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Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits village
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=296907 ^

Posted on 09/18/2007 3:44:37 AM PDT by chessplayer

Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said today.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.ninemsn.com.au ...


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To: chessplayer
It must be a Chupacabra.


61 posted on 09/18/2007 11:49:37 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Red_Devil 232

My guess would be crater 30 feet by 6 feet. However, samples have been taken to test for radioactivity and will be ready in 7 days. If it is radioactivity (a fallen piece of radioactive space junk of human manufacture?) then it is incredibly strong and people will start dying long before the test results are in. Otherwise, if radioactivity is weak, they would not have gotten sick that quickly. Perhaps the boiling of the water set off gases from buried matter in the soil. Certainly an object large enough to make such a crater would also heat up the subsoil and boil the ground water. On the other hand, the area looks awfully dry to have groundwater that close to the surface.


62 posted on 09/18/2007 11:58:58 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: originalbuckeye
It sounds more like a Village of the Damned scenario to me!

You mean Hillary's book?

63 posted on 09/18/2007 12:08:35 PM PDT by Ignatz (Soylent green is people, too!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
“The Color Out of Space” by H.P. Lovecraft (1927) was the best rendering of this idea.

One of my favorite sci-fi short stories!.

64 posted on 09/18/2007 12:10:32 PM PDT by Ignatz (Soylent green is people, too!)
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To: gleeaikin

Do a mental projection of the SUV of the back ground and bring that SUV foward in the picture so it is on the rim of the crater. The SUV is at most 18 ft. long ... that crater is no way near 30ft. in dia. As I stated the crater is at most 6ft. in dia. and that is being very very forgiving!


65 posted on 09/18/2007 12:12:52 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: doodad

Better go drink some sterno!


66 posted on 09/18/2007 12:20:29 PM PDT by BBell
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To: LexBaird

“The Colour out of Space” was my first thought too.


67 posted on 09/18/2007 12:22:52 PM PDT by ct_libertarian (Clinton Inc Presents: Stalinist Slick Part 2, Bolshevik Butch: Coming to an Election Booth Near You!)
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To: djf
Alien DNA or pathogens could easily eradicate much of the life on Earth. We have no resistance, our immune systems might not even recognize it as dangerous. An example would be you can get a piece of glass embedded in your body and you have no immunological responses at all.

And you're assuming that alien pathogens would recognize us as food. ;-P

68 posted on 09/18/2007 12:34:19 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: ImProudToBeAnAmerican

Dude you were eating off it!


69 posted on 09/18/2007 12:46:05 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: gleeaikin

The craters dia. from waters edge to waters edge is about 4.5ft.


70 posted on 09/18/2007 12:59:22 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: cartoonistx
I remember when they shot that Body Snatchers movie in my old hometown! Sierra Madre, California

Did you find the treasure? %^)

71 posted on 09/18/2007 1:31:47 PM PDT by doodad
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To: 6ppc
Have they checked for pods?

I have a pickup truck, some shotguns, a lot of beer, and dogs that I am willing to ignore when they bark at night. Bring on the zombies!
72 posted on 09/18/2007 1:46:12 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: af_vet_rr
I have a pickup truck, some shotguns, a lot of beer, and dogs that I am willing to ignore when they bark at night. Bring on the zombies!

Aren't you missing a bimbo?

73 posted on 09/18/2007 1:49:35 PM PDT by null and void (<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
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To: #1CTYankee

Exactly what I was thinking. Sure sounds like someones satellite with a nuclear power plant came tumbling down. Now it is a matter who the owner is.


74 posted on 09/18/2007 2:03:27 PM PDT by Polynikes
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To: gleeaikin
However, samples have been taken to test for radioactivity and will be ready in 7 days.

No need to take samples or wait for results. A scan for radioactivity could be conducted from 1,000 ft away and take all of 10 seconds.

75 posted on 09/18/2007 2:07:01 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: af_vet_rr

This is what I want when I go hunting zombies!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOyt6imlgLo


76 posted on 09/18/2007 2:29:38 PM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: Borax Queen; processing please hold

lol....methinks so. : )


77 posted on 09/18/2007 2:55:49 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Borax Queen
hahahahahahaha.

Look to the skies. Keep looking at the sky.

78 posted on 09/18/2007 3:00:51 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: nicmarlo

LOL, me too. haha


79 posted on 09/18/2007 3:02:03 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: processing please hold; nicmarlo
It's a bird, it's a plane,
It's a bushbot brain!

80 posted on 09/18/2007 3:06:24 PM PDT by Borax Queen
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