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Mystery Space Junk lands in Paddock
 
Nettie
Posted: 28 March 2008 07:39 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Full story with photo.

AN outback farmer is on a mission to identify a strange ball of twisted metal - purported to be fallen space junk - which mysteriously turned up on his remote property.

James Stirton of Cheepie, 130km from Charleville in southwestern Queensland, was heading out to feed cattle on his 40,500-hectare property when he came upon the bizarre-looking blackened ball.

“It was just off the road and I had been going up there every couple of days to feed cattle so I would be surprised if it had been there more than a week,” Mr Stirton said.

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The Middleman: (drinking milk) You know, that was some darn fine cow squirt.

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Nettie
Posted: 28 March 2008 07:46 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Is anyone else having trouble reading the link I posted? It’s not even showing up for me above but it’s there when I go into edit the post…the whole thing didn’t want to post for me when I was submitting it.
I hate this time of the year around here!

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23440301-2,00.html

Anyway, try this if it isn’t showing up for you.

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DJ_Canada
Posted: 28 March 2008 07:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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I could not even get into the thread for some reason.

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Charybdis
Posted: 28 March 2008 08:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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You had a < when you needed a >

, so ‘Full story with photo’ was considered part of the URL.

From the picture I would start looking around for a transforming car.

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LaMa
Posted: 28 March 2008 12:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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This is a carbon-coated titanium fuel tank of the type used in Atlas Centaur rocket stages.

Incidently, last weekend a similar one came down in Argentina, which was probably a part of the Centaur stage of a US military SATCOM satellite launch in October 2007.

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LaMa
Posted: 28 March 2008 12:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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Meanwhile, this Australian fuel tank could very well be a piece of the Atlas Centaur rocket stage that launched the US military satellite USA 138 in 1998, see Ted Molczan’s suggestion here.

Hey pssssst, anyone remember all the fuzz about the fuel tank of USA 193?

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Tah
Posted: 28 March 2008 01:10 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Oh. My. Goodness.

I think I see Jesus in that chunk of black metal! big surprise

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Nettie
Posted: 28 March 2008 04:41 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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Charybdis - 28 March 2008 08:08 AM

You had a

< when you needed a >

, so ‘Full story with photo’ was considered part of the URL.

From the picture I would start looking around for a transforming car.

Oops red face Thanks babe.

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Renquist
Posted: 30 March 2008 07:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]
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Tah - 28 March 2008 01:10 PM

Oh. My. Goodness.

I think I see Jesus in that chunk of black metal! big surprise

It’s part of an amp. JC’s roadie crew must have been cartin’ the gear stoned. Again. That’s why the Sermon on the Mount was delivered without a guitar solo- roadies left the handbrake off on the van and it rolled into the Sea of Gallilee so he had to just belt it out.

Another little known fact is that Jesus didn’t walk on water. He was power-sliding.

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DJ_Canada
Posted: 30 March 2008 07:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]
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The whole thing is really my toilet. It got plugged so I just blasted the whole thing into space.

Sorry for causing a commotion.

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“What you’re looking at is called the accretion disk. It’s matter trapped in the gravity well. You can’t actually see the black hole itself.”
“…Which is cool” - Stargate: SG-1
“If I had a quarter for every time I said “If I had a nickel…”“ - Stephen Colbert

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