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Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming
Harmonious Botch wrote in with a CNN story that opens: "A spent Russian booster rocket re-entered the atmosphere Thursday over Colorado and Wyoming, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said.
NORAD spokesman Sean Kelly said the agency was trying to confirm a report that a piece of the rocket may have hit the ground near Riverton, Wyoming, at about 6 a.m.
Kelly said military personnel had not yet reached the scene.
No damage was reported and the debris was not believed to be hazardous, NORAD said.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing flaming objects in the sky at the time the rocket was re-entering, Kelly said."
Wyoming hits rocket!
. . . get the President on the horn.
No damage was reported and the debris was not believed to be hazardous, NORAD said. Eyewitnesses reported seeing flaming objects in the sky at the time the rocket was re-entering, Kelly said.
Are they sure it wasn't just a weather balloon, or maybe some swamp gas?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
For what the story is...
The headline sort of makes you think of a Cold-War Russian rocket attack.
At least, it made me think that. -- And I'd already heard about the story.
I'm sure those red commies are now peeing themselves from laughter going "Har har, we put rocket on amerikana soil for once"
anyway, any idea what would have happened if it actually caused damage?
Wondering where Kent Brockman lives, anywhere near here? (Very tenous, I know)
Come on. Try Russian space debris hits...not rocket. It hasn't been (part of) a rocket in some time...
Oh wait, that'd actually be good journalism. Can't have that.
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The title is: "Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming". Now let us see if it is in any way misleading.
"Russian": The rocket is Russian. Nothing misleading here.
"Rocket": The object in question is indeed the remains of a rocket. Nothing misleading here.
"Hits": The rocket did indeed crash into the ground in Wyoming. It "hit" Wyoming, if you will. Nothing misleading here.
"Wyoming": The location of the rocket crash was Wyoming. Nothing misleading here.
I'm not sure how you justify your claim of the title being misleading. Every word in the sentence is correct and factual. The sentence as a whole is also completely correct.
This is just a cover for the UFO story posted on slashdot the other day.
Today President Bush responded to the space attack by launching a counter attack on Boswanna. The Boswannan space program being seen as a threat to national security. He's also considering attacking the Moon for the unprovoked attack by Martian meteors on Antarctica thousands of years ago.
I thought Reagan ended the cold war? Who is joining me in the wilderness to fight the Red Army? We obviously can't call ourselves the Wolverines though.
Here is video taken by a local news crew this morning: ABC 7 Note: They use an embedded Windows Media Player.
Wyoming High School students unite to fend off Russian invasion. Fortunately, Hollywood has taught us exactly how to deal with such things.
Somebody got some really good video footage of this thing breaking up in the atmosphere. It was a series of streaks of fire against a dark sky. Probably just a matter of time before it starts showing up on youtube, etc.
With Russia's increase in commercial space traffic, they now have excellent cover to leave nukes disquised as debris in a decaying orbit. With very subtle changes in orbit they can cause the "debris" to come down in the middle of any major US city. We won't realize it until it is too late.
"...No damage was reported..."
Well, duh! It's Wyoming, fer christsake.
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
And the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
a discouraging word
and the skies are not full of spent Russian booster rockets
From Spaceweather.com
Something from space disintegrated over Denver, Colorado, this morning around 6:20 am MST (1320 UT). Witnesses describe it as "brilliant, slow, twinkling, sparkly and full of rainbow colors." It was not a meteor. The fireball was the decaying body of a Soyuz U rocket that launched the French COROT space telescope on Dec. 27th. The re-entry caused no damage on the ground--just a beautiful display in the sky.
Film at 11....
Link. This story could use a visual. Clearly, as opposed to what the poster of the video would like us to think, it is not a UFO.
-Rob
Biblical fiscal responsibility
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Neither Boswanna or the Moon has any oil. And at least one of those places doesn't even really exist!
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...duck and cover.
I just got finished reading the article about how Bush was about to start opening everyone's mail, and then news of a Russian rocket hitting Wyoming. I'm like great, now there's an emergency and Bush is gonna start opening our mail.
It's like the cold war, except they actually hit us.
I know its not an attack, but it would be kinda ironic.
-Ed
So you see what had happened was....
Thanks Colonel Mitchell! Keep up the good work!
--- Relax, that mass muderer is just trying to reduce our carbon footprint, one fetus at a time...
...I already made fun of it hours ago. Pretty sad when a stupid little joke site beats the news site. On the other hand, had this been an actual attack, I wouldn't have made fun of it, and /. still wouldn't have posted the story as the editors would have been heading for the hills.
Space Junk: Norad identifies Denver light as body of Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere
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And yes, before anyone who visits my site today says so, it was a slow news day, I myself didn't care all that much for my jokes today, but as Groucho said in Animal Crackers, 'Not all the jokes can be good ones. You've got to expect that once in a while.' Hit the archives for better material.
