Reply #28: May I add something to your excellent post

[nadinbrzezinski]

We had a very recent, relatively speaking, air burst.

No, nobody has deemed to go beyond the confirm or deny stage, but N. Korea has a pretty nice air burst. That is RECENTLY.

Nobody lost any power or electrical grid in S. Korea or China as far as we know.

As to the rest, the SCALE the article is talking of a space event is far more massive than what happens once a decade or so... 2012 is going to be fun... in fact, what the author is talking about is the kind of event that is consistent with an extinction level event... aka a burst from deep space. The kind of bursts that are thought to affect each solar system once in the life of the solar system... that be... over 12 billion years.