Sunday, November 8, 2009

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

According to biblical legend, the most difficult period of wanderings of the ancient Israelites led by Moses to the foot of Mount Sinai, all the land around them was covered with fine grains - manna from heaven. On the advice of Moses, the people gathered the manna and baked out of her delicious bread. For a long time this story was considered a myth and fiction, but in the XX century has appeared several versions explaining the possibility of obtaining (displacement) or semi-prepared food from the sky.

POSSIBLE CAUSE OF DISPLACEMENT: According to one hypothesis, the manna from heaven exists to this day, and it represents is nothing as sweet ... droppings are very small insects - mealybug Sinai. He lives in the wilderness, feeding on plant juices and reaches a huge number. The content of protein in the vegetable juices are very low, so the insect is forced to pass through your digestive system a huge mass of water and carbohydrates, to extract from the food necessary amount of protein, and an abundance of water and carbohydrates to throw away. Water at high temperatures in the desert instantly evaporate, and are sublimated excrement (the same edible manna), consisting of 55% of cane sugar, 25% - of the inverted sugar and 19% - of dextrin.

Second version - a ready meal itself could easily fall from the sky.

During the famine in 1846 in Turkey, the description given by MJ. Teesdale in the book "Scientific talks, in fact, a few days in a row from the sky went precipitation of the edible" manna "! .. In another case mentioned that the sky was falling lichen from which local residents have successfully produced ... bread.

And in the XIX century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt saw the fall near one of the South American volcano ... fried fish! POSSIBLE CAUSE OF DISPLACEMENT: There is speculation that the fish cooked because of the eruption, but volcanoes and reservoirs, where this event could happen in the foreseeable space was not found ...

Of course, each of the events described, and if done, it is very rare, but, as described in the Bible events took place in ancient times ...

Gelatinous deposits

In heaven "menu" there are "food" in the form of jelly and jelly, and at loss of these witnesses saw rain and a strange glow of the atmosphere ", in 1652, a viscous mass has fallen along with the" glowing meteorite "in Italy several times in the XVII century "bog butter" is used as medicine from the scab falls in Ireland, 15 August 1663 after the disappearance of 40-meter fireball brown film, like a rusty, remained on the surface Robozera (current Vologda oblast) in 1718 came from the jelly fireball on the island of Leti (India), November 11, 1846 bright object 4 feet (slightly more than a meter) in diameter into a "stinking jelly, scattered near Louvilya (New York) ...

In the early summer of 1908 in the Minsk area sky "split in two and caught fire because of that fault was a terrible fire", everyone who was on the street, cried, cried. Eyewitness of the events said: "I looked at the sky. Fire was no longer there, but it was something that I thought this is a big-big man in the sky. I hear:" fell! Fell, "" A piece of cloud fallen! "Well, I saw it - like jelly, jelly. When he was touched, it was shaking ... where his virgin do not know, but I could see how it shakes like a jelly, and cold "[archived 1090/3-10] ...

In 1910, Professor McKenna Hughes saw as a "fallen star" turn into "star rot" ... In 1913 and 1927 in the Kiev region, too, fell out jelly. One of these cases describes the AH: "It was a gloomy windy day, very low cloud. At some point the clouds on the village and its surroundings began falling chunks of gelatinous, jelly-like mass. There were a lot of color - green-gray . Some of the villagers began to gather that God's grace.'s mother also collected several pieces of this mass and wrapped them in clean linen, hid in the trunk where he kept the holy water. But when she opened the chest the next day, they found nothing - the canvas was empty and dry, gathered on the eve of the mass disappeared "[archived 1088/3-10] ...

In the summer of 1923, 5 km from the village of Shah (now Yuriev Polsky District, between the villages of Nastasya and Saveliev, somewhat closer to the village Nastasya) on the field dropped some jelly-like mass. By the fall of the place ran by local residents.

The fall was accompanied by a mass of ballistic phenomena: sounds like thunder, a rattle of glasses, in the village Nastasya in a number of houses windows were smashed. However, the terminal velocity falling weight was apparently small: the mass does not splash on the sides and not knocked out in the ground dents or holes. Depreciated karavaeobraznoe mass was a body diameter of 1,5-2 meters, about 0.7 meters in height, color, mass-luboy was a bright, uniform color, the consistency of the mass resembled jelly or jelly and has no veins and inclusions. The temperature of the mass of approximately 15-20 minutes after the fall did not exceed 5 C. Witness this phenomenon, OA Boitsova, who lived at that time in the village of Shah, while still a 10-year-old girl, ran up to this mass, tore off a piece of her hands and wrapped him in a shawl and brought home. Of Scent she does not remember, but it was not unpleasant and strong - otherwise would not take a lot of hands. After 2 hours of cut off a piece of the mass into a puddle of colorless liquid, similar to water.

From the mass, lying on the field the next day and nothing remains [Archived message number 0036] ... POSSIBLE CAUSES OF DISPLACEMENT: Local residents came to the unanimous opinion that to them "in the field dropped a piece of heaven." Scientists have not examined the specimen, so no conclusions and did not make ... February 7, 1958 a strange glowing object passed over UFOs, after landing into a pile of "oily sludge" near the West-Mitch (Ireland) ...

Grain Rains

Rich collection of cases falling out of seeds collected from the clear sky, for example, the British "Book of Wonders". Thus, in 1686 wheat grains inside the hailstones that had fallen from above, found in Wiltshire (United Kingdom). POSSIBLE CAUSE OF DISPLACEMENT: Perhaps raised grain swirl iced over in a cloud with hail, but the report makes no mention of a whirlwind ...

May 9, 1867 Dublin police were attacked by "whether the fruits, or berries (or hazelnuts?), Which rained down upon them with furious force, and in huge quantities."

In 1897, the grain of the Central iudi-on tree literally covering several towns in the province of Macerata (Italy).

In 1913, the "manna", similar to corn seeds fell on Kirkmanshaus (Persia).

In September 1945, in St. Louis (Missouri, USA) by a female called the local branch office forecasts and inquired as to understand the precipitation pulses in their area? "Perhaps - she said - is approaching the end of the world?"

The summer of 1971, the West African beans covered farm in north-west of Brazil.

In early March 1983, Rita Gibson of Tompse-ma found in their backyard strange placer pink fasolinok (size - something in between the grains of rice and orange). She described the incident: "They could not throw, because the yard is surrounded by fences 3. Grains were fresh, though the season was unsuitable for legumes.

In the night from 8 to 9 November 1984 around the city Akrington (Lancashire) for over an hour bombarded with apples. Derek and Al-rienna Heytornuayty awake at night by the noise of falling on the roof of the fruit. In the morning they gathered on the lawn, on the track and under the fence not less than 300 pieces, many more were in the garden.