Stapes Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A 10 pound meteorite which landed in a former Khmer Rouge zone of northwest Cambodia started fires across rice fields and prayers from villagers who saw it as a divine omen of peace. "Some farmers are angry with the rock because it caused fires and destroyed several hundred hectares of their paddy fields," said Sok Sareth, police chief of Banteay Meanchey province, around 200 miles northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh. "But others asked the police to leave it where it landed and put it on shrine to pray for peace," he told Reuters on Wednesday. The black lump of celestial rock sent villagers scurrying for cover when it thumped into the ground in the war-scarred southeast Asian nation on Monday morning. "It made a noise like a bomb exploding," Sok Sareth said. "It's a good thing it didn't land in the village or people could have been killed." Pictures of the meteorite were splashed across newspapers in the capital, but the item itself has been carried away by police pending scientific analysis. Initial investigations by explosives experts still clearing the bombs and mines left behind from Cambodia's years of civil war against Pol Pot's guerrillas have not yielded many results. "I asked my friend who works as deminer, but he has no idea what the rock is," Sok Sareth said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 just recently the scientific community has been switching up their opinion that a big meteor caused the deaths of 2/3rds of everything 250 million years back... turns out that based on fossil evidence they're now saying it was the greenhouse effect that rubbed out most of the planet... caused by the many active volcanoes at the time (as opposed to our method of factories and SUVs) Global warming caused mass extinction and while we're talkin tragedy in Asia, anyone in the Hamilton area tonight should pop by the Casbah tonight to toss a few bucks to the Red Cross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Posted January 26, 2005 Report Share Posted January 26, 2005 That's a bullsh!t reason. Dinos thrived in hot and humid environments due to their cold bloodedness. Besides there is much more geological evidence pointing towards one or several meteorites hitting the earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogieknight Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 actually it was martians that kills the dino's, sunk atlantis and caused the most recent ice age. duh ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted January 27, 2005 Report Share Posted January 27, 2005 I thought it was the illuminati? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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