Friday
This takes some beating for an alarming sub-header for an article:
As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima
Blimey! At least it happened in the middle of nowhere rather than downtown Oslo.
Still, we all know it was really caused by George Bush capitalism McDonald's global warming!
Care to elaborate for us mere mortals, Perry?
I haven't a clue!
Should I have been paying more attention to the telly?
Posted by James at June 10, 2006 02:18 AM
I'm surprised it wasn't attributed to George Bush. According to many USA pundits and spokesmodels for various nutter organisations, he was responsible for Hurricane Katrina hittting New Orleans because it was run by democrats. Amazing that this bloke is ascribed such god-like powers by those who hate him.
Posted by Uain at June 10, 2006 02:26 AM
Hmmm... odd that the link vanished. Clearly the work of the NSA :-P
Posted by Perry de Havilland at June 10, 2006 02:33 AM
Gosh! How frightening!!
I wonder if my friends in Bern are ok?
I'm sure I felt the planking in the sauna
give a little sigh there for a moment.
Posted by RAB at June 10, 2006 02:34 AM
Bush's hurricane . . . the NSA . . . Bern, Norway . . . Boom!
Very confusing. This has Carl Rove's fingerprints all over it.
CFM
Posted by CFM at June 10, 2006 03:07 AM
When you say "bomb" were you talking about the meteorite, or the article on the same paper about Norwegian skiier Ingvild Engesland's nude photos controversy???
Posted by Mike Lorrey at June 10, 2006 03:53 AM
It is a scientifically proven fact that an increase in global temperatures makes the gravitational field of the earth greater, thereby enlarging and capturing this meteorite into a near-earth orbit. Artic and sub-artic temps in Norway have increased substantially creating an even greater gravitational attractor sub-field that pulled the meteor to northern areas of the country.
NSA satellites have been able to monitor this increase in earth's warming related gravitational field and experiments have been undertaken to attempt to influence upper atmosphere effects and direct the gravity fields to take near-earth objects and hurtle them at the surface of the earth causing catastrophic damage. This was obviously a test firing of the satellite control network, and the likelihood that it was 2 500-lb bombs that took out Zarqawi is nil. It was this system and a 15-lb space missile that did it.
Posted by SK Peterson at June 10, 2006 03:56 AM
"There were ground tremors, a house shook and a curtain was blown into the house,"Are there similar levels of devastation at the impact sites of nuclear weapons?
Posted by James Waterton at June 10, 2006 09:48 AM
Wish I could afford to fly to Norway and go meteorite hunting.
Hope the meteor didn't crush any Norwegian Blue parrots.
Posted by Alan K., Henderson at June 10, 2006 10:36 AM
Are there similar levels of devastation at the impact sites of nuclear weapons?
Kinda depends how far from ground zero you are!
Posted by Mommy Warbucks at June 10, 2006 12:15 PM
So, SK, you're saying it was a sudden gust of gravity, right?
Posted by Billy Beck at June 10, 2006 03:09 PM
Billy Beck said:
"So, SK, you're saying it was a sudden gust of gravity, right?"
I think it's more likely to be the after effect of a gravity quake ;)
Posted by James at June 10, 2006 07:19 PM
Given the target, I would say it was more likely a Gust of Adolphus.
Posted by triticale at June 10, 2006 09:23 PM
Lets hope we get see some pics of the crash site. Neat there is a shot of the meteorite flying across the sky.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at June 10, 2006 11:44 PM
triticale, even by very rigorous Midwest standards that was a pretty good one. Or should I say a very bad one.
Posted by Midwesterner at June 11, 2006 02:33 AM
It's very considerate of these meteorites to hit unpopulated areas, isn't it? If it had hit Stockholm it might just have made it to the second news story, after the Global Kickball Tournament, naturally.
Posted by Aegir Hallmundur at June 11, 2006 09:38 AM
triticale -
Good one!
But that would put it right around St. Peters (Minnesota):)
And regarding a "gust of gravity", who says conspiracy theories have to be consistent with laws of physics and the dynamics of the upper atmosphere? I bet a link could be easily found with the nuclear tests that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami and this meteor. Democracy Now! probably has a documentary in production already.
Posted by SK Peterson at June 11, 2006 10:55 PM
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1348689.ece
Aparently "Hiroshima" was a bit of exaggeration. Here's an image of the suspected impact site, a rock face up north... note the yellow burned rock...
Posted by Mike Lorrey at June 12, 2006 06:12 PM
This just in ! !
ONE TRILLIONTH OF NORSE LICHEN HARVEST DAMAGED ! BLACKS AND WOMEN HARDEST HIT !
EU SPOKESMEN BLAME U.S. GLOBAL WARMING POLICIES !
Posted by Gerry N. at June 13, 2006 12:13 AM
Well the happy-clappy televangelists will be going ape. Meteors and earthquakes around the ring of fire...signs of the rapture naturally?
*NB: Or to a Cthulhuist signs that Cthulhu is waking and rather cranky.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at June 13, 2006 06:05 PM
First time I heard about this was about a week after the incident, in a bulletin from an american friend on myspace!
why the stuff I wrote above is intresting, well becouse I live in Denmark! Also a Scandinavian country, and I'm confused about why they never mentioned this in the news here.
Posted by Sonny at June 21, 2006 03:40 PM
