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Fringey Mini: Hippos. No, Sky Quakes... Hippos and Sky Quakes. · Journey to the Fringe

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  Okay, Chelsea, this is a follow -up to a story,
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  another chain of stories that we've been following.
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  This one comes from Reuters, written on April
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  13th, 2026. Apparently just by Reuters. Nobody
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  wants to put their name to this one. You don't
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  want to call it Reuters? Oh, this is a really
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  short story. I'm going to pick a different one
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  really quick here. Okay. It was about the hippos,
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  but they apparently just like made a decision
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  and that's it. It's a paragraph. Damn it. Why
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  did you tell me? You know, let's just cover this
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  story really quick. Yeah, now I need to know
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  what decision they made. Colombia to control
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  hippo population through euthanasia. Oh, no.
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  Colombia will launch a plan in the second half
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  of 2026 to control its invasive hippo population,
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  including euthanizing an initial 80 animals.
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  South American country is home to 200 hippos.
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  Population could increase to as many as 1 ,000
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  in 2035, Velez said. We must act to reduce the
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  hippo population. These actions are essential
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  to protect our ecosystems and our native species.
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  End quote. Velez, which I didn't start, Velez
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  told journalists, noting that population growth
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  threatens species like river turtles and manatees
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  and causes water pollution. Well, we believe
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  that there may be approximately 80 individuals
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  that could be subject to the measure of euthanasia.
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  And then the rest is everything that we know.
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  Oh man, that's so sad. I really didn't want to
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  hear that decision. I thought they were trying
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  to sell them to zoos in other countries. I don't
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  know if that's true. Yeah, me too. Honestly.
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  But who would have thought that that is ridiculously
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  hard? Yeah. Okay, this one might be a little
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  bit longer. So let's go with this one. This is
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  from BBC Science Focus. Written on April 12,
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  2026 by Dr. Claire Asher. Article title, Mystery
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  Skyquakes are ripping through the world and nobody
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  knows why. This seems familiar. If you've ever
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  heard a loud distant booming noise with no obvious
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  explanation like a thunderstorm or a car backfiring,
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  then you might have experienced a skyquake. Skyquakes
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  have been reported around the world. Locals have
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  different names for them in different regions.
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  Near Seneca in New York State, they're known
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  as Seneca guns. In Belgium, they're called Mistpuffers.
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  And the Japanese refer to them as Umanari, which
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  literally means cries from the sea. Many explanations
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  have been put forward, including solar flares,
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  shallow earthquakes, offshore tsunamis, collapsing
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  underwater caves, and avalanches. Other believes
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  they're sonic booms from military aircrafts.
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  But this can't explain historical reports of
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  skyquakes. Some scientists have suggested that
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  a type of meteor called a bolide could be the
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  cause. These space rocks explode when they hit
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  Earth's atmosphere. If this happened above thick
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  clouds, the sound could be amplified across a
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  wide area, but no physical evidence could reach
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  the ground. alternative explanation is gas escaping
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  from lake sediments several hot spots for skyquake
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  activity are close to large deep lakes such as
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  Seneca but skyquakes have also been reported
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  away from such bodies of water In 2020, researchers
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  at the University of North Carolina cross -referenced
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  local news articles with data collected by a
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  network of atmospheric sensors and seismographs.
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  They were unable to identify any earthquake activity
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  that coincided with the events, so they concluded
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  the sound must be coming from the atmosphere.
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  Given the diversity of locations and explanations,
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  it's possible that skyquakes in different parts
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  of the world have different causes. But for now,
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  their true cause, or causes, remains a mystery.
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  And that's the end of the article. Wow, I have
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  two very short articles for you guys today. I
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  like how you prefaced that by saying this one's
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  going to be really long. Ah, yeah. I mean, in
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  comparison, it is. And that's what we do everything
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  in, in comparison to the other article we had
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  to read for this. Yep, exactly. I was really
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  hoping for a little bit more information on that
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  one. Me too. Especially when you saw a doctor
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  wrote it. Yeah. Perhaps, like, I don't know,
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  an example? not just hearsay of what it might
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  be because he had no ideas he just gave examples
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  of what could potentially be it and they didn't
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  even say angels blowing their freaking horns
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  because the rapture is happening it's true that's
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  a huge option of what it could be it was just
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  totally disregarded just because we weren't all
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  raptured up as if it's not even a possibility
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  huh They didn't even say dinosaur ghost word.
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  Yeah. I got dinosaur ghost on the phone. Yeah,
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  I didn't think of that as a possibility. Those
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  are all dinosaur ghost hotspots, I'm assuming.
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  God. Anyhow, you guys got 48 hours. You could
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  probably write longer articles than that and
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  speculate even more. Send them to us. Have fun
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  with it. Yeah. Bye. Bye.