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Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States
pingpong writes "Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found. The Daily Camera is reporting it online here."
Field reports invited.
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And i was really really looking forward to being probed.
S1R_Spankal0t
Keep salt water handy...it's your only defense! It melts them.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
All we need now are signs in random fields and we can start to panic.
Arm those water guns!
It's gotta be weather balloons. It's always weatherballoons. Big, fiery, exploding weatherballoons
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
one of those ships from Quaoar ..
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Could it have anything to do with the three and a half pounds of sodium in the other story I just saw?
Quick! A giant meteor is speeding towards the earth! Send Bruce Willis and a couple of Oil drillers to save the world!!
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There was a time in my life when I would have been excited by this. ...but then I saw 'Signs'.
I'm going to go home and start filling up water glasses.
A speech...
On the "astronomical" chance of anything being discovered, Sgt. Byfield said, police would have contacted officials from the University of Colorado to determine what to do.
Dude, I'd be mad as hell if some whack journalist put my name in the same goddamn PARAGRAPH as that pun.
"Ask me about Loom"
"LUNCH, NOT LAUNCH!" I yelled as he absent-mindedly pushed the button that freed the living quarters from the rest of the station.
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Ok. I seem to have crashed. I can't move my legs. Could someone please get me an asprin? I'll try to walk. Oh God! The pain... it's excruciating! Ow. I think my leg just snapped. Ow. Ow. Ow.
A bunch of geeks saw the slashdot story, went out and got a bunch of metallic sodium, and the rest is in the story.
The sodium-in-the-pool experiment must be a go-code for them. ("Go go go! Our undercovers have turned all the water into acid!")
This is the funniest signature I could ever think of.
"rash of fireballs" Reading that line made me snort milk.
I note that the reports are of the fireballs landing near Boulder. Does this mean that Mork from Ork has arrived?
Nanoo Nanoo!
[For those young whippersnappers who don't watch TV land, the popular TV show Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams, was set in Boulder]
Several /. readers e-mailed their concerns over a sharp increase in one-liners today, fueling speculation that these one-liners are not just a random occurance, but perhaps the first ungodly signs of the oncoming apocolypse.
..." Taco then gurgled and sputtered and dropped to a heap on the patio.
"usually we'll see a few, maybe even a bunch, of one-liners for certain stories we've posted," said CmdrTaco, languishing in a drunken hallucinagenic stupor on the steps of his villa in the south of france. "but christ, its like henny youngman possessed the populace on a scale rivaling that of
"certainly one-liners are a common, almost obligatory, form of logical reponse," said one reader, "but this many makes me want to get in a white van and shoot people at random. do these people think they're funny? its really just in bad taste."
one-liner watchers are unconcerned however. "we've seen this before - like the article about the giant Bart Simpson doll copulating with a penguin - and no substantial harm was done on the long term." some, however, are still reliving the nightmare.
with no end in sight to this barrage, Micro$oft engineers have released a worm to tack on at least 3 sentences promoting WindowsS.Ux, Ballmer Edition to each post to space out the green bars just a little further.
That guy? I reckon this guy owes us an explanation!
How typically Canadian. Instilling Canadian gun culture in 4 year old children. Digusting!
WOuld it be Orson Welles, by anyc hance?
Jay (=
"I saw a fiery fireball in the sky..."
That's nothing bad. It's those icy fireballs you have to watch out for...
The first conlusion we should all jump to is that this is unequivocable evidence of an extra-terrestrial encounter.
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
Yeah, well I was hanging out in the Sears on Bolt Street, when I heard about this party happening down on Breach Avenue. I got into my Colt and hammered my way down the street, with my hair-trigger reflexes in my fingers. I scoped out the target and got a grip on the situation. I squeezed my way into the crowd and set my sights on this girl. I locked and loaded my line, and came up to her and told her I could clean her bore. Needless to say, she slapped me with a magazine, and clipped my fun for the evening. Fortunately, I had the caliber to move on to the next range the day after, and soon I was rifling my way through the lanes. The alley was pretty cool, but I wasn't cocked until I saw the one of my dreams! The hunt was over, all I needed to do was hit the bullseye here. I saw her go into the powder room, and strategically positioned myself for her return. When she came out, I got a grip on my nervousness, and asked her to join me for some evening shooting. We played all night, then went back to my place. She asked me to show her the double-barrel. She chambered my round just fine, and I shot a load. I now knew the meaning of what it was like to be a sex pistol.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
... great balls of fire!
What a concept! It simply shakes my nerves and it rattles my brains.
"My knowledge of guns started at the age of four when my first .22 calibre single shot rifle was purchased for me."
.22 when you were four?
