 QualityJay
Male, 18-29, Southern US
 303 Posts
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Monday, January 16, 2012 12:15:07 PM
lol.
"clearly, it is the iron giants left nut." |
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SoCal
Male, 18-29, Western US
616 Posts
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Monday, January 16, 2012 2:49:06 AM
the only good thing in Namibia are the waves. Nothing else... |
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 AtheistAlien
Male, 30-39, Western US
772 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 7:55:38 PM
Old post is old. |
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 PtblDuffy
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
164 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:39:34 PM
I'd give this a resounding... interesting. |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 11:09:29 AM
lolz alien Nyan |
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 HiEv
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
384 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 9:56:05 AM
"It is a mysterious ball that looks like a prop from a science fiction film - and nobody can explain where it came from."
Translation: "It's a boring looking dirty metallic sphere with nipples - and a few people can explain where it came from."
I hate it when reporters try to spice up a story by getting opinions from ignoramuses. Do I really need to know that some smartass claimed "it could be an escaped particle from the Large Hadron Collider"?
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 Karat
Male, 18-29, Europe
137 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 7:07:50 AM
why did space core have to end up there?
just when they were a family again. |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25656 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:37:28 AM
OMG! It's happening all over the globe!!!!
It must be an attack from .... NYAN ALIEN!
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 Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9438 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:37:27 AM
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 Thetas
Male, 18-29, Western US
1536 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:34:26 AM
Surely not a piece of any of the 4,000 man-made satellites orbiting the earth. Definitely proof of extraterrestrials.
God I hope somebody made that part up. |
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 xiquiripat
Male, 18-29, Western US
2419 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:03:46 AM
God's anal beads broke. |
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 PizzaPits
Male, 18-29, Western US
555 Posts
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:03:42 AM
dratin' space and poo. |
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 saan
Female, 30-39, Asia
17 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:51:34 PM
Surely it is man made and unlike those two silver objects from Kazakhstan |
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 Neagle
Male, 30-39, Western US
1405 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:26:56 PM
Propellant Management Device (PMD)
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 Bremir
Male, 18-29, Europe
361 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:26:49 PM
I don't see how this is a mystery.
Surely, if it is something man made and put up into space, they have some record of parts used in whatever it was they put up there, or if it is something from recent times they recognize the part.
You're not telling me they've looked at this and gone "we have no idea!". |
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 Zeegrr60
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
1514 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:21:04 PM
There's my ball...whew,thought I lost it. |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14374 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:19:02 PM
I'm pretty sure that's a hydrazine storage tank.
Hydrazine is used to produce thrust for satellites, it's rather toxic and explosive, not something to be messed with. |
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Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25656 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:39:14 PM
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TkA
Male, 30-39, Western US
115 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:23:50 PM
open it up, what if it is a time capsule? |
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 DuckBoy87
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2094 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:17:46 PM
Anyone? |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
10503 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:05:35 PM
If extraterrestrial life does exist, it will most likely think twice about contacting us, for our media would most assuredly cause a mass panic. If this stupid event involving some piece of junk is worthy of news, I hate to think what first contact would do to us. ... we're clearly not ready.
Its The Sphere from that one book...Sphere
I liked that book. Hated the ending. |
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 MrPeabody
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
1457 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:07:21 PM
"only going about 1/4 that fast."
Pretty sure Space Balls travel at ludicrous speed. |
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 TheGodofFail
Male, 13-17, Western US
126 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:59:30 PM
Don't lie you guys, it's a cannon ball from a space pirate ship |
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 Rawrg
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
935 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:52:51 PM
It's a satellite part. Amazing? |
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 OldOllie
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
8742 Posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2012 7:51:23 PM
hat i dont get is when a meteor crashes it gets smashed into tiny bits but this thing is intact.
The simple answer is that meteors are going MUCH faster -- on the order of 60,000 MPH. A piece of a satellite going not quite fast enough to stay in orbit is only going about 1/4 that fast. Also, that fuel tank is a smooth sphere, and it entered Earth's atmosphere at a very shallow angle. Meteors tend to be rough and odd shaped, and they hit at a much steeper angle. Also, the fuel tank is hollow; it would probably float in water. A meteor is solid rock or iron. |
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