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Topic: Rocks fall from the sky. Authorities scratch their heads. (Read 2293 times)
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Roac
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I saw this 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? |
-Roac
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Ironwood
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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. |
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Trippy
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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. LOL. I think I still have my WoW "!" crown I picked up at ChinaJoy (a gaming exhibition in Shanghai). I should try walking around with it and see how many people come up to me asking if I have any quests to give out. Edit: typos |
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« Last Edit: January 04, 2007, 07:15:54 AM by Trippy »
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bhodi
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haha, that's my co-worker's subdivision, he was just talking about it. They waited a few days because .... ?
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Sky
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Strazos
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Is this what New Jersey is really like?
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grebo
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http://meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu/composition.htmlIron 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.
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Ironwood
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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.
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Riggswolfe
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Roac
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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? |
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HaemishM
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The South may be bottoms in education, but we know what a goddamn meteorite is. We just can't spell it.
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Righ
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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. |
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Strazos
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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. |
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