Friday, May 20, 2011

A Sign?

I don't want to alarm anyone but I just read about a celestial sign of the impending rapture. It happened in a rural village called Soltmany in Poland, reports are just coming in; apparently just after 6:00 a.m. local time, Mrs. Alfreda (an early riser) noticed a whistling sound followed by a large crash, she rushed outside to see roof debris spread over her front lawn surrounding a shattered cobble sized rock still warm to the touch. What could possibly be happening? She picked up the stone, running through it, like the letters in a stick of seaside rock, was a word, indistinct at first but upon closer examination spelled out a name...... DAWKINS.... could this be true, are angels hurling ancient rocks at God's atheist enemies on Earth?


Actually I made that last bit up (this prophetic mythology stuff is so easy!), anyway, a cobble-sized rock weighing about a kilogram really did fall down nearly vertically and smashed right through a roof of a farm house in Poland last month. This kind of event is very rare, not that meteorites are rare but if you consider the surface area of Earth and the tiny fraction occupied by human buildings the probability of something being hit is very small. A bit of Googling reveals that these chunks of 4 billion year old rock are travelling around up there at around 40km per second, that's a lot of energy, luckily for us our atmosphere slows them down to a paltry 200mph, still, if you're wondering what kind of damage that does the following photo shows the roof after impact..


Clearly the thing I wrote about God is just a bit of fun, any omniscient being would know that Dawkins lives in Oxford duh!

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

this gives me a very bad feeling. Steve, it's not too late for you and me to repent, but my heart seems turned to stone! I fear the worst on the 21st.

Been nice knowing you....

Steve Borthwick said...

False alarm E, reality is like an episode of scooby doo, it's always the janitor, and NEVER magic....