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Originally posted by burntheships
reply to post by gateway30
Epidemic Hazard, It does not state the cause.
Originally posted by zeeon
reply to post by xavi1000
I really don't mean to sound crass here...but it was New Years Eve and there were Fireworks going off.
Occams Razor "is a principle which generally recommends selecting the competing hypothesis that makes the fewest new assumptions (also known as postulates, entities) when the hypotheses be equal in other respects."
Should we assume that the government, at the nearest military base (also an assumption), were testing a new secret weapon (with no supporting evidence, so this is also an assumption), only on Blackbirds and Starlings which caused them to take to the skies outside their normal flight hours then fall out of said sky to die?
OR
Should we acknowledge that there were fireworks going off (because we do have proof of that), and that those sounds are what those witnesses are mistakingly identifying as cannon sounds?
I think I'll go with the 2nd one.
Japanese bird sanctuaries, poultry farms and zoos went on high alert last month after several species of migratory birds in different regions were found dead of what appeared to be H5N1 avian influenza.
Originally posted by Human_Alien
Don't let safe thinking get mixed up with critical thinking.
In fact, 3,000 blackbirds seemed to fall from the sky there- starting last Friday. Autopsies have since ruled out poisoning. One top biologist from Cornell University said the birds were "....probably asleep in a single tree when a washing machine-type thunderstorm sucked them up into the air, disoriented them, and even fatally soaked and chilled them."
Originally posted by gateway30
today it happened in neW JERSEY AND new-york!!!!!!!!!!! us.toluna.com...edit on 3-1-2011 by gateway30 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Paroxysm
Originally posted by Human_Alien
Don't let safe thinking get mixed up with critical thinking.
Excellent post! I agree wholeheartedly.
Originally posted by gateway30
today it happened in neW JERSEY AND new-york!!!!!!!!!!! us.toluna.com...
And, then, there were none. New Jersey residents awoke to a morbid note on Saturday morning, after federal officials killed as many as 5,000 European starling birds with pesticides the previous evening. Hundreds of the birds were reported to have fallen onto private residents' lawns, driveways, and even cars. The black carcasses were strewn across Franklin, N.J., among other towns in southern Somerset County. "It was raining birds," Franklin Township Mayor Brian Levine told The Associated Press. "It got people a little anxious." The U.S. Department of Agriculture utilized a bird-specific pesticide, DRX-1339, which it says is harmless to humans and other animals.