Not a meteor -- a lightning bolt!

[jackofallgeeks]

So I was reading a Slashdot article on how the dinosaurs died and came upon This in the comments, some guy apparently contesting that electrical charge, and not gravity, makes the world (and everything else) go 'round. Not sure how much I buy it, but I'm always a little tickled by alternate views of reality.

Comments

[bsgnome.livejournal.com]

... aether concepts that contrary to popular belief, have never actually been disproven.

Sons of Ether anyone?

[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Haven't read the article but, of course, once we get that Grand Unified Theory, we'll be able to prove that electrical force = gravitational force.