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Title: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Roac on January 04, 2007, 06:30:05 AM I saw this (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/04/fallen.object.ap/index.html) on the news this morning and just chuckled, but here it is again on the CNN website. If an oddly shaped metallic rock punches a hole in your ceiling, it's a meteorite unless there's a damn good reason to think otherwise. Why is this news? Honestly, why are so many people baffled by this? The article makes it sound like everyone in town is looking up at the sky with a ? mark hovering over their heads as if space were a new discovery. I can't figure out if the reporter thinks the readers are that stupid, the reporter is that stupid, that town is that stupid, or there's something more to this story that isn't being reported that just makes it all sound stupid. I have the sense that if there were an eclipse, the town would burn their houses and run to hide in caves. Is this what New Jersey is really like?
Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Ironwood on January 04, 2007, 06:41:22 AM The article makes it sound like everyone in town is looking up at the sky with a ? mark hovering over their heads You know, if they are then a lot of people are gonna try to hand in quests at them. Scary. Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Trippy on January 04, 2007, 07:09:22 AM The article makes it sound like everyone in town is looking up at the sky with a ? mark hovering over their heads You know, if they are then a lot of people are gonna try to hand in quests at them. Scary.Edit: typos Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: bhodi on January 04, 2007, 07:31:53 AM haha, that's my co-worker's subdivision, he was just talking about it. They waited a few days because .... ?
Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Sky on January 04, 2007, 07:45:09 AM I'll get that damned chicken little. Mark my words. I'm falling, bitch!
Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Strazos on January 04, 2007, 08:03:14 AM Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: grebo on January 04, 2007, 08:52:43 AM http://meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu/composition.html (http://meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu/composition.html)
Quote Iron meteorites also often have scalloped or fluted surfaces (like thumbprints pressed into clay) which are produced by ablation (severe frictional heating of the surface, but not interior, of the meteoroids) when they penetrated the Earth's atmosphere. I see a swirly on the surface. Must be a robot. Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Ironwood on January 04, 2007, 08:57:25 AM Robots. Could be. Keep checking for tape decks or tapes or even a handgun to mysteriously appear in your house.
Or, less subtly, a big truck in your driveway or an F-14 screaming by overhead. Trust me, there could be more than meets the eye. Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Riggswolfe on January 04, 2007, 10:07:45 AM The lengths Michael Bay will go to to promote a movie these days!
Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Paelos on January 04, 2007, 11:12:58 AM Joe Dirt comes to life.
Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Yegolev on January 04, 2007, 11:56:13 AM Can of soup? How big of a can of soup?
I am not at all shocked that local police are unable to identify _______. Someone is retarded, and I am pretty sure it isn't me. Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Roac on January 04, 2007, 12:06:07 PM Joe Dirt comes to life. See, I'd have expected that if this happened in my state. Or TN, or GA, or whatever else in the south. And I understand that housing in NJ is priced based on minimum distance from a nuclear waste site, so I wouldn't be surprised if they encased it in a shrine, smelted it to make souvenirs, or used it to sue Mars for border rights. But for residence and authorities to look at a large hole in the ceiling, a rock on the floor, and then openly wonder where the rock came from...? Seriously? Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: HaemishM on January 04, 2007, 12:36:15 PM The South may be bottoms in education, but we know what a goddamn meteorite is. We just can't spell it.
Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Righ on January 04, 2007, 07:17:29 PM But for residence and authorities to look at a large hole in the ceiling, a rock on the floor, and then openly wonder where the rock came from...? Seriously? Its a valid thing to wonder about. When I look at pallasites I often wonder whether it came from the planet Krypton. But seriously - this isn't an ordinary meteorite. It could be a piece of space debris that melted on re-entry, or it could be an extremely rare metallic meteorite with unusual luster and composition. I guess we'll find out after they lob it at a mass spectrometer. Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: Strazos on January 05, 2007, 02:53:58 AM The South may be bottoms in education, but we know what a goddamn meteorite is. We just can't spell it. Funny you mention that. An article in a Phil. Inquirer said that NJ, as a whole, is one of the top states in the country as far as education goes (I think below college level anyway). It was on the front page, but I couldn't be bothered to see whose ass they pulled their numbers out of. Title: Re: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. Post by: penfold on January 05, 2007, 03:28:46 AM They are doomed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colour_Out_of_Space)
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