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Anyone have any more info about this? Personal accounts, more photos, text?
Meteorite?! WTF?
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KnowMatterWhat
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Missed it? It nearly landed on an art car shaped like a probe. A yahoo who was nearby peeing on the playa had to be taken to the med tent for treatment ...i remember the night that streaked across the sky.
-- you couldn't miss it. quite a spectacle.
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Simply Joel
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How about the UFO on Wed Nite?
I was milling about at around 330 (maybe 3) and Mars when myself and a large group of other people (10+) noticed a rather bright red light loitering behind some clouds (this would be near the 530-6 part of the city, but far, far off by the size of it). Anyway, this thing bounced up and down a couple times (damn near thought it was another balloon) but THEN started racing across the damn sky! This was witnessed by most of us, and we watched it until it dropped out of sight around 7. Yeah, could've been a plane i guess... if planes could do ANY of the maneuvers the light was performing.
Anyway, anyone know of someone out there who was playing around with a red light in the sky around dusk on Wed?
Anyway, anyone know of someone out there who was playing around with a red light in the sky around dusk on Wed?
monkey-chucking good!
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Don Muerto
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This discovery touched off a rather frantic reclassification of meteor types in the scientific community. Beyond the Chondrites, Achondrites and Stony types, they had to add 'Concretites' to the taxonomy to account for this one's heretofore unseen composition.
Astronomical theorists are already predicting the existence of 'Reinconcretites' containing cylindrical deposits of a carbon/iron alloy running through them, but such have yet to be found on Earth.
Astronomical theorists are already predicting the existence of 'Reinconcretites' containing cylindrical deposits of a carbon/iron alloy running through them, but such have yet to be found on Earth.
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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QuasiPseudo
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OK - youve just mentioned my all-time fave experience at BMan.
It’s Wed night, 1999. Me, my (fiancee at the time) wife and good friend Scott drop some acid & take a walk along the esplenade. We crossed the open playa on the way back, by this time on the rise of the peak. It was a beautiful night, clear and warm with a prominent Milky Way arc. We were enjoying watching our mile-long shadows moving beside us, when something caught our attention.
All at once, what seemed like the ENTIRE city erupted into a sustained howling cheer. As we turned our heads toward BRC, we were blown away to see a HUGE frikkin ball of multi-colored light barrelling across the southern horizon. It lit up the playa like several full moons and made a perceptible deep distant hissing sound. It broke up into about a dozen pieces in the near minute it took to traverse the sky.
Once it passed over a mountain range we just stood there for several minutes, flabbergasted. We werent sure if we’d all just had a shared hallucination or if we’d witnessed someone’s elaborate art project. I was having visions of alien contact and the second coming. Scott kept asking us over & over “Did you guys SEE that?” Im not sure he was certain HE saw it. But it was very real.
In our amazed confusion we made it to our intended destination. This being the train tracks at the back of the south side - but far enough away from the city that we could hear coyotes howling in the hills. Chilling on this spot had become a kind of ritual for us over the past few years (sadly it’s harder to accomplish nowadays, as the ‘trash fence’ has become more of a barrier between worlds). Alongside a short weathered wooden fence we sat facing the tracks and munching shrooms. Our seat was an upraised dune of playa, with a thick cracked brownie-like crust. We would watch with quiet anticipation the headlamp of an oncoming train; it was so far away on the unfalteringly flat playa surface that it seemed to take hours to reach us. But once it did, I cant describe enough how cool a huge locomotive looks as it flies toward you at 70mph, a hundred steel cars rippling and screeching by. Our seats of bubbly playa crust shook and jiggled like a 8.0 quake! Karen spun glosticks on strings next to the tracks and the conductor honked at us playfully as the head car zoomed past. We wondered if the engineers had been prepared to see Burning Man around that bend, if they’d mistake it for Vegas and hurriedly open up their maps to figure out which junction they must’ve passed up; we’d also wondered if they’d seen the comet. It was time for us to find out just what the hell was going on with that.
As we walked slowly back, we followed a small black light that looked like it was hovering over the playa and never seemed to get any closer. Then finally we came upon it - it was simply a black light atop a lamp post. Written around its base were the words ‘YOU ARE HERE’. I really liked that art piece, especially since it was so far away from anyplace one might think of exploring.
Soon after we were rounding the corner of the south side esplenade, a caravan of art bikes rode by honking various squeeky toys, confirming our arrival and sending us into giddy laughter. We made it back to our camp for that year, TOTEM. While changing into warmer clothes we overheard a live radio broadcast of Art Bell. It was coming from Dust Devil Radio, which was kitty-cornered behind us. The three of us went over to the camp’s owner, Danny, to get the scoop.
In case you dont already know, Art Bell did a radio show about many kinds of supernatural, spiritual and philosophical subjects. Callers from all over the Pacific West were lighting up his switchboard about the comet! He eventually got a government official of some sort on the line, who proceeded to define the strange event as thus:
A Russian rocket booster, slated to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and plummet into the Pacific, broke orbit two days early and disintegrated over the Western US. Art Bell asked the official more detailed questions, but none were forthcoming. As to the general validity to the information, the official could only state, “That’s the story as I’ve been told.” We all laughed, detecting the hint of ‘grain of salt’ in the officials voice. For all accounts, I can certainly see how it could have been a falling Russian rocket booster breaking apart... though this does nothing to explain why the power went out in Art Bell’s radio show home of Pahrump, Nevada as the ‘booster-comet’ went over...
