Here come the space diseases.

Over he weekend a meteorite crashed in Souther Peru, near Lake Titicaca, leaving a small, yet somewhat foul smelling crater. Those of us who are still fans of Beavis and Butthead must, first recognize the wonderful humor in saying Titicaca. I will give you this moment to mumble the words to yourself, then on with the story. Now, meteorites are not all that uncommon being that we live on a planet that travels regularly through a large asteroid field. The weird part about this one is that the people of the area are claiming that they are becoming ill and believe it is from some side effect of the meteorite. Many scientists are rejecting their illnesses, stating that the meteorite in question shows nothing more than the average amount of metals and debris that are normally found in such events. I have to wonder though. What about all the other crashes that the scientists snubbed as non-contaminated? 1958 in Pheonixville, Pennsylvania, for instance. A small meteor crashed outside of town, when a local transient happened upon it, poked it with a stick and was attacked by an amoeba like alien that began terrorizing the town, nearly wiping it out. Luckily it's weakness, cold, was found and it was stopped in time. Then in 1982, in the Antarctic, a research team came across what they believed to be a downed comet, it later turned out to be an alien spacecraft. The alien on board could take over peoples bodies through their blood and became a grotesque and terrifying symbiot. Lucky for the world, a daring researcher by the name of R.J. MacReady found that the creature couldn't handle fire and he stopped it before it could destroy our world. I will also point out the 1971 crash of a military satellite that brought back a disease from space that caused rapid clotting of blood. This situation was contained but was nearly a total disaster, since the military planned on detonating a nuclear warhead in order to burn the disease away, if it could not be contained. There are many more such instances that you can find on the internet, which worries me, because that means several more have been covered up by the governments of many nations. You can go as far back as the 1908 Tunguska Event, in which a large comet crashed into the planet, reportedly releasing several otherworldly monsters from the deepest pits of Hades loose upon the planet. This is why I worry about this crater in Southern Peru and you should as well. I am not trying to make you paranoid by the way, if you live on this planet you already should be or you are missing something.