{"id":2250,"date":"2007-08-09T09:50:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T09:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2007-08-09T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T09:50:25","slug":"2007-8-9-conspiracy-theory-du-jour-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy theory du jour"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bizarre little story in today’s Le Monde<\/a>: last Friday 12 swimmers drowned on a beach in northern Algeria after a giant wave suddenly appeared on a beach near Mostaganem, in Western Algeria. No one knows what caused the wave, which only appeared at that particular beach and was not part of a larger tsunami or other natural event. One theory advanced by a astronomer\/planetologist is that the wave was the result of a scientific experiment conducted by a northern Mediterranean country (Spain, France or Italy), probably involving conventional weapons of some sort. The story in full:<\/p>\n

La protection civile alg\u00c3\u00a9rienne a annonc\u00c3\u00a9, mercredi 8 ao\u00c3\u00bbt, la mort de douze baigneurs emport\u00c3\u00a9s par une vague g\u00c3\u00a9ante sur une plage de Mostaganem, dans l’ouest alg\u00c3\u00a9rien, vendredi. L’origine de la vague est inconnue et nourrit les d\u00c3\u00a9bats des scientifiques et de la population locale. <\/p>\n

L’hypoth\u00c3\u00a8se d’un essai scientifique en M\u00c3\u00a9diterran\u00c3\u00a9e effectu\u00c3\u00a9 par des pays de l’autre rive, comme l’Espagne, l’Italie ou la France est avanc\u00c3\u00a9e. “On peut supposer qu’il s’agit d’une exp\u00c3\u00a9rience scientifique d’armes conventionnelles”, explique le professeur Loth Bonatiro, sp\u00c3\u00a9cialiste d’astronomie et de plan\u00c3\u00a9tologie au Centre alg\u00c3\u00a9rien de recherche en astronomie, astrophysique et g\u00c3\u00a9ophysique (Craag), cit\u00c3\u00a9 dans les colonnes du quotidien alg\u00c3\u00a9rien L’Expression.<\/p>\n

L’hypoth\u00c3\u00a8se d’un mini-tsunami avanc\u00c3\u00a9e par les habitants semblait peu plausible, dans la mesure o\u00c3\u00b9 la vague n’a touch\u00c3\u00a9 qu’une seule plage, celle dite du Petit-Port.<\/p>\n

Une secousse sismique d’une magnitude de 4,6 sur l’\u00c3\u00a9chelle ouverte de Richter avait \u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9 enregistr\u00c3\u00a9e vendredi \u00c3\u00a0 21 h 08 en plein milieu du bassin m\u00c3\u00a9diterran\u00c3\u00a9en par le centre de Strasbourg, mais pas par le Craag, qui \u00c3\u00a9voque un possible probl\u00c3\u00a8me technique.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weird. Will feed the conspiracy theories of already paranoid Algerians for weeks, I’m sure.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bizarre little story in today’s Le Monde<\/a>: last Friday 12 swimmers drowned on a beach in northern Algeria after a giant wave suddenly appeared on a beach near Mostaganem, in Western Algeria. No one knows what caused the wave, which only appeared at that particular beach and was not part of a larger tsunami or other natural event. One theory advanced by a astronomer\/planetologist is that the wave was the result of a scientific experiment conducted by a northern Mediterranean country (Spain, France or Italy), probably involving conventional weapons of some sort. The story in full:<\/p>\n

La protection civile alg\u00c3\u00a9rienne a annonc\u00c3\u00a9, mercredi 8 ao\u00c3\u00bbt, la mort de douze baigneurs emport\u00c3\u00a9s par une vague g\u00c3\u00a9ante sur une plage de Mostaganem, dans l’ouest alg\u00c3\u00a9rien, vendredi. L’origine de la vague est inconnue et nourrit les d\u00c3\u00a9bats des scientifiques et de la population locale.
\nL’hypoth\u00c3\u00a8se d’un essai scientifique en M\u00c3\u00a9diterran\u00c3\u00a9e effectu\u00c3\u00a9 par des pays de l’autre rive, comme l’Espagne, l’Italie ou la France est avanc\u00c3\u00a9e. “On peut supposer qu’il s’agit d’une exp\u00c3\u00a9rience scientifique d’armes conventionnelles”, explique le professeur Loth Bonatiro, sp\u00c3\u00a9cialiste d’astronomie et de plan\u00c3\u00a9tologie au Centre alg\u00c3\u00a9rien de recherche en astronomie, astrophysique et g\u00c3\u00a9ophysique (Craag), cit\u00c3\u00a9 dans les colonnes du quotidien alg\u00c3\u00a9rien L’Expression.
\nL’hypoth\u00c3\u00a8se d’un mini-tsunami avanc\u00c3\u00a9e par les habitants semblait peu plausible, dans la mesure o\u00c3\u00b9 la vague n’a touch\u00c3\u00a9 qu’une seule plage, celle dite du Petit-Port.
\nUne secousse sismique d’une magnitude de 4,6 sur l’\u00c3\u00a9chelle ouverte de Richter avait \u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9 enregistr\u00c3\u00a9e vendredi \u00c3\u00a0 21 h 08 en plein milieu du bassin m\u00c3\u00a9diterran\u00c3\u00a9en par le centre de Strasbourg, mais pas par le Craag, qui \u00c3\u00a9voque un possible probl\u00c3\u00a8me technique.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weird. Will feed the conspiracy theories of already paranoid Algerians for weeks, I’m sure.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[53,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}