I've heard that YOU, Anonymous Coward, have been molesting badgers...
oh no! now only Patrick Swayze can save us like in that 80s documentary!
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
I hope Ellen Muth wasn't in the area..
(For reference, her character (George) was killed by a piece of debris from the de-orbiting of Mir)...
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Extremely slow Soviet ICBM hits US one month after launch and over ten years after breakup of the Soviet Union.
Film at 11
If I lived around the impact zone, I'd be thinkin Ebay :-D If I remember correctly, people tried to sell off parts the last time something like that landed in the US but a lot got poisoned and stuff cuz it was hazardous
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In Soviet Russia, the Ori hallow you!
Bush lanuches back!! Its global war!
My fellow Russians, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Wyoming forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
2 of my coworkers and I saw the rocket burning before it began splitting up at Billings Logan International Airport in Montana. It split into 3 pieces south of us before going out of sight. It sure was pretty cool to see-- about 1/4 the size of the full moon that was out.-- JB, Billings, MT
So much for any notion of a warning system for missiles eh?
Russian space junk hitting cow land is nothing. A real piece of alien SUV technology hit New Jersey. Did anyone notice that right off it was said not be part of a plane ? The pictures I have seen seems to look like some type of superalloy and my crude calc of the density puts it near materials used in jet engines. Anyone else do the math ? Things about 2.5" long 1" diameter and weighs 13oz.
recently a large chunk of metallic rock crashed into a house in NJ and embedded itself into the wall. Coincidence? I think not.
a once in a decade chance to take out the US president (moron in chief, sorry) and they *MISS*...
Damn commies.
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Wyoming?
How did they know?
Where the men are men, and the sheep are.... threatened by falling space debris??
"and the debris was not believed to be hazardous"
A ton of hot metal falling out of the sky going Mach 1 is certainly not hazardous...it's lethal.
The captain came on deck. He was not drunk.
It's been snowing like mad all day.
Misleading does not necessarily involve actual falsehood. In fact, that's pretty much why we use the word "Misleading" instead of "Deceiving." To differentiate between outright fraud and the most dangerous of all lies: the one your victim tells himself.
For instance, When President Clinton went on national television and told an audience, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," while shaking his hand at an elderly woman in the front row, it was obvious to any observer that he was not actually disclaiming the possibility of having had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky.
In fact, the structure of that particular sentence would seem to imply that he was telling ms. Lewinsky that he didn't have relations with the old lady in the audience. A statement which has the virtue of bearing no individual falsehood whatsoever.
He did, however, by those completely truthful words, lead people to the mistaken conclusion of the absence of improper sexual conduct toward an underling.
Regardless of what one thinks of Clinton's behavior however, the statement, "Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming," while technically factual, is unnecessarily inflammatory nonetheless.
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Now, than the Russian had attacked USA soil, We need to liberate all those oppressed Russians. The dictator Putin and all his oil and natural gas will no stop Our will for a Free Russia. God Bless USA.
Now we're going to have all sorts of conspiracy theorists right here in WYO... and I though our lack of population shielded us from such things.
There are lies, damn lies, and Slashdot postings...
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But with all that evidence, well my word! it almost makes it sound like... sensationalism!!
...it *is* a UFO: unidentified flying object.
Why does everyone thinks of aliens when the word UFO is mentioned ?
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How about the story that ran last year about how Kazakhstan and Siberia were littered with highly-toxic remains of rockets? IIRC this was due to the poisonous hydrogolic (self-igniting) fuels many of the Russian rockets still use. If this was an upper stage especially.
For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert. - Arthur C. Clarke
now Thats Funny ! come on touch the peices.. , yeah there ja go.. now taste them... hmm? no> ok maybe let your 'smarter' friend try... ah, love that fuel. some villagers in Kazahstan tried to sell it off for cash as metal... many did not make it. some are pissed till this day that the 3rd arm always itches.
Dont Judge The situation by the Misfortunate. Goga.
I bet they would have shot it down had it been 10 to 20 years earlier during the cold war period and of course a full length movie would have been made about it too.
Chris ,
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Those Godless, nickel stealing, toilet licking, straw sucking, red wearing, anti-American, ignorant, hack-bringing, country stealing, president converting, 5-year planning, backwards talking, astronaut suffocating, satellite launching, Afghan invading, Cuban Corrupting, gosh-darned commies are at it again. *Grabs gun* "Let's shoot these mother *******."
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... They're heeeeeere!
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If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
...back in 79. Skylab, the first US space station. The whole darn thing was dropped on us aussies with nary a 'sorry' from our northern hemisphere overlords.
We had insurance companies selling policies for $20 million cover for being hit by it - seriously.
