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    Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman

    German Kids Are Scary And Tough And Would Like Another Meteor Hit, Please, Sir
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    10/27/09

    In reply to Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman
    BTW, thanks for the video. It shows either the smoky remains of a tad too small for extinction meteor or the work of a drunk Indonesian skywriter. #barackobama
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    10/27/09

    In reply to Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman
    An evil, yet effective, guerrilla marketing campaign for the upcoming 2012 movie.

    SONY, you foul fuckers, have you no shame! #barackobama
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    Image of jupiterspaw jupiterspaw
    10/27/09

    In reply to Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman
    What really happened here is that Xenu tried to dump a bunch of aliens into a nearby Indonesian volcano ... and missed. Now they'll be cleaning up thetan dust for weeks. Darn intergalatic warlords and their weak dunk shots. #barackobama
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    10/27/09

    In reply to Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman
    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. #barackobama
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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    10/27/09

    @Airvault: That was seven minutes of sheer awesomeness ! #barackobama
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    10/27/09

    In reply to Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman
    On today's Glenn Beck: Meteor, or guided missle launched by the White House to destroy Barack Obama's Indonesian birth certificate? #barackobama
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    10/27/09

    @misslinda: Shhhhhhhh they might hear you! #barackobama
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    10/27/09

    @Cunning_Linguist: I'm just asking questions! I'm not saying the White House sent a guided missle to Indonesia, or that the President was born there, I'm just asking some tough questions that Americans deserve answers to. #barackobama
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    10/27/09

    @misslinda: Well the fact that questions are being asked is irrefutable. The White House's silence on the subject does make me a little suspicious... #barackobama
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    10/27/09

    In reply to Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman
    Sarah Palin could have shot this from her helicopter with one hand, and her eyes closed. #barackobama
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    10/27/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: See? That bridge to "nowhere" was actually leading to a secret underground meteorite shelter. Who's laughing now, Gotcha Journalists?? #barackobama
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/14/09

    In reply to German Kids Are Scary And Tough And Would Like Another Meteor Hit, Please, Sir
    Fine? If the picture that accompanies that article is any indication, then the kid is morphing into Carrot Top.


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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    06/13/09

    In reply to German Kids Are Scary And Tough And Would Like Another Meteor Hit, Please, Sir
    I may need to brush up on my physics, but a pea-sized object that can fall at 30,000 mph must have been very dense (i.e., heavy), unless there is another force propelling it besides gravity. As the speed of the object increases, the drag force slowing it down increases exponentially until the up force (drag) equals the down force (weight) and it stops speeding up (i.e., terminal velocity). Like, if you dropped a pea from an airplane it wouldn't injure anyone because it is so light it wouldn't get moving very fast.


    Although this all may be moot, if it was going a gillion mph in space (little air, little resistance) and it was simply slowing down in our atmosphere and had slowed to 30k mph.


    I hadn't really thought about terminal velocity in over 10 years. Bye.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/14/09

    @CaptainFantastic: Science nerds. What is it about them? Drag...force...terminal velocity...oh! I just came.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    06/14/09

    @CaptainFantastic:


    What you said.

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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    06/15/09

    @Smitros: I was thinking about this later and forgot to come back and say: my above second paragraph is the likely scenario. It was moving super fast coming into our atmosphere, losing mass (burning up), and slowing down very quickly.


    @Claire Buoyant: You are correct, but if it were losing mass as it "fell," it would be slowing down even faster.

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    Image of SuzyPaulaPasena SuzyPaulaPasena
    06/13/09

    In reply to German Kids Are Scary And Tough And Would Like Another Meteor Hit, Please, Sir
    Whoa, I wonder if he'll have telekinetic powers now.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    06/14/09

    @SuzyPaulaPasena: He now has the mighty power of a pea-sized magnetic rock.
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