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NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:01 pm
by tomtexan
Millions of dollars worth of equipment.
PALESTINE, TX (KLTV) - Some University of Minnesota students are scratching their heads after several years of research, in the form of a high tech balloon telescope, has vanished.
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Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 9:23 pm
by Dave2
Well that's odd. I wonder who stole it, and how much trouble the driver is in?
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 10:22 pm
by Keith B
They found the trailer unopened somewhere here in Dallas. They didnt say where, and not sure exactly why it was.
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 1:00 pm
by n5wd
Dave2 wrote:Well that's odd. I wonder who stole it, and how much trouble the driver is in?
The trucking company fired the driver, so you can kinda guess that he probably didn't do what he was supposed to do.
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:24 pm
by TLE2
They found the stuff, too.
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:41 pm
by The Annoyed Man
Dave2 wrote:Well that's odd. I wonder who stole it, and how much trouble the driver is in?
The Palestinians?
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:41 pm
by barstoolguru
this is more common then you think, driver run out of time in their log books and have to stop for some crack and next thing you know 3 days pass before he comes down off his high
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:47 pm
by surprise_i'm_armed
Note that the report is out of Palestine, Texas (pronounced Palace-steen, not Palace-styne).
It wasn't destined for the Israeli's favorite neighbors.
SIA
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:50 pm
by Dave2
surprise_i'm_armed wrote:Note that the report is out of Palestine, Texas (pronounced Palace-steen, not Palace-styne).
Yet they insist on spelling it in such a manner as to cause people to say "Palace-styne". I mean, really, if they can't be bothered to spell it right...
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 9:59 pm
by Medic218
Well, same thing in eastern Collin Co.
There is a small city called Nevada(Na-va-da) with a hard "A" as opposed to the state out west, Nevada(Ne-vaa-da) with the soft "A".
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 10:59 pm
by The Annoyed Man
surprise_i'm_armed wrote:Note that the report is out of Palestine, Texas (pronounced Palace-steen, not Palace-styne).
It wasn't destined for the Israeli's favorite neighbors.
SIA
Note that I was making a small joke. Perhaps it was too small to be out by itself.
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:28 am
by The Mad Moderate
The Annoyed Man wrote:surprise_i'm_armed wrote:Note that the report is out of Palestine, Texas (pronounced Palace-steen, not Palace-styne).
It wasn't destined for the Israeli's favorite neighbors.
SIA
Note that I was making a small joke. Perhaps it was too small to be out by itself.
Hey I got what you were saying, and to be honest the first thing that crossed my mind was "why are we sending a telescope to the Palestinians?".
Re: NASA telescope headed for Palestine vanishes
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:43 am
by Jumping Frog
barstoolguru wrote:this is more common then you think, driver run out of time in their log books and have to stop for some crack and next thing you know 3 days pass before he comes down off his high
That's not accurate for the 99% of trucking companies that are reputable. I've dealt with thousands of drivers over a number of years and have not experienced that situation.