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 Space Object Implicated in Widespread IllnessPosted on Sep 18, 2007
Roughly 600 Peruvian townspeople are suffering a variety of ailments, from headaches to vomiting, after visiting the crash site of a mysterious fireball that fell from the heavens. Scientists are en route to analyze the object, which they believe is simply a meteorite.
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By QuyTran, September 19, 2007 at 5:26 pm #
This space object hits a wrong place.
Report thisBy David B. Benson, September 19, 2007 at 2:23 pm #
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The meteorite, if it proves to be in that hole, is almost surely a metal meteorite, nickle-iron. A stony meteorite is unlikely to survive the descent intact unless very much larger than the one producing that hole. (Which might have been produced by some other method, such as somebody digging it.)
The nauseous gases are from something already in the ground.
Report thisBy PatrickHenry, September 19, 2007 at 10:47 am #
Why couldn’t it hit the White House. You would hear of many feeling better.
Report thisBy Stephen Smoliar, September 19, 2007 at 8:15 am #
On my own blog I wrote about how this is a really great example of how the media provide confusion rather than clarification:
http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2007/09/confuse d-about-crater.html
That includes the BBC, since the radio story this morning began with a clip from the Orson Welles WAR OF THE WORLDS BROADCAST! At least the radio version tapped into our preference for the outlandishly catastrophic over the more mundane scientific!
Report thisBy Cirquelar, September 19, 2007 at 6:52 am #
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Most likely, the meteorite has released some toxin in the ground or groundwater. Meteorites are not likely to carry any toxins that I know of in any quantities, though they may carry some amino-acids or other simple organic compounds. From the video of the site and what might be meteor samples, it was a stony meteorite, not a comet fragment.
Report thisBy rowdy, September 18, 2007 at 8:53 pm #
if this has any truth in it, i will be amused right up to the point i too become infected. this is what the planet needs, a thorough cleansing of the entire human race. long live the space aliens.
Report thisBy vet240, September 18, 2007 at 8:26 pm #
I wonder how many more, perhaps hundreds of generations it will take until we are smart enough to not go rushing to disaster sites.
Perhaps some meteorite will bring in a virus that will destroy us as a species.
Will Rogers once said, “Show me a person who says civilization is advancing, and I’ll show you an egotist!”
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