[narby]

Maybe I should have posted this in "Humor". But as they say, some ideas are so stupid that it takes an intellectual to believe them.

[mgc1122]

Today's junk scientist is tomorrow's applicant for a multi million dollar Federal grant. It's not about science, it's about free money for wild assed theories.

[Mark Felton]

The ice was blue with high urine concentrations perhaps? pesky jumbo jets...

[Phantom Lord]

Now I get it, Global Warming causes Ice!

[mc5cents]

Global Warming Causes Global Cooling!

[mfulstone]

Please see http://www.ijsklompen.net/divers.htm and http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/news-release/releases/1997/97-59.htm

[Looking for Diogenes]

Here is the original article from Science:

http://tierra.rediris.es/megacryometeors/megacryometeors.pdf

Like most popular news articles on scientific topics, the journalist has sensationalized and distorted the actual issues.

That aside, I don't know why Martinez-Frias calls them 'megacryometeors' since he is theorizing that they are hailstones, not meteors.

One of my favorite stories of 'scientific ignorance' involves meteorites. Aristotle reported stones (and frogs) falling from the sky and had his own theories. By the Enlightenment, Aristotle had been discarded and scientists assumed that falling rocks and frogs were ancient myths. When occasional reports would come in about falling rocks they would be discounted as tales from ignorant farmers.

In the late 18th Century there was a meetings of scientists in a French provincial city which coincided with a meteorite shower. The scientists finally believed that stones could fall from the sky when they saw it themselves. They literally had to be hit over the head with the evidence.

(Frogs and fish really do fall from the sky too.)

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Whoever said this got hit in the head with an ICE CUBE!

[Tailgunner Joe]

The damned envirofreaks get nuttier and nuttier all the time. They are the doom-saying astrologers of the 21st century. I remember Gore during the election saying how if he wasn't elected, there would be floods and storms and natural disasters. He might as well have predicted earthquakes and meteor storms and plagues of locusts.

[aruanan]

Maybe I should have posted this in "Humor". But as they say, some ideas are so stupid that it takes an intellectual to believe them.

Of course, if there actually are such large ice masses falling from the sky, there has got to be some explanation. If they are so rare, it's not reasonable to assume that they are only now becoming more prevalent and that the reason for it is something that's not even occurring (global warming). There was a time when people who claimed to see rocks fall from the sky were laughed to scorn, and that by the scientific establishment.

[Nick Danger]

Sounds to me like just another form of "smite." Some days, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[HighWheeler]

He's a little late on his theory. Here is a quote from Revelation 16:21

"Revelation 16
21 From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible."

I guess it's been going on for a while, eh?

[2sheep]

In search of a reason (and excluding enviro-excuses like globlal warming), do you as a professional meteorologist, have a reason why giant ice blocks fall out of the sky?

[Nuke'm Glowing]

One question: Where the hell is this ice when my ice in my Jack and coke melts??? It would be much more convenient at the beach if it were to fall from the sky.

[Movemout]

"A Spanish scientist says... "

What else do you need to know?

[MoscowMike]

Howdy

Excellent post, illustrative of the fact that the appelation "scientist" is often applied to individuals who are, in fact, blithering idiots.

There was once a time when an individual had to master material beyond the grasp of the moron, but today, with relativism polluting objective science in liberal institutions of "higher" learning, many so-called scientists, are in fact, politicized useful idiots.

Caveat emptor.

[SunkenCiv]

Small Comets and Our Origins
University of Iowa | circa 1999 | Louis A. Frank
Posted on 10/20/2004 2:13:25 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1250694/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from November 2002.

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