Post: #1

I dont think this can come from an airplane....

Chunk of ice fell from the sky and shocked local residents
"An unusual event happened in Saturday in sunny Istria. Out of the blue at 6.20 PM a large chunk of ice fell and scattered on the meadow. Witnesses said the ice was about half a meter in height, long and wide about a meter and 300 - 500 kg heavy. It fell about 10 meters from the nearest house and a couple of meters from the main road.

Witnesses heard a noise they described as a flock of birds flying, baloon filled with hellium, or a missile crashing, and when the ice slammed the ground, crowd of local residents saw parts of the ice on the lawn.

Edi Ritoša was the first to come out to see the ice and five minutes later contacted Korade Korlević over whom we found out about it. As we arrived to the village, ice was melting and the kids was happy.

All originates from the plane

"It's a real miracle no one was hurt", they commented.

A head observatory of Višnjan, Korade Korelić, said that it is possible an ice fell from the airplane flying at that moment. ,An ice originated from a faulty toilet. When an airplane has a proper toilet, droplets scatter in the atmosphere, but if the toilet is faulty, a water is forming below and freezes, and the chunk becomes too heavy and then falls on the ground", Korlević commented.

In Pula airport said that a couple of airplanes landed at that particular time, but according to unofficial information none of the captains reported a failure. But if the size of this ice chunk fell from the airplane, the airplane itself would fell. In Great Britain, an Istrian newspaper writes, 35 out of 3 millions flights report an ice chunks, and in forty years five people was hit by ice."

http://www.sott.net/article/251603-Chunk...-residents

Post: #2

see here...some of these chunks have been falling way before airplanes were invented....

"Massive Blocks Of Ice From Nowhere

By James Donahue

Somewhere along my journalistic career I got interested in Great Lakes shipwreck lore and spent time combing through old news clippings in dusty libraries between Buffalo and Duluth.

In my research I started collecting stories about strange and unexplained happenings that I thought of one day condensing into a book. One of the stories was about an event that happened to several vessels just off the coast of Chicago one summer afternoon in the late 19th Century. They were all slammed by a storm of giant blocks of ice that fell out of a cloudless sky.

While nobody was apparently hurt, the sailors that came into port were anxious to tell their stories, show the damage to deck and sail, and when they were close enough, bring ashore still unmelted pieces of the ice as proof that it really happened.

I thought of that old story when I noticed accounts in Internet news links about some contemporary falls of large chunks of ice.

In January, 2002, priests at the Salesian monastery in L'Aguila, Italy, heard a loud noise and found a large chunk of ice, weighing over four pounds, on their patio. That same day a man was reportedly struck on the head by a two-pound block of ice from the sky in Ancona, Italy.

The report said that within a 10-day period, that same month, more than a dozen reports were received about large pieces of ice, some as large as basketballs and weighing up to nine pounds, fell in various locations in Spain.

In Surrey, England, a man said he was walking through a park when he leard a shistling sound overhead. Seconds later a large hunk of ice fell out of a clear blue sky and crashed into the soft ground, shattering into pieces over a 50-foot-wide area. The man said the ice dug a hole a foot deep into the earth.

In Charleston, South Carolina, a chunk of ice "half the size of a car" fell out of the sky, ripped through the roof of an automobile dealership, and flattened the roof of a new car parked inside the building. A spokesman for the fire department said the ice put a three-foot hole in the roof. Like the other falls, this one occurred in January, 2002.

Theories as to the origin of the big ice blocks have ranged from the effects of global warming to discharges of waste water from aircraft flying high overhead. But an examination of the ice that fell last year in Italy and Spain revealed that is was comprised of pure and nearly distilled water.

The global warming theory also is ruled out by the stories that have been passed down to us from the past. Like my old news clipping from the boat captains on the Great Lakes in the 1880s.

There have been some spectacular ice falls in the past.

In the late 1700s, a chuck of ice as big as an elephant reportedly fell on Seringapatam, India. It was so large it took three days to melt.

In 1802, a lump of ice fell in Hungary that had a volume of 18 cubic feet.
In 1849, a block of ice that was estimated to weigh a half a ton fell on the Balvullich farm in Ord, Scotland. It measured about 20 feet in diameter. Observers said it was crystal clear, although made up of many cubes and diamond-shaped hunks of ice that seemed to be fused together.

