If it had been made public from day one before they built websites and made videos and spent nearly 2 years building the hype for max news publicity and promotion it would hAve been more believable. I find this entire thing ridiculous. I saw a video of some lights shining down of deer the other day, news was viral, I doubt it was aliens but hasn't been disproven either:)
It seems to me that some people are invested in this story and will never admit that it is just a pebble from the chute packing. Michael Farmer Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 10, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Then you need to tune up your analysis skills. And your knowledge of > meteoritics. The video was not falsified, and is hardly "phony". What it > shows is plausibly explained by the meteorite hypothesis. Many, perhaps most > meteorite falls are not preceded by a significant fireball, and even fewer by > acoustics of any sort. > > I don't hear many people saying there's a "reasonable chance" this could be a > meteorite. I didn't even hear much of that early on. Only that nothing > obviously excludes this from being a meteorite. That's a distinction well > worth remembering. If this had been trivially rejected from the beginning, no > analysis would have been performed, and that would be unfortunate. > > And that's getting real. > > Chris > > ******************************* > Chris L Peterson > Cloudbait Observatory > http://www.cloudbait.com > >> On 4/10/2014 11:49 AM, Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum wrote: >> What amazes me about this media stunt is the lack of skepticism from >> people who should know better. When I saw the video, my first thought >> was: "this is as phony as a three-dollar bill. Anybody with even a lick >> of common sense should have instantly known this was totally bogus. No >> bolide, no sonic boom, no smoke trail, no electophonic sound, no >> recovered meteorite, nothing. There's nothing right about this. Just a >> video where a small rock pops out of a parachute right after its >> deployed. Who in their right mind would conclude that it was a meteoroid >> in dark flight? (Besides the dummy astronomer and physicist.) >> >> Even now people are still saying: "well there's a reasonable chance it >> could be real." Yeah right! About the same chance as me winning 10 >> Olympic gold medals, winning the lottery 10 times in a row, getting >> elected to the US Senate after being knighted by the Queen of England >> and then marrying Scarlett Johansson. >> >> >> Get Real, >> >> Phil Whitmer > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
