Forty percent of those who heard the explosion on Feb. 15 thought they witnessed a plane crash and 8 percent believed a missile had gone off, according to a Feb. 23-24 poll by the Moscow-based Public Opinion Foundation, or FOM. Ten percent said they correctly guessed that a meteorite had hit, while 1 percent each believed that it was a nuclear blast or the end of the world, the survey showed.
The meteor that exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains sent shock waves that broke thousands of windows and injured about 1,150 people in the Chelyabinsk region. The event had a bigger impact on religious people, according to Grigory Kertman, senior analyst at FOM.
They "reported some significant changes to their attitude toward life twice more often than non-believers," Kertman said by phone yesterday.
FOM polled 500 Chelyabinsk citizens by phone. The results have a margin of error of 5.5 percentage points.
Source: Bloomberg News
It is an ilusion. hh ccc
Children stories about a benevolent master don't work when you get a visit from space, do they?
aaaahhhh..... Human stupidity is truly endless. It is amazing what you can make people believe in - and the mental mechanisms that are involved are truly startling - we are completely programmable and our ego becomes dependent upon the very programming.
Is there hope? Maybe. For some. Maybe.