Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7001897.stm
I first read about it in The Times this morning. Quite a big crater, and the 'noxious gases' is rather intruiging. Maybe it's the first steps in the plans of alien octo-squids? They come down from space like in war of the worlds, and then emerge from their vessels in giant 8 legged mechanical monsters and burn down the South of England.
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
If I start hearing reports about the dead coming back to life I´m heading for the hills!!!
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
Drat, I had my pet theory all worked up, then it was debunked in the last paragraph:
Here was me thinking, "And that's why it's a bad idea to use plutonium as a power source for satellites and space probes."An engineer from the Peruvian Nuclear Energy Institute told AFP news agency that no radiation had been detected from the crater. He ruled out any possibility that the fallen object might be a satellite.
So it must be the octosquids after all
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
That town is right next to Lake Titicaca. "Fetid, noxious gases" might seem appropriate.
AND... completely missed by the BBC is the fact that Carancas, Peru, shares the same degree of Longitude (69) as Tadoussac, Quebec ? Coincidence? I think not...
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Where do you dig up all these tidbits Kukri?
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
Fired up GoogleEarth to find the location. It's low-resolution, but had the news story stub smack-dab in the middle of Lake T.
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Did someone say "Lake Titicaca"?
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Cheney's pet assassins at DARPA apparently can't spell. There's no "n" in the real target city. Keep your eyes on the skies Hugo!
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
So a typo has El Diablo sending a stink-bomb to the wrong map gridsquare?
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
Not good not good at all. Looks like I better ready my plans to steal as much food, guns, and ammo from the local walmart as possible. Also should scope out the local national guard armory, in case I need to break in to steal some m16s in the event of a zombie outbreak.
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...meteorite.htmlScientists doubt that the supposed meteorite strike that sickened some 200 residents of Peru last weekend actually involved anything from space.
Based on reports of fumes emanating from the crater, some scientists actually suspect that the event could have been some kind of geyser-like explosion rather than a meteorite impact.
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
So...
It was just a zit on mother earth's @ss that popped?
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But I will join them!!! MWAHAHAHAA!If I start hearing reports about the dead coming back to life I´m heading for the hills!!!
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
I read in the local paper today that the scientists down there believe it was a meteorite based on tests conducted on some fragments, and that the "sickness" was probably some sort of psychosomatic ailment caused by the horrible noises it apparently made when it fell to earth. Then again this is the local paper so this could all be BS.
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so people are believing our cover story...good, good...
errr...
forget I said anything....just kidding!
nothing to see here....bye!
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
Reads like The Onion.
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
It may just be crazy enough to be true!!!Reads like The Onion.
But seriously wouldn't we notice if a conflict like that was going on in the US, and didn't the Peruvians say there was no radiation around the site???
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
Interesting also that a meteorite large enough to leave the crater would have hit the ground with the force of a tactical nuke, but apparently a crashing satellite can do the same without registering seismically . . .
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Re: Scores ill after meteorite impact, reports of noxious gas
Well maybe Pravda got their math wrong and thought that a 30 meter wide crater would be left by a 30 meter wide meteor...
A 30 meter wide crater is probably caused by a really small rock if my cursory reading and random TV program-about-meteor-watching has anything to say about it.
I'd guess at a few feet wide, or less.
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