Posted on 05/28/2004 2:43:20 AM PDT by Fast5
10,000 birds fall from sky From correspondents in China
MORE than 10,000 birds died mysteriously in eastern China's Jiangsu province, dropping like rain from the sky, state media reported yesterday.
Farmers and other witnesses in Sangongdian village in Taizhou city saw flocks of bramble finch suddenly fall from the sky on Tuesday, the Beijing Youth Daily said.
Most of the birds were dead when they hit the ground and some were injured, it said. The birds look like sparrows and are small in size.
Officials from the local centre for disease prevention and control rushed to the scene. Samples from the birds were taken to a lab in nearby Nanjing city for testing to determine the cause of death.
Experts from the Jiangsu province agriculture department said that because the birds died while in flight, the cause of death may have been contamination in their food, water or environment.
They did not immediately say whether there was any connection with the spreading bird flu outbreak in Asia.
At least 12 of China's 31 provinces have confirmed or suspected outbreaks of the avian influenza, which has devastated flocks across Asia and killed 11 people in Vietnam and five in Thailand.
China, the world's second-largest producer and fifth-largest exporter of chicken meat, has culled millions of birds in an attempt to halt the march of the disease.
Flocks falling from the sky all at once suggests a more immediate threat than bird flu.
I suspect poisonous fumes in the air.
There was another story from japan, about seagulls falling from the sky...hmmmmmmmmm?
Nah. Don't you know: it's global warming.
Now they're falling in New Zealand, too. Some serious weirdness here. We'll probably be dodging falling birds in the USA tomorrow.
I better look around the garage for those gas masks!
Bophal India,
Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide
methane,
Have to do a lot of breathing when you fly, it is an aerobic activity. Inhaled asphyxiant is the most likely.
Is Bill and or Hitlery over there?
Its Bush's fault!
And Nixon's too!
Let's not get too specific, then it might possibly be disprovable. Let's just say that it is a vast right wing conspiracy.
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| Posted by Fast5 On 05/28/2004 4:46:38 AM CDT with 10 comments xtra.co.nz ^ And this from New Zealand: Birds Fall From The Sky 19/05/2004 01:36 PM Simon Mowbray from DOC tells Newstalk ZB's Paul Holmes about the mysterious case of birds falling from the sky in South Auckland. Is a link to a radio talk show there and says that 70 gulls dropped dead yesterday afternoon. |
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Interesting
A billion+ chinese all broke wind at the same time?
Experts from the Jiangsu province agriculture department said that because the birds died while in flight, the cause of death may have been contamination in their food, water or environment.
For a large number of birds to die all at once it would have to be some kind of quick-acting airborne gas/vapor that killed them.
It's the timing that gives it away.
Sarin fumes from Iraq?
Alexander
73. Towards the end of the year Alexander travelled to Babylon. Before he arrived he was joined by Nearchus, who had sailed through the ocean and up the Euohrates: Nearchus told him that he had met some Chaldeans who had advised the king to stay away from Babylon.
Alexander paid no attention to this warning and continued his journey, but when he arrived before the walls of the city, he saw a large number of ravens flying about and pecking one another, and some of them fell dead in front of him. Next he received a report that Apollodorus the governor of Babylon had offered up a sacrifice to try to discover what fate held in store for Alexander, and then he sent for Pythagorus, the diviner who had conducted the sacrifice.
Pythagorus admitted that this was true, and Alexander then asked him in what condition he had found the victim. 'The liver,' Pythagorus told him, 'had no lobe.' 'Indeed', replied Alexander, 'that is a threatening omen.' He did Pythagorus no harm and he began to regret that he had not taken Nearchus' advice, and so he spent most of his time outside the walls of Babylon, either in his tent or in boats on the Euphrates.
Many more omens now occurred to trouble him. A tame ass attacked the finest lion in his menagerie and kicked it to death. On another occasion Alexander took off his clothes for exercise and played a game of ball. When it was time to dress again, the young men who had joined him in the game suddenly noticed that there was a man sitting quietly on the throne wearing Alexander's diadem and royal robes.
