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Friday January 13, 2006

Incoming space debris...

There is a bit of a tradition in the tech circles of Sun in the UK to find the most esoteric, odd ball or just plain funny URL or email and forward it around to a select group of appreciators on a Friday afternoon. This is the 'Friday URL'.

Occasionally this explodes into a frantic exchange of humour based on how 'good' the URL/email is. Last Friday was one of these.

Robin forwarded us all the unlikely tale of a poor Nigerian spaceman. Particular attention was devoted to the subject of space station exports, which eventually degenerated into mammoth speculation what exactly was done with 'waste products' produced by the occupants of the space station in question.

After applying our brains for a while it was clear that the best bet was to dump the stuff into the earths atmosphere and allow it to burn up. I even coined a new technical term: "The Excreteor." ;-)

Of more serious note would be the ones which didn't burn up completely and actually hit the ground. These are: "The Excreteorites."

If you were unfortunately enough to get hit by one of these and happened to live in the United States (prone as it is to turning nouns into verbs) you might suffer that most terrible of fates....

...Excreteorisation.

Maybe you had to be there, it was a Friday after all!

( Jan 13 2006, 05:19:28 PM GMT / Jan 13 2006, 05:13:54 PM GMT ) Permalink
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