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Default how stupid us americans can be. - 04-26-2005, 01:32 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/25/meteor ... index.html

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Default 04-26-2005, 02:08 PM

its kinda understandable how they mistook it for a plane crash. I mean afterall they are massholes.
  
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Default 04-26-2005, 02:29 PM

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGhey there.



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Default 04-26-2005, 04:06 PM

[quote:f4963]"We're getting various descriptions of lights in the sky," he said. "Everything from green lights to planes going down."[/quote:f4963]

This is why I don't believe in UFO's
  
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Default 04-26-2005, 04:10 PM

Well, everybody should take this forum personality test to find out if there reeeeeally is any UFOs........

http://www.holymoly.co.uk/personality.html

Here is what I got:

You love the good life. You live extravagantly and like everything around you to be beautifully crafted. You are optimistic, have an excellent sense of humor and enjoy having your friends around you. You normally go against social rules and regulations. Overall you and your fellow forum members get along just great.

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Default 04-26-2005, 05:21 PM

Only in Boston. annoy:


  
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Default 04-26-2005, 06:09 PM

[quote:fb961]how stupid us americans can be. [/quote:fb961]

That is just shallow. -1

These are "New Englanders" reporting a possible plane crash... quite understandable in my opinion. If any region of the country would be on edge about plane crashes, I would expect them to be.

A meteor shower, you understand are huge hunks of rock and iron falling from the sky at thousands of miles per hour. They typically burst into flames, and often are incenerated before impact... thus creating the lights and flashes.
It is not uncommon for some of these rocks to actually "survive" and crash into the ground, causeing forest fires, destroyed property, and make huge crashing - ground rubbling sounds.

Stupid is certainly not the term to use, perhaps ignorance to the cellestrial events, but the best term to use...in my opinion would be concern.
  
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Default 04-26-2005, 06:13 PM

living in fear.


  
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Default 04-26-2005, 06:21 PM

[quote:6958c]how stupid us americans can be[/quote:6958c]

If you are any indication.. indeed, my friend. Indeed.



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Default Re: how stupid us americans can be. - 04-26-2005, 06:40 PM

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/25/meteor.shower.ap/index.html

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and the people who post about it annoy:
  
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Default 04-26-2005, 06:57 PM

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[quote:1e889]how stupid us americans can be
If you are any indication.. indeed, my friend. Indeed.[/quote:1e889]

[img]http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ek867/compassionate.bush.jpg[/img]


  
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Default 04-26-2005, 07:14 PM

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[quote:d8872]how stupid us americans can be.
That is just shallow. -1

These are "New Englanders" reporting a possible plane crash... quite understandable in my opinion. If any region of the country would be on edge about plane crashes, I would expect them to be.

A meteor shower, you understand are huge hunks of rock and iron falling from the sky at thousands of miles per hour. They typically burst into flames, and often are incenerated before impact... thus creating the lights and flashes.
It is not uncommon for some of these rocks to actually "survive" and crash into the ground, causeing forest fires, destroyed property, and make huge crashing - ground rubbling sounds.

Stupid is certainly not the term to use, perhaps ignorance to the cellestrial events, but the best term to use...in my opinion would be concern.[/quote:d8872]

100% agree, well said.

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Default 04-26-2005, 07:19 PM

People are stupid for thinking a plane crashed? Perhaps from a distance one would believe the meteor shower resembled a plane crash.


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Default 04-26-2005, 07:20 PM

I would do it too, stars as they are freak me out.
  
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Default 04-26-2005, 08:23 PM

We Americans are indeed stupid, as is the rest of the human race. However, that is a poor example of it. Below is a fine example of American/Human stupidity.

http://www.groundforce1.com/forums/view ... ?t=1007581
  
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