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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.
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.
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.
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.
"...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.
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
http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/
anyway, any idea what would have happened if it actually caused damage?
If what happened to Canada is any indication, then nothing at all
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
...duck and cover.
Space Junk: Norad identifies Denver light as body of Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere
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--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
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
Wish I didn't already respond to this article because I still have mod points. The GP was kind of funny just because I can laugh at that kind of thing but the whole bush went to war because of oil thing is obviously (to anybody who has half a clue?) bull shit.. Let me know when the extra oil starts rolling in I'm looking forward to the day because then atleast we could fucking say we got SOMETHING out of the deal.. Don't you think?!
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?
Wyoming?
How did they know?
Where the men are men, and the sheep are.... threatened by falling space debris??
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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You missed the point with Iraq. It was never about getting our hands on more oil it was about controlling oil. Notice that years later oil is still flowing at a trickle when it was supposed to pay to rebuild Iraq. It was about restricting oil to drive up prices. Oil won't flow so long as the US is in control. I'm an american and this isn't paranoia it's a simple fact. The oil ministry was the only governmental office protected yet four years after the war was declared over the oil industry in Iraq ia at a near standstill and they have become a net importer of oil not an exporter inspite of having some of the largest reserves in the world. The oil will magically flow once the prices are perminately up and the middle east can no longer supply what we need. Like I say it's about controlling oil.
...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.
I thought Pavel Bure retired many years ago. And Wyoming doesn't even have an NHL team!
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.....