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Madison Researchers Solve Dead Bird Mystery
tmj4.com ^ | 1/6/2010 | AP

Posted on 01/06/2011 9:20:47 PM PST by LukeL

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To: Hunton Peck

“Which begs the question . . .”

How does one pick up the ground and smack a bunch of flying birds with it?


21 posted on 01/06/2011 9:32:30 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: Mariner
The bigger question is: How does one inflict blunt force trauma on 5000 bird in the air at the same time?

Hail.

There was a thunderstorm at the time.

22 posted on 01/06/2011 9:32:52 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Mariner

When Slick and Her Thighness went back to Arkansas, 5,000 birds dropped dead.


23 posted on 01/06/2011 9:33:12 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: REDWOOD99

Exactly! :-)


24 posted on 01/06/2011 9:34:11 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Life, Liberty, Property, and the means to protect them, are what it's about.)
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To: Cobra64

So your hypothesis is flying ashtrays?


25 posted on 01/06/2011 9:35:28 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Life, Liberty, Property, and the means to protect them, are what it's about.)
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To: Mariner

I heard ornithologist from Chicago explain how the blunt force possibly occurred.
These birds roost in huge numbers, they are inactive at night.
When startled in the night they tend to have mass panic, all try to avoid whatever started panic. They are known to fly at 30mph, in the dark they tend to mid air collisons.

This ornithologist indicated that roosts were in excess of 100k + birds. So 5k in collison related deaths was not unusual.
Same ornithologist posited that reason this getting so much air time, is due to fish die off and 5000 birds cluttering the ground.


26 posted on 01/06/2011 9:35:54 PM PST by Nailbiter
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Hey, it looks like the FR clock is fixed, along with the “Activity” tab. Happy New Year!


27 posted on 01/06/2011 9:38:25 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Life, Liberty, Property, and the means to protect them, are what it's about.)
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To: LukeL

Bird version of Heaven’s Gate


28 posted on 01/06/2011 9:39:16 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: dragonblustar

Aren’t you supposed to be able to see those UFOs during the night, though? (I still can’t believe I sat through that entire movie)


29 posted on 01/06/2011 9:39:44 PM PST by ClaudiusI
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Anyone here ever seen the last 2 episodes of the second season of Millennium?

Anyhoo, I’m guessing it’s something to do with the magnetic field of the earth, or released methane pockets.


30 posted on 01/06/2011 9:40:38 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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To: patriot preacher

The way the jet stream has been lately and the way the arctic air has been coming down, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these got caught in bad weather and froze. we had like a real big spike in temperature and then it dropped very quickly in a day and then this stuff started happening.


31 posted on 01/06/2011 9:41:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: All

Question is:

Why did 5000 birds fall asleep while flying.


32 posted on 01/06/2011 9:43:05 PM PST by sleddogs
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To: LukeL

If the birds smashed into ‘cars and rooftops’, per the story...wouldn’t a lot of cars be damaged?


33 posted on 01/06/2011 9:43:05 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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Now they are saying the birds are dieing... dying...
unalive... (really, I wish Daniel Webster had put
some thought into how that word SHOULD be spelled?)
from blunt force trauma. My theory is they are flying
right into cloaked alien spacecraft .

Yup... that’s what I think.

(placing tinfoil hat firmly on head)


34 posted on 01/06/2011 9:44:50 PM PST by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: LukeL
That supports the theory that fireworks on New Year's Eve spooked the birds and sent them flying into cars, houses and each other and plummeting to their deaths.

It is surprising that birds never did that before, especially the "plummeting to their deaths" part. Perhaps global warming is at fault here, or perhaps Bush? :-)

It doesn't take more than a few seconds of bird-watching to realize that a spooked bird never flies into the ground. It flies into the sky. A few birds who failed to learn this trick died young.

35 posted on 01/06/2011 9:46:44 PM PST by Greysard
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To: patriot preacher

hmmm...good point.
You could ask “what would make 5000 lose consciousness”?
Maybe.

I’ve been wondering what sonic booms do to birds.
Not sure why.
Just throwing it out there.


36 posted on 01/06/2011 9:47:16 PM PST by Scotswife
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To: LukeL

You fall from the sky and you are going to die of blunt force trauma. Every time.


37 posted on 01/06/2011 9:48:23 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: okie01

And tornadoes ..,


38 posted on 01/06/2011 9:51:02 PM PST by katykelly
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To: LukeL

Maybe it’s more important what they DID NOT die from.


39 posted on 01/06/2011 9:52:43 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swzj-b49mo


40 posted on 01/06/2011 9:53:11 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Let this chant follow BHO everywhere he goes: "You lie. You lie. You lie.")
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