Space Shuttle's Nose Cone Found Near La (Louisiana, that is)

Associated Press

[Mr Fowl]

Hey Pokey! Thanks for directing Me to that thread.

[lonestar]

It's west of Hemphill, TEXAS.

I live near the debris area and I haven't heard of anybody being hit. A fisherman on Toledo Bend thought somebody was shooting at him. Said pieces were shooting by like bullets. He got the off the water as fast as he could.

[tubebender]

Thanks for the reply...I agree about finding things for years to come. I wonder if the searchers even think to look up in the trees.

I was interested in topo maps of the area from Ca/Nv line to west Texas. Seems that country is pretty wild.

[Mr Fowl]

HOW many times must this thing be smacked down for the bunko that it is??? That image is a wildly out of focus shot of a bright point of light. The shape you see is the shape of the iris of the camera. Nothing more.

Now You listen here! I been busy waterfowl hunting along the coast of Delaware bay in my boat and working! I didn't see every damn post about the shuttle on freerepublic!

I'M not glued to the puter on freerepublic 24hrs a day!

[Ramius]

Now You listen here! I been busy waterfowl hunting...

OK, OK... like I said: Nothing personal to you, in fact I added that because I hadn't seen your screen name saying that before. But I've seen that darn thing so many times over the last couple of days I sorta snapped.

No worries here. ...Get any ducks? :-)

[yooper]

The only duck I saw was you, ducking away from a well-deserved e-spanking. I would assume that it's dawned on you by now that there are people here who haven't heard EVERYTHING, as you have. Treat all with respect, regardless of what you may know. As a professor of mine once said, the only stupid question is one which isn't asked...

[PAR35]

rural area..... population of the county in 2000 census was..... 3,351

To which county are you referring?

Hemphill is in Sabine County, population 10,469 (2000 Census). Nacogdoches County, also mentioned in the story, has 59,203, not counting any of the 10,000 University students who chose to be counted at home rather than at school.

Sabine Parish is also mentioned in the story. It has over 23,000 folks per the 2000 Census. http://www.census.gov/

[exhaustedmomma]

It is absolutely amazing that there have been no reports of debris hitting anybody! I also find it especially remarkable that the shuttle went down in such sparsely populated areas!! I have thought a hundred times how awful it would have been if this would have been in a largely populated area.

The woody-land between Hemphill, San Augustine and Nachodoches, coupled with the bayou country of Louisiana, will make "finding" debris a true needle in a haystack job. I have said this on another thread, but truly believe it is worth repeating: the folks that live in those regions are "hunters." They know every nook-and-cranny of the terrain... they are on a mission!! They will be a great asset, IMHO.

I know there are gators in the bayous and swamps... how about in Toledo Bend??? (gulp)

[Mr Fowl]

OK, OK... like I said: Nothing personal to you, in fact I added that because I hadn't seen your screen name saying that before. But I've seen that darn thing so many times over the last couple of days I sorta snapped.

No worries here. ...Get any ducks? :-)

No problem! Guess I kinda snapped also, sorry! I looked at the thread link that Pokeyjoe posted and it was very informative.

No ducks (season closed)...Im hunting snowgeese along the Delaware Bay Shore on the New Jersey side of the Bay.

Here is a image I took last week of snowgeese in a field not far from the bay. Most of the snowgeese hang in the marshes along the bay!

[Ramius]

HOLY COW!!! Thassalottageese.

Please tell me you're eating snowgoose tonight... criminey... if they're that thick you could hunt 'em with a flyrod. :-)

Good times, eh?

[NautiNurse]

I wonder if the searchers even think to look up in the trees.

Yes, and rooftops too.

[NautiNurse]

I wonder if the searchers even think to look up in the trees.

Yes, and rooftops too.

[Husker24]

Why is it in every other state a county is a county, but in Louisiana its a Parish?

[Ramius]

The only duck I saw was you, ducking away from a well-deserved e-spanking. I would assume that it's dawned on you by now that there are people here who haven't heard EVERYTHING, as you have. Treat all with respect, regardless of what you may know. As a professor of mine once said, the only stupid question is one which isn't asked...

heheeehehe... well, e-spank this...

[hmm... sudden thought for domain registration crosses mind.]

Actually, as a professor of mine once said: "no, there are no stupid questions, only stupid people."

[acquire Yakav Smirnoff voice] EEZZ JOOKE. [end Yakov]

I'm quite aware, and I didn't, even in my reply, belittle the poster, but only the question, which had been posted so voluminously before.

There's a lotta frayed nerves around here. Sorry to and my own to the list.

[Ramius]

yikes. That would be: "sorry to *add* my own to this list. Like I said...

[Mr Fowl]

HOLY COW!!! Thassalottageese.

Please tell me you're eating snowgoose tonight... criminey... if they're that thick you could hunt 'em with a flyrod. :-)

Good times, eh?

Hell Yea!

Thats only about 1% of them in the area. We are over run by those Sky Devil's! WE call them Sky Devil's because they area very very smart birds and a eating machine. We have flocks with as much as 10,000 birds working in one area in the marsh. when they all take off at once it sounds like a 747 taking off at a airport with all their wings flaping at the same time. You can here that sound from 2 miles away.

1 more image. This aint nothing....there are flocks 10 times as big in some areas

[swheats]

Mo you might want to check out the pretty pictures during the intermission.

[Destro]

If a shuttle were to break up over any other country, or the oceans, we would never have been this close, to carefully gather up the final remains of the crew and as much of the craft, as we have been able to...and then to have them sold on ebay!

The Lord had nothing to do with the breakup nor would he have the parts fall on populated regions for sentimental purposes.

[m18436572]

I liked the first pic better!

[deport]

My bad.... as I red faced say I was thinking of Hemphill county having Hemphill as the county seat but you are correct..... It is Sabine County... Hemphill county is miles and miles to the north and west of Sabine County...