How Do You Say 'Duck and Cover' in Russian?

So, a meteorite hit Russia last night... (if you haven't heard the news!)

Looks pretty damn scary from the footage- though the injuries seem to be mounting most of them seem to be from flying/shattered glass as a result of the shock wave which followed. (I guess the first instinct of people these days is to run outside and whip out their smart phone so they can get it on the Internet as fast as possible. Makes for cool YouTube videos but major suckage when all the windows go BOOM.)

It's worth noting that they weren't expecting this- at all. So there was no time to do a big Hollywood rescue or anything like that. Had this sucker been a bigger one, we might be missing a chunk of Russia today or be waking up to an impact winter. All of which underlines the importance of the space program and establishing a viable human presence off planet as soon as possible. (Or at the very least a Moonbase with an observatory on the dark side so we can see more of these damn things coming.) As a species, we might be about as significant as a piece of fly shit in the grand scheme of the big, large universe but looking back on the whole of human history, culture and experience I think it'd be a damn shame to see a hunk of rock wipe all that out because we weren't bold enough to explore our own damn universe a bit.

Just sayin' is all...