Meteor shards linked to massive extinction

International Herald Tribune ^ | 21 November 2003 | Kenneth Chang

[Orion78]

Here is one more for the road. As much fun as I'm having argueing whether or not the sky is blue, I'm going to close this conversation down for the night. I have some things I have to take care of.

If rocks dont fall from the sky, then what the heck was the nine pound sulphide object that tore through a roof and hit this woman as she slept on her couch?

Paper: Bridgeport Telegram
City: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1954

Meteorite Tears Hole In Roof Of Alabama House, Woman Hurt

SYLACAUGA, Ala., Dec. 1 - (AP) A celestial disturbance seen in three states was identified yesterday as an exploding meteor which sent a nine-pound fragment crashing through a roof here and injured a 32-year-old woman.

Mrs. Hewlett Hodges received bruises when the meteorite tore a hole three feet wide in the roof over her living room, smashed a radio and struck her on an arm and hip.

The object was identified as a sulphide meteorite by George Swindle, field representative of the U. S. Geological Survey.

A "bright flash" across the sky followed by explosions was reported about 2 p.m. simultaneously in Atlanta, Newnan and Columbus, Ga., Sylacauga and Birmingham in Alabama, and as far away as Greenville, Miss.

Dr. Walter B. Jones, Alabama state geologist, said that evidently a meteor exploded over central Alabama and that Mrs. Hodges was hurt by a particle of it.

Swindle said the meteorite measured about six inches in diameter, and weighed approximately nine pounds.

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[VadeRetro]

An obvious assassination attempt! She knew too much.

[PatrickHenry]

Looks to me like a fat lady with a nasty birthmark. Obviously some kind of scheme to get her homeowner's policy to pay for the cosmetic surgery.

[No Blue States]

Well at least youve kept your sense of humor! Funny thread.

I believe in both Meteors making craters in the earth and God. There are many things that wont be fully understood in this life, its a facinating creation.

[No Blue States]

That had to hurt.
Ive always wondered how bill clinton got here, now i know.

[Calvin Locke]

I recall an Art Bell show a few years back. (In between retirements)

Some astrophysicist was on, and SETI came up. He didn't think SETI had much of chance, but it was a worthy effort.

His opinion was that SETI was looking in all the wrong spaces - dense areas of the cosmos that probably had high potential
for cosmic collisions of one sort or another, sending whatever possible life, way back beyond the stone
age, so to speak.

[Calvin Locke]

volcanoes are not mentioned in the Bible

The effects of volcanoes are mentioned. I believe Sodom and Gomorrah are thought to have perished due to a combination
of volcanic and accompanying earthquake activity.

[Barnacle]

Oh, you're just a craterist that's all.

But don't feel too bad. I've had gone a good bit into my live before discovering my latent crateristuality. I was initially shocked at the revelation, wondering what my family and friends would think if they ever found out the truth. But, soon I accepted it and now I’ve even come embrace it. I find myself longing for the company of other careerists. In my journey, it was clear that other creterist were struggling with the same feelings of guilt and rejection. That’s what led me to search for a special crater where creterist could live in peace and harmony, free from the rigid conformities of the world.

[U S Army EOD]

Check out post 57, he is just trying to confuse us.

[Orion78]

Sigh... I guess I better go sign up for a C.A. meeting.

[PatrickHenry]

P L A C E M A R K E R

[bondserv]

All these catastrophes put a rather large dent in the truth of the theory of Evolution. Punk-EEk is a requirement.

The limitations continue to remove the logic undergirding Darwin's little mess of a theory.

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[carpio]

BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

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