I'm not saying that it was a hot cocoa sampler box...

It's a streetlight

King Something: It's a streetlight

Clicked in for this; leaving satisfied.

It's not a streetlight it's been in the same position in the sky for several years now, always glowing and atop a pole. No streetlight could possibly do that.

You humans have to get over this UFO thing. it's crazy - you're all alone, I mean, we're all alone here. To think aliens may be among us, posting to Fark, studying your human ways, it's just silly. We're not here. I mean, they're not here. No one's here. Not from another planet. So stop looking. Please.

Hector Remarkable: You humans have to get over this UFO thing. it's crazy - you're all alone, I mean, we're all alone here. To think aliens may be among us, posting to Fark, studying your human ways, it's just silly. We're not here. I mean, they're not here. No one's here. Not from another planet. So stop looking. Please.

All I know is that if you try and stick a metal hoobajoob up my butt, I'm going to kick your little grey ass all the way back to Alpha Centauri.

That's the best camouflage for an UFO I can think of.

With pic of what a hot paper bag might look like

I'd hit it.

Regarding the photo w/ the article, why would anyone think of UFO's in Death Valley when China Lake is next door?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_China_Lake

So we were doin' paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. And me and Bill were patrolling down Nine Miles. We're approaching the wreck, and there's this spherical object a restin' in the highway. And it's not a piece of the car.

Wayne 985: No other object as been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus. Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once, but it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus. Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.

Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing?... Your scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt your ignorance by telling anyone that you saw anything last night other than the planet Venus, because if you do, you're a dead man.

Best episode of television...ever.

It was also the 1st X-Files ep I had ever seen. So even as good as some others were, they were something of a disappointment.

LDM90: Best episode of television...ever.

THIS.

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Wayne 985: LDM90: Best episode of television...ever.

It was also the 1st X-Files ep I had ever seen. So even as good as some others were, they were something of a disappointment.

Mad_Radhu: LDM90: Best episode of television...ever.

THIS.

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FYI, if you have Netflix streaming, it's instantly available. Season 3, episode 20. I could watch it a million times.

Heh, It's also on Amazon Prime. I just re-watched it.

/ "Who? Lord Kinbote?"

I am disappointed that no one has shopped a hot chick into a paperbag yet to really show Subby what a real hot paper bag may look like.

Subby here, and I'm disappointed in that too.

Didn't read the article but I do know for a fact that people can and do get very upset when you burst their bubble with any space related science. I used to be fairly active with meteorite collecting (hence my name) and have even been on the national news as a "meteorite expert" once or twice. I've identified pieces of metal, wood, burned dirt, a fossil, aluminum foil, and just about anything else you can think of as being not actual meteorites. If you were in the position I was in for a couple of years you actually begin to recognize the pattern of how these things go. A person finds a weird rock somehow or another, they'd recently seen a show or read an article talking about how certain meteorites can be worth thousands and thousands and dollars, they look at a few pictures on the internet to compare to their rock, their rock doesn't match a normal meteorite so they immediately think it has to be one of the super rare (read valuable) types that to a normal person can be a little difficult to tell between the two, they expect you to tell them they're right and to go shopping for the new house this is going to buy them, you break their heart by telling them it is a piece of wood and there is no wood from space because there are no trees in space, they accuse you of trying to rip them off even though you're not trying to get their garbage from them, they tell you you're an idiot who despite studying them for years they know more about meteorites than you do because of their two hours on eBay, they'll gladly take their meteorite to someone else who knows more about them and will be willing to pay them what their worth, and they'll warn you all about how their going to have their lawyers come after you for something or another, and then you never hear from them again.

Tada...... longest sentence in a Fark thread today!

Yeah, but if you just ignore it, you're gonna lose all your funding..

meteorite: Didn't read the article but I do know for a fact that people can and do get very upset when you burst their bubble with any space related science. I used to be fairly active with meteorite collecting (hence my name) and have even been on the national news as a "meteorite expert" once or twice. I've identified pieces of metal, wood, burned dirt, a fossil, aluminum foil, and just about anything else you can think of as being not actual meteorites. If you were in the position I was in for a couple of years you actually begin to recognize the pattern of how these things go. A person finds a weird rock somehow or another, they'd recently seen a show or read an article talking about how certain meteorites can be worth thousands and thousands and dollars, they look at a few pictures on the internet to compare to their rock, their rock doesn't match a normal meteorite so they immediately think it has to be one of the super rare (read valuable) types that to a normal person can be a little difficult to tell between the two, they expect you to tell them they're right and to go shopping for the new house this is going to buy them, you break their heart by telling them it is a piece of wood and there is no wood from space because there are no trees in space, they accuse you of trying to rip them off even though you're not trying to get their garbage from them, they tell you you're an idiot who despite studying them for years they know more about meteorites than you do because of their two hours on eBay, they'll gladly take their meteorite to someone else who knows more about them and will be willing to pay them what their worth, and they'll warn you all about how their going to have their lawyers come after you for something or another, and then you never hear from them again.

Tada...... longest sentence in a Fark thread today!

Tunguska. A meteor exploding?

Have you ever been to that huge site I think it's out in Arizona where there's a meteor crater that's very very big?

I think that would be an incredibly interesting hobby that would take you a lot of interesting places.

squirmster: With pic of what a hot paper bag might look like

I'd hit it.

Definitely not. Just look at those sharp creases.

Boxingoutsider: Tunguska. A meteor exploding?

Have you ever been to that huge site I think it's out in Arizona where there's a meteor crater that's very very big?

I think that would be an incredibly interesting hobby that would take you a lot of interesting places.

About the furthest it's taken me is a crater in Kentucky not too far away from where I live (if you're driving between Louisville and Lexington on I-64 you've driven through it). I haven't actually found any myself as I just bought or sold most of my meteorites online. If it gives you any idea I've either traded or sold to NASA, the Smithsonian, and a few other places in other countries that are Smithsonian equivalent in their part of the world. There's one entire classification of meteorite where the largest privately owned piece in the world is sitting in my basement. Mars rocks and moon rocks? Got those too!

I do have a piece of wood from one of the trees that was made a telegraph pole from the blast and few pieces of the Arizona one too. They are a fun hobby that I actually made a bit of cash from for a while there.

Pampurrr: Regarding the photo w/ the article, why would anyone think of UFO's in Death Valley when China Lake is next door?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_China_Lake

Even worse: that's not a picture taken *from* Death Valley. The terrain looks more like the Owens Valley looking east towards Death Valley. Fighters fly there all the time: I've twice seen them from above as they zoom up a canyon.