Comments on: It’s Raining Fish http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:01:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: S.I.M.Jafri http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-4754 S.I.M.Jafri Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:03 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-4754 Really the write up is quite refreshing and enlightening, but simultaneously, I would also share the same phenomenon,which I had seen occuring,when I was a very small kid, but the memory is still afresh about that occurence. i belong to a very ubiquitious village of Ambedekar Nagar(Korjha) Faizabad U.P. , which has got a rivulet by the name of Tons- once during the month of the fag end of summer, it rained for 10 to fifteen minutes duration but with wind and force. when it stopped, i noticed the live three to four inches long and finger thick fishes quivering on the bed of a patched fields adjecent to the rivulet, which was completely dried during the summer.And the time passed , but reading yesterday in one of the newspapers that it rained fishes somewhere around the world has revived my own experience.Felt to share with your readers. S.I.M.Jafri, Librarian,The Aditya Birla Public School, Adityapuram,Chittorgarh,Rajasthan.(India) Really the write up is quite refreshing and enlightening, but simultaneously, I would also share the same phenomenon,which I had seen occuring,when I was a very small kid, but the memory is still afresh about that occurence. i belong to a very ubiquitious village of Ambedekar Nagar(Korjha) Faizabad U.P. , which has got a rivulet by the name of Tons- once during the month of the fag end of summer, it rained for 10 to fifteen minutes duration but with wind and force. when it stopped, i noticed the live three to four inches long and finger thick fishes quivering on the bed of a patched fields adjecent to the rivulet, which was completely dried during the summer.And the time passed , but reading yesterday in one of the newspapers that it rained fishes somewhere around the world has revived my own experience.Felt to share with your readers.

S.I.M.Jafri, Librarian,The Aditya Birla Public School, Adityapuram,Chittorgarh,Rajasthan.(India)

]]> By: rob h http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-4536 rob h Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:47:18 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-4536 Q: what's worse than raining cats and dogs? A: hailing taxis! lol Q: what’s worse than raining cats and dogs?
A: hailing taxis! lol

]]> By: elisha http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-4471 elisha Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:21:22 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-4471 lol:) lol:)

]]> By: elisha http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-4470 elisha Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:20:57 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-4470 sike:) sike:)

]]> By: elisha http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-4469 elisha Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:19:35 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-4469 i love this story:) i love this story:)

]]> By: Emma http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-4122 Emma Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:33:31 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-4122 Another thing to add to the raining cats and dogs saying...The reason why people had canopies over their four poster beds was to stop the rats, cats etc (and their poop) from falling on them while they were sleeping. Sure makes me glad to have a good old tin roof :) Another thing to add to the raining cats and dogs saying…The reason why people had canopies over their four poster beds was to stop the rats, cats etc (and their poop) from falling on them while they were sleeping. Sure makes me glad to have a good old tin roof :)

]]> By: joel jones http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-3393 joel jones Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:19:43 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-3393 there wasnt no ocean around the earth,i wouldnt care if you theorized there wasnt no ocean around the earth,i wouldnt care if you theorized

]]> By: jlrodd http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-3345 jlrodd Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:18:52 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-3345 nice article. This wont make the cats and dogs theroy go to the way side Nan. Its raining cats and dogs comes from when people made there homes and used straw, hay, twigs and what ever. The animals would nest on the roof to keep warm at night. When ever they would have a heavy rain, the weight of the animal would make it fall through the soggy roof. Hence the term. nice article. This wont make the cats and dogs theroy go to the way side Nan. Its raining cats and dogs comes from when people made there homes and used straw, hay, twigs and what ever. The animals would nest on the roof to keep warm at night. When ever they would have a heavy rain, the weight of the animal would make it fall through the soggy roof. Hence the term.

]]> By: lilli http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-3033 lilli Tue, 26 May 2009 01:11:35 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-3033 hehe lol im doing project on this..... hehe lol
im doing project on this…..

]]> By: Srikanth http://www.scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/comment-page-1/#comment-2891 Srikanth Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:18:22 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2006/09/17/physics-cosier-rainingfish/#comment-2891 Wow, I have witnessed this once when I was 8 or 9 in Chennai, India. I almost convinced myself it was a dream until I started today to search it out... Wow, I have witnessed this once when I was 8 or 9 in Chennai, India. I almost convinced myself it was a dream until I started today to search it out…

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