Meteorite Causes Illness in Peru

eldavojohn writes "A meteorite struck in Peru on Saturday leaving cinders, rock & water boiling out of the ground. Villagers nearby reported headaches & vomiting and attributed it to the event. From the article, 'Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said. Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.' It's not yet clear whether this is from the meteorite, gas trapped underground that was released or a chemical reaction between the two."

Headaches?

[smitty97]

If I got hit with a metorite, I'd have a headache too

Kryptonite Radiation

[Sciros]

There's no other rational explanation. Especially if the meteorite was green. Though there's different kinds of kryptonite out there. For instance Superman is very allergic to red, although it doesn't kill him. ... This is not off topic! :-(

/in Steven King voice:

[pimpbott]

Meeeteyer sheeit!

Zombies!

[LineGrunt]

Oh COOL!

When do we get the zombies?

And are they slow or fast?

and so it begins

[circletimessquare]

(rubs hands together conspiratorily)

Sounds Like Commander Data's Work

[Mad Martigan]

They're going to want to be on the lookout for androids carrying suspiciously labeled bags [memory-alpha.org].

Re:Andromeda Strain!!! or not...

[that IT girl]

When I read this, I thought "Woah! ALIEN DISEASES! It's like a comic book!"
Don't persuade me otherwise, my version is much cooler. ;D

Re:Fungus is among us

[TheeBlueRoom]

Let me know when the Space Spore Zombies show up...

Re: Foreigner

[operagost]

On the contrary, it will be cold as ice

You're as cold as ice, create a 30 M. wide hole
Just a block of ice, hot as a meteorite is cold

I've seen it before, it happens a lot
Crash on some villagers, trash all they've got
They look out the door to see a rock in the sky
A big stinky mess, makes the poor suckers die

I KNEW IT!

[Spy der Mann]

this for now seems like radiation poisoning

I have a friend which is an expert on meteorites and radiation [luthorcorp.com]. Lex will surely lend the guys a hand... for a price.

too much TV

[LM741N]

now that Britney has made her way on TV in S. America, there have been waves of vomiting and sickness.

The SCO meteorite?

[Ang31us]

Here's a picture [yahoo.com] of what it looked like as SCO streaked across the sky and made that big, noxious, radioactive hole in the ground! ;-)

Re:nonsense

[xs650]

"Shit breaks" is an excellent analysis of one hitting the Earth at a high percentage of orbital velocity.

Re:too much TV

[Anonymous Coward]

Leave Britney ALONE!

- Chris Crocker

Re:B-Movie

[curmudgeous]

They can already summon reporters with the twitch of a finger. What other power do they need?

From TFA

[Aqua_boy17]

...a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill...

...sounds like the goatse guy has invaded Peru.

Re:Confirmation on this one?

[Ajehals]

So you are saying that this was really "The light from Venus reflected off a cloud of swamp gas?"*

*" Now look right here at this little light."

Different facts, JPL?

[FozE_Bear]

Anyone else think it's odd that this article calls it a 10meter crater (30ft) but the Physorg article calls it a 30 meter crater? Was JPL involved in some metric conversions?

Re:Fungus is among us

[Anonymous Coward]

Anthrax? It's a good thing it didn't hit the US, otherwise we'd blame Al Qaeda for the attack and launch an invasion of space.

Goerge Bush: "This aggression will not be tolerated. Space terrorists hate us for our freedom. We're fighting them up there so we don't have to fight them down here."

Mars Attacks!

[Doc Ruby]

These people are being attacked by Martian vampires. I expect a wave of sightings of batboy [google.com]. Though such a massive undertaking as this interplanetary missile is surely part of a huge attack.

By Hallowe'en, 6 weeks from now, the biters will have amassed enough strength to finally strike when we all think it's just some kind of joke. So in the meantime, stay vigilant through the night. Vampires can be stopped in their tracks, but not permanently destroyed, by staking them through the heart (wood, metal or any other stake that stays intact driven through their chest). It's also good to chop their head off, and even stuff the neck (both ends) with wolfsbane, if you can get it from some Romanian Internet pharmacy or something.

But to permanently destroy them ("kill" the undead monster), you've got to expose them to sunlight. Stake 'em and bake 'em.

And remember that those religious charms you try to use to drive them away work only as well as the strength of your mutual belief in them. So if these Martian vampires have got beyond their fear of "god", you'll just let them come close enough to strike while you mumble and genuflect. And if their tech has made them immune to the Sun, then we're in pretty deep.

I'll be gearing up the SOLASER, but that guarantees only my safety. Get your stakes ready, and hope we can ride out this season. And then on to the Red Planet, with at least rovers fitted with stakes to drag them from their burrows and pin them on their own surface for a Martian vampbake.

Re:Fungus is among us

[TobyRush]

Let me know when the Space Spore Zombies show up...

Um, okay, but you're going to need to give us an e-mail address or something.

I'm not saying they've shown up yet, I just want to be prepared. Because when they do show up, and everyone is going to be running around and freaking out and trying to shoot space spore zombies with hastily loaded rifles and everything, they're going to be thinking, "Aw, crap, that one guy on Slashdot asked us to let us know when this happens, and we totally are letting him down!" But not me, man. When those zombies start clawing on my door, first thing I'm gonna do: I am going to LET YOU KNOW.

Meteroite control!

[A nonymous Coward]

We need laws banning meteorites over 10 mm diameter or capable of breaking into more than 10 chunks. Well, 10 chunks is ok if they are only capable of breaking off if tools are used, and another meteorite does count as a tool. Actually, more than 10 chunks is ok if those chunks are capable of breaking off without a tool, as long as those chunks were assembled together into the meteorite before 2000.

No flash hiders either, we want to be able to see them coming so we have some warning.

No collapsible meteors in general, that is bad ju ju.

No bayonet lugs, that would be truly evil!!!

And not within 1000 feet of a school, K?

Re:Kryptonite Radiation

[Jarjarthejedi]

Actually many documentaries* on the subject of kryptonite have shown that it can have numerous effects on human beings. For instance Lex Luthor has suffered in the past from deadly exposure to this dangerous form of radiation. Jimmy Olsen has also suffered from the use of these WMDS**. I, for one, think we should be thinking of our children who will have to grow up in a kyptonite infested world thanks to these rocks raining down on us. We should declare war on Krypton now, before it is too late. The more times one of these kyptonite rocks is allowed to fall to our planet the more times people will be able to threaten Superman and poison civilians and future presidents.

*Comics
**Weapons of Mass Destruction (that mainly affect) Superman

Re:Meteroite control!

[Artifakt]

And none that emit nymphomaniacal, life draining, magenta tinted, gaseous aliens when you accidentally throw a large chisel at them on your first day on the job.

Re:nonsense

[Anonymous Coward]

Now thats a skidmark to tell your grandkids about.

Re:Bridge failure

[Anonymous Coward]

...forced resonance and self- excitation are fundamentally different phenomena.

As any geek on slashdot should be aware of.

Oblig. Warner Brothers

[HTH NE1]

Lake Titicaca, o Lake Titicaca
It's in between Bolivia and Peru
Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca
With waters tranquil and blue

Lake Titicaca, o Lake Titicaca
Why do we sing of its fame?
Lake Titicaca, yes Lake Titicaca
We just like saying its name: TITICACA!

It was predicted..

[smileytshirt]

Tiberium? [wikipedia.org]

Re:Plutonium thermal generators

[AliasTheRoot]

it was built without a containment vessel

Don't you mean a containment WESSEL?