Comments on: Canadian fireball update

By: a simon

a simon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:36:36 +0000

debolding

The alien turns to leave, but the First Greeter rises to the occasion, not wishing to mess up this rare chance for intragalactic trade.

Duly Constituted Greeter:“But… but… just tell us what it is you need and we’ll we’ll get you as much as you need!”

First Alien: “Well, if it wouldn’t be too much trouble, a few hundred free-range cow recta would be great! “

By: CanadianLeigh

CanadianLeigh — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:46:36 +0000

@Cafeenman; We Canadians cannot afford missles that can fly past our borders. Like during the cold war when the Americans wanted our navy to scout ahead of them. They figured we would be safe as the Russians never developed a rust seeking missle.

By: Chew

Chew — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:01 +0000

@Brad: That LiDAR image is sooooo cool! One has to wonder why the entire Earth hasn’t beened searched using this technology. That info could help refine the probability of death by meteoric impact.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:10:32 +0000

# Jason Says:
Researchers from the University of Alberta apparently
found the the impact crater about 200 km west of Edmonton,
according to this morning’s news.

Nope, that is a newly-confirmed but not recent (~1100 year old) crater. Very cool discovery – they used lidar to look thru the trees and image the circular feature. it is 36 meters in diameter and 6 meters deep, in forest – not highly visible from the air or satellite.

http://easweb.eas.ualberta.ca/crater

By: tony J

tony J — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:16:29 +0000

Dan, I linked to that site, not @TRUECHRISTIAN,
just to clear things up.
It was an observation on my part of the nature of @TRUECHRISTIAN’s posts.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:58:11 +0000

@ TRUECHRISTIAN

Seriously? You’re linking to LandOver Baptist? The most well know PARODY christian site on the internet?

I seriously hope you don’t expect us to fall for that crap. That site is well known to be a parody of the most psychotic elements of the Christian Right. There’s even a DISCLAIMER on the site.

By: Dave Hall

Dave Hall — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:47:43 +0000

“Michael L Says:
@Dave Hall… No No, corn dogs are breaded wieners on a stick served at 7-11… Oh never mind…”
Sorry–that was just my mind on too much caffein. I am rather partial to ‘em myself. Especially here in Spokane where we have a locally made German Sausage as the dog.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:32:07 +0000

@ Chew (gesundheit)

Silly skeptic! Of course the Roswell debris only gained its indestructability after it crashed! That’s so the space aliens’ Secrets o’ the Universe ™ wouldn’t fall into the hands of the evil conspiracy! Sheesh, everyone knows that.

By: Chew

Chew — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:10:58 +0000

@Andy Beaton “How could you tell the difference between a 10 ton meteor burning up in the upper atmosphere and a 10 ton flying saucer burning up in the upper atmosphere?”

Simple. Flying Saucers don’t burn up in the atmopshere. They are indestructible. Remember the Roswell UFO crash debris that couldn’t be damaged by a sledgehammer? Wait a second… if the debris couldn’t be damaged by a sledgehammer, how could the UFO break apart into pieces?
[cognitive dissonance] Ah! I got it! UFO’s are only indestructible after they crash![/cognitive dissonance]

By: Jennifer Hoffman

Jennifer Hoffman — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:45:17 +0000

Now THAT is cool.

By: undercover

undercover — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:33:25 +0000

That’s like ultra cool!

I hope that the meteor is the real one not a fake CGI!

By: CafeenMan

CafeenMan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:31:48 +0000

Anybody have the link for that site with hot alien on cow action?

By: Andy Beaton

Andy Beaton — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:12:04 +0000

How could you tell the difference between a 10 ton meteor burning up in the upper atmosphere and a 10 ton flying saucer burning up in the upper atmosphere? I guess the only evidence I can come up with for the meteor is the fact that it burned up while passing over Alberta, thus missing out on Canada’s highest concentration of cow parts.

By: Davidlpf

Davidlpf — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:03:21 +0000

This thread was such a nice thread about cow recta but now a troll just had to ruin it.

By: Lazze

Lazze — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:50:58 +0000

Just a thought, but is it possible to conclude anything about the composition of the meteorite from the color of the fireball? Or is the color only an effect of the atmospheric composition?

On a sidenote; I saw a bright fireball 7 years ago – in daylight. Well – allmost. I saw in in the western sky at sunset, so it had to be pretty bright to be visible. It was bright green and broke up in 4 or 5 pieces before it vanished. It’s doubtfull that any debris could be found though, as it occured over the North Sea, and my guess is that it could have been at a distance of 100km or more.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:01:21 +0000

Researchers from the University of Alberta apparently found the the impact crater about 200 km west of Edmonton, according to this morning’s news.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:51:43 +0000

You guys realize that’s some preteen walking zit-cream billboard trying to provoke reactions, right? Ignore it.

Instead, focus vicious sarcasm on UFO nutters who can’t produce evidence! (Snicker! Snort!)

By: tony J

tony J — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:43:57 +0000

And the sign reads: No Not Feed The Trols

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:37:15 +0000

There is no comedy factor to a Troll to lazy to modify his spam. That’s the same piece of waste he’s posted three times before this one.

Gary 7