Weird Things From The Sky -- "Scientists" Explain The Unexplainable

JGeropoulas

JGeropoulas

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Weird things falling from the sky aren't really news, at least if you read the SOTT site. "Scientists" speaking authoritatively about things they really don't understand isn't news either, but these examples were kind of amusing at least.

OTHER THINGS THAT FALL FROM THE SKY
Popular Science, May, 2012
by Rose Pastore

Meat
In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a dear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville Commercial reported that "two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, express the opinion that it was either mutton or venison.

A scientist at the Royal Microscopical Society of Great Britain theorized that buzzards had feasted on dead horses. flown over the town, and vomited.

Squid
In June 1997, a man fishing off the coast of the Falkland islands was knocked unconscious and left comatose for two days after a frozen squid landed on his head. How the squid got there nobody knows.

Jelly
In 2008. a hiker in Scotland stumbled 0n a hubcap-size pile of clear jelly. After he went went on BBC Radio, several other listeners called in to report similar sightings and sent in photos of the goop from all over the country.

Many speculated that birds might be eating frogs or toads and regurgitating their toxic ovaries. Scientists at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute ran DNA tests on the substance, but the tests were inconclusive.

Frogs
Downpours of frogs, tadpoles and fish plagued Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture in the summer of 2009.

Scientists hypothesized that the phenomenon was caused by strong seasonal waterspouts that sucked up the animals and dropped them on land.

Blue spheres
In January, a man in Dorset, England, found about 20 translucent gelatinous blue balls of an inch in diameter scattered across his yard.

Scientists at Boumemouth University speculated that they were the eggs of a marine creature but later found that they were made of sodium polyacrylate, a substance used in gardens and diapers to absorb water.
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Really, this is fascinating. Is there a scientific explanation? Too bad that books don't fall from the sky or money... ;)
 
Those are very interesting.

JGeropoulas said:
Meat
In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a dear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville Commercial reported that "two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, express the opinion that it was either mutton or venison.
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I've been to Kentucky and it has a lot of mountains. My first impression from reading the above that there could have been some mining explosions going on nearby in the late 1800s that could have exploded an animal or two and the remains went up to the sky and "rained" down onto those two gentlemen a mile away. Just a thought...

But, it would have been nice if a meat falls from the sky instead from the factory farms... ;)
 
JGeropoulas said:
In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a dear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville Commercial reported that "two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, express the opinion that it was either mutton or venison.
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So, is that a typo or a clever pun? ;)
(and who actually tastes meat that falls from the sky?)
 
anart said:
JGeropoulas said:
In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a dear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville Commercial reported that "two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, express the opinion that it was either mutton or venison.
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So, is that a typo or a clever pun? ;)
(and who actually tastes meat that falls from the sky?)
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In the spirit of objectivity and personal experimentation, it looks like the were putting Gurdjieff to the test. Roast chicken may not fly into one's mouth, but mutton and/or venison are looking probable. Sometimes there IS a free lunch!
 
anart said:
JGeropoulas said:
In 1876 a shower of three-inch chunks of meat rained down from a dear sky over Olympian Springs, Kentucky. The Louisville Commercial reported that "two gentlemen, who tasted the meat, express the opinion that it was either mutton or venison.
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So, is that a typo or a clever pun? ;)
(and who actually tastes meat that falls from the sky?)
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Yes, that is a typo. It took me a minute to find the pun because, like my scanner, I read "dear" as "clear" (So I guess, technically, it's actually a "scanno" :) )

My thoughts exactly--who would taste steak from a stranger's plate at restaurant, much less unidentified meat that fell out of the sky!?
 
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