I was just thinking that 3000 years ago, that would have probably started a new religion. Some bearded old guy would have claimed that it was some god expressing his displeasure about something people did, and that he had new instructions for us all on how to behave and what to believe.
Pffttt! The religionbots you guys are always whimpering on and on about won't have any effect on any one of our lives. HOWEVER, when members of the Church of Global Warmists coming squealing on and on about this, you can bet your ass they'll be figuring out a way on how to get their filthy hands into our pockets through some form of taxation.
Maybe this is how god gets new species to the planet - he throws them... He just missed a little bit today.
I was thinking the same thing this morning after hearing about it. I then flipped from the news over to the science channel and bam, they are airing a show talking of people in the past seeing comets and meteors as signs from a god to do whatever.