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I just saw this, and am puzzled: "Space ball" drops on Namibia.
If it really did fall out of the sky, what could have caused this round thing to wind up in several supposed places?
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Since we don't know what it is, we must assume it is a WMD of some sort and invade immediately.
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Namibia, seems a good target for an invasion to me: No nuke (but we can invent a wmd program if need be), weak army, possible human right cause (yet to find or to create)....
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It is clearly a float from an enormous toilet in an enormous space ship run by enormous aliens. What happened to the rest of the spaceship is unclear.
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The scientologists would be really excited at that.
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Anthony Watts thinks he has the answer to where this 'space ball' originated.
Note all the little green spherical tanks on this craft.
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Thankfully, no one lives in fear of space junk falling on them yet from all the stuff we blast up there.
We can blame the Russians for this most likely.  Those Russians..
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Wow, Joe Dirt made it over to Europe? I didn't know people watched that movie over there.
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well, Gunnen, it may surprise you, but Sarah Palin has supporters in Europe too...
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I can tell the object in Joe Dirt bears a striking resemblance to the one in Namibia. Maybe some African with a mullet found it and currently is on the quest of a lifetime.
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Oh come on...everyone knows what a hydrazine bladder tank looks like and they are standard equipment in unmanned rockets employed to launch satellites by the Ariane 5 series of European rocketry launched from South America., admittedly a little roughed-up from space wear. The funny part here is why the silence from the ESA?
http://cs.astrium.eads.net/sp/spacecraft...-tank.html
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They don't want to make any official admissions with so many lawyers around.
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They should build a new Kabaa around it.
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I hope Seabiscuit comes out of your closet and takes you in the worst way.
Meteors, Dude.
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I didn't watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this fucking debris, this space trash could...Also, Dude, meteor is not the preferred nomenclature...
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G4, We watch (or passively see) most of the amercian movies here. Good and dumb ones.
Joe Dirt was not that famous here thought AFAIR.
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