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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.
"...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
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.
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.