WTF Is It Now?!?

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Did a comet cause the Great Chicago Fire?
Cows everywhere give a big high-five.

From the Discovery Channel: New research comes up with a new explanation: 'The fire, along with less-publicized and even more deadly blazes the same night in upstate Wisconsin and Michigan, was the result of a comet fragment crashing into Earth's atmosphere

'Robert Wood, a retired McDonnell Douglas physicist, cited eyewitness reports of spontaneous ignitions, lack of smoke and "fire balloons" falling from the sky to bolster his theory. If the fire had been caused by comet debris, which is believed to have consisted of small pieces of frozen methane, acetylene or other highly combustible chemicals, it also would explain the cause of the fires blazing north of Chicago, which wiped out 2,000 people and burned 4 million acres of farm and prairie lands.'