In the Unnerving Headlines dep't: or, I hate it when my work follows me home

[dianeduane]

This one makes my sf/comics-writer-sense tingle, so to speak:

No radiation detected in mysterious crater

(shouts advice at local people) If anything comes out of that crater, don't stand around waving white flags at it! Leave town.

Comments

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I had almost exactly the same reaction.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Paging Professor Bernard Quatermass...

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

It should be fairly obvious why there's no radiation - the thing has already come out,

[alawston.livejournal.com]

Heh, my subject line was 'Dude! Space Plague!'

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

What if it's the Last Son of Krypton? Does he get a pass? ;)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I'd make a pass at him!

Well, you know. In twenty years when he's grown up, so I'd just be a disgusting old woman instead of a pedophile. :)

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

The Bad Astronomer has posted his early thoughts on the matter - I find his blog worth following:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/18/meteorite-mayhem-part-i/

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

You'd be in good company, I suspect. ;)

[lilly-rose.livejournal.com]

I'd be waiting until they found something frozen in the crater. Then you know that there would have to be some scientist standing around saying "Let's thaw it! We could learn so much from it!"

No. Put that puppy back in the ground/in maximum security storage *immediately*.

I've seen way too many movies I guess.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Well... I've always had a soft spot for Kal-El.

That said, I *have* read "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex." (http://www.redboots.net/comics/moswok.htm) And I much fear that after, uh, intimacy, that's what I'd be. A soft spot. :)

So I would give my favorite Kryptonian a big, big hug... and then wander off somewhere and see if I can find out what Hal Jordan's doing tonight. :)

(Hey, wait a minute. I'm married. ...Feh.)

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

That article never fails to make me cross my legs, no matter how many times I read it!

But on the up side, consider this - he'd have no choice but to sleep in said spot of yourself afterwards. How's that for post-Super-coital revenge?

(Would it be worth it? Well, it wouldn't be a completely bogus way to go...!)

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

I think it's trying to communicate...

-- Steve would, uh, vacate to leave room for the professional linguists to get reduced to ash.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

"Ulla, ulla, ulla!"

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

I've watched too many bad movies. My imagination is insisting that the fastest way to defeat a hostile alien is with a six-year-old and a Tickle Me Elmo doll.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

We won't tell him if you don't.

[posicat.livejournal.com]

Just send the sick and the sniffly over to investigate. Don't give them tissues or anything, and instruct them to not cover their mouth. The aliens will stand no chance.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Heh. :)

[sorek.livejournal.com]

After watching Torchwood on BBC America, I'm thinking whatever you do, don't throw a tool at it.

Especially if it's your first day on the job.

Newbies...

From the other perspective...

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

filkertom wrote a song in response to that essay: Superman Sex Life Boogie (http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/superman.htm)

(Memorable line: "If I lose control, we could get David Cronenberg to do the special effects")

[billfl.livejournal.com]

Have these people never seen The Andromeda Strain?!

Begins passing out paper bags and sterno

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Particularly appropriate, since I was reading a comic/GN adaption of WotW (available free online at this link (http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php)) just the other day.

[allasomething.livejournal.com]

Looking at that crater, there's something distinctly un-meterorite-like about it - it doesn't seem like its on the right scale. Don't meteorites need to be a certain size before they'll actually make an impact crater? And the ones that are of size are usually very big and will produce larger scale impact structures.

It looks more like someone's dug the hole or could be geological, since Peru is in a geologically active area.

[marmelmm.livejournal.com]

Meteor Bert: Well, it ain't a meteor.
Joe Dirt: Yeah it is. It came out of the sky.
Meteor Bert: Well I'm sure it did but it ain't no meteor. It's a big ol frozen chunk o' shit.
Joe Dirt: What!
Meteor Bert: Oh yeah, see them airplanes they dump their toilets 36,000 feet. The stuff freezes and falls to earth. We call 'em Boeing bombs
[chomps teeth]
Joe Dirt: no that can't be. That's not what it is
Meteor Bert: oh, afraid so. See that peanut? Dead giveaway.
Joe Dirt: Uhhh, no, that's a space peanut.
Meteor Bert: No, afraid not. That just a big ol' frozen chunk of poopy.
Studio manager: Dude you were eating off it!

[rmh1.livejournal.com]

The Bad Astronomer has a followup that makes a little more sense - http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/09/24/meteorite-mayhem-iii-solved/

Apparently there is evidence that it was a meteor... but it had the unfortunate luck to hit a site that has groundwater with high amounts of arsenic in it. The impact vaporized the water, and people breathed it in. Fortunately, it appears that everyone's recovered from it.

(unless they're really the pod people replacements...)

RMH