Hey did you hear the one about the meteorite and Peru?

Something hit the countryside in Peru leaving a giant muddy crater and a bunch of sick people. Almost everyone’s calling it a meteorite, and at least one person is connecting it to a prophecy of the third Anti-Christ by Nostradamus. I can’t keep track of how many Anti-Christs there are, or are supposed to be… maybe kids will dress up as the Anti-Christ for Halloween this year. But in a sprawling screed that connects… lots of dots… with some very shaky lines, The Temple of Love mentions Hitler, George Bush, Peru, Nostradamus, Tom Cruise and the Peruvian meteorite all in one very long breath. Time to inhale, please. Or maybe it’s too late for that.

Boing Boing likens it to the Andromeda Strain.

Phil Plait of the Bad Astronomy blog, says it doesn’t really sound like a meteorite… usually they’re small enough to burn up completely or large enough to behave differently from what’s been observed in Peru.

A new theory is that it might have been a Scud missile. Scud missiles behave a lot more like what was observed than do meteorites.

Years ago some friends sent us some Scud missile candies. These were nasty little hard candies - to make it worse - Durian fruit hard candies - with a picture of a Scud missile on the wrapper. They seemed harmless. Inert. Hardly belying Durian horror that lay inside.

When you licked one - or, pity for you - popped one in your mouth - they full force of the Durian would be unleashed on you and you’d suffer.

Maybe it was a giant space-Durian that hit Peru? It’d certainly make people sick.

Via: BBC NEWS | Americas | Scores ill in Peru ‘meteor crash’

Via: Nostradamus Third Anti Christ Name Revealed by Peru Meteorite Crash

Via: Andromeda strain hits Peruvian village - Boing Boing

Via: Bad Astronomy Blog » Meteorite mayhem, Part I

Via: Bad Astronomy Blog » Meteorite Mayhem Part II: Maybe Missile Mayhem?

[tags]nostradamus, meteorite, peru, crater, missile, antichrist, sickness, missile, durian[/tags]

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