• Flying SquidM
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    451 year ago

    “It was a lovely, still night, the kids were digging sand castles around it,” he told the ABC.

    Good thing it wasn’t some sort of explosive! Idiot parents.

    • sycamore
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      101 year ago

      Just an exhausted rocket stage. Definitely not explosive.

      • Flying SquidM
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        271 year ago

        Yeah, but they didn’t know that.

        • sycamore
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          51 year ago

          I mean, like how an exhausted aerosol can is ‘definitely not explosive’.

      • Deceptichum
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        151 year ago

        So probably housing all sorts of dangerous fuels?

        Anyone remember the Chinese one that crashed in China a few years back and was super toxic?

      • Xeelee
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        101 year ago

        Might have residue of hydrazine or other nasty stuff, though. Definitely not safe to be around until it’s been checked out.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        It’s weird how the “experts” cited in the article defaulted to guessing it’s from an airplane. You’d think they’d default to rocket debris.