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Hunk Of Metal Crashes Through Family's Roof - Sent to NASA (Picture)
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| March 13, 2003
Posted on 03/13/2003 7:50:58 PM PST by Shermy
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:50:58 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Shermy
>>Hunk Of Metal Crashes Through Family's Roof<<
I hate it when that happens.
To: Shermy
To: Shermy
Anybody know Joe Dirt lives in Ohio?
To: Shermy
North Korea has perfected their ICBN- Inter-Continental Ballistic Nuts.
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:57:11 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
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Almost looks like a left wing nut to me. I'd make it to be a Kucinich myself.
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:57:34 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...)
To: Shermy
Someone tried to use a catchers mit to stop a stinger missle.
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posted on
03/13/2003 7:58:40 PM PST
by
Paradox
To: Shermy
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:00:32 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(God Bless and keep safe our troops.)
To: Paradox
Catcher's mit with a hole in the middle was my initial thought too!
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:04:00 PM PST
by
NautiNurse
(Usama bin Laden has produced more tapes than Steely Dan)
To: Shermy
Maybe it was a piece of the MOAB...
To: Shermy
Looks like a 1940's baseball mitt that had a screaming line drive go right through it
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:07:03 PM PST
by
Damagro
To: Shermy
> Investigators have not said whether they believe
> the debris is space junk...
In cases like these, it's usually an airliner part.
But if that photo is legit, it sure looks like something
the decayed out of orbit and didn't burn up (but got
heated fairly severely).
Just coincidentally, in today's Columbia disaster news,
we have:
"Engineers specializing in the solid rocket boosters are
checking to see whether the debris could have broken off
from one of the boosters, the official said. They are
looking at any material that could have come loose,
including a silicone-based heat shield called
superlightweight ablator that covered two structures on
the boosters called bolt catchers.
Each bolt catcher is the size of two large stacked cans.
There is a catcher on each rocket booster near the forward
area of the external tank. They catch explosive bolts that
come loose when the rocket boosters separate from the
external tank as the shuttle shoots into orbit.
The official said NASA engineers recently determined that
the amount of loads and stresses they had thought the bolt
catchers could handle had been exceeded during their actual
uses. During manufacturing, the bolt catchers were tested
without the ablator on them.
The consequences of the bolt catchers' exceeding their load
and stress limits are unknown right now, and engineers will
have to run more tests, the official said."
I have a problem with this showing up so late, but it needs
to be investigated and ruled out.
If this is a bipod bolt, it should have re-entered with
the external tank on launch day.
To: Shermy
It looks like Bill Buckner's glove.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:18:52 PM PST
by
dead
To: dead
Another Red Sox fan?
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:29:22 PM PST
by
RonF
To: Shermy
They had this woman on the radio in Columbus Wednesday night. She said that the piece weighs about ten pounds.
To: dead
Are you kidding? Buckner's glove never came that close to the ball, let alone had the ball rip right through.
Ahhh Buckner, the classic case to always stress the fundamentals.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:32:45 PM PST
by
SengirV
To: RonF
God forbid!
Let's go Mets!
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:37:35 PM PST
by
dead
To: Shermy
Probably a piece of that MOAB they blew up in Florida.......lol.
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:52:50 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: NautiNurse
same here.......lol
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posted on
03/13/2003 8:53:40 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: P.O.E.
We better work fast then. We only have 28 days then.
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posted on
03/14/2003 1:54:37 AM PST
by
Bogey78O
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