We spent the raminder of that night babbling goofy nonsense over the radio. Danny put on a huge fake nose & did Jimmy Durante impressions until we could no longer breathe from the laughter. We still could not get over the perfect timing we had, tripping, being in the perfect spot in the strangest place on Earth, to perfectly witness that heavenly show. That whole night is by far my favorite experience at Burning Man.
As for the 2000 meteorite art piece, it is simply that. It was intended to be a small hoax that played upon a bigger mystery.
It’s Wed night, 1999. Me, my (fiancee at the time) wife and good friend Scott drop some acid & take a walk along the esplenade. We crossed the open playa on the way back, by this time on the rise of the peak. It was a beautiful night, clear and warm with a prominent Milky Way arc. We were enjoying watching our mile-long shadows moving beside us, when something caught our attention.
All at once, what seemed like the ENTIRE city erupted into a sustained howling cheer. As we turned our heads toward BRC, we were blown away to see a HUGE frikkin ball of multi-colored light barrelling across the southern horizon. It lit up the playa like several full moons and made a perceptible deep distant hissing sound. It broke up into about a dozen pieces in the near minute it took to traverse the sky.
Once it passed over a mountain range we just stood there for several minutes, flabbergasted. We werent sure if we’d all just had a shared hallucination or if we’d witnessed someone’s elaborate art project. I was having visions of alien contact and the second coming. Scott kept asking us over & over “Did you guys SEE that?” Im not sure he was certain HE saw it. But it was very real.
In our amazed confusion we made it to our intended destination. This being the train tracks at the back of the south side - but far enough away from the city that we could hear coyotes howling in the hills. Chilling on this spot had become a kind of ritual for us over the past few years (sadly it’s harder to accomplish nowadays, as the ‘trash fence’ has become more of a barrier between worlds). Alongside a short weathered wooden fence we sat facing the tracks and munching shrooms. Our seat was an upraised dune of playa, with a thick cracked brownie-like crust. We would watch with quiet anticipation the headlamp of an oncoming train; it was so far away on the unfalteringly flat playa surface that it seemed to take hours to reach us. But once it did, I cant describe enough how cool a huge locomotive looks as it flies toward you at 70mph, a hundred steel cars rippling and screeching by. Our seats of bubbly playa crust shook and jiggled like a 8.0 quake! Karen spun glosticks on strings next to the tracks and the conductor honked at us playfully as the head car zoomed past. We wondered if the engineers had been prepared to see Burning Man around that bend, if they’d mistake it for Vegas and hurriedly open up their maps to figure out which junction they must’ve passed up; we’d also wondered if they’d seen the comet. It was time for us to find out just what the hell was going on with that.
As we walked slowly back, we followed a small black light that looked like it was hovering over the playa and never seemed to get any closer. Then finally we came upon it - it was simply a black light atop a lamp post. Written around its base were the words ‘YOU ARE HERE’. I really liked that art piece, especially since it was so far away from anyplace one might think of exploring.
Soon after we were rounding the corner of the south side esplenade, a caravan of art bikes rode by honking various squeeky toys, confirming our arrival and sending us into giddy laughter. We made it back to our camp for that year, TOTEM. While changing into warmer clothes we overheard a live radio broadcast of Art Bell. It was coming from Dust Devil Radio, which was kitty-cornered behind us. The three of us went over to the camp’s owner, Danny, to get the scoop.
In case you dont already know, Art Bell did a radio show about many kinds of supernatural, spiritual and philosophical subjects. Callers from all over the Pacific West were lighting up his switchboard about the comet! He eventually got a government official of some sort on the line, who proceeded to define the strange event as thus:
A Russian rocket booster, slated to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and plummet into the Pacific, broke orbit two days early and disintegrated over the Western US. Art Bell asked the official more detailed questions, but none were forthcoming. As to the general validity to the information, the official could only state, “That’s the story as I’ve been told.” We all laughed, detecting the hint of ‘grain of salt’ in the officials voice. For all accounts, I can certainly see how it could have been a falling Russian rocket booster breaking apart... though this does nothing to explain why the power went out in Art Bell’s radio show home of Pahrump, Nevada as the ‘booster-comet’ went over...
We spent the raminder of that night babbling goofy nonsense over the radio. Danny put on a huge fake nose & did Jimmy Durante impressions until we could no longer breathe from the laughter. We still could not get over the perfect timing we had, tripping, being in the perfect spot in the strangest place on Earth, to perfectly witness that heavenly show. That whole night is by far my favorite experience at Burning Man.
As for the 2000 meteorite art piece, it is simply that. It was intended to be a small hoax that played upon a bigger mystery.
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diane o'thirst
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Twenty tons? That's five Hummers, or two bull African elephants, or three male orcas.
I think we'd <b>KNOW</b> if something that gravitatious hit anywhere near BRC, wouldn't we?
Check it for iron. A red glow in a meteorite means it has iron in it. Ooooh, skymetal!
I think we'd <b>KNOW</b> if something that gravitatious hit anywhere near BRC, wouldn't we?
Check it for iron. A red glow in a meteorite means it has iron in it. Ooooh, skymetal!
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