[meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:09 +0200
Message-ID: <20110717220009.249310_at_gmx.net>

N?rdlingen, Bavaria? Hey guys, here is some "official" stuff: http://www.noerdlingen.de/ISY/index.php?get=276

If you go there to visit the place, you will be fascinated! There is a guy on the so-called "Daniel" church tower shouting out some few old words every evening at the full hour, and if you climb the "Daniel" at daytime you will be rewarded by a good view of the Ries crater rim on clear days.

And, of course, don?t forget to visit the Rieskrater museum right there in town - very nice!

Alex
Berlin/Germany


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> Datum: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:28:18 -0400
> Von: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
> An: nakhladog at comcast.net, Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

> Hey Rob
>
> No way I'm wrong about the Oompa-Loompas living secretly at Ries
> Crater! They absolutely do according to the original movie :"Charlie
> and the Chocolate Factory".
>
> My apologies for stealing ideas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
> and forgetting how to spell Oompa-Loompa! Oopsa Loopsa ...
>
> I should have tread more carefully over your favorite !
>
> To prove the point, let me generally pick up your citation where you
> stopped, of the sacred text:
>
> "I myself use billions of cacao beans every week in this factory. So I
> talked to the leader of the tribe in Oompa-Loompish and told him how
> his people could have all the cacao beans they wanted if they would
> only come with me and live in my factory. Well the leader was so happy
> he leaped up in the air and threw his bowl of mashed green caterpillars
> right out his bong-bong tree window. So, here they are!"
>
> Rob, the next question is - where is "here"? It certainly sounds like
> England or Wales, but ... when Charlie finally gets to look over the
> factory in the great glass Wonkavator elevator that goes up, down
> sideways and anywhere else you want, the movie shows him leaving the
> factory hovering over the beautful village.
>
> What village?
>
> N?rdlingen, the very same location of Ries Crater, of course!
>
> Not only that, the Oompa-Loompas are diogenite crazed - they have green
> hair and were grown on a diet of green caterpillars in their original
> homeland where they developed the slingshot technology for green sample
> return missions and the great glass elevator itself, both of which were
> originally defenses against the snozzwangers you mentioned!
>
> This defense rests ;-)
>
> Best wishes
> Doug
>
> PS the reason I didn't mark this OT, is because next time you get to
> visit Ries Crater you can see how the beauty of the town of N?rdlingen
> (Bavaria, Germany) had it selected as the town of the chocolate factory
> and thus launch pad for the next adventure when the elevator was used
> as a space ship and docked on the space station (the book was written
> long before the ISS) where some terrible astronaut-eating aliens were
> that would eat everyone on Earth, except they can't come down to the
> planet without spontaneously turning into meteorites (or that's how I
> remember it - maybe it was just "shooting stars") ...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog at comcast.net>
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jul 17, 2011 3:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta
>
>
> Dude?
> ?
> It's Oompa-Loompa and they live in Loompaland, not Vesta?
> ?
> ?Then you?ll know all about it,? said Mr Wonka. ?And oh, what a
> terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most
> dangerous beasts in the world ? hornswogglers and snozzwangers and
> those terrible wicked whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten
> Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second
> helping. When I went out there, I found the little Oompa-Loompas living
> in tree houses. They had to live in tree houses to escape from the
> whangdoodles and the hornswogglers and the snozzwangers. And they were
> living on green caterpillars, and the caterpillars tasted revolting,
> and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment of their days climbing through
> the treetops looking for other things to mash up with the caterpillars
> to make them taste better ? red beetles, for instance, and eucalyptus
> leaves, and the bark of the bong-bong tree, all of them beastly, but
> not quite so beastly as the caterpillars. Poor little Oompa-Loompas!
> The one food that they longed for more than any other was the cacao
> bean. But they couldn?t get it. An Oompa-Loompa was lucky if he found
> three or four cacao beans a year. But oh, how they craved them. They
> used to dream about cacao beans all night and talk about them all day.
> You had only to mention the word ?cacao? to an Oompa-Loompa and he
> would start dribbling at the mouth. .'?
> ?
> http://static-l3.blogcritics.org/10/12/22/150635/oopma.jpg?
> ?
> Rob Wesel?
> ------------------?
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> ------------------?
> We are the music makers...?
> and we are the dreamers of the dreams.?
> Willy Wonka, 1971?
> ?
> ?
> --------------------------------------------------?
> From: "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>?
> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:36 AM?
> To: <majbaermann at web.de>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>?
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta?
> ?
> > Hi Matthias!?
> >?
> > Do you think your Tatahouine was mined on Vesta by the Oumpa Lumpas!
> > Unfortunately all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put
> > Tatahouine together again, so we'll never know with 100.000...000% >
> certainty if 99% of them all ever had any fusion crust.... :-( :-)?
> >?
> > Won't you be surprised when you find that Vesta actually was mined by
> sly > Oumpas living under Ries Crater that have a giant slingshot,
> perfect sense > of masses, orbits and atmospheres of everything and
> have been mining Vesta > to songs that have been heard for thousands of
> years ... by hurling > projectiles on precisely calculated
> billiard-like trajectories at that > return samples to Earth. Of
> course, each time a space-faring gaggle of > geese pass by the
> returning stones, Vesta stones being so attractive to > their eyes,
> they pick them right out of the path and bring them to earth > during
> June and November migrations, and set them down somewhere in Africa >
> where they pick at them like chicken feed and love the icing, until
> they > shatter into zillions of pieces. - And you thought you had
> Tatahouine > figured out now that you have that beautiful new stone ;-)
> But maybe you > are on to something about why it is so difficult to
> know Vesta's "perfect" > mass!?
> >?
> > Happy Day!?
> > Doug?
> ?
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