[Aaron]

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[No-Oil]

That's one of those amazing undiscovered oil reserves that the economists are always harping on about.

I see it now, it had never dawned on me before, but the geologists have been wrong all this time It's nothing to do with swamps, lakes, sediments & geological upheaval, silly them & silly me. Of course oil is an extrea terrestial occurence & is depostied in the earth at night, by liquid impact from space. That's why no one has seen it before.

That picture is obviously one that missed the earth & will probably land on another planet for use by us when we get there !

Problem solved. I'm off to the garage now to knock up a little shuttle tanker to pop off the Venus to get that oil reserve back here where it belongs

[BabyPeanut]

It's the Zogg mothership returning just like the book said.

http://www.bitfurnace.com/TheCuddlyMenace/

[Terran]

I've read about it, what else can you explain it as? UFOs....

[Zechs]

I heard on NPR this morning that a Star was viewed leaving the Milky Way during December after basically boomeranging around a Black Hole. Perhaps that's it?

[mindfarkk]

ummm. meteorite?

[pilferage]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zechs', 'I') heard on NPR this morning that a Star was viewed leaving the Milky Way during December after basically boomeranging around a Black Hole. Perhaps that's it?

[gg3]

Probably a meteorite that skipped through or bounced off the upper layers of the atmosphere and heated to incandescent as it did so. Or a small one (or piece of space-junk) that came in at a more acute angle and then burned up in the atmosphere, though I think that's unlikely since the trail seems equally bright across the distance it covered.

Always inspiring to see space pictures, especially when something "happens" out there that we don't see often.

[Zechs]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pilferage', 'D')o you have any links, that sounds too cool!

[Carmiac]

I work at an optical observatory as a professional astronomer.
That is a satelite. We see them all the time. It looks like they used a 180 second exposure time for that image, so it was a reasonably slow moving one.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he NSL team might then have disregarded the streak as a satellite, but no record of it was found in the heavens-above.com site that usually documents bright satellite events. If you think you have a reasonable explanation for the streak, please contribute to the on-line discussion. Current candidates include a known satellite that was somehow missed by heavens-above, a recently launched rocket, and a passing space rock.

[Licho]

UFO?
Like many others
Check for example this film:
http://www.licho.info/download/mexico%20TV.wmv

For background info to the film check for example
http://www.ufoevidence.org/
http://www.ufologie.net/

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mindfarkk', 'u')mmm. meteorite?

[mindfarkk]

oh doh... i knew there was some distinction... i guessed

[BabyPeanut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mindfarkk', 'o')h doh... i knew there was some distinction... i guessed

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BabyPeanut', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mindfarkk', 'o')h doh... i knew there was some distinction... i guessed

[Carmiac]

I'm sticking with satelite. There are a hell of a lot of not publicly documented satelites up there.

[BabyPeanut]

It might have been an asteroid.

http://neat.jpl.nasa.gov/

http://www.manzanera.com/audio/Mummy.html

[threadbear]

An object flying in that trajectory over the hemispheres, has to be a hemroid.