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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

look up in the sky it's a...giant ice ball the size of a microwave oven

It seems that our environment is crying out for someone to notice how much crap we have done to it.. just check it out ..
A giant ice ball that fell from the Douglasdale sky has put the african suburb on the map.
Professor Jesus Martinez-Frias, head of the Planetary Geology Laboratory in Madrid, has warned that the microwave oven-sized ice object could be a sign of "serious environmental problems".
Frias is an authority in the megacryometeor phenomenon(who really studies that?), having written papers on possible reasons for this. According to him, falling ice balls have been recorded since the 19th century.
Frias agreed with a security guard Sizwe Sofika, who saw the frozen object come from the sky, that the ice ball was not frozen human waste ejected from a plane.
The impact of the ice ball's fall created a small crater on the pavement, which was covered with pieces of broken ice. Don't worry no one was hurt--except for the environment..

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

seriously. What's next? It really WILL rain cats and dogs. In the form of ice. Interesting article.

Anonymous said...

There is an interesting scientific article about megacryometeors. It was published in the prestigious Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry:

http://tierra.rediris.es/publipapers/megacryometeors_JAC.pdf

Joan Scott