Raining Black Birds in Arkansas
01-03-2011, 01:35 PM
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Raining Black Birds in Arkansas
No poison found in birds that fell on town - U.S. news - Environment - msnbc.com
I wonder what happened...
I wonder what happened...
01-03-2011, 05:49 PM
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My guess is migrating birds flew through an inversion with freezing rain. I believe the weather in the area at the time supported that.
I don't think birds can fly any better than General Aviation aircraft with a layer of ice.
Evidence melted and gone by morning when people noticed them.
I don't think birds can fly any better than General Aviation aircraft with a layer of ice.
Evidence melted and gone by morning when people noticed them.
01-03-2011, 05:57 PM
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But what about the 100,000 fish killed at about the same time 125 miles away?
Death ray, no doubt. Those fish did not ice up. Birds don't ice up either, they have more sense than most pilots, when was the last time you saw a flock of birds ice up and auger in en masse?
Death ray or perhaps both flock and school had a Jim Jones with a vat of inviting but deadly idealogical Kool-Aid(tm).
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AOL News ^ | January 3, 2010 | Mara Gay
Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 14:11:06 by Pinkbell
Thousands of dead fish have turned up in an Arkansas river just days after 3,000 birds mysteriously dropped dead from the sky, but authorities say the deaths are not related.
An estimated 100,000 dead drum fish are floating along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River and washing up on the river's banks near the town of Ozark in the northwestern part of the state.
The dead fish were discovered just after 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell from the sky in the town of Beebe, more than 100 miles from the site of the dead fish.
Officials, who tripled the early estimates of the number of dead birds, said the bird deaths may have been caused by lightning or by stress from fireworks and said they were unrelated to the fish kill.
Fish kills happen every year, but kills of this size are relatively rare. Hundreds more drum fish are sick and have been sent to the University of Arkansas for testing.
Andrew Goodwin, the associate director of the University of Arkansas' Aquaculture and Fisheries Center, said he didn't believe the deaths were caused by pollutants. "It's unlikely to be a toxin," Goodwin told AOL News by phone today.
Instead, Goodwin said he suspected that the drum fish may have experienced a population boom this summer that created more competition for food and sapped the weaker ones of their ability to fight off disease.
"It's your classic boom and bust," he said. "A group of fish will go into a population boom, and then they're competing for food, so they may not be in really good condition. Then during a cold snap the environment changes with the temperature, and their immune systems are compromised and can't always fight infection."
Death ray, no doubt. Those fish did not ice up. Birds don't ice up either, they have more sense than most pilots, when was the last time you saw a flock of birds ice up and auger in en masse?
Death ray or perhaps both flock and school had a Jim Jones with a vat of inviting but deadly idealogical Kool-Aid(tm).
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AOL News ^ | January 3, 2010 | Mara Gay
Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 14:11:06 by Pinkbell
Thousands of dead fish have turned up in an Arkansas river just days after 3,000 birds mysteriously dropped dead from the sky, but authorities say the deaths are not related.
An estimated 100,000 dead drum fish are floating along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River and washing up on the river's banks near the town of Ozark in the northwestern part of the state.
The dead fish were discovered just after 3,000 red-wing blackbirds fell from the sky in the town of Beebe, more than 100 miles from the site of the dead fish.
Officials, who tripled the early estimates of the number of dead birds, said the bird deaths may have been caused by lightning or by stress from fireworks and said they were unrelated to the fish kill.
Fish kills happen every year, but kills of this size are relatively rare. Hundreds more drum fish are sick and have been sent to the University of Arkansas for testing.
Andrew Goodwin, the associate director of the University of Arkansas' Aquaculture and Fisheries Center, said he didn't believe the deaths were caused by pollutants. "It's unlikely to be a toxin," Goodwin told AOL News by phone today.
Instead, Goodwin said he suspected that the drum fish may have experienced a population boom this summer that created more competition for food and sapped the weaker ones of their ability to fight off disease.
"It's your classic boom and bust," he said. "A group of fish will go into a population boom, and then they're competing for food, so they may not be in really good condition. Then during a cold snap the environment changes with the temperature, and their immune systems are compromised and can't always fight infection."
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01-03-2011, 06:40 PM
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Death ray is not the answer..
This is a sign of the coming Apocalypse. After all 2011 is only one year away from 2012 and only 10 years after Y2K. As you all know Y2k was gong to be the end of the world and the largest sales boom of electric generators in history therefore 2011 is sure to be the beginning of the end and the start of the count down to 2012 which will be the end of the world becasue there was a movie about it and the Mayan calendar proves it to be true.
HOWEVER with the help of your generous donations to the airhoss apocalyptic savior fund you can be assured that when 2012 comes you will all be less burdened with your pesky hard to get rid of cash in the post apocalyptic world.
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This is a sign of the coming Apocalypse. After all 2011 is only one year away from 2012 and only 10 years after Y2K. As you all know Y2k was gong to be the end of the world and the largest sales boom of electric generators in history therefore 2011 is sure to be the beginning of the end and the start of the count down to 2012 which will be the end of the world becasue there was a movie about it and the Mayan calendar proves it to be true.
HOWEVER with the help of your generous donations to the airhoss apocalyptic savior fund you can be assured that when 2012 comes you will all be less burdened with your pesky hard to get rid of cash in the post apocalyptic world.
I'll accept cash, credit or check made out to me..
YES I'll do this for you! I'll bear this burden.
sincerely airhoss.
01-10-2011, 09:55 AM
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If you are really out there maybe it is a scalar weapon. Just look it up on google. http://www.angelfire.com/oz/cv/scalarweapons.html
Not saying it couldn't be a weapon of some sort but this seems just a little to crazy.
Not saying it couldn't be a weapon of some sort but this seems just a little to crazy.
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