Folks....WTF is going on???

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:23 pm

Yaya wrote:Why now? Why this year? The Internet wasn't born in a day. If the media has led to the reporting of these kinds of occurrences, I would have thought I would have heard of this sort of strange "birds falling out of the sky in the exact same spot" mass animal death years ago.

Slow news day, perhaps. And no one uses the "Aliens did it" explanation anymore.

Here's a report from almost an exact year ago:

http://ecosalon.com/pelicans-are-fallin ... al-deaths/

Remember that making the news on a global scale? No? That's because there was an earthquake in Haiti.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:54 pm

I think that conclusively proves your point.

I stand corrected.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:48 pm

On the other hand...

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/janu ... ths-ta.php

Not so sure, Bleebs. Not so sure....

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:57 pm

It's been said that Mankind will destroy itself. Unfortunately, during the past 100 years the human race has worked hard to make this prediction come true.

Sensationalism? Check.
Hyperbole? Check.
Absence of facts or real intelligent discussion? Check.

Do they have a tech news section I can subscribe to?

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:35 pm

Yes, but do you think it inconcievable that a government would test a "focal radiation beam" weapon, something that instantly kills it's intended target with surgical precision?

Cause I don't think it is.

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:05 pm

It's more the article was pointless, baseless speculation wrapped up in clickbait wording.

Perhaps its a government weapon. Perhaps it was flu. Perhaps it was teh alions or cropcircles or Atlantis or Cthulhu.

My money is still on the boring, mundane explanation. Mostly because a new superweapon causing millions of avian deaths would probably have been leaked to the newspapers for the cash

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:16 pm

I'll tell you what bothers me about this. It's not that they died. It's the way they died. Like a flock of birds ran into a giant glass wall and fell from the sky.

A virus or natural cause doesn't suddenly cause animals to die in mid-flight. A sudden change in the Earth's magnetic field? I don't know, that might make more sense.

But to just fall out of the sky.

It's the Aflockalypse.

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:22 pm

Its the Alions!

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:44 pm

I hope it's aliens! An alien invasion would be sort of awesome

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:57 pm

Especially if they're like those aliens from Mars Attacks.

"Nyaa. Nyaaaaa. Nyaaaa. Nyaaa. Nyaaaa".

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:59 pm

Don't run, we are your friends!

{KAPOW!}

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:18 pm

Yaya wrote:On the other hand...

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/janu ... ths-ta.php

Not so sure, Bleebs. Not so sure....

If you read the entire article (http://www.helium.com/items/2056635-exp ... ish-deaths), rather than a cut'n'paste copy, you'll see he goes on to mention force-field bubbles.

And, having identified the author, I can say that I've read his stuff before. It's mostly well-worded nonsense.

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:27 pm

{chortle} forcefield bubbles? Surely not! {titter}

Unless Rebis is one of the Alions trying to throw us off the sent!

OMG!

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:51 pm

Ban Rebis!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:54 pm

Karl wrote:{chortle} forcefield bubbles? Surely not! {titter}

Unless Rebis is one of the Alions trying to throw us off the sent!

OMG!

We are the Brain Spawn. Invaders from the Infosphere. Cower from our mightier intellect!

Post by **Kaylee** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:59 pm

But is he a nice alion like Mr. Spock, or an evil alion like Evil Mr. Spock?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:01 pm

Karl wrote:But is he a nice alion like Mr. Spock, or an evil alion like Evil Mr. Spock?

Depends when I last shaved. My chin.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:44 am

Funny thing, I was talking to my bro today, and he was like "this might sound crazy, but I'm thinking they might be testing some sort of...force field."

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:35 am

I'm sure forcefield bubbles are real. Everytime I try to dance with a woman in a club one seems to pop up around her.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:41 am

Yaya wrote:Funny thing, I was talking to my bro today, and he was like "this might sound crazy, but I'm thinking they might be testing some sort of...force field."

He's probably heard some of the same rumours doing the rounds as you have.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:08 pm

So, to summarise, all the mentioned causes, whether probable, improbable or just downright fantasy, are:

Meteorological/atmospheric.
Chemical weapons.
Biological weapons.
Focused radiation weapons.
Lethal force field bubbles.
Aliens.

Yeah, I think it's likely to be a more natural, down-to-earth reason, than some fantastical super-science-based one.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 2:54 pm

inflatable dalek wrote:I'm sure forcefield bubbles are real. Everytime I try to dance with a woman in a club one seems to pop up around her.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:03 pm

Rebis wrote:Yeah, I think it's likely to be a more natural, down-to-earth reason, than some fantastical super-science-based one.

...says the alien who is trying to hide his identity.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:34 pm

I think we'll get plasma fields (like the ones the Enterprise uses in place of windows) before we get force fields.

As far as the animal deaths, as most people have stated, the boring explanation can usually be the right one, although we ARE due for an apocalypse, so I guess we'll just have to wait for the increasing natural disasters and lethal diseases to be su...oh wait.

Besides, the REAL evidence of aliens via animals are the infamous precisely mutilated farm animals.

Post by **Kaylee** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:27 pm

When the apocalypse comes I suspect it'll be quick, we probably won't even register it before most people are dead

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:09 pm

With the number of apocalypses we're apparently overdue for, do you think we'd get a discount if we make a group booking?

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:23 pm

Yaya wrote:I'll tell you what bothers me about this. It's not that they died. It's the way they died. Like a flock of birds ran into a giant glass wall and fell from the sky.

A virus or natural cause doesn't suddenly cause animals to die in mid-flight. A sudden change in the Earth's magnetic field? I don't know, that might make more sense.

But to just fall out of the sky.

It's the Aflockalypse.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-disaster- ... ead-birds/