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NASA To Investigate Mysterious 'Space Ball'
redletterdave writes "In mid-November, a hollow space ball fell from the sky and crashed into the earth in Namibia, the African nation situated above South Africa and west of Botswana and Zimbabwe. Authorities recovered the sphere in a grassy village north of Windhoek, the country's capital. The hollow ball, which appears to be made of 'two halves welded together,' has a rough surface, a 14-inch diameter and measures 43 inches around. The strange globe created a crater 13 inches deep and almost 12.5 feet wide, but was found almost 60 feet from the landing spot. Paul Ludik, the police forensics director investigating the case, says the dense ball weighs 13 pounds and is made of a 'metal alloy known to man.' NASA and the European Space Agency will both help investigate the strange occurrence."
SPACEBALLS?
Mythbusters were shooting in Africa?
Thanks for taking the fun out of this one. We could have all speculated about all kinds of random things that it "may" have been. You ruined my Christmas.
Caution: Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Was it an African or European space ball?
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It's so obvious what this is, Wheatley fell down from space...
Thanks for taking the fun out of this one. We could have all speculated about all kinds of random things that it "may" have been. You ruined my Christmas.
Don't panic! ...
Even though the mystery is "solved". We still can speculate. If we assume the official explaination and all evidence that supports it is a lie, then this could be anything: aliens, the CIA, time travelers, Steve Jobs' cybernetic brain, etc
Once again conpiracy theories save Chirstmas.
Created in the LEGO experiment at CERN in Denmark, it traveled through the political hole neutrino tunnel dug by the Italian education minister. It popped out of the other end of the tunnel in Namibia an exclaimed, "I knew I should have taken that left turn at Los Alamos in Albuquerque!" Theoretical mathematically inclined experimentally minded Gedanken physicists quickly solved the observed event by slapping a few new dimensions that we can't observe onto the creaking load in Grandma 's basket of string theories model.
Schrödinger's cat may or may not have been involved, and law enforcement sources will only state that they are in the state of considering the wacky cat as a "feline of interest" at the moment, as observed from their event horizon.
Meanwhile, an enraged God crawled out of the sea at Tokyo and is smashing the paper skyscrapers in the city, whilst searching for His particle. It seems that He wants it back. Japanese defense forces are deploying ludicrously tiny plastic models with firecrackers attached to their canons, in an effort to force God to get His hairy ass out of their city.
A military spokesmen stated that they were trying to taunt God into making a mistake, but weren't sure yet what that mistake could be.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Mysterious Space Ball fell to earth in Namibia, presumably from outer space.
Authorities recovered the Mysterious Space Ball in a grassy village north of Windhoek, the country's capital.
Mysterious Space Ball, which appears to be made of 'two halves welded together,' has a rough surface, a 14-inch diameter and measures 43 inches around.
Mysterious Space Ball created a crater 13 inches deep and almost 12.5 feet wide, but was found almost 60 feet from the landing spot.
Mysterious Space Ball weighs 13 pounds and is made of a 'metal alloy known to man.'
NASA and the European Space Agency will both help investigate Mysterious Space Ball.
Do not taunt Mysterious Space Ball.
It's the left testicle of an alien. Or the right. Scientists haven't released their conclusion yet, but have not specifically ruled either option out.
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Pffft... "swamp gas", "weather balloon", " 39-litre hydrazine bladder tank" it's all the same story.
It's all a big conspiracy, man. Open your eyes! Stop drinking the kool-aid! The truth is out there!
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I came here wondering why there were no references to the falling spotlight in The Truman Show. The fact that every such reference has been removed tells me everything I need to know.
Either that, or the aliens have been reading xkcd
Our culture doesn't get smarter, it just finds new ways of being retarded.
Hold on.. you're saying your name is Brett? Ye gods! This is news to me, ever since I forgot your name after reading the username part of your post. Good thing you repeated it again on the bottom of your post or I never would have known your name!!!
So, you're suggesting it was of Extra Testicle origin?
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and ask it where it came from.
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