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Factual Questions
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http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000118/12/spain-mystery-ice

When you go to Spain, make sure your umbrella is made of titanium. Have you ever heard of anything like this? What could have dropped it? What is the biggest that real hailstones can get? I always hear about “golfball-sized hail” which is quite big enough for me, thank you, but I think there have been even bigger hailstones on occasion.

I also think it’s funny that in this article, they seem to think that the 8-pound icechunks have caused either injury, or damage, but not both.

Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.

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Lo!

Elmer J. Fudd,
Millionaire.
I own a mansion and a yacht.

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And lo, the angel of ice said unto them, goeth and gettest thou titanium umbrellas, that the 8 pound ice balls shall not smite thee dead.

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This thing is all over the Spanish press. It’s not quite national hysteria, but it’s been getting big play in the major papers and on the evening news over here. In case you hadn’t heard, large chunks of ice have been “falling” all over southern Spain during the last week or so. The press has trotted out three possible explanations: 1) it’s ice that fell off the wings of airplanes (so why have these ice chunks never been noticed before? Something like fifteen of the damn things have been “found” in the past week) 2) they’re large hailstones (sounds plausible, but it’s not hail season and some of these things are the size of a person’s head) 3) it’s ice falling into the earth’s atmosphere from the tail of a comet (but surely astronomers would have noticed this comet close enough to earth to drop ice into its atmosphere, and, anyway, why would these pieces of ice have fallen into a comparatively small area, and nowhere else, of the constantly spinning Earth over the space of a week?) My conclusion: it’s a hoax. Perhaps the first one was a legit hailstone or ice from a plane, but the rest are copycat stuff. Crop circle city.

–Lawrence, your Barcelona correspondent

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my opinion: pranksters with big muhfuh home-made catapults!

For an ice ball to make it from a comet in space, through the atmosphere, and then to reach the ground, it would have to be incredibly huge in the first place. Remember heat from re-entry. Hard to see how that would escape detection.