[txhurl]

This is why the cretins worship at mecca the meteoric black rock?

Just five minutes ago the Weather Channel gave a 'Asteroids and you: It don't look good' segment.

Catastrophism IS fun, but are they trying to tell us something?

[blam]

"This is why the cretins worship at mecca the meteoric black rock?"

Probably. The angel Gabriel reportedly gave the rock to Abraham...many view 'angels' as being meteorites. Gabriel may have been a meteorite?