{"id":5248,"date":"2008-01-29T08:09:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T08:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2010-05-09T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T23:47:15","slug":"small-canadian-town-was-poisoned-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/small-canadian-town-was-poisoned-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Canadian Town was Poisoned, from Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get any fucking new ideas, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Carter_(screenwriter)\" class=\"external external_icon\">Chris Carter<\/a>. Better yet, don&#8217;t bother <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_X-Files_%28film%29\" class=\"external external_icon\">revisiting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_X-Files_Mythology%2C_Volume_1_-_Abduction\" class=\"external external_icon\">old ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"crater-324x205.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/crater-324x205.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"205\" align=\"right\"\/> Well water of the tiny Canadian town of Gypsumville, Manitoba (population 65) has been poisoned by an extraterrestrial.<\/p>\n<p>The invader: A meteorite which struck down almost a quarter-billion years ago, creating the 25-mile-wide (40-kilometer) Lake Martin impact crater.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient impact shattered the granitic ground so that extraordinary amounts of fluoride now taint the well water. Slightly higher than recommended amounts of fluoride can cause mottled teeth, while even higher concentrations can lead to neurological problems and softened bones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/01\/25\/meteorite-drinking-water.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">This is could be the first time a meteor impact has been tied to a modern health threat, say the geologists who made the discovery<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get any fucking new ideas, Chris Carter. Better yet, don&#8217;t bother revisiting old ones. Well water of the tiny Canadian town of Gypsumville, Manitoba (population 65) has been poisoned by an extraterrestrial. The invader: A meteorite which struck down almost a quarter-billion years ago, creating the 25-mile-wide (40-kilometer) Lake Martin impact crater. The ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[494,2302,2304,2303,4950,376],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-asteroid-attack","tag-black-goo-aliens","tag-chris-carter-effect","tag-oil-slick-aliens","tag-space","tag-space-junk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11009,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/11009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}