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Offline Littleenki

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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2012, 10:41:20 pm »
The Gods must be crazy: Metal ‘Teletubby head’ falls near Namibian village


Namibia, Desert Region : A handout photo provided by the National Forensic Science Institute shows a giant metallic ball of 1,1 metre in diameter weighing some 6 kilograms that fell out of the sky on a remote grassland in Namibia, prompting baffled authorities to contact NASA and the European space agency (ESA) on December 21, 2011. AFP Photo / National Forensic Science Institute)

http://rt.com/news/namibia-flying-object-529/
Very cool, Zorgon, and it's a good thing noone was under that thing when it fell!
It reminds me of this story, you probably know already, but some here might not.
- http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/time_travel/esp_ciencia_timetravel08c.htm

Grooved Sphere from South Africa, 2.8 Billion Years Old
Over the past several decades, South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator.


The spheres are of two types

"one of solid bluish metal with white flecks, and another which is a hollow ball filled with a white spongy center."

Roelf Marx, curator of the museum of Klerksdorp, South Africa, where some of the spheres are housed, said:

"The spheres are a complete mystery. They look man-made, yet at the time in Earth’s history when they came to rest in this rock no intelligent life existed. The globes are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite is a quite soft secondary mineral with a count of only 3 on the Mohs’ scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion years ago. On the other hand the globes are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel."

The sphere with the three parallel grooves around it are too perfect to be anything but man made. The Precambrian mineral deposit where the globes are found is dated to be at least 2.8 billion years old. At this time simple microscopic cells were all that was alive on the earth.

But this is obviously not true.

Who created or left behind these magnificent spheres. Obviously man made, and stronger than steel, what was their purpose for the people who visited and left them behind in time?

When I read this, i said"no way!" but further study showed no explanation to whether they were old or new, so it's still a mystery.

If I had to guess, it would be my theory that they are the original seeds for our DNA from wherever it came form, and the ones theyve found are the ones that didnt activate...or did they?

The new one was probably a spaceship part, a chemical tank, or some other earthly vessel, that survived the reentry, or was it?

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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2012, 11:05:57 pm »
Grooved Sphere from South Africa, 2.8 Billion Years Old
Over the past several decades, South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator.

Have a thread in the works on OOPARTS ... that one will be a good addition :D


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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #17 on: March 21, 2012, 11:09:13 pm »
Space junk threat 'critical'



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A NASA-sponsored report says the amount of space junk orbiting Earth is alarmingly high and may have reached a point where it could jeopardize all future space exploration.

The document, prepared by the US National Research Council, says computer models show there is a danger that collisions between pieces of space debris, which range in size from minuscule fragments to entire decommissioned boosters, could create even more space trash.

That means the situation is critical, says Donald Kessler, a retired NASA scientist who led the research.

 "We've lost control of the environment," he said. “The hazard is increasing and there is a necessity to start cleaning up space.

"NASA needs to determine the best path forward for tackling the multifaceted problems caused by meteoroids and orbital debris that put human and robotic space operations at risk," Kessler added.

The US space agency monitors some 22,000 larger fragments of space junk, while some 500,000 smaller pieces are too small to be tracked.
A fast-moving piece of junk may damage a satellite or a manned spacecraft. An egg-sized metal lump moving at orbital speeds has kinetic energy similar to a speeding truck.

The International Space Station occasionally has to change its orbit to dodge the fragments. In June, the ISS crew had to evacuate into the docked Soyuz space capsule during a proximity alert.

There is no proven way for clearing the junk from the orbit, although engineers in many countries are developing solutions. The suggestions vary from micro-satellites, which would attach to junk fragments and pull them down into the atmosphere, to giant magnetic nets harvesting the dangerous debris.

The report calls for a concentrated effort to solve the problem. It would require not only cleaning technology, but also a barrage of international talks, as space-faring nations need to agree on issues such as ownership rights and the risk management.

SOURCE: Russia Today

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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #18 on: March 21, 2012, 11:22:25 pm »
Space Debris Illustrated: The Problem in Pictures


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Above is a depiction of debris in polar orbit around Earth. From the image below, it’s evident how explosions of spacecraft causes even more scattered debris. Even after the end of the mission, batteries and pressurised systems as well as fuel tanks explode. This generates debris objects, which contribute to the growing population of materials in orbit, ranging from less than a micrometer to 10 centimeters or more in size.


