news.yahoo.com — A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor and witnesses saw an arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said on Friday.Burkhard Rick, a spokesman for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn, said the fire gutted the cottage and badly burnt the man's hands and face in the incident.
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ufeeOct 20, 2006
You see, global warming is causing meteors to hit the earth.
ahhellOct 20, 2006
That guy needs to buy a lottery ticket.
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kaioshinOct 20, 2006
Well, good luck claiming insurance money for THAT.
supertroutOct 20, 2006
meteor = missle
dwarmstrOct 21, 2006
Given that on any night you are likely to see a bright meteor, they are falsely associating a house fire with a meteorite. Literally without a smoking meteorite in the center of the house there is no evidence. Meteorites don't come in blazing--while the surface melts during reentry, they can be quite cold on landing. Falling at terminal velocity through the stratosphere and troposphere will certainly help cool it. It may even make it colder than the equilibrium temperature in space near Earth (which is about 0 degrees C for a blackbody).
rygokeOct 21, 2006
Adding to the argument of hot meteorites, the laws of physics states that energy is transferrable as heat. If the meteor came from some supernova, it's likely nothing would have absorbed the heat in its space trip, as you mentioned a blackbody. By falling on to the earth's atmosphere, the meteor could have been thousands of times hotter than its atmosphere. The earth's environment may have done significant cooling, but not enough to prevent the house fire. There's evidence on the Yucatan coast of Mexico, dealing with an asteriod that hit there in the time of dinosaurs. Scientists have debated about its collision with Earth coming at a south-east angle. Hot debris would then move into the northeast, starting fires that would eliminate the biospherical life. If its proven this meteor caused the extinction of all life, then this hypothesis can't be false. In conclusion, you can't rule out this possibility of a hot meteor.
genelmxOct 21, 2006
our new clark kent is 77.