Peru meteorite crash 'causes mystery illness'

[Richard]

Now the doctors who visited the sight of the crash are saying those who became ill are/were suffering from mass hysteria.  :-)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070927/s...sshysteria 

I saw that news story. Scientist and doctors like to use that excuse for everything that happens to a group of people.

[Sily]

The original article is here. It's a parody from "The Spoof" on the meteor. Wriiten by drugtestallpoliticians.

Peru Meteor Sold on Ebay

The meteorite that landed in Peru and reportedly made people ill has been sold on Ebay.

The meteorite had been listed on a "buy it now" auction and sold for $709.99

The buyer has agreed to go down to Peru to pick up the meteorite locally. He will have the meteorite cut into pieces and sent back aboard an old DC-3 aircraft that has been refitted with two 747 jet engines.

The meteorite was scrubbed and the smelly organic matter that covered it was removed. The organic matter originated in outer space. Tests conducted on the organic matter have revealed that the source of the smelly goo was a large intergalactic squid which came from the constellation Hydra.

The seller of the meteorite was Juan Valdez who owns the large coffee plantation where the space rock landed. Juan put an ad in the local paper today asking for help in removing the dirt from the crater where the meteorite fell.

He has been complaining that the bright pulsating bluish-green glow originating from the crater is keeping him up at night. He said he has gotten used to the humming noise originating from the crater and that is no longer a problem.

[Sily]

The article is here.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Rain, The Meteors Are Coming Down

Over the last two weeks meteors, fireballs, bolide meteorites, and other things have been coming down through the atmosphere like raindrops on a spring day. Is this the deadly rainstorm of chunks from space that many have spoken of as heralding the end times? We may be just nuts here at The Apocalypse Times, but the repetitive stories of fireballs over the last several days have us thinking that maybe we need a tinfoil hat or a special meteor-deflection helmet to keep us safe!

* Peru: a meteor comes down, livestock die, humans get sick in a spate of mass hysteria that explains away the possibility that something might have really happened.
"scientists seemed to unanimously agree that it was a meteorite that had struck their territory"
* Alaska: fringe journalists report a burning light in the sky that is reported all over the state we bought from Russia....it can't be true can it?
* Finland: Crazy weirdos from Finland report seeing the brightest object in 30 years.
* New Jersey: A mystery fireball blows up off the coast making all residents seem nuts.
* Minnesota: Now, way-out residents of Minnesota report a fireball that is accompanied with an imagined loud boom.

So what's going on? It must all be imagined. We're all just crazies worried that a big meteorite is coming to wipe us out. We don't think so... The rainstorm of objects from the sky has started and there is no place to hide. We are riding on planet Earth as it takes us through a part of the the galaxy that is crowded with road hazards that, despite efforts of NASA, we just can't see. Get ready, because a big boom is coming to an area near you.

[Richard]

Sily, that was a pretty good article. There are a lot of strange things happening lately. Tom Cruise is getting ready for something. Maybe a real or staged alien invasion is going to happen soon.

I heard they explained the Peru meteorite illness. Scientists said the illness was the result of inhaling arsenic fumes. The meteorite created the gases when the object’s hot surface met an underground water supply tainted with arsenic.

[Sily]

Something is up.  *points to sky*  Seems strange all these "fireballs".

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Me having fun with Arsenic - -> Arsenic's atomic number is 33 (same number as 33rd degree Masons!)

Its Atomic Mass is 74.92  (7+4=11) (9+2=11) = 11.11  :eek:

All from Wikipedia:

1. The northern United States, including parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas are known to have significant concentrations of arsenic in ground water.
2. Arsenic has been proposed as a "salting" material for nuclear weapons (cobalt is another, better-known salting material). A jacket of [sup]75[/sup]As, irradiated by the intense high-energy neutron flux from an exploding thermonuclear weapon, would transmute into the radioactive isotope [sup]76[/sup]As with a half-life of 1.0778 days and produce approximately 1.13 MeV of gamma radiation, significantly increasing the radioactivity of the weapon's fallout for several hours.[citation needed][/sup] Such a weapon is not known to have ever been built, tested, or used.

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I have not a clue what the increase in fireballs means but I'm watching the skies more, carrying my camera with me at all times.

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[Sily]

Awwww crap.... I just noticed my post time in the above message adds to nine:eleven AM. But only in my time zone.


I'm reminded of Pythagoras again: "Numbers rule the Universe"

[Richard]

Looks like you came up with more interesting info. Except it doesn’t sound good about Michigan having arsenic in the ground water.  

That’s funny about your post time. :ninja: