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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago

Chinese underwater weather balloon.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, BBC posted it on their site.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or radioactive ☢️ like in some sad stories of the past.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"It wasn't glowing green like in the movies so we didn't worry!"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if it glowed bright green some people would have played with it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just an exhausted rocket stage. Definitely not explosive.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but they didn't know that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 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] 3 points 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UFO - - Unidentified Floating Object !

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So glad I saw your comment first!

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as opposed to an 'identified mystery object', lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dear landlubbers: it's very obviously a buoy.

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