Close Encounters Of The Bird Kind

A GOOSE crashed onto a car after being knocked from the sky by a METEORITE

Gotta watch out. Those meteorites will cook your goose.

Asteroids

With 1 in a 1000 chance of a civilisation ending impact on our planet in this century, and with Apophis headed this way, it is time we took asteroids and comets more seriously, believe experts.

It’s not really big by cosmic standards. But its potential for damage is BIG. That is why astronomers are keenly waiting to watch asteroid Apophis during its next close pass to the sun in 2013.

Heads up!

Congress should divert funds immediatley to building asteroids blasting triangle spaceships.

Peruvian Pod People Update

Peru’s Meteor: Illness Explained, Invitation Extended

The Peruvian Pod People I told you about are OK, and about to make a bunch of money on tourists.

First, the crater outside a Peruvian town near Lake Titicaca was caused by a
meteorite, not a mud volcano, crashed American satellite, Chilean
missile attack or “a lake of sedimentary deposit.”

Secondly, the mystery illness is probably not due to “panspermic alien
microbes” or other space-based bacteria, as much as some had hoped or feared,
however unseriously. It came from the soil, a Peruvian researcher who has
visited the site tells National
Geographic:

The illness was the result of inhaling arsenic fumes, according to
Luisa Macedo, a researcher for Peru’s Mining, Metallurgy, and Geology Institute
(INGEMMET), who visited the crash site.
The meteorite created the gases when
the object’s hot surface met an underground water supply tainted with arsenic,
the scientists said.

Numerous arsenic deposits have been found in the subsoils of southern
Peru, explained Modesto Montoya, a nuclear physicist who collaborated with the
team. The naturally formed deposits contaminate local drinking water.

“If the meteorite arrives incandescent and at a high temperature
because of friction in the atmosphere, hitting water can create a column of
steam,” added José Ishitsuka, an astronomer at the Peruvian Geophysics
Institute, who analyzed the object.

Rocks From Outer Space!

What did I tell you last month?

Well, Peru learned the hard way.

We got lucky it hit an open field, but look at the size of the crater and imagine if that hit outside your home or office?

And now people are getting sick.

A meteorite has struck a remote part of Peru and carved a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill.

Or... they are becoming pod people. PERUVIAN POD PEOPLE!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!

The Invasion Has Begun

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite
left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater,
said local official Marco Limache.

"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock
and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.

You know what this means?

PERUVIAN POD PEOPLE!

Nuke It, Smack It, Lean On It

A recent study showed that the U.S. and China are the nations most vulnerable to a devastating meteorite strike. With funding uncertain, astronomers are struggling to contain the threat of a civilization-ending galactic visitor.

How many people are watching?

About a dozen.

Great.