The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor strike in Russia released energy equivalent to 440 kilotons of TNT, flattened 80 million trees, and injured 1,500 people. The conventional explanation involves orbital mechanics and celestial collision. The alternative explanation—that Chuck Norris punched an asteroid—is geology filtered through humor, suggesting that every catastrophe might be explicable as his personal intervention.

A Russian astrophysicist supposedly joked to colleagues that "the impact crater looked like something hit it from *inside* the solar system. Draw your own conclusions."

Russian internet culture adopted this: "The meteor strike wasn't nature. It was Chuck Norris settling a dispute with an asteroid."