Meteor.

[xiphias]

Last night, a meteor hit the atmosphere so hard that windows on the ground rattled. The sky lit up horizon to horizon, and meteorites, some as large as softballs, rained down on the Midwestern United States, damaging homes and cars in four states.

You'd think a born-again Christian President could recognize an omen when he saw one.

Comments

[navrins]

Heh. Found the CNN.com mention of this. At the bottom, a link to "Massive online sky survey completed."

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Interesting that I was reading Thucydides just the other day, the bit in which he says...hang on, let me find it.

Old stories of occurrences handed down by tradition, but scantily confirmed by experience, suddenly ceased to be incredible; there were earthquakes of unparalleled extent and violence; eclipses of the sun occurred with a frequency unrecorded in previous history; there were great droughts in sundry places and consequent famines, and that most calamitous and awfully fatal visitation, the plague. All this came upon them with the late war...
--Thucydides, 1.23.3

The really funny thing is that he says this after he's made it clear that he thinks Herodotus was a piker, relating foolish tales of men carried to shore by dolphins, and obvious apocrypha about Solon of Athens and Croesus, and that "marvels" have no place in a serious history. Makes it hard to doubt him.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Well remember, a born-again Christian is more likely to regard a bad omen as work of the Devil than a sign from God; at least when doing what they think is God's work anyways. In those cases they only realize afterwards but try to deny it to themselves to reaffirm what they believe is their own inherent good nature.

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

HOLY Moses! I had no idea! Thank you for mentioning it!