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Sunday, February 28, 2010

An Australian Territory town has reportedly had fish falling from the sky. The freak phenomena happened not once, but twice, on Thursday and Friday afternoon at Lajamanu, about 550 kilometers southwest of Katherine. Christine Balmer, who took the photos of the fish on the ground and in a bucket, said she had to pinch herself when she was told "hundreds and hundreds" of small white fish had fallen from the sky. "It rained fish in Lajamanu on Thursday and Friday night," she said, "They fell from the sky everywhere. "Locals were picking them up off the footy oval and on the ground everywhere."

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No one has been able to explain falls of fish from out of the sky. The theory advanced in the article is an old one, that cyclones take the animals up into the atmosphere from out of the water.

There are a lot of problems with this explanation, however. One being how any animal survives the environment at 70,000 feet and then the natural drop back to the ground at terminal velocity---As the article states, these fish rained down alive and not dead.

This article is unusual in that it accepts fish did indeed fall. The usual approach is to deny the event entirely.

The whole story sounds fishy.

smells fishy

is fishy

Growing up, I heard of waterspouts doing the same thing.

Never saw it though, raining fish. Seen plenty of waterspouts.

MMGW made the water so hot, they all jumped out of it.

I thought the song was "It's raining men?"

www.youtube.com

These evolving creatures are on their quest of adaptation. They somehow realize they must learn to fly to survive. Mans never ending polluting of the worlds oceans is what's causing this. Man should take heed and learn to fly as well. Wait, auh shit forget it. Maybe I was wrong.

I thought news.com.au would be a coast to coast am-esque website but it actually seems legit.

What a fucked up and interesting universe we live in.

Growing up, I heard of waterspouts doing the same thing.

#5 | Posted by STIRSUMUP at 2010-02-28 03:27 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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I've been around a few spouts while costal fishing and heard the same thing but I never saw the "fish falling from the sky" although I don't doubt it could happen.

Last May we had 4 spouts around the boat N S E & W

talk about scary...

Didn't global warming scientists predict this?

Water spouts. Now that's an extreme sport.

Water spouts. Now that's an extreme sport.

#13 | Posted by mysterytoy at 2010-02-28 07:42 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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Not a "sport" you just never prepare.. kinda like a flat on the car .. do you check your spare..

You just deal with it as it comes at ya.

Fish of a feather....

Any lobsters falling from the sky?

Yummmm. Bring on the boiling water and round up some melted butter and lemon wedges.

Fish of a feather....

#15 | Posted by Docsmooth at 2010-02-28 08:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

flock together!

"One being how any animal survives the environment at 70,000 feet "

I'm suprised more airliners aren't hit by tornadoes.

More rain info.

en.wikipedia.org

Yummmm. Bring on the boiling water and round up some melted butter and lemon wedges.

#16 | Posted by CalifChris at 2010-02-28 08:17 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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Thats what I'm screamin'

#11 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Been in that same situation. A total of five in one day, in March, if you can believe that. I was about eight at the time. Hard crabbing in the sound west of Hatteras. Something you never forget. My dad reminds me of it at least once a year. He's too old to crab anymore.

Maybe someone should warn airplanes not to fly in the area... I wonder what a few perch would do to a jet engine?

Aerodynamics of perch aren't all that great... I don't think they would hit the ground at terminal velocity(120 mph)although even 30 mph would kill them. Maybe their nerves were twitching a little from the sudden stop and people thought they were still alive?

BEWARE FOR KOALA BIN LADEN ENCOMPASSES YOUR DOOM, PATHETIC AS THAT IS. My legions of WalQueda offer terrorism at loooooooww prices. In this instance, fish from the sun - AND SOMEHOW NOT COOKED! WORSHIP MY EUCALYPTUS NEEDS.

eQuake keeps going off for Chile - another 5.8 - these aftershocks are consistent. Discount Wallaby terrorism lols at mortal limitations.

#21 | Posted by STIRSUMUP at 2010-02-28 09:13 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
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hang in there... tell your old man "good work"

Does Quantas take checks?

~Danni

Could have been worse...it might have rained Rats or...Republicians (I know ...same difference!)

terminal velocity

me thinks you don't know what that term means.

This is along the same line I was thinking.

www.scienceline.org

www.google.com

In Hawaii it would be time for a luau.

In Hawaii it would be time for a luau.

It's global warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/s

Raining fish?

Meh, could be worse.

It could be raining whale.

More seriously?

Spud's been reading these kind of stories for years now and none of the theories advanced to explain the phenomenon seems adequate.

More things under heaven and earth...

Be Well.

"I thought the song was "It's raining men?"
#8 | Posted by Docsmooth"

Of course you did, Dicsmooth.

"There are a lot of problems with this explanation, however. One being how any animal survives the environment at 70,000 feet and then the natural drop back to the ground at terminal velocity---As the article states, these fish rained down alive and not dead.
#1 | Posted by Zed"

70,000 feet? Strike One.

Terminal velocity? Strike Two.

Hey batter batter.

Well once maybe, due to tornadoes or water spouts, twice? Ah come on now...

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