Posted on 05/03/2022 7:07:46 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Meteorites are not ‘flaming rocks of doom,' NASA says
The “bright fireball” was traveling at 35,000 mph when it exploded at 8:03 a.m. with the “energy equivalent of 3 tons of TNT,” according to NASA Meteor Watch, the agency's project that tracks fireball activity.
“Existing law states that any meteorites belong to the owner of the property on which they fell; out of respect for the privacy of those in the area, we will not disclose the locations of these finds,”
And finding anything of value is likely harder than you think.
“The pieces from this object were way too small to leave a crater. Unlike what you see in the movies, meteorites are not ‘flaming rocks of doom’ that blast holes in the ground. In fact, you can pick one up right after it hits ground. So no smoking rocks in small craters.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Wow, that was amazing!
More four here for me:
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Sorry, citizen, but you just happened onto the infamous Undead Thread, where we rack up the posts and the topic doesn’t count.
You’re welcome to join us if you’d like, or not, but we offer absolutely nothing except the lack of politics and religion. Which is kinda nice in today’s world. There are other threads for both of those subjects.
We post our Wordle scores daily, and give each other kudos, and in a few hundred more posts we’ll move on to a thread that shows promise.
All that to say, “Welcome!”
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Boy! I’d sure say so!! LOL!
What a cute little tuxedo!
Good morning.
I hope you had a good night with no pillow cats.
Today is supposed to be overcast again, no actual rain, but just a hint that it might. I think I may be tired of it all.
Not much is planned for today. Just some phone calls and some cards to send. That’s OK. I’m too tired to do much of anything else, anyway.
I had some strange dreams that I was going to try and remember but what I should do is put my Dreamer’s Dictionary in the bedroom for times like those! Silly me!
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
This week is just rolling along.
The sky has stopped making those threatening noises and it seems the Princess has calmed down a great deal. She ate most of her morning meal, so that’s better.
Hanging out with my friends on the 4 train today. Out of 229 games played, 90 have been guessed in 4 tries.
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Good morning! Help yourself to a seat and talk about the weather and pets!
Good morning. No pillow cat, which is good, but also, no sign of Himself this morning, which is bad. As soon as the bros finish breakfast, they’ll go on a quest.
The last time, he was stuck in the neighbor’s back yard.
Ohnoes!
I hope he’s found OK with everything intact (meaning his skin and all that it covers or is attached to it) and that he was just an unknowing dummy who couldn’t find his way home.
Drunk is not an option!
I hope there is news after my shower!
No can do. It's the Undead Thread. Goodness knows we've tried. It keeps coming back. These days by possessing arbitrary hijacked threads, for quite a while as the FReeoples, starting as the You People thread in 2000 or 2001, the actual origins are lost in the mists of time...
Tomkat had an archive back to the very first one, but it's now 404, kinda appropriate, doncha think?
He was stuck in the Carters’ yard again. Dope.
James tried, unsuccessfully, to bring him home. It took a group effort to lure him out from under Randy’s shed.
Actually, Nicknamedbob still has the original link as well as the ensuing threads from Jun of 2004 up to and including 2019, if anyone is interested.
Jus’ sayin’
‘Face
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And there are kitties. One can always expect a kitty or two.
Here’s the link to the very first thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b3184f17b9e.htm
Give it a try...
You pinged everybody except Nicknamedbob...
Just sayin’!
You pinged everybody except Nicknamedbob...
Jus’ sayin’!
Whoops.
Speaking of kittehs, the Morning Kitteh will be suspended from August 28 to September 2. Kathleen and I are going to visit my mother.
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