On a similar note I have a rather large piece of the Murchison
meteorite. It has some interesting qualities and a smell to it as well.
When I bought it some years ago my wife came into my office and asked me
what it was and if I would take it out of the house. I complied and
things were fine. Some months later I brought back in from work to my
home office and stuck in the safe. That night when she came home she
came in and asked me if I had brought that rock back into the house and
if I would please take it away. The stone really bothered her for some
reason and I am not kidding. I am not making any insinuations, just
saying it is strange.
Kelly
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Based on my vast experience, they can spawn zombies (and other similar
things), carry invaders, and produce singing plants. I can always check my
collection of bad and not so bad movies. Oh, you can also become a
superhero, but if it is green, superheros need to beware.
Larry
On Wed, September 19, 2007 8:47 am, Ron Baalke wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7002506.stm
BBC News
September 19, 2007
Q&A: Do meteors make you ill?
Hundreds of people in Peru have needed treatment after visiting the site
of what they believe is a meteorite crash. BBC News looks at the health
issues.
What are the complaints?
The symptoms are varied - ranging from eye irritation to headaches,
dizziness and nausea. Several police officers who visited the site had to
be taken to hospital afterwards, and even a scientist wearing a mask at
the scene declared the fumes were so strong his throat and nose flared up.
What does a meteorite emit?
Meteorites do not in themselves let off any dangerous fumes. They can
however expose rotting organic matter, and the air can be filled with
methane, hydrogen sulphite and carbon dioxide.
But there is some debate as to whether this is a meteorite - or indeed
an object from space - in the first place.
Some scientists are suggesting that people may have witnessed a
fireball, set off to investigate, and found a lake of sedimentary deposit
that was already there. The biological process here could mean that the
kind of fumes listed above are also emitted.
Can these really make people feel so ill?
Intense smells, even those that are not particularly toxic, can make
people feel poorly, while high levels of carbon dioxide mean people at the
site may not be getting enough oxygen.
At a purely physiological level, walking some way with some trepidation
as to what one might find could well have an impact on the body and produce
feelings of nausea and dizziness, sensations which may be compounded by
the fact that other people say they are suffering from the same complaint.
So could mass hysteria play a role?
Symptoms could well be caused in part by what is known as a Mass
Sociogenic Illness (MSI).
There are countless examples of this through history and up to the
present day.
Amid fears of a gas leak late last year for instance, dozens of British
pupils were taken to hospital with nausea and other symptoms. However no
gas or environmental cause was found, and doctors could establish nothing
wrong with the children. It was ascribed to mass hysteria.
Meanwhile, the Belgian Coke scare of 1999 - when many said they fell
sick after drinking contaminated cans - was also said to be an example of
MSI when laboratory analysis showed levels of contamination were not
high enough to cause any of the illnesses reported.
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