Meteor packing an illness?

[SS4 Gogeta]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=296907

A mysterious illeness seems to have popped up after a meteor impacted close to some village in Peru.

Boiling water started coming out of the crater

sounds like it may have hit an underground hotspring or somthing, boiling water and the "strange odor" mentioned ealier in the article.

If anyone has ever been to a hotspring you know what it smells like, Sulphurish. Im sure if the smell was strong enough that could have caused people getting ill, but I would think the distance would be fairly minimal.

If not a hotspring or other underground source of water, I wonder where the water may have come from, inside the meteorite? Im eager to see what the investigators find. How about you?

 

[Barney]

I think it's superman.

 

[Grega]

Or its a new BIO weapon on field testing. The meteor just happened to be a perfect coverup to launch it after it hit ^^

 

[Jakut]

They're testing the new outer space railgun.

 

[frsrblch]

"Mystery Illness" just means they haven't bothered to actually check what's causing it.

 

[Synth]

Oh noez the aliens are using bio-weapons.

 

[MC]

Or its a new BIO weapon on field testing. The meteor just happened to be a perfect coverup to launch it after it hit ^^

You make it sound like it's something from The Blob.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=296907

A mysterious illeness seems to have popped up after a meteor impacted close to some village in Peru.

Boiling water started coming out of the crater

sounds like it may have hit an underground hotspring or somthing, boiling water and the "strange odor" mentioned ealier in the article.

If anyone has ever been to a hotspring you know what it smells like, Sulphurish. Im sure if the smell was strong enough that could have caused people getting ill, but I would think the distance would be fairly minimal.

If not a hotspring or other underground source of water, I wonder where the water may have come from, inside the meteorite? Im eager to see what the investigators find. How about you?

I'm with you. It seems that the water is from an underground hot spring and that the strange smell is probably sulfur.

I doubt that the water came from the meteorite. If there was any frozen water on it, it would've evaporated in the atmosphere.

 

[SS4 Gogeta]

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=66641

short video at the impact site. If I were those guys I dont think Id be touching that stuff just yet...:S

 

[Deman]

Damn, when I first read this I passed it off as one of those joke sites that look like a legit news site.

But it's real? Wow.

I'd suspect radiation possibly, but the symptoms of that are pretty obvious and aren't just headaches or nausea. Hell if I know or am qualified to even guess.

 

[DiebytheSword]

Headaches and nausea can be caused by radiation sickness. Fallout from an Iridium 88 meteor could easily kill people within LOS.

 

[Arthos]

If it's not radiation(have to wonder if they've tested for it yet,) it's probably just some strange toxin, from space.

 

[Deman]

Headaches and nausea can be caused by radiation sickness. Fallout from an Iridium 88 meteor could easily kill people within LOS.

Well then.

 

[Arthos]

Radiation explanation debunked.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070919/ap_on_sc/peru_meteorite;_ylt=Ak9VCAraqnmg7Pwdz_O9cofQOrgF

 

[SS4 Gogeta]

Update, an article explaining the cause for the illness.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/perus-meteor-illness-explained-invitation-extended/

 

[Arthos]

HA HA! IN YOUR FACE!!!


IN YOUR FACE CUC IT'S NOT RADIATION!
IN YOUR FACE EVERY OTHER PANICKY LITTLE MONKEY IT'S NOT AN ALIEN DISEASE!