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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (573706)	6/25/2010 5:41:42 PM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574273

Well there are two possibilities. 1) Aliens planted the seed in us to clean up the waste products of ancient plants and animals (oil, gas, coal etc) and now they are pissed that we are not finishing the job so they are sabotaging green energy. So during the alien attack when you ask "why do they hate us?" don't forget, I told you so. or 2) And The Guardian reported that the balls of light were likely fireworks set off by an 80th-birthday party. The source for that report? The Guardian's director of digital content, Emily Bell, whose father was the honoree. "It was a medium-sized fireworks display with absolutely no ballistics, and the fireworks were mostly dropping over my parents' house. But we were laughing that we could have broken the wind turbine," The Guardian quoted Bell as saying. So what did break the turbine? It could well have been a mechanical failure, The Telegraph quoted an insurance company executive as saying. Such incidents occur five or six times a year, said Fraser McLachlan, chief executive of GCube, which insures more than 25,000 wind turbines. "Water could have got into hairline cracks in the blade, weakening the structure when it turned into ice, or it's possible that the blades were just poorly attached to the hub," he said. "Sometimes machines just break." NBC News space analyst James Oberg, who has delved into UFO mysteries for decades, weighed in on the latest buzz in an e-mail: "Coincidences often create their own new reality, for sure. The BBC, which pointed out that the blade that broke off is lying right at the base of the tower (it isn't missing, as the Sun claimed), quoted an engineer who said such damage could be caused by ice flung off one turbine into another - and the weather was creating exactly such icing conditions. "The big 'clunk' heard a few hours before the apparent failure (it's not sure at what time the failure actually occurred) could have been initial impact, followed by some amount of time of growing metal failure leading to catastrophic separation (and impact with the second blade). A pretty quick examination of impact streaks should be able to settle it. cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com