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LIMA (AFP) - Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday
Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probably something from under the ground that escaped from when it hit. It went down far enough to bring water up, so who knows what else came up with it. My guess is some sort of natural gas or something.

Comtrad wrote:Probably something from under the ground that escaped from when it hit. It went down far enough to bring water up, so who knows what else came up with it. My guess is some sort of natural gas or something.

I like that thinking......

AFAIK, all germs known on Earth would not survive being out in space, then entering the atmosphere and the extreme temperatures that go with that (it melts rocks & spaceships...), and finally crashing with an explosion. It would have to be an entirely unknown type of life. Of course there's a chance that such life forms exist, but I would at the more mundane explanations first.

yeah, re-entry would have most likely killed anything on the meteor

Brent wrote:yeah, re-entry would have most likely killed anything on the meteor

Maybe not. Water (still being talked about) can be held in a meteor or comet that hits the earth. Perhaps it is the foundation of water on earth (it came from space). If water/ice can survive a trip through the earth's atmosphere... life in that water/ice can survive.

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article141.html

*I watch the Discovery channel*

Brent wrote:yeah, re-entry would have most likely killed anything on the meteor

Applies to "life as we know it"...but how about unknown forms?

MadDoctor wrote:Maybe not. Water (still being talked about) can be held in a meteor or comet that hits the earth. Perhaps it is the foundation of water on earth (it came from space). If water/ice can survive a trip through the earth's atmosphere... life in that water/ice can survive.

http://www.astrobio.net/news/article141.html

*I watch the Discovery channel*

MadDoc's birth origin has been revealed! Oh noes!

Cat... Brent quoted me, which included such a limitation...

MissTynker2 wrote:MadDoc's birth origin has been revealed! Oh noes!

I was never born. I was created from "stuff"

MadDoctor wrote:I was never born. I was created from "stuff"

Speaking of which, Young Frankenstein is on AMC right now...

*Frau Blucher!*

Indy wrote:

I busted out laughin at that picture!

Heavy EMF/radiation exposure would be my guess

Brainssssssssss!!

I'm in the mood for some giant green beans...

Indy wrote:I'm in the mood for some giant green beans...

I've got something giant for ya!