The first recorded human death from a meteorite?
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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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.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors. The ebook can be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner. Note that the price for the ebook, $3.99, goes up to $5.99 on September 1, 2022.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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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