You got a
I live in Texas and I never shot anything but a BB gun until I was 12.
How can you even make a comment about Americans and guns? =P
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
Never tell me the odds.
Well I'm about 7 miles away from Gunbarrel in Lafayette. It's just a few miles to the east of Boulder. Gunbarrel is a nothing town between Boulder and Longmont. Nothing happens there.
To stay on topic, however, these "fireballs" are causing the most brilliant members of the Denver area to make their opinions known. Several people, went interviewed on 9 News, were convinced that an airplane had flown into a building...
Riiighht.
"I either want less corruption, or more chance
to participate in it." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
[Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Do not taunt Happy Fireball
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No doubt this is the beginning of the end for Colorado as the ALiens are probably kidnaping thousands of people and implanting them with mind control computers that will turn them into mindless Microsoft users. Who Cares.
lol
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If I remember correctly....
Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
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Was I the only one that was expecting some photos at the daily *camera*?
Anyway, for those of you jealous of Colorado residents, take out your geeked out keychain and stare into the bright blue light. Now step outside and look at the sky. Yeah... it was a lot like that...
And don't worry, they should go away in a few hours.
aTek
There is a difference between rare and unheard off. I'd also point out that stating the events were apparently unrelated indicates not only some curiosity, but that some investigation due to that curiosity had occured.
Being dealt a Royal Flush is rare, it is notable, it happens. Why, and why on *that* hand?
Because shit like that happens. By chance.
What were the odds of being dealt that last hand you got that wasn't a Royal Flush?
Ah! If you knew the anwer to that you'ld know a lot more about "coincidence" than you apparently do now.
By the way, why do you suppose they call it "astronomical" odds?
KFG
Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:
- Itching
- Vertigo
- Dizziness
- Tingling in extremities
- Loss of balance or coordination
- Slurred speech
- Temporary blindness
- Profuse sweating
- Heart palpitations
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head. Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.Some guy with a Linux laptop just ran by me, claiming he could jam the mothership's electronics. I haven't the faintest idea what he meant.
Another witness reported seeing a bluish object about 10 to 15 times the size of a typical shooting star streak across the southwestern sky Monday night south of Boulder.
Wasn't that the guy who asked Kevin Kostner to call him "Mr. X" in the JFK movie?
From what I understand this is the same guy that also saw that indestructable "tin-foil" laying around in Maricopa by Roswell after that big bang one night. And he once had a Job on Area 51 and had this bumb-in with a small greyish green bug-eyed humanoid in a silver spandex jumpsuit.
I know that guy. He's absolutely trustworthy.
Really.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
We had found a mirror-flat lake in the country and we were stumbling around watching the shooting stars, when suddenly we appeared to be on an ancient spacecraft. I looked up and saw the stars reorganizing themselves into various patterns, the constellations drawing themselves out to create realistic images.
We continued this strange, and very cold, journey throughout the evening, until my socks turned into meat.
Very few people believe me when I tell this story. Until I mention the presence of some extremely potent LSD.
I'm here at the crash scene... there is a glow and a deep hum and a glow coming from the crater... a door is opening... oh my god... they're coming towards me... this is the most incredible thing i've ever trererewwerw
Well, I happen to work in the Gunbarrel area, and I just happened to be near the airport the article mentions at about the time (extreme coincidence, I won't go into details here).
The only bright light I saw was an airplane landing at said airport. Personally, I think what was going on was a lot of drug use. (Yes, there is enough drug use in the Boulder area to have 60 people mystified by an airplane landing.)
Those guys? I think this guy owes us an explanations!
Composition [Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Oh no! Fireballs have HMIS information?! I already have to find the rest of those 10 000 Material Safety Data Sheets for work; where oh where am I going to find contact information for "Fireball Manufacturers"?
As if my job weren't tough enough...
Interrobang, Conscript MSDS Updater
I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
Granted that these people probably had good intentions, but it does demonstrate how arrogant we are
Actually in my mind, it demonstrates how little people think things through. What exactly are the police going to do about balls of flame in the sky? Arrest them?
Concerned Citizen:Fireballs officer! In the Sky!
Dispatch:right. I think you want nasa. Or the air force. We'd handle it ourselves, but our Space Cruiser is in the shop. On Quaoar
"Inattention makes clowns of us all" -Bean
Millions of slashdot'ers have electrocuted themselves today...
Here's an interesting thing to try-- Stick a couple of old forks in a pickle with the handles pointing away from each other. Split a power cord down the middle and attach some alligator clips to the cut off part. Attach the clips to the forks and put the plug in the wall. After a few seconds, you'll see the pickel glow yellow between where the forks are stuck in the pickle. It's pretty neat to watch.
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