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What the @7/**$$ was that?

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 9:51AM

Did anyone hear this yesterday afternoon, and if you did, what did it sound like?

Here's the story

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Mr Mistoffelees

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:08AM

We heard a loud crack in deepest West Somerset.

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Bing.alau

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:08AM

Maybe whatever it was splashed down in the sea?

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Bing.alau

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:09AM

Not like you to use bad language FE!

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:11AM

Not like you to use bad language FE!

I didn't know you could read classic Venusian.

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Woolwell

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:16AM

I didn't hear or feel anything but at around that time one of our dogs did bark as if someone was at the door. I had to show her that no one was there.

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Bing.alau

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:18AM

FE> I thought that perhaps you had tried to use quotation marks.

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johndrew

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:25AM

I don't suppose we have another supersonic sky diver do we?

Or perhaps the sound of the first one has slowly crossed the Atlantic!!

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 10:47AM

It interests me because reports say the sound was loud enough to make the ground and buildings shake. If it was a sonic boom, and was made by something crossing pressure changes in the atmosphere whilst falling, the object that made it must have been fairly large, and is likely to have hit the ground, or (more likely) landed in the sea.

I'm intrigued by it.

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Aitchbee

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 12:24PM

It might have been one of these things (or similar):-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object

... or [more likely] a fragment of space-junk raining down!

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WhiteTruckMan

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Posted October 19, 2012 at 1:58PM

Isn't that what Arthur Dent said just as the Vogons arrived to demolish the earth?

WTM

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