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Meteorite hits peru, makes hundreds sick!!!
amateurhour
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Don't know if this has been posted or not.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7001897.stm
This is pretty damned horrible and pretty damned interesting at the same time. Basically a meteorite hit (that's still being debated though) and caused a twenty foot deep by sixty foot wide crater, the bottom of which is full of bubbling and boiling water, even now. It's fumes and impact area are causing some kind of poisoning that's making everyone who gets near it sick.
While this is a tragedy, does anyone else find the concept of space radiation rock hitting earth kind of.... I dunno, interesting. It doesn't happen often, its a once in a lifetime kind of event.
I'm just waiting for reports that the Peruvian Justice Leauge has been formed, and is now ready to clean up Columbia...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7001897.stm
This is pretty damned horrible and pretty damned interesting at the same time. Basically a meteorite hit (that's still being debated though) and caused a twenty foot deep by sixty foot wide crater, the bottom of which is full of bubbling and boiling water, even now. It's fumes and impact area are causing some kind of poisoning that's making everyone who gets near it sick.
While this is a tragedy, does anyone else find the concept of space radiation rock hitting earth kind of.... I dunno, interesting. It doesn't happen often, its a once in a lifetime kind of event.
I'm just waiting for reports that the Peruvian Justice Leauge has been formed, and is now ready to clean up Columbia...
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I don't think methane is able to cause sickness, it's just highly volatile and in confined spaces can displace oxygen resulting in asphyxia.
Time to go polish up mah zomba' gun.
Everyone knows aliens always come out of space rocks.
http://zombiehunters.org/index.php
These guys are with you man.
Symptoms of hypoxia: Shortness of breath, headache, fatigue, nausea, seizures, coma, death...
That post was infinitely more impressive since your avatar is House..... good show man...
Deaths a pretty bad symptom i'd say.
1. As mentioned, a regular meteor just happened to strike a pressurized pocket of noxious gas underground. Unlikely, but not impossible. Alternatively, the meteor itself may be made of heavy metals that were carried into the atmosphere by the vaporizing groundwater.
2. There are a lot of undocumented, aging Cold-War-era satellites with simple nuclear cores out there. It's not unthinkable that one of them could deorbit and crash. Again, as the groundwater vaporized on impact, the radioactive material would be spread through the air - fallout, basically. Many of the symptoms displayed by people in the area are also associated with mild radiation poisoning.
Either way, it's a crazy story. The fact that the water at the bottom of the crater is still boiling is very strange - it means that either there's a supply of gas bubbles coming up through the water or whatever object sits under there is still radiating enough energy to boil the water.
I am fascinated by this turn of events. All I can do, though, is watch and see what happens.
I sat and watched as the meteorite hatched and the alien inside conquered all of humanity.
And then no humanity was there to save me.
I don't see how hypoxia could occur over an extended period of time in a wide open space like that.
I'm not saying it can't happen, just... I'd have to be convinced.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
yeah, I don't really go for the whole, "hypoxia over an open area" either.. it's the fucking martians
Well, I was really rebutting the idea that Methane can't cause sickness; anything that replaces oxygen in the air can make you feel ill. It's not a binary "feelin' fine" or "asphyxiated" thing.
But yeah, you're unlikely to get it in that kind of concentration in an open environment.
The story's pretty light on details, but
Suggests to me that people who go peer into the crater come away feeling ill. Now it's a good bet that if you're peering down at a pool of water with gas bubbling out of it, you're inhaling the gasses bubbling out of it.If the gas happens to be an oxygen antagonist, you could potentially have hypoxic symptoms even while surrounded by oxygen.
Or something toxic in the soil, poisonous fungus, alkaline in an underground resevoir, what have you...
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Huh. That sounds reasonable.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Methane bubbling out of lakes has been known to kill off big groups of people before. I'm failing to find any reference other than this, though.
edit: this particular article says the gas in question was CO2, not methane, but same idea.
Well, if lakes erupting gas can asphyxiate people over open area, then this seems less unlikely.
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~sdrymala/limnic.html
I've never thought of beginning to die because you there's no oxygen available as an illness.
If you ever need to talk to someone, feel free to message me. Yes, that includes you.
Hypoxia isn't the only listed illness... people are complaining of dermal injuries, which is something you'd associate more with radiation or chemical burns, not just oxygen deprivation... correct?
I don't want to be killed by a giant meteor hitting us, that's a fucking shit way to die.
As long as it hits somewhere else, I don't really care.
That could happen.
<.< >.>
Triffids
Got a link for that one?
I'd rather be under the meteor than die a slow painful death of planetary extinction.
I'd rather neither.
And also a chair.
So, a meteorite hit peru? Crazy shit, man.
...Tenacious D?