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Meteorite Hits Girl
redcliffe writes "The BBC has a story about a 14 year old North Yorkshire girl who was hit, on the foot, by a meteorite. Where's Bruce Willis when you need him?" The young Miss Carlton notes: "This does not happen that often in Northallerton"; no doubt the City of York is where most meteorites land.
like nasa? or fcc? or riaa?
Yes. Except, you'd probably get a paper cut from the ticket and a subsequent deadly rare bacterial infection and die. That's not _good_ luck, getting hit by a meteorite. Oh... he got struck by lightning? Better have _him_ handle my finances. :P
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she was walking all alone
down the street in the alley
her name was sally
she never saw it
when she was hit by space junk
in new york miami beach
heavy metal fell in cuba
angola saudi arabia
on xmas eve said norad
a soviet sputnik hit africa
india venezuela (in texas kansas)
it's falling fast peru too
it keeps coming
and now i'm mad about space junk
i'm all burned out about space junk
oooh walk & talk about space junk
it smashed my baby's head
and now my sally's dead
No. Not really. Those are the lyrics to the Devo song, "Space Junk".
My other first post is car post.
Photoshop some hair onto that forehead. I'm blind!
"I saw it fall from above roof height," Siobhan told BBC News Online.
And it hit her foot. Man, I see an unidentified object coming at me from above roof height and I'm getting out of the way. I'll figure out what it is later.
But then I guess no one would write about that...
So far in the last year we've had:
- Mozilla 1.0 released
- A story on Slashdot about how a guy switched from Linux back to Windows, XP no less
- I got a girlfriend. (I'm man enough to admit that's not easy when you play with computers for a living)
- Nintendo launch two game systems plus a highly anticipated title ON TIME
- A girl getting hit by a meteorite
Yeesh. What a year.
1. Get a rock
2. Say it's a meteorite that hit you on the foot.
3. BBC believes you, publishes goofy photo of you holding your "meteorite"
4. ???
5. Profit
Alternately, all your beowulf cluster of meteorite are belong to us.
Yeah, that should about cover it.
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I wonder if
I would have to disagree, the girl did nothing to cause her situation, this guy is a darwin award waiting to happen....
Hey man, consider her lucky... she could have been killed. I mean, what do you think would have happened if she, say, was hiding out in Flanders' bomb shelter?
From the meteorite's perspective, it got hit by a fast-moving girl.
Imagine being a rock drifting thru space. (Don't tell my boss, but I do it all day).
Out of nowhere a big blue ball appears and keeps getting bigger and bigger until a human foot smacks you right in the keaster.
The daily newspaper for meteorites, The Rock Chronicles[1], right now probably has a story running titled, "Human Foot Hits Citizen".
[1] I don't know if they have "Rolling Stone" there.
Table-ized A.I.
(* Apparently, this [positron-press.co.uk] is the only documented case in which a meteorite has hit someone. Now, that must hurt! *)
I don't mean to be cruel, for I could use the same advice, but if that lady in the hospital photo lost a some weight, it looks like the stone would have *missed* her rather large tummy.
The physics are simple: Bigger people are bigger targets.
Perhaps we should start sleeping standing up to present a smaller target profile area. Our foil hats will stay on better that way also.
Table-ized A.I.
but from what I've learned, small rocks falling from outer space burn up in a brief little fireball, and big rocks falling from outer space MAKE GIANT FUCKING HOLES IN THE GROUND.
What about medium sized rocks, smartass?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
The stone could have come from Mars, according to expert on Earth impacts Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University
I speculate, aswell, that the stone could be the fore-front of the Martian Invasion of Earth! To arms, to arms! The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming!
By the way of England of course. Was it three if by air and four if by space?
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Imagine getting hit by a beowoulf cluster of these...
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If she turns into the METEOR GIRL Hollywood will probably sue her for copyright violation.
Ackack ack ack ackack! Ack ack ackackack ack ack ackackackack ack ack! Ack ack ackack!
Or something like that.
The odds *would* be astronomical, except that she already got hit by the meteorite. Now that it's been done, there is a 100% chance of it continuing to have been done, so now all that's left are the odds of her winning the lottery.