When he was questioned, he could say nothing for a long while, but later he came to his senses and explained that he was a citizen of Messenia named Dionysius. He had been accused of some crime, brought to Babylon from the coast, and kept for a long time in chains. Then the god Serapis had appeared to him, cast off is chains and brought him to this place, where he had commanded him to put on the king's robe and diadem, take his seat on the throne and hold his peace.
74. When he had heard the man's story, Alexander had him put to death, as the diviners recommended. But his confidence now deserted him, he began to believe that he had lost the favour of the gods, and he became increasingly suspicious of his friends...
Plutarch, Age of Alexander
AL GORE WAS RIGHT ! GO SEE THE DAY AFTER TOMOROW ! < / liberal logic >
Somethings up with the magnetic pole perhaps?
I was thinking maybe they ran into a cloaked Klingon WarBird. ;^)
Brilliant!
This story originally appeared in 2 Chinese newspapers in January or February..............then died from massive lack of interest - or massive lack of credibility-I don't know which.
I had the same thought. Saw a NOVA show on PBS the other night about mag pole reversal. A scientist has built a pretty convincing model of reversal, and ancient lava flows show reversals every 200K years or so. Right now, we are 500K overdue and the anomalies in the magnetic field predicted by the model are rapidly appearing. According to one lava flow study, once the critical point is reached, reversals can happen in minutes. Birds, sensitive to mag field for navigation, may have become disoriented by an anomalie and simple flown into the ground.
Just for what it's worth, I'm suprised.
I've been in the Chinese Mainland a number of times.
Unlike here in the USA, you can look up but you don't see any birds. This February, I was conciously looking for birds but it took me over a week to find one. In the Shenzhen/Shekou/Fuyon/buon areas, birds are quite rare. I asked one of the local guys and he said "they are out in the country" I suspect locally "they are lunch"
-Mal
"Republican Death Ray" tests?
There is a phenomenon known as the South Atlantic Anomaly that satellites have to contend with....much higher radiation effects there than elsewhere. The Anomaly is an indicator of the mag field switch getting ready to happen.
The sky is really falling...Now it's the innocent little Birds ...what has Bush /Cheney /Halliburton done now?
Oh man, when that happens-- I'd hate to be a plane in the sky relying on my GPS navigation at the time.
Not to worry. GPS is a satellite nav system.
I am not worried about the magnetic pole reversal. I also do not think that has anything to do with the birds.
Sure, but a GPS can tell me my compass direction too, right? Wouldn't that part be screwed up?
In your opinion what would account for birds falling from the sky in both hemispheres (China -- NZ )?
I told the guys we should have tested that thing over water first but Noooooooo, they were too worried about the fish.
Could the Chinese be testing some kind of directed energy weapon?
Bird flu. Then it didn't.
The "North Up" (true north) data from a GPS sat. system you see in your instrument display is calculated on the ground independant of magnetic north information. The data sent uplink to the sats is quite significant. Magnetic north info is usually a calculated function based on an automated "look-up" function (deviation table) related to your Lat/Long.
That is what I was wondering, I know the poles switch direction now and then. Reminds me of the movie "Core".
True, avian flu would not cause a flock to fall out of the sky. Sounds like noxious fumes. Probably just the smokestack from the Happy Meal toy factory.
If it is a pole reversal.. it would take centuries, wouldn't it? I mean, it can't just go from N-S in a matter of hours right?
So what do you reckon would account for flocks of birds dying in both hemispheres at the same time?
I suspect you are right....test run?
Damn! I knew I shouldn't have installed that cloaking device on the Goodyear blimp.
I'm guessing Sender is right: just another day at the Happy Meal toy factory.
Or perhaps a little "oops" at the People's Liberation Army Subatomic Baby Milk Research Concern.
This sounds like a typical day of whitewing dove hunting in Mexico.
GPS will be fine. That car compass on your dashboard won't be much good, though.
Wouldn't it be a cool "X-Files" episode if they determined that all the birds died from blunt force trauma?
Well, not all in one spot, but if you've ever seen a small bird take ill and die...it can look fine and then a couple minutes later be dead.
..and God noted!
They were already roasted before they hit the ground?
Yummmm.
Who left the lab door open?!
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