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Old 09-24-2007, 06:40 AM   #1
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September 24, 2007: Meteorite hole



It's the Monday Neatorama collaboration image!



Last week a meteor crashed in remote Peru, and it made the news because about 200 people who ran over to figure out what happened, became slightly ill.

Now we have an image of the crater, via the Mail, and it doesn't look all that menacing. In fact they now think the sickness wasn't due to anything from the rock from space, carrying some sort of Andromeda Strain virus or something. They think it was just the gases and dust unearthed from the impact.



They need a redneck games belly flop competition. They now have the perfect diving pit for it.

Of course, when it comes to meteor impacts, nothing matches the massive crater in Arizona, which is nearly a mile wide.



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Old 09-24-2007, 06:43 AM   #2
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I see they've got the lawyer tape up... hate to see God get sued again.
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Old 09-24-2007, 06:56 AM   #3
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Still, anything falling from the sky and making a 66' diameter hole is pretty damn impressive.
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Old 09-24-2007, 07:46 AM   #4
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Luckily, the meteors usually know to pick the remote spots to land on.
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Old 09-24-2007, 08:10 AM   #5
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I feel sorry for the kid who lost his volleyball. (1st picture)
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Old 09-24-2007, 09:19 AM   #6
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..hate to see God get sued again.
True enough.

Of all my creations, lawyers are the only breed that I've serious regretted.

Oh well, they'll never find my secret account in the Cayman islands anyway.


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Old 09-24-2007, 09:27 AM   #7
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Of course, when it comes to meteor impacts, nothing matches the massive crater in Arizona, which is nearly a mile wide.
there is the Manicouagan crater in Canada (~25 mi diameter)

and that's probably a soccer ball (futbol) [/nitpicking...]
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Old 09-24-2007, 09:50 AM   #8
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and that's probably a soccer ball (futbol) [/nitpicking...]
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Old 09-24-2007, 09:55 AM   #9
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He didn't lose the soccer ball. The Peruvian player was actually doing a slide-kick for the game winning goal when God, who is a Brazilian fan, struck him with a meteor to stop him.

Soccer fans can be so cruel.
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:21 AM   #10
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there is the Manicouagan crater in Canada (~25 mi diameter)

and that's probably a soccer ball (futbol) [/nitpicking...]
I thought about soccer ball...but 1) the stripes looked more like a volleyball to me and 2) I hate soccer and 3) I never really thought it was a ball at all

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Old 09-24-2007, 10:37 AM   #11
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:37 AM   #12
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In fact they now think the sickness wasn't due to anything from the rock from space, carrying some sort of Andromeda Strain virus or something. They think it was just the gases and dust unearthed from the impact.
Apparently it may have been arsenic in the groundwater.
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Old 09-24-2007, 11:29 AM   #13
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It was probably not a meteorite at all, but someone's septic tank exploding.
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Old 09-24-2007, 11:37 AM   #14
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Does anyone have an idea of how big the rock was?
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Old 09-24-2007, 11:53 AM   #15
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I think Photoshop CS3 is suckin right now- No matter what the file size is too large-I can't seem to compress without losing all dpi- if someone knows a way please help!!!
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