• @Cabrio
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    912 years ago

    Chinese underwater weather balloon.

  • @Dr_Chocolate
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    562 years ago

    Someone already posted this somewhere. It’s a second stage from a rocket (India?). Can’t recall the exact one.

    • @KickAssDuke
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      102 years ago

      Yes, BBC posted it on their site.

  • Flying Squid
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    452 years 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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      102 years ago

      Just an exhausted rocket stage. Definitely not explosive.

      • Flying Squid
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        272 years ago

        Yeah, but they didn’t know that.

        • sycamore
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          52 years ago

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

      • Deceptichum
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        152 years 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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        102 years 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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        32 years 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.

  • @seacocker
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    152 years ago

    Looks very fuel tankish

    • Xeelee
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      52 years ago

      No, no, must be aliens. Or the emus launched something from their secret underground base.

      • @A_A
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        1 year ago

        UFO - - Unidentified Floating Object !

    • @orphiebaby
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      2 years ago

      So glad I saw your comment first!

      Also the Mighty Morphin’ communicator beep is my phone’s message sound.

  • Proteus
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    62 years ago

    as opposed to an ‘identified mystery object’, lol

    • BruceTwarzen
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      32 years ago

      I was truly baffeld how easily it was to identify. Martha, look at this easily identifiable object