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Charles Fort
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That
if
gushes
of
blood
should
fall
from
the
sky
upon
New
York
City,
business
would
go
on
as
usual.
We
began
with
rains
that
we
accepted
ourselves
were,
most
likely,
only
of
sand.
In
my
own
still
immature
hereticalness--and
by
heresy,
or
progress,
I
mean,
very
largely,
a
return,
though
with
many
modifications,
to
the
superstitions
of
the
past,
I
think
I
feel
considerable
aloofness
to
the
idea
of
rains
of
blood.
Just
at
present,
it
is
my
conservative,
or
timid
purpose,
to
express
only
that
there
have
been
red
rains
that
very
strongly
suggest
blood
or
finely
divided
animal
matter--
Debris
from
inter-planetary
disasters.
Aerial
battles.
Food-supplies
from
cargoes
of
super-vessels,
wrecked
in
inter-planetary
traffic.
There
was
a
red
rain
in
the
Mediterranean
region,
March
6,
1888.
Twelve
days
later,
it
fell
again.
Whatever
this
substance
may
have
been,
when
burned,
the
odor
of
animal
matter
from
it
was
strong
and
persistent.
(L'Astronomie,
1888-205.)
But--infinite
heterogeneity--or
debris
from
many
different
kinds
of
aerial
cargoes--there
have
been
red
rains
that
have
been
colored
by
neither
sand
nor
animal
matter.
Annals
of
Philosophy,
16-226:
That,
Nov.
2,
1819--week
before
the
black
rain
and
earthquake
of
Canada--there
fell,
at
Blankenberge,
Holland,
a
red
rain.
As
to
sand,
two
chemists
of
Bruges
concentrated
144
ounces
of
the
rain
to
4
ounces--"no
precipitate
fell."
But
the
color
was
so
marked
that
had
there
been
sand,
it
would
have
been
deposited,
if
the
substance
had
been
diluted
instead
of
concentrated.
Experiments
were
made,
and
various
reagents
did
cast
precipitates,
but
other
than
sand.
The
chemists
concluded
that
the
rain-water
contained
muriate
of
cobalt--which
is
not
very
enlightening:
that
could
be
said
of
many
substances
carried
in
vessels
upon
the
Atlantic
Ocean.
Whatever
it
may
have
been,
in
the
Annales
de
Chimie,
2-12-432,
its
color
is
said
to
have
been
red-violet.
For
various
chemic
reactions,
see
Quar.
Jour.
Roy.
Inst.,
9-202,
and
Edin.
Phil.
Jour.,
2-381.
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