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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!
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.
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.
Wyoming High School students unite to fend off Russian invasion. Fortunately, Hollywood has taught us exactly how to deal with such things.
"...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
Sorry.
Great Intellect...
...duck and cover.
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
Dammit! I had a good one.
DEVO
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)
Its falling fast peru too
It keeps coming
And now Im mad about space junk
Im all burned out about space junk
Oooh walk & talk about space junk
It smashed my babys head
And now my sallys dead
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
My god how did they get the rocket to use that piece of junk media player?
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.
It's been snowing like mad all day.