The Sky is Falling

[Rotund]

This fell through the roof of a 2 story house, through a bedroom into the kitchen and landed on top of the refrigerator here in Dallas.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/02-09/0225spacejunklg.jpg

[gatorjj]

You guys in Texas like everything big, even the refridgerator magnets :O

[Mozzarello]

Wonder why it reminds me the movie "Joe Dirt"

[Wedgebill]

Airplane doodoos Paul ?

[JouniL]

Debris from that satellite collision last week?

[Rotund]

Not sure. They are not admitting anything yet. There was a huge fireball that came through here last week and I saw the shuttle burn up in the sky years ago. I guess we get space crap falling from the sky in this region.

[Rotund]

I think we need to ask Strat94 what he knows about it? Seeing as he is from Planet ETO but here is the final explanation. There is so much crap (literally) in space no telling when we will start finding all kinds of debris in our yards and streets.

By Wednesday evening, Dallas police were leaning toward a more terrestrial explanation. An investigator visited a nearby tree-mulching business and saw that the object closely resembled a tooth from one of the large mulching machines.

After looking at a photo of the object Wednesday, one expert said it did look as if it were from space.

"This thing was exposed to a tremendous amount of heat," said Max Corneau, vice president of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas and a senior Army space operations officer.

It's not unusual for space debris to make it to Earth's surface, he said. "What is fairly uncommon is that pieces actually go through people's houses."

But sometimes such unidentified flying objects have turned out to have more down-to-earth origins.

Just last week, an 8-pound chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a warehouse in Jersey City, N.J., sparked theories that the object was satellite debris.

But police soon determined that the rectangular piece of metal had flown off a large mulching machine at a nearby business about three football fields away, according to media reports.

[Wedgebill]

A new song Hal, "Fridge Mulchers from the Planet Eto" maybe ?


We could dress Tarzan up as a Riffstranaut

[Sandman]

It would suck to get hit by something like that...

Anyone read about the impending cascade of space junk? It refers to the fact that there is so much space junk accumulated in orbit that is flying at ungodly speeds at many levels of orbit.

The theory basically states that as space junk collides it breaks into many more pieces, which in turn hit more orbiting things, which in turn break in to more pieces, which in turn hit more orbiting things until there is an impenetrable sphere of orbiting space crap moving at ridiculous speeds surrounding the earth. Eventually destroying all the existing satellites, making it impossible to send up satellites or anything else.

The article I read said we'd see this in the next couple decades. Although things would eventually burn up on re-entry, it would take many, many years (hundreds if not thousands of years) before the bulk of it would land on earth.

This could screw up my internet connection, and even rifflinking!!! Now that would suck...

[blue4u]

Is the space rock available for sale on eBay yet? :rolleyes:

Ya know...2010 is "The year we make contact"

[Wedgebill]

And 2012 is the year everything ends ain't it ???

I hope they get Rifflink sorted out in time for us to record the big bang

[solone1]

You guys in Texas like everything big, even the refridgerator magnets :O

Yeah! I heard about a drunk cowboy in Texas falling into a swimming pool. Everytime he popped his head up he yelled out - Don't Flush It!! Don't Flush It..

[scott]

This fell through the roof of a 2 story house, through a bedroom into the kitchen and landed on top of the refrigerator here in Dallas.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/02-09/0225spacejunklg.jpg

I can't believe you've only got one fridge in Dallas! :rolleyes:

[pooterpatty]

I can't believe you've only got one fridge in Dallas! :rolleyes:

Well you know times are tough right now, everyone's had to cut back.

[Rotund]

Space Bollocks. This it great. One fridge would make us all beer challenged, therefore I keep my silver bullets in an ice chest. I don't think Martians like styrofoam.