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Mystery Container Washes Up On Scottish Beach
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| 29 Dec 2007
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Posted on 12/29/2007 4:27:35 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: 2111USMC
Concur. It appears to be designed to be mounted vertically, with the conical section facing down. Retaining ring (painted white, with signs of carbon steel corrosion) with flanges might be for legs or stabilization anchor bolted to a frame or foundation. Insulation appears to be on the sides. Bottom flange and bolts appear too small in diameter for any deep subsurface design and no signs of burning to indicate aerospace design. Stainless fittings would seem to support perhaps foodstuffs or process bin. Probably cheaper to rebuild a new one than fetch it and repair it.
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:25:36 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
To: LexBaird
The real question is, where are the other 5579?
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:26:24 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
(",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
To: ByDesign
I dunno, those numbers look Arabic to me....
83
posted on
12/29/2007 6:26:29 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
To: PAR35
I agree...probably oil and gas related....
84
posted on
12/29/2007 6:28:55 PM PST
by
antivenom
(If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
To: InvisibleChurch
Why dont they open it? Because it might be a giant practical-joke snake.
To: Larry Lucido
86
posted on
12/29/2007 6:31:20 PM PST
by
Jet Jaguar
(Who would the terrorists vote for?)
To: af_vet_rr
87
posted on
12/29/2007 6:32:32 PM PST
by
NewJerseyJoe
(Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
To: liege
Al Gores water heater?
88
posted on
12/29/2007 6:34:41 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
(",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
To: 2111USMC
Yup, looks like a milk storage tank to me too.
89
posted on
12/29/2007 6:39:25 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: af_vet_rr
Sam’s Club sized can of non-dairy whipped topping?
To: af_vet_rr
Just some kind of chemical plant tower with its outer skin off.
91
posted on
12/29/2007 6:53:24 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: af_vet_rr
My husband who helps build pulp and paper mills says it might be a filter for something....
92
posted on
12/29/2007 6:54:52 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
To: Larry Lucido; Jet Jaguar
LOL! It might be filled with those Mummenschanz guys!
93
posted on
12/29/2007 6:57:06 PM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
("200 percent inspection is less reliable than 100 percent inspection,")
To: af_vet_rr
Jimmy Hoffa, is that you?
94
posted on
12/29/2007 6:57:32 PM PST
by
ShandaLear
(Extremists always meet each other full circle.)
To: upchuck
Way off course. Especially since the Gulf Stream, which Algor invented, is supposedly broken down and allowing the UK and Western Europe to freeze...
To: fso301
That is what is frustrating to me as well, no photos of the end higher apparently up on the beach.
If it wasn’t 90ft in length, it might have been something from a Container vessel were my first thoughts, but the mounting flanges around what appears to be the bottom of a silo storage type tank tell me that is off thinking.
It appears to be some form of storage tank for apparently either a liquid, or something refined be it a powder, whatever as the portal at the bottom is quite small and apparently concentrated.
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posted on
12/29/2007 6:59:35 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: 1rudeboy
It would have been on deck stowage most certainly.
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posted on
12/29/2007 7:01:55 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: tubebender
Sure have missed her too. She was SO entertaining on Rush’s shows.
98
posted on
12/29/2007 7:02:09 PM PST
by
CARTOUCHE
( The pen is mightier than the sword and so much easier to conceal)
To: af_vet_rr
The scorch marks give it away... It’s Janet Reno’s vibrator!
99
posted on
12/29/2007 7:04:16 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(Democrats are phony Americans)
To: Malsua
It would more than likely have been posted “Tare: 5580” if that was the posted weight of this thing. As well it would have other such markings for Net capacity and gross weight I should think. I think the 5580 is an I.D. number.
100
posted on
12/29/2007 7:05:17 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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