[meteorite-list] OT Vesta

From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:14:56 -0700
Message-ID: <55DD87F54DE441FF99FE6641B395A8D9_at_RobOffice>

I'll give ya the crater (I didn't know that until now - Ries/N?rdlingen
being the filming site) but Vesta is more the territory of Mr. Bass and the
little green people of the Mushroom Planet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet


Rob Wesel
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From: "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:28 PM
To: <nakhladog at comcast.net>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: 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
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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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