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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Feck » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:35 pm

I think I just saw it ! go burning past (i'm not drunk or tripping or nuffin )
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by PsychoSerenity » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:41 pm

Feck wrote:I think I just saw it ! go burning past (i'm not drunk or tripping or nuffin )
You may be right - the live tracking seems to have borked.
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Feck » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:54 pm

well it was at 09:20 ish so look in about 90mins from then . Maybe less if it's lower ??
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Ian » Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:57 pm

Are we placing bets on where it will hit? :ask:

I say Belgium.

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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:00 pm

Is the wank fnoglet on again?
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Feck » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:03 pm

Too far north for that looked like it was heading for Scandinavia ...down in Russia Maybe ?

The satellite tracker says it's still 120 miles up so it could only have been a piece ?/
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by PsychoSerenity » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:17 pm

Feck wrote:Too far north for that looked like it was heading for Scandinavia ...down in Russia Maybe ?

The satellite tracker says it's still 120 miles up so it could only have been a piece ?/
I guess you must have seen something else because it still seems to be in orbit. I wouldn't have thought it would start breaking up until it goes fireball and dies, but I don't know. Presumably it is already in the (very thin) upper atmosphere?

I had a look as it was passing (according to the tracker) directly overhead, but I didn't see anything moving, just the stars.
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Feck » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:20 pm

Maybe :dunno: saw some thing burning and going fast though ??
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Faithfree » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:58 pm

Feck wrote:Maybe :dunno: saw some thing burning and going fast though ??
Just a regular meteor?
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Feck » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:03 pm

Faithfree wrote:
Feck wrote:Maybe :dunno: saw some thing burning and going fast though ??
Just a regular meteor?
Maybe
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:18 pm

Feck wrote:
Faithfree wrote:
Feck wrote:Maybe :dunno: saw some thing burning and going fast though ??
Just a regular meteor?
Maybe
And thus the cover-up begins. :nono:

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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by FBM » Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:23 pm

Its brightness is really variable... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15009337
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by FBM » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:23 am

Damn, that thing's really truckin'. An hour ago it was off the east coast of the US, now it's south of NZ...cool...
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Pensioner » Thu Sep 22, 2011 5:58 pm

I hope the fucker hits the Tory fuckers.
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Re: On 9/24, duck.

Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:08 pm

Pensioner wrote:I hope the fucker hits the Tory fuckers.
Michael Gove, right in the chops.

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