Posted on 10/31/2005 12:59:19 AM PST by mdittmar
Ah hah!
Indeed, what is going on? My telephone rang, it's the middle of the night and it looks like there's been an earthquake in Western Montana. It's not a big quake, but it was widely felt. Could it be...? Nah, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about...
It's da dems dey went NUUUUUUKLIER
POOOOOOF
My Dad just called and said a meteor just crashed in the woods outside of town. We're gettin in the truck to go look......
If you happen to see any funny looking creatures, whatever you do, do not offer it or them any water. And don't give them any sugar, not even any Halloween candy.
Please keep us updated.
No one could have believed we were being scrutenized as someone with a microscpoe studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
few men even considered the possibilty of life on other planets....
and yet
across the gulf of space...
minds immeasurably superior to our watched this world with envious eyes.
And slowly...
And surely...
They drew their plans against us!
prisoner6
Blah,no Newjersy,no link!
I for one welcome our new Martian Overlords.
On October 30 ,1938, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre Company caused a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds", a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Orson Welles was 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells' 19th-century science fiction novel War of the Worlds for national radio.
The show began on Sunday, October 30, at 8 p.m. Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time in the golden age of radio, and millions of Americans had their radios turned on. But most of these Americans were listening to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy "Charlie McCarthy" on NBC and only turned to CBS at 8:12 p.m. after the comedy sketch ended. By then, the story of the Martian invasion was well underway. Welles introduced his radio play with a spoken introduction, followed by an announcer reading a weather report. Then, seemingly abandoning the storyline, the announcer took listeners to "the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in downtown New York, where you will be entertained by the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra." Putrid dance music played for some time, and then the scare began.
An announcer broke in to report that "Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning Observatory" had detected explosions on the planet Mars. Then the dance music came back on, followed by another interruption in which listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed into a farmer's field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Soon, an announcer was at the crash site describing a Martian emerging from a large metallic cylinder. "Good heavens," he declared, "something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now here's another and another one and another one. They look like tentacles to me ... I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face, it ...it ... ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it, it's so awful. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is kind of V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate."
The Martians mounted walking war machines and fired "heat-ray" weapons at the puny humans gathered around the crash site. They annihilated a force of 7,000 National Guardsman, and after being attacked by artillery and bombers the Martians released a poisonous gas into the air. Soon "Martian cylinders" landed in Chicago and St. Louis. The radio play was extremely realistic, with Welles employing sophisticated sound effects and his actors doing an excellent job portraying terrified announcers and other characters. An announcer reported that widespread panic had broken out in the vicinity of the landing sites, with thousands desperately trying to flee. In fact, that was not far from the truth.
Perhaps as many as a million radio listeners believed that a real Martian invasion was underway. Panic broke out across the country. In New Jersey, terrified civilians jammed highways seeking to escape the alien marauders. People begged police for gas masks to save them from the toxic gas and asked electric companies to turn off the power so that the Martians wouldn't see their lights. When news of the real-life panic leaked into the CBS studio, Welles went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was just fiction. There were rumors that the show caused suicides, but none were ever confirmed.
The Federal Communications Commission investigated the program but found no law was broken. Networks did agree to be more cautious in their programming in the future. Orson Welles feared that the controversy generated by "War of the Worlds" would ruin his career. In fact, the publicity helped land him a contract with a Hollywood studio, and in 1941 he directed, wrote, produced, and starred in Citizen Kane.
http://www.canyon-news.com/artman/publish/article_3704.php
kinda crazy yes, but cool none the less... :)
Something going on in the western part of Norway too:
could be a meteorite: check out this link to the "Bergens Tidende" - the leading newspaper in Bergen, Norway:
http://www.bt.no/innenriks/article217727.ece
The New York Jets football season crashing and burning???
>>>The New York Jets football season crashing and burning???
The Viking's ship is taking on water...
And that coming from someone posting at four in the morning.
Happy Halloween!
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