Twenty-five KNOWN craters. The number is far, far higher, and expect that number to soar with better and detailed satellite imagery available to the general public.

The Earth has been hit literally countless times by meteors and the best places to find craters are ones which have very sparse vegetation like Australia (there are around 25 known craters in Australia). The fact that they tell 'lots of stories' about stars falling out the sky with a noise like thunder coupled with the relative commonality of impact craters on the continent along with the fact that there was not a precise location, just a general area, makes it sound an awful lot like coincidence. I'm not dismissing it entirely, but it makes the connection seem a little weak to me.

Crisis? There was a crisis? Other than one invented by scam artists and the media?

You're tuned to the Headache Channel.

How about the simple fact that there are a hell of a lot more plants then there are human corpses on and around the average battlefield? Hoping it will find a corpse to chow down on (after it gets through the body armor and so on) seems like a silly move if it can just start munching away on the local foliage.

It's so weird when reality looks like bad Photoshop.

Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

It's not like they need to put a back door on it. There will be about 500 exploits found within the next year as it is.

Maybe you should try the many current events news websites out there if you want more pressing stories. This is slashdot, not CNN.