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Mystery of the Eltanin Antenna
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| 21-Jul-2001
| WHITLEY STRIEBER
Posted on 01/21/2003 4:27:46 PM PST by vannrox
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To: LibWhacker
It's a good thing the aliens have divided their circles into the same size arcs as we have (60x360). That number must have universal significance. Without it, we would have never decoded their intentions. It's also a good thing we invented tin foil in time for this. If the aliens had come two hundred years ago, we'd be their slaves for sure.
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posted on
01/21/2003 6:32:59 PM PST
by
Rocky
To: vannrox
It seems unlikely that an object could drop through three miles of ocean, and anchor itself on the bottom. Why? If there were a big honkin' weight on the end of it (like a transducer or power supply), the weight would sink first, taking the antenna with it and burying itself in the sea bottom when it hit.
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posted on
01/21/2003 6:33:06 PM PST
by
strela
(You could look it up ...)
To: ElkGroveDan
Where's my foil? Hold mu beer n Ill go look for some.
Be right back, lol.
To: Leo Carpathian
good
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posted on
01/21/2003 6:42:13 PM PST
by
steveo
(I've got a lovely cunch of boconuts.)
To: struwwelpeter
(snicker)
"Go BI ... Go BI ..."
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posted on
01/21/2003 6:47:07 PM PST
by
strela
(You could look it up ...)
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To: struwwelpeter
...they found one of these attached to it. Then it was worth the trip. I love old radio equipment. If I were to collect as much as I wanted...my wife would divorce me!
To: vannrox
Satellite Junk.
To: muawiyah
Now you get a really dense nickel-iron meteor, whizzing along at 15,000 mph relative to Earth, and it is NOT GOING TO SLOW DOWN to 286 feet per second as it enters the atmosphere Your talking about deceleration. An object being dropped into water starts at 0 mph and will accelerate as it plunges to the bottom.
I think Rudder's estimation of 400 mph in water is a bit optimistic. Water is 1000 times denser than air and it's unlikely that any object can reach that speed even from from 5 miles up while starting at 0 mph.
To: vannrox
Interesting.... it would have to be pretty massive (low frequency), however, to propagate an EM wave through saltwater.
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posted on
01/21/2003 8:08:04 PM PST
by
Mulder
(Guns and chicks rule)
To: Colonel Jim
Where's my foil? Hold mu beer n Ill go look for some. Liz says, "I've got your tin foil right here, buster. Come grab a piece."
To: right way right
Is there a ship under the thing, buried in the silt?
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posted on
01/21/2003 8:15:58 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: Rocky; Colonel Jim
Lead foils them as well as or better than aluminium or tin!
To: ElkGroveDan
Now aren't you glad Nicolai Tesla died when he did? Lord knows what he was up to with this contraption.
To: LayoutGuru2
One of my thoughts...
Must have been left over from when giants roamed the Earth.
To: Calvin Locke
I was personally thinking of the Tycho Magnetic Anomoly from 2001: A Space Odyssey.....
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posted on
01/21/2003 8:55:55 PM PST
by
RandallFlagg
(FReepaholic Navy Vet)
To: Fiddlstix
Maybe the aliens from laminar air-flow world, found out that the stinkin' wind anemometers they just lugged some 40 quintillion mega-quads were worthless and they chucked them overboard in order to lighten up the ballast and take on a load of aerosol can spray nozzles.
It could happen.
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posted on
01/21/2003 8:57:09 PM PST
by
raygun
To: skull stomper
Stop that. You know better than that.
stick stick dash stick stick dash stick stick. Stick with a cake attached.
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posted on
01/21/2003 9:00:48 PM PST
by
raygun
To: SwinneySwitch
My bet is that to be fully illuminated in 13,500 ft of water by '60s technology, whatever that thing is it's pretty small.
To: strela
The spokes probably would work like feathers on an arrow, tending to keep it falling point first. 13000 foot fall would give it plenty of time to find that stable orientation.
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