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Between the launch of Sputnik on 4 October 1957 and 1 January 2008, approximately 4600 launches have placed some 6000 satellites into orbit; about 400 are now travelling beyond Earth on interplanetary trajectories, but of the remaining 5600 only about 800 satellites are operational – roughly 45 percent of these are both in LEO and GEO. Space debris comprise the ever-increasing amount of inactive space hardware in orbit around the Earth as well as fragments of spacecraft that have broken up, exploded or otherwise become abandoned. About 50 percent of all trackable objects are due to in-orbit explosion events (about 200) or collision events (less than 10).


Officials from the space shuttle program have said the shuttle regularly takes hits from space debris, and over 80 windows had to be replaced over the years. The ISS occasionally has to take evasive maneuvers to avoid collisions with space junk. And of course, this debris is not just sitting stationary: in orbit, relative velocities can be quite large, ranging in the tens of thousands of kilometers per hour.


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About 40% of ground-trackable space debris come from explosions, now running at four to five per year. In 1961, the first explosion tripled the amount of trackable space debris. In the past decade, most operators have started employing on-board passive measures to eliminate latent sources of energy related to batteries, fuel tanks, propulsion systems and pyrotechnics. But this alone is insufficient. At present rates, in 20 or 30 years, collisions would exceed explosions as a source of new debris.


Space Debris Illustrated: The Problem in Pictures - Universe Today
Original News Source: ESA


Related Links:

1. Does the accumulation of "space debris" in Earth's orbit pose a significant threat to humans, in space and on the ground?

2. New Hazards for a New Age
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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #19 on: March 21, 2012, 11:41:23 pm »
"Chang'e II" wreckage falls in field (Photos)


October 2, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Suichuan County, villagers surrounding the fall of the Chang'e II satellite fairing. "Chang'e II satellite fairing at 19:11 on the evening of October 1, Xu, respectively, falling in two villages in Ji'an City, Jiangxi Suichuan County, a few kilometers of the more strongly felt. Since the fall of the placement of satellite fairing are located in the farmland, so I did not cause casualties.



"Chang'e II" wreckage falls in field - Chinese Site

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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #20 on: March 21, 2012, 11:50:13 pm »
Russia's Troubled Mars Probe Highlights Falling Space Debris Hazard



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In March 2011, Robert Dunn was hiking in Moffat County, near the NW corner of Colorado. He heard a high-pitched sound that he could not identify, but it caught his attention since he was in a fairly isolated area. A short time later, he noticed a 30” diameter object on the ground within a crater about a foot deep. There was Russian writing on the object. The object was warm when he touched it, even though he was in an area with snow on the ground. It was later identified as a spherical titanium tank originating from a Russian upper stage rocket, launched earlier that year. A followup search found another, smaller sphere 34 miles to the North-East.
CREDIT: Courtesy of Elizabeth Campbell via NRC report: Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft: An Assessment of NASA's Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs
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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #21 on: March 22, 2012, 12:11:52 am »
Space Junk, Toxic Fuel Rains Down on Siberian Region


Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org

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Written by Nancy Atkinson
March 17th, 2008

People from the normally quiet and picturesque republic of Altai, Siberia keep their eyes on the sky when a launch occurs from the nearby Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. This region is regularly littered with debris and toxic fuel from space launches, as Altai lies along the flight path of rocket launches to space. Unlike rockets launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which shed excess stages into the Atlantic Ocean, sections from rockets launched from Baikonur crash back on land, usually landing in the Altai region of the Kazakh steppe.

Two incidents of falling debris in the past two weeks prompted farmers to file claims against the Russian space agency for damages. Four horses were reportedly killed from traces of toxic fuel in found in space debris that landed on grazing land and another 4.5 meter chunk of metal landed very close to a house.

According to the Moscow Times, the Russian Federal Space Agency and Altai authorities have designated a strip of land where rocket debris is supposed to fall. People who live in the zone are given at least 24 hours' notice of falling debris. Only those outside the zone are entitled to any compensation for damage caused by the launches.

The two recent incidents both occurred outside the zone, an official said.


Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org

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In 2007, 27 people in the Ust-Kansky region were hospitalized with cancer-related illnesses they said were linked to contamination from falling debris. Also, in September 2007, a Proton-M rocket carrying a Japanese communications satellite malfunctioned around two minutes after takeoff, crashing near another Kazakh city, Zhezkazgan. No one was injured in the incident, but Russia paid Kazakhstan more than $2 million in compensation, after admitting that the rocket had been filled with higher-than-permissible levels of toxic heptyl fuel.
Space Junk.

In cases where there is a rocket malfunction, the procedure is for ground control to destroy it, often spreading debris outside the expected area.

