Bad news: It wasn’t aliens

 Posted by on 11 February 2009  Modern Life
Feb 112009
 

There was something spooky about this:

I posted about it before, and I noted how weird it was, not only that the wind turbine spontaneously flew apart — but that one of the blades had vanished!

Deep down, I knew it would be something prosaic, but I was kind of in love with people suggesting that it was aliens. As if ET is as dumb as those birds who get all disoriented by windmills. What, never heard of radar, Mr. Intergalactic Traveller? Electromagnetic waves in the visual spectrum too confusing?

Or, perhaps they were just disgruntled alien teens, cruising around with their rag-top UFOs, playing a game of mailbox baseball writ large. Yeah, extraterrestrial vandals, that’s the ticket!

But no. It was metal fatigue.

(sad face)

Hmm, still no explanation for the glowing orbs spotted in the sky that night, though!

Grant Hamilton

  • Juel

    But where is the metal that was fatigued?

  • Rob

    i agree! where is this metal? Maybe it’s in Norway with all the other crazy metal.