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Illness Brought On By Crashed Meteorite

In Peru. Very intriguing.
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swift · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 2807 Location: At my keyboard

I have two thoughts.

First, that the heat of the impact dispersed something from the ground it hit...

SciFi Chick · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

swift - All I can say is that you're a very good gubmint disinfo agent. I hope they're paying you well. Razz

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swift · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 2807 Location: At my keyboard

Oh, like you could handle the truth.

Now, just take a look at the end of this device...

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Gullible Jones · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

Headaches, vomiting, strange odor? Could be that it contained some toxic compounds that are now spreading around as dust. Or they could have been created durin the impact.

(Osmium tetroxide is the one that's coming to my mind - volatile solid, smells like ozone. Probably too toxic to explain this though. On the other hand, some of those symptoms sound like what you'd get from toxic gases like ozone or nitric oxide... Could be that the heat just generated a lot noxious fumes, which wind [patterns have prevented from dissipating fast.)

Russ · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:

The bad odor with nausia & headaches could also be due to sulfurdioxide (rotten egg smell) gas released by the impact. The same symptoms occured when that volcano suddenly popped out of a farmers field in Mexico back in 1947. I'm probably wrong but it's a possibility.
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Parrot · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject:

A lengthier article here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20838944/.

I'll wait for further study. It may very well be some sort of chemical reaction, but I'll wait to see if the sulfer is from the meteorite itself, or from some ground pocket and released by the impact.

JPax · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 1654

Are they sure it was a meteorite and not something manmade? I suspect an errant nuclear warhead would have similar results (but so might an RTG). The crater might be caused by detonation of the high explosives at impact. A properly safed and unarmed warhead would not cause a sizable nuclear reaction in the event of an accident such as this (since the pit would not be at the geometric center of the explosion/implosion, which would probably be asymmetrical in such an event anyways). Radiation poisoning from pulverized Pu and tritium and toxicity from Pu and other chemicals might result in symptoms similar to those described. If the pit stayed somewhat intact and is laying in groundwater, the water might act as a neutron moderator and cause some fissioning to occur to heat the water to boiling.

I wonder what NORAD has to say about the meteor's track. It might be a lost warhead from a FOBS (Fractional Orbit Bombardment System).
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Ikyoto · Has A Perminant Rash Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 4878

JPax, you've been playing with those kids over at GLP again. We've told you not to go there as you might come down with RWS!

RWS - Rampant Wild Speculation.
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Gullible Jones · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:01 am Post subject:

Well, the experts are now saying that the crater is more likely some kind of fissure, with no meteorite involved.

(Wait a minute. Didn't some of the people say they saw the impactor?)

JPax · Joined: 17 Jun 2007 Posts: 1654

I saw a report on the news yesterday and they said that experts had tested the air and found no trace of noxious chemicals or radioactivity. Apparently I wasn't the only one thinking about radioactives.
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