Posted on 01/06/2011 9:20:47 PM PST by LukeL
BEEBE, Ark. (AP) -- Preliminary lab results show the blackbirds that fell from the sky in central Arkansas died from blunt force trauma
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“Which begs the question . . .”
How does one pick up the ground and smack a bunch of flying birds with it?
Hail.
There was a thunderstorm at the time.
When Slick and Her Thighness went back to Arkansas, 5,000 birds dropped dead.
Exactly! :-)
So your hypothesis is flying ashtrays?
I heard ornithologist from Chicago explain how the blunt force possibly occurred.
These birds roost in huge numbers, they are inactive at night.
When startled in the night they tend to have mass panic, all try to avoid whatever started panic. They are known to fly at 30mph, in the dark they tend to mid air collisons.
This ornithologist indicated that roosts were in excess of 100k + birds. So 5k in collison related deaths was not unusual.
Same ornithologist posited that reason this getting so much air time, is due to fish die off and 5000 birds cluttering the ground.
Hey, it looks like the FR clock is fixed, along with the “Activity” tab. Happy New Year!
Bird version of Heaven’s Gate
Aren’t you supposed to be able to see those UFOs during the night, though? (I still can’t believe I sat through that entire movie)
Anyone here ever seen the last 2 episodes of the second season of Millennium?
Anyhoo, I’m guessing it’s something to do with the magnetic field of the earth, or released methane pockets.
The way the jet stream has been lately and the way the arctic air has been coming down, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these got caught in bad weather and froze. we had like a real big spike in temperature and then it dropped very quickly in a day and then this stuff started happening.
Question is:
Why did 5000 birds fall asleep while flying.
If the birds smashed into ‘cars and rooftops’, per the story...wouldn’t a lot of cars be damaged?
Now they are saying the birds are dieing... dying...
unalive... (really, I wish Daniel Webster had put
some thought into how that word SHOULD be spelled?)
from blunt force trauma. My theory is they are flying
right into cloaked alien spacecraft .
Yup... that’s what I think.
(placing tinfoil hat firmly on head)
It is surprising that birds never did that before, especially the "plummeting to their deaths" part. Perhaps global warming is at fault here, or perhaps Bush? :-)
It doesn't take more than a few seconds of bird-watching to realize that a spooked bird never flies into the ground. It flies into the sky. A few birds who failed to learn this trick died young.
hmmm...good point.
You could ask “what would make 5000 lose consciousness”?
Maybe.
I’ve been wondering what sonic booms do to birds.
Not sure why.
Just throwing it out there.
You fall from the sky and you are going to die of blunt force trauma. Every time.
And tornadoes ..,
Maybe it’s more important what they DID NOT die from.
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