“Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday…”
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This reminds me of the [thread=414288]UFO that killed some camels[/thread] in Somalia earlier this year. Are aliens trying out biological weapons, now?
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat With A Thousand Young!
The zombie apocalypse has begun. Attention all currently non-infected 'dopers: Please report to the location previously agreed upon with all relevant supplies. Remember the rules only allow for ONE child or Pet.
“It’s my wife… she sick! She changed!..That not her… That not my wife!”
Beware any new exotic plant exports from Peru, people.
Well Peru is very close to Antarctica, isn’t it? Probably the meteor hit some kind of deep cache of the Elder Things.
I love the smell of burnt Shoggoth in the morning…
Don’t eat the large swollen vegetables at next year’s vegetable stands.
Maybe I’m talking out of my ass here but don’t meteroites have the possibility of being highly radioactive?
Is it a good idea to be poking around this thing and getting possible radiation sickness?
Are you kidding? That sounds like some primo shit, man!
Uh, not that I would know about that or anything … :: tries to look innocent ::
I started a [thread=436996]GQ thread[/thread] on the how. Assuming this is a real reaction to something in the meteorite, I’m curious to what it is. Or it could be mass hallucination.
This thread is for discussing the imminent invasion. I’m not sleeping tonight until this is worked out.
I don’t believe so. I asked one of my geology profs this and got a strong negative, and none of my nickel-iron specimens have shown the slightest trace. Granted, my rad meter doesn’t work so well for alpha…
Paging Conan.
Conan the Barbarian, cleanup on aisle three.
Nowhere near, I’m afraid. Further than Mexico is from the North Pole.
No giant penguins then? Bother.
Maybe the aliens were trying to land at the Nazca Lines and went off-course.
In a couple years my family is planning on doing a reunion type of thing in Peru (my new Brother-in-Law is from Peru), hopefully all the gas or radiation or whatever is gone by then. Of course he is from Lima, but we were planning on traveling a bit (and south).
Clearly [Smallville’s] Clark Kent is going to emerge at any point now…
Headaches and vomiting after a “strange smell?” Needs a complete rewrite.
I first thought of The Andromeda Strain, but the Cthulhu jokes work for me too.
Mass hysteria, obviously.
At least they didn’t get a face full of heat ray from the martians.