the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why doesn&#8217;t this happen here?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[4586],"class_list":["post-34360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-northeast-meteor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34361,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34360\/revisions\/34361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}