Strange Metal Ball Crashed in Namibia

[nelly1]

[mrtwisty]

CIA mind control orb...

[jmorgan]

Tin foil won't do much good when that lands on yer noggin. Come to think of it a normal one won't either. Anyone told the Daily Wail yet?

Headlines

"Safety helmets will not save you from space debris, where is the elfnsafety executive on this?"

[Halb]

Sergeant Major Zero?

[Pints]

It's a double-sided tit.

[12gauge]

Guam said:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2186616/p...
Austin Texas incident

it sounds a lot more x-files if you call it an 'incident'

[carmonk]

Fuel tank

[ATTAK Z]

Norfolkit] said:

It's 43 inches across for Gods sake .....

No it isn't - it's 43 inches in circumference

[DSM2]

Part of a prototype outdoor Dyson?

[Pesty]

Isnt there a failed russian satellite may even be a Mars probe falling to the earth round about now?

[frosted]

Aliens chuckin our rubbish back to earth ?

[Hoofy]

mattviatura said:

It's the Death Star.

Not that scary in real life size is it.

Well, certainly, that's no moon.

[NDA]

Norfolkit said:

NDA said:

Cistern ballcock from skylabs lavatories.

Mystery solved.

It's 43 inches across for Gods sake, that some ballcock, only Ann Widdecome would own such a thing and she wouldn't have fitted into Skylab

NASA bogs are huge.

Just sayin'.

[jeff m2]

Part of a ball & chain from a Red Dwarf prison ship.




I assume it is still legal to use the D word.

[jaybirduk]

Pesty said:

may even be a Mars probe falling to the earth round about now?

Ask Marianne Faithful about the Mars probe.....

[Eric Mc]

jaybirduk said:

Ask Marianne Faithful about the Mars probe.....

Luckilly for Ms Faithful, the Mars probe (which is called Grunt by the way) is due to fall back in January.

Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 25th December 09:04

[frosted]

Guam said:

"In fact, NASA have calculated a 1 in 3200 chance of anybody being hit by any part of the satellite. If you consider that there are just about 7 billion people on Earth, that works out to a 1 in 22,400,000,000,000 chance of you personally getting in the way. You've got a better chance of being struck by lightning on the same day that you win the lottery.
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Taken from here https://sites.google.com/site/urbanastronomer/arti...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16326942


Fragments of a Russian satellite that failed to launch properly have landed in a street named after cosmonauts in a remote Siberian village, reports say.

The Meridian communications satellite failed to reach orbit on Friday.

Parts crashed into the Novosibirsk region of central Siberia and were found in the Ordynsk district around 100km (60 miles) south of the regional capital, Novosibirsk.

Residents of Vagaitsevo village said a piece had landed on a house there.

The owner of the house, Andrei Krivoruchenko, said that he heard a huge noise and a crash as the satellite hit the roof.

"I climbed up onto the roof and could not work out what had happened. Then I saw a huge hole in the roof and the metal object," he told Russian state television.

The head of the Ordynsk district, Pavel Ivarovksy, told Russia's Interfax news agency that the damage was being examined by specialists and that the home's owner would be compensated.

The loss of the Meridian satellite ends a disastrous 12 months for Russian space activity with the loss of three navigation satellites, an advanced military satellite, a telecommunications satellite, a probe for Mars and as an unmanned Progress supply ship.

Earlier this month, Russia also failed to launch a Soyuz rocket.

The next Soyuz launch is scheduled for 26 December from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.