A carpenter working on a roof in Kempton, West Germany in 1951 was struck and killed by a 6-foot long rod of solid ice.

Edwin Groff of Bernville, Pennsylvania watched as a 50-pound, white globe of ice crashed on his property in 1957. A few seconds later, a second ball of ice, half the size of the first, smashed into his flower bed a few yards from where he was standing.

The roof of the Phillips Petroleum Plant in Woods Cross, Utah was punctured by a 50-pound block of ice in 1965.

In October 1991, a 20-pound mass of ice smashed through the roof and landed in the kitchen at the home of Mrs. Mavis Anderson in West Yorkshire, England.

Then on June 26, 1985, a 1,500-pound sheet of ice dropped into the back hard at a home in Hartford, Connecticut. David Menke, of the Copernican Observatory and Planetarium, told reporters the ice was about six feet long and eight inches thick. He said a young boy was playing nearby but was not hurt."

http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/id345.html

Post: #3

From Space. back in the early 80's when satellite cameras started to have decent resolution, scientists spotted house sized chunks of space ice hitting the planet every day.

Post: #4

Richard Eldritch  Wrote:

From Space. back in the early 80's when satellite cameras started to have decent resolution, scientists spotted house sized chunks of space ice hitting the planet every day.

um, but wouldn't they melt when entering the atmosphere, like meteors getting real hot?

Post: #5

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Richard Eldritch  Wrote:

From Space. back in the early 80's when satellite cameras started to have decent resolution, scientists spotted house sized chunks of space ice hitting the planet every day.

um, but wouldn't they melt when entering the atmosphere, like meteors getting real hot?

Most of it does but some are so big that they don't melt entirely.

Post: #6

These verses in Job 38 really intrigue me.
Seems to me that the ice's origin has been hidden...

"As for darkness, where is the place thereof,
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

The water is as hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen."

I think God has hidden the origin of the ice from mankind.
Has to do with the way light travels in which darkness obscured the ice canopy at the top of the atmosphere.

Post: #7

About two weeks ago while visiting my parents house me and my dad went for a smoke in the garden,we walked down to the bottom of the garden and found a ice ball in the middle of the lawn,clear blue sky dont know where it came from,could be kids throwing it around from other gardens but may be a sky ball of ice.

Post: #8

Bleed through from the other realms. Machine continues to break down. Collapse here continues.

Post: #9

A woman was killed by a falling toilet ice spear that went right in her gut. There is a picture of it somewhere, but I dont want to post it.

Post: #10

Richard Eldritch  Wrote:

LoP Guest  Wrote:

Richard Eldritch  Wrote:

From Space. back in the early 80's when satellite cameras started to have decent resolution, scientists spotted house sized chunks of space ice hitting the planet every day.

um, but wouldn't they melt when entering the atmosphere, like meteors getting real hot?

Most of it does but some are so big that they don't melt entirely.

Are you talking about stuff like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-wYmFYb3I

Post: #11

All rain starts out as ice. Maybe it is possible these smaller parts stick together. Like golf ball size hail storm, only bigger.

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Post: #12

um, ok.. so if a huge block of ice falls from the sky, why the hell would you let your kids play in it?!?!?!


if its from a plane- eeeewww
if its from space- think of all the little critters/organisms that could be on it

Post: #13

bGood work on the research and studies into other similar cases to give an overview and a context on the article. Not too often I see this level of research so I feel it's worth pointing out and encouraging.


As for the origin of the ice, it'd be hard to say without a compositional analysis of the ice crystals and it's contents. If it was from an airplane, it'd contain... obvious contaminants. If it was from the sky (either via tornado or some other high power strength item), it'd likely contain trace amounts of minerals and metals that identify it as such. If it was from space, I imagine it's composition would be unique enough to identify from conventional hail (although I am not familiar as such with what it might contain).

Either way, an intriguing element probably worth more of researcher time than say, how long shrimp can run on a treadmill for.

Post: #14

From the big ice maker on the moon.....

Post: #15

Yoyodyne  Wrote:

From the big ice maker on the moon.....

You got nothing again?

Everybody knows the moon is of cheese.