{"id":185,"date":"2007-09-20T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-09-20T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T17:20:04","slug":"or-nothing-fell-from-the-sky-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/or-nothing-fell-from-the-sky-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;or nothing fell from the sky at all."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20070919\/sc_space\/scientistsdoubtmeteoritesickenedperuvians\">This report<\/a> shows some scientists questioning whether anything fell at all, but instead it is all some sort of geological phenomena.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A couple features of the event reports suggest there was a space rock involved, said geophysicist Larry Grossman of the University of Chicago. The bright streak of light and loud bangs seen and heard by locals are consistent with a meteor streaking through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, he said. Most meteors do burn up, never becoming meteorites (which is what they&#8217;re called if they reach the surface).<\/p>\n<p>Because no one actually saw anything impact at the crater site, it&#8217;s hard to say whether a space rock was involved because they are often deceptive as to where they will land. Many times, people swear a meteor landed nearby when in fact it was so far away that it dipped below the local horizon but never actually struck the ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll stick to mass hysteria, even if it is some geological feature. Still, much like the scientists quoted in this article, I&#8217;m basing my opinion on hearsay.  The beauty of my theory is that it works for either meteorites or geysers &#8212; I somehow doubt the entire village walked over to the crater and got sick.<\/p>\n<p>I think at this point, however, we may have to rule out zombie-death plague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report shows some scientists questioning whether anything fell at all, but instead it is all some sort of geological phenomena. A couple features of the event reports suggest there was a space rock involved, said geophysicist Larry Grossman of the University of Chicago. The bright streak of light and loud bangs seen and heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-uncategorized","category-sciencegeek-porn","category-skeptic","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-2Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}