Alien Invasion?

[morteduzionism]

Wasn't this an episode of X Files?

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where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater,

First meteorite to leave a crater since Sikhote Alin in 1947 I think.

BTW this Reuters video says 32 feet wide not
100 feet.

[Roy Batty]

That's downright scary. I hope it's just a gas or radiation and not some kind of alien disease against which our bodies have no natural defense...

[Lunar4]

I was just about to make a topic on this. I think its astounding

[Richard]

Well, it's probably reasonable to assume that superheated rock and minerals being mashed up and blasted into tiny conveniently inhaleable particles would have adverse health effects should one spend long enough sucking it up their nose.

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Any bacteria would have died in the blast anyway, just imagine the temperatures involved.

[Richard]

Any bacteria would have died in the blast anyway, just imagine the temperatures involved.

Good point. Although heat alone is not always enough to kill some wily bacteria...

I don't know but is the heat at an undersea thermal vent even comparable to that generated in a collision of this size?

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Good point. Although heat alone is not always enough to kill some wily bacteria...

I don't know but is the heat at an undersea thermal vent even comparable to that generated in a collision of this size?

I'm not sure, but if I have to guess then we are speaking of thousands of degrees here.

[Psamtik]

Why would it not be some strange gas pocket underground, or some dug down stuff. If that was an alien attempt to poison earth, I think we would be dead by now.

[Captain Arrrgh!]

Well, it's probably reasonable to assume that superheated rock and minerals being mashed up and blasted into tiny conveniently inhaleable particles would have adverse health effects should one spend long enough sucking it up their nose.

Dat be why tha Captain always recommends pickin' yer nose! But it be very impoortant ta eat tha buggies as well, ta build up yer natural imoonity.
*FARRRRRTT!!!*

[christof139]

Well, it's probably reasonable to assume that superheated rock and minerals being mashed up and blasted into tiny conveniently inhaleable particles would have adverse health effects should one spend long enough sucking it up their nose.

Depending on the size of the meteor, bacteria could be alive and well deeper inside the rock, and there are some bacteria that live deep inside rock, can't remember if they are anerobic though. So these bacteria may survive the heat of entry into an atmosphere and the resultant impact.

Chris

[Chaigidel]

god I hope this is the "terror out of time" that lovecraft kept telling me about--- I sure do want the human race extinct.

[Chaigidel]

so was the meteorite completely annihilated with the mud?

[Dutchpower]

Radiation is still my guess. Because if its from space it MUST be radio active.

It can really F you up.

[christof139]

Aliens are already here. Chris

[IndianPrince]

So what now it'll pollute earth's water table ??? Aliens my friends ... may not be what we imagine them to be. Micro-organisms are classified as aliens too right (the ones who came from outer space) ...

Prince

[christof139]

That's what people have been saying all along. Chris

[IndianPrince]

More of a possibility of them rather than intelligent life forms such as ourselves. But then again one cannot underestimate "nature"

Prince

[christof139]

Chance that there are not other 'intelligent' life forms in our Galaxy not to mention the entire Universe itself is slim.

There has to be more 'intelligent' life and at least one form may be more 'intelligent' than the human race somewhere in the Universe and maybe even in our Galaxy.

We are obviously not all that 'intelligent' ourselves anyway.

Chris

[IndianPrince]

True. Im not saying we are ... im only saying that even if there is intelligence life form as smart as us they wouldnt have the tech like us to come here. So micro-organisms have a better chance than others

Prince