According to the weather folks, it’s likely to rain today. It’s probably not going to rain the way it (allegedly) did on one Brit, who watched a mix of hail and strange blue… stuff land in his back yard.
The BBC reports on Steve Hornsby, a Dorset resident who got a little extra in a rainstorm. My mind immediately thought of the old tale of airplane toilet waste, but apparently it has no smell. Could they be hydroponic beads? The actions of an attention seeker? As the BBC report posits, marine invertebrate eggs carried on the feet of birds? Or the first stage of an… insert-dramatic-chord-here… alien invasion?
[BBC via Geekosystem]
MDolley
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:09 AMI got an error while trying to watch the video! The aliens have taken down YouTube!
Ken
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:12 AMThis looks exactly like (and is described exactly like) water-saving gel that gardeners add to the soil mix to help retain moisture in the ground. When it rains heavily, a few will soak up and push themselves above ground.
I’d say this person only noticed it because he was outside looking at the hail.
maddogeco
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 10:16 AMi found some of this in the top of my pot plant after the rain over the weekend. so i thought it as ken suggested a wetting agent from potting mix
light487
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 11:53 AMCoould have been caused by a meteorite.. most common colours are red and black.. but there are reports of yellow, green… and of course blue..
benm
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 12:12 PMAgree with Ken and maddogeco and disagree with light487! A meteorite? Are you crazy? A squishy jelly meteorite?
Anyway..
Yes, I’m betting it didn’t fall from the sky – he found it after it rained. Water saving gel for sure.
light487
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 1:22 PM“Cometary panspermia”, look it up, it’s a possibility is all I am saying.. there has been a lot of events with coloured rain following a near miss of cometary particles in the form of meteorites breaking up in the atmosphere. Again, usually red or black rain but in some cases yellow, green and blue rains.
Dude
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olearymo
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 3:27 PMYou think that’s weird! after a rainstorm i found my whole HOUSE covered in a clear, odourless liquid.
I’m thinking of calling the news and making an idiot of myself on it.
carmykal
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 5:18 PMWho’s the bigger idiot, the guy who called it in or the BBC
Dave Goodfellow
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 6:52 PMThey said all those hours I spent playing Jelly Defence were “wasted”. They even laughed at me when I proposed teaching “Defence Against the Gellatinous Arts”. Now we’re completely unprepared for invasion.
Told you so…
Dave Goodfellow
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 6:53 PMThey said all those hours I spent playing Jelly Defence were “wasted”. They even laughed at me when I proposed teaching “Defence Against the Gelatinous Arts”. Now we’re completely unprepared for invasion.
Told you so…