4000 birds and 100000 fish mysteriously die!

apparition · Post by **apparition** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:55 pm

What the hell does this mean?!?!?! I'm actually pretty freaked out.
Mysterious death of birds and fish
100,000 fish die near town where 5,000 blackbirds fell from sky
Falling birds likely died from massive trauma
More birds fall from the sky - this time in Louisiana

Gonzap · Post by **Gonzap** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:10 pm

yeah same here, wtf is going on?

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:23 pm

We had an earthquake near us, somewhere between 3.8 and 4.2.
maybe it was derived by some plate tectonics in the ocean? which killed the fish.

apparition · Post by **apparition** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:26 pm

An earthquake in the midwest?! You're pretty far from the ocean man.

Wtf man... Wtf.

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:29 pm

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1230/ ... recedented

^^yes

we had a small on in the late winter or early spring of 2010 as well

syllabear · Post by **syllabear** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:44 pm

apparently the fish and birds aren't in the exact same place.

The fish who died are all of one species, so any kind of poisoning or other sort of effect which would kill all species can't work as a hypothesis.

Large numbers of the species of fish die each year at this time anyway, just not these numbers. Perhaps it had something to do with the severity of the weather, etc.

As for the birds, they say it was fireworks. Who knows.

owned · Post by **owned** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:56 pm

It was definitely 104,000 separate coincidences.

Ratchet · Post by **Ratchet** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:04 pm

I live in Louisiana, and I've heard a bit of it. I think it's mostly just Blackbirds (redwings) that have been injured, so it's probably a disease, chemical, or something they ate from the crops.

apparition · Post by **apparition** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:15 pm

But why isn't it multiple species or least a variety of species? UFOs man... I'm tellin ya!

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:58 pm

Lay (or just plain ignorant) speculation is always better than waiting on experts!

(Whether you intended it or not, good example of a god-of-the-gaps argument that underlies many supernatural and paranormal beliefs, appa.)

apparition · Post by **apparition** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:12 am

False. Aliens-of-the-gaps ftw! I never knew that term, though. Very cool.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:00 am

Yes, yes, remove "god," insert "UFO"—or psychic, or spiritual plane, or ghosts, or whatever. Same faulty reasoning.

apparition · Post by **apparition** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:02 am

Well since there is a gap to be filled, why not fill it with fun ideas?

Concord · Post by **Concord** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:03 am

who counted them all?

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:06 am

apparition wrote:Well since there is a gap to be filled, why not fill it with fun ideas?

For fun, OK (although I don't find massive death all that funny).

I was just taking an idle Skepticism teaching moment.

Concord wrote:who counted them all?

"Basic arithmetic," Juliet Lapidos writes. "Estimates depend on three variables: the area of the available space, the proportion of the space that's occupied, and the crowd's density."

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