The first recorded human death from a meteorite?
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Officials in India are reporting what could be the first recorded death of a human by meteorite impact.
According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.
The story is not yet confirmed, and could easily be proven wrong.
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From the press release: From the moment he is handed a possibility of making the first alien contact, Saunders Maxwell decides he will do it, even if doing so takes him through hell and back.
Unfortunately, that is exactly where that journey takes him.
The vision that Zimmerman paints of vibrant human colonies on the Moon, Mars, the asteroids, and beyond, indomitably fighting the harsh lifeless environment of space to build new societies, captures perfectly the emerging space race we see today.
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Officials in India are reporting what could be the first recorded death of a human by meteorite impact.
According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.
The story is not yet confirmed, and could easily be proven wrong.
Every July, to celebrate the anniversary of the start of Behind the Black in 2010, I hold a month-long fund-raising campaign to make it possible for me to continue my work here for another year.
This year's fund-raising drive however is more significant in that it is also the 10th anniversary of this website's founding. It is hard to believe, but I have been doing this for a full decade, during which I have written more than 22,000 posts, of which more than 1,000 were essays and almost 2,600 were evening pauses.
This year's fund drive is also more important because of the growing intolerance of free speech and dissent in American culture. Increasingly people who don't like what they read are blatantly acting to blackball sites like mine. I have tried to insulate myself from this tyrannical effort by not depending on Google advertising or cross-posts Facebook or Twitter. Though this prevents them from having a hold on me, it also acts to limit my exposure.
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Remember that, as Dr. John Lewis has noted in “The Rain of Iron and Ice”, there are several mentions of whole towns being obliterated by meteoritic falls, in the Spring and Autumn Annals compilations of the Chinese Empires, but these observers were dismissed, because they were not scientists post-1600.
Obviously false. 10 days earlier a meteor was seen right there, and made an astronomer go there to look for meteorites. Conveniently available nearby this first-off event.
The military says that it was not a stray grenade shell, which I take as a confirmation of the fact that it was a military grenade shell. Two meteorites don’t hit the same village in India two weeks apart. It’s a local psycho-UFO hysteria, and stoopid media loves to copy it.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/one-dies-as-meteorite-falls-in-vellore/article8204671.ece
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