Donnie Darko, Is That You?
Posted by Sunday on Apr 9, 2008 at 1:08 pm in Daily Space, Weird ScienceThe entire world including the C.H.U.D.s already know about this because it was on Boing Boing, but sometimes my mind gets a little blown and then I have to vent.
In summary: a man’s house in Bosnia has been hit by meteorites FIVE TIMES in the last six months. Unsurprisingly, the man suspects that aliens are pissed off at him. I myself would have a combo Job/paranoia reaction: Why are the aliens testing me? It doesn’t matter, I still love them. Unless it’s not aliens.
The thing is, most folks, like Boing Boing, categorize this under “That’s funny!” Mmm, yes, what kind of fool would think aliens would chuck carbonaceous chrondrite at him? Also, imagine that being said by someone with a monocle and a mustache. I do.
However: seriously? Five times? In six months? That is as close to impossible as I care to bother with, statistically. Which means that it is not random. Clearly there are further explanations, but each of these is as unproven as alien malevolence. Magnetic resonance? It only happens when it rains, which makes it even more bizarre - why would atmospheric precipitation affect the trajectories of space objects? That’s a trick question, since it wouldn’t. Unless we are looking at it entirely the wrong way - what if the objects aren’t coming from space? What if they are coming through a trans-dimensional wormhole that also triggers rainclouds? Eeee!
So anyway, welcome to my internal thought processes.
Man ‘targeted by aliens’ via Boing Boing
Your analysis is right on. There is, of course, an interesting discussion of this phenomenon in The Book of the Damned (by Charles Fort). I think he calls them “thunderstones.”