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FAA: Falling Metal Did Not Come From Airplane (Obama makin' it rain Hot Metal Alert)
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| 02/18/09
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Posted on 02/18/2009 12:58:54 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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Sign of the coming apocalypse?
To: Darksheare
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:00:37 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Global leadership means never having to say you're sorry." ~IBD)
To: Big_Monkey
Shot put by an abominable snowman? Search the neighborhood for catapults?
To: Big_Monkey
Did the iron piece look naturally ‘cast’ or did it appear to have been ‘cast’ by a factory?
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:03:22 PM PST
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain inalienable rights.)
To: Big_Monkey
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:04:52 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(American Revolution II -- overdue)
To: JoeProBono; ZX12R; Quix
A real UFO! OK, really, it’s now identified, so doesn’t classify as such, oh well. Another great job by the UFO detectives at the FAA.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:10:59 PM PST
by
Travis T. OJustice
(Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
To: Big_Monkey
Iran put up their first satellite, right?
It probably was a cast-iron brick.
To: PBRSTREETGANG
>Iran put up their first satellite, right?
>It probably was a cast-iron brick.
LOL - At least Sputnik “beeped”.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:17:22 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Big_Monkey
Correction: The FAA only said it was not a part of an airplane. The piece of iron could have been dropped from an airplane. The FAA ought to check their radar data to determine what planes both commercial and private where over the area.
To: Travis T. OJustice
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:30:14 PM PST
by
Quix
(POL BOSSES say fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: MIchaelTArchangel
"The FAA ought to check their radar data to determine what planes both commercial and private where over the area." Even if it was "dropped" from an aircraft, what would explain the heat of the object? People on the ground said it was too hot to handle for :30 minutes after it was on the ground.
There's not enough friction from an intra-atmosphere fall to generate that kind of heat. It certainly makes be believe that it came from above the exosphere.
To: Big_Monkey
Did it have Russian writing on it? Space junk from recent collision?
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:35:34 PM PST
by
silverleaf
("Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury" - Screwtape)
To: Big_Monkey
FAA spokeswoman Arlene Salac says investigators examined the metal and determined it is made of cast iron, Russian satellite debris? Maybe this was a piece of shielding or part of an anti satellite weapon.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:35:44 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
To: Big_Monkey
Assuming it came from space (conclusion based on heat), it likely wouldn’t have been anything launched. Who launches iron? Aluminum, steel, titanium sure, but iron? That would seem to be too dense to be worth launching.
To: Big_Monkey
There's not enough friction from an intra-atmosphere fall to generate that kind of heat. It certainly makes be believe that it came from above the exosphere. Meteorites are cold as they land, though. The heated part burns off on the way down. The inner part is just barely warming from single digit Kelvin temps. This is a surprising thing but true. I suppose if a rock had been in a close orbit to the sun it might have warmed up all the way through.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:40:03 PM PST
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steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Big_Monkey
A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:50:38 PM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
The aliens have been around since the iron age — it's probably from one of their iron saucers.
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posted on
02/18/2009 1:59:43 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
To: Tax-chick
Liquid metal cooled reactor valvings.
Not my fault.
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posted on
02/18/2009 2:03:30 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(We set his head on fahr, tah burn out tha DemUns!)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
02/18/2009 2:06:19 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: Old Professer
Sort of thought that, but we haven’t made a cast iron boiler since around or before WWII... Compressors and engines are still made of cast iron and could have gotten that hot before coming apart at speed and/or pressure. A good size Detroit Diesel two stroke tacked out would throw pieces a pretty good distance...
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posted on
02/18/2009 2:14:35 PM PST
by
El Laton Caliente
(NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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