People from the region say that the Soviets thoroughly cleaned up debris from the discarded stages, but clean-up efforts have scaled back considerably since the Soviet Union fell. The pictures used here are from a 2002 photo essay by Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen showing the large pieces of debris laying lying around the Altai region.

Original News Source: New York Times

SOURCE: Universe Today


Related Links:

1. Space Junk, Toxic Fuel Rains Down on Siberian Region
2. Farmer Says Space Debris Killed Horses: 14 March 2008 By David Nowak / Staff Writer Federal Space Agency officials are likely in for an angry reception when they arrive in the Altai republic this weekend to investigate a farmer's claims that falling space debris caused the death of four of his horses.
3. KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD - A EurasiaNet Photo Essay by Jonas Bendiksen
4. The number of space debris reached a "critical point"

Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard


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KAZAKHSTAN'S SPACESHIP JUNKYARD
November 5, 2008
A EurasiaNet Photo Essay by Jonas Bendiksen
Text by Laara Matsen

On April 16, Russia announced that it would henceforth launch military satellites at the Pletsnesk cosmodrome in northern Russia, ending the practice of launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This shift will deprive Kazakh children of the chance to watch some satellites take off, though Baikonur will remain the launchpad for commercial "birds" and manned missions. As these photos show, it will also spare Kazakhs the fallout, literal and otherwise, that occurs in a launch's wake.


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All space-bound rockets consist largely of fuel tanks and booster stages that fall back to earth when spent, never reaching orbit. In landlocked Baikonur, Russia's primary launching complex in Kazakhstan, these spaceships crash to earth. This photo essay visits the areas where the supporting rockets land, and shows the people living under the flight paths who contend with flaming spaceship wrecks several times each month.

Apart from the fear of having a spaceship crash through their roofs, residents in the area complain of the ill effects of leftover toxic rocket fuel. With the relocation of Russian military launches, more than half of which currently take off from Baikonur, these people may get some relief. However, one group of people is probably sorry to see Baikonur lose business; the region's scrap metal dealers are getting rich trading metal from the rockets' titanium alloy hulls.

SOURCE: Eurasia.net

Kazakhstan's Spaceship Scrap Collectors


KAZAKHSTAN - The fiery wreck of a rocket booster after crashing
Image credit: ROSCOSMOS PAO


In Russia, Soyuz, Proton, only the boosters and the first stage are generally recovered by local scrap dealers.

Scrap Metal Dealers Live Off Falling Rockets


KAZAKHSTAN - Scrap-metal dealers wait for a rocket to crash
Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org



KAZAKHSTAN - The fiery wreck of a rocket after crashing
Image credit: ROSCOSMOS PAO



ALTAI, Russia - Villagers collect scrap from a crashed spacecraft, surrounded by thousands of white butterflies, 2000. Environmentalists fear for the region's future due to toxic rocket fuel.
Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org



ALTAI, Russia - Dead cows lie on a cliff, 2000. Locals say that whole herds of
cattle and sheep regularly die because rocket fuel poisons the soil.
Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org



Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org


Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org


Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org


Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org


Image credit: Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org

Well at least in Russia you can collect the space debris and sell it or make farm tools. Here in the USA NASA will have you tossed in jail if you keep it, even if it falls through your roof. I wonder if NASA will pay for the damage then?  :o

Jonas Bendiksen/Eurasianet.org
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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #22 on: March 22, 2012, 07:16:47 am »
Another great compilation by the master himself, Zorgon!
The ooparts idea is one Ive been latched onto for years, and is the basis for my past civilization theory Ive been working on as well. True some will be false or improperly dated, but there will always be the ones that arent explainable, and it's mindblowing to wonder what they were for.

Cant imagine living where things fall from the sky in that size. wow!

As you know, the Russians are capable of launching dozens of rockets in a days time, and thats probably where big percentage of spacejunk comes from. If youve ever ridden in or driven a Russian car, you can understand the danger of everything they design.

Think of taking your neighbors child, and strapping him to the back of a bottle rocket, and shooting him off wherever he may go, pieces falling off the whole way. Never to return.
That about sums up Russian engineering in a nut shell!
Nuts bolts and duct tape if neededLOL!
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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #23 on: March 22, 2012, 10:00:27 am »
I have for a long time hoped I could find a crashed secret spacecraft or a Roswell type incident and enjoy a few quite hours with it till the spooks showed up and didn't find me ofc ;) :D

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Re: Mysterious Debris Crashes Through Plymouth Warehouse Roof
« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2012, 01:15:34 am »

Metallic Ball fell from the Sky in Maranhão, Brazil 2012-02-23

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...falling from the sky.

 


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