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"Space ball" drops on Namibia
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| Thu, Dec 22, 2011
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Posted on 12/23/2011 12:39:17 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Guilty?..............
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12/23/2011 12:40:27 PM PST
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Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: Red Badger
The Gods Must Have Metal Balls.
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:42:32 PM PST
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RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Red Badger
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12/23/2011 12:44:26 PM PST
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WOBBLY BOB
(Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
To: RichInOC
"The Gods Must Have Metal Balls."
Or some did.
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12/23/2011 12:44:46 PM PST
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treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: RichInOC
"
The Gods Must Have Metal Balls."
One of the funniest movies I've ever seen!
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12/23/2011 12:44:56 PM PST
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PALIN SMITH
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
To: Red Badger
It’s really Louis Farrakhan’s Mother Ship!
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12/23/2011 12:45:48 PM PST
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Old Sarge
(RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
To: Red Badger
Mel Brooks was a visionary.
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12/23/2011 12:45:52 PM PST
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DPMD
To: Red Badger
It looks like the float from a very large toilet.
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:48:11 PM PST
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reg45
(I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:49:19 PM PST
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al baby
(Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
To: DPMD
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12/23/2011 12:50:24 PM PST
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Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: Red Badger
"two halves welded together"
You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're bangin' em together.
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12/23/2011 12:52:18 PM PST
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SpaceBar
To: Red Badger
These are not the droids that you were looking for.
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:52:58 PM PST
by
Delta Dawn
(The whole truth.)
To: Red Badger
It has weapon’s grade plutonium in it. GI Jane is on her way to reclaim it, since our Ranger team’s evac plan went to hell.
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12/23/2011 12:54:49 PM PST
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edpc
(Wilby 2012)
To: SpaceBar
In all seriousness, it’s probably a chinese low orbit radar target.
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12/23/2011 12:54:55 PM PST
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SpaceBar
To: Red Badger
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posted on
12/23/2011 12:54:55 PM PST
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Repeal The 17th
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: SpaceBar
With all that junk flying around up there, it could be anything...................
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12/23/2011 12:57:51 PM PST
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Red Badger
(Every child should have a meadow to play in..............)
To: Red Badger; All
I found this on Yahoo! News:
The Great Space Ball Mystery of ought-eleven has been solved, but it’s not an extraterrestrial probe or government doomsday device or anything cool like that. Turns out it’s only a “bladder tank.” When a mysterious crusty space ball crash-landed in Namibia in November, and calls to NASA and the European Space Agency didn’t get authorities any closer to pinning down what exactly had landed in their backyards, while Mel Brooks fans delighted in the nod in the “space ball” name and the rest and ogled the astro-nut to guess at what it is. The story has been picked up widely the last few days, but now we know what it is: Gawker’s Adrian Chen wrote about the 13-pound ball on Friday morning a commenter identified it: “For anyone wondering what it actually is, it’s likely a 39-litre hydrazine bladder tank (based on its apparent size; there are also much larger hydrazine tanks),” he wrote. “They’re used on unmanned rockets for satellite launches, which would explain why they’re falling down in such a specific geographic footprint.” We’re not sure what this is more of a testament to: the power of online crowdsourcing or the Internet’s fascination with anything with the word “balls” in it. In any case, we had our fingers crossed for doomsday device.
But yeah, I first thought “The Gods Must Have Metal Balls”, too.
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12/23/2011 1:10:39 PM PST
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AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
To: Red Badger
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12/23/2011 1:13:24 PM PST
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SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Red Badger; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Re:
A large metallic ball fell out of the sky... found 18 metres from its landing spot, a hole 33 centimetres deep and 3.8 meters wide... With a diameter of 35 centimetres (14 inches), the ball has a rough surface and appears to consist of two halves welded together. Gadzooks, what in the world (or out of this world) metal is this ball made of to remain intact... after leaving a crater measuring 13 inches (33 cm) deep and 12.5 feet (3.8 meters) across?
If I told you, Bend, I'd have to... probe you.
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12/23/2011 1:15:51 PM PST
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Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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