Well at least all that StarWars money was worth it. Wasn't the point of MAD that you were meant to be able to tell if Russian Rockets were going to hit *BEFORE* they actually did.
...since we got some of them new fangled in-door out houses!
Good luck finding it out there... someone off the windriver reservation probably already found it and traded it for a case of pbr and a pint of whiskey.
... why the much vaunted US anti missile defense system didn't respond to this?
Or since the radiological alarm not go off it was deemed not worth shooting at?
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Sort of reminds me of that cheesy 80's movie churned out by our government propogandists to boost patriotism during the end of the cold war.
Ya know the one...
Where Russians invaded the United States and brilliantly decided to start in Idaho or Colorado or some other north western insignificant state. @_@
I've been trying to forget that movie for decades. Sigh. The stupid things we whilst stoned...
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I thought Pavel Bure retired many years ago. And Wyoming doesn't even have an NHL team!
When American territory was attacked in 1941 by the Japanese, the first country they invaded was Italy.
...or possibly somewhere in North Africa. It was before my time.
...funny thing. I think the US still has troops in both countries.
...that the way I would come to know that a place could be called Wyoming as by it being hit by a russian rocket! Imagine the odds!!!
So say we all
...that we've had all those missiles in Wyoming pointed at the USSR/Russia for decades, and they actually got the first strike. It used to be common practice for both sides to occasionally test the others reactions in various ways. So, having not RTFA, and putting on my tin foil hat, I wonder if this was truely debris, or could it have been been an "accident" to test our defenses?
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He a summer home near Jackson Hole and possibly another house in the state too.
in soviet america, wyoming hits rocket!
G W BUSH I do declare, This is a calculated attack from the Russians.
It may seem a simple accident, but i G W BUSH have it on good intelligence that i am not that simple (Laughter.)
They want to go back to the Cold war days, forget it we shall give them a Luke Warm War with heated blankets (Laughter.)
The only people who are going to reform Russia are the Americans, and now is the time to strike (Applause.)
G W BUSH: Thank you all. Very good night we shall address this matter in the morning. (Applause.)
I also used to think the war in Iraq wasn't at all about oil until I learned a few things. First, Iraq has one of the (if not the) largest oil reserves remaining in the Middle Eastern region. And what happens there will continue have a big impact on the world oil markets for decades to come, while reserves begin to dry up in other countries. This and the fact that the US 'planners' (in discussions that took place well before 9/11) knew well in advance that any war in Iraq would take decades to resolve, makes one think that the Administration's motive was something more than the simple "Saddam is evil - has WMD's" arguments.
Second, prior to the invasion, Iraq was set to convert their oil exchange from dollars to Euros which would have had a pretty severe impact on the value of the dollar and hence the US economy. Those things alone are enough to make you think that the whole WMD argument was just a smoke screen to complete an agenda that was probably in place well before 9/11 even happened.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Second, prior to the invasion, Iraq was set to convert their oil exchange from dollars to Euros which would have had a pretty severe impact on the value of the dollar and hence the US economy.
If this was a large factor, expect an attack on Iran soon. Iran is changing over to the euro.
You've seen the smoldering piece of space junk.
You've taken photos of the dimple in the prairie where it landed.
You drank all our beer.
You've chased our women and you've run over our Antelope.
We tolerated your complaints about there not being enough Starbucks around to satisfy your habits.
Now, just pay your damn bar tabs and go home already. Winter is setting in, we got work to do and we don't want to have to spend time saving your happy asses when the weather gets bad.
Thank you and have a nice day.
- Wapiti-eater
Wyoming Immigration Officer
Central District
Senior NCO in the fight against entropy. I've seen things, man. Things no one should have to see.....
Once, long ago, I witnessed the re-entry of a large booster section. It was nightime, and it looked like an enormous sparkler drifting silently across the sky in slow motion. The main body was slowly tumbling, getting larger and smaller, and leaving a trail of golden sparks as long as my spread-out hand. Smaller bits would split off, each with their own trail, and they would split again, and again. After maybe thirty seconds it disappeared over the horizon toward the ocean.
Glad it didn't land in my backyard, although the souvenir sales might have compensated a bit.
Rocket Scientist + Brain Surgeon = Rocket Surgeon! (Let's get this O.R. in orbit!)
Cool! Fireworks! ... Sort of
Even more hilarious is another FCDA film linked to from that article. Called The House in the Middle and distributed by the Federal Civil Defense Administration, the same folks who brought you Duck and Cover, it attempts to show that a clean, freshly painted house is more likely to survive a nuclear attack.
The film was actually produced by the National Paint, Varnish and Lacquer Association.
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That means higher profit margins, as it's sold at the same price at the pumps as oil which requires more refining. That's one of the reasons why it was so important to grab Iraq's oil.