Reg Smeeton
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« on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 17:29:45 » |
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what's it all about Alfie?
A lump of cheese fired into space has been found in a garden in Buckinghamshire.
The 300kg block of cheddar was attached to a weather balloon and launched into the upper atmosphere from Pewsey in Wiltshire on Tuesday, as part of the moon landing anniversary celebrations.
It drifted up to the edge of space at 18.6 miles (30km) above sea level, where it was hoped the 1.6m-wide helium balloon would burst and return its smelly cargo to earth.
Organisers of the stunt had been worried as to the cheese's whereabouts after the balloon's GPS system broke down soon after launch.
The cheese was thought lost until a resident of Cressex found it in their garden and took it to High Wycombe police station on Wednesday night. The interstellar fromage was still in one piece but the flight-recording camera attached to the weather balloon had failed.
Dom Lane, of Shepton Mallet's West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers group told the BBC: "I am driving back from High Wycombe with the cheese now. I may try a bit to see if it has matured at high altitude and then it will probably go into a glass case at our production offices.
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leefer
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« Reply #1 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 19:10:07 » |
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Thing is Reg..i would have sent half of it to Cheltenham..and half of it to Cirencester..and got double Gloucester.
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« Reply #2 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 19:20:00 » |
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When the guy from the cheesemakers (who are, apparently, Blessed) was on the radio on the day it went missing, he said it was half a kilo in a plastic box.
Where did 300kg come from?
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Thank [insert deity of choice] for beer and peanuts
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« Reply #3 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 19:26:19 » |
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Saw it take off on the telly, probably 3 kilo at the most!
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leefer
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« Reply #4 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 19:27:20 » |
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But it matures rapidly in space!
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I ain't gettin on no plane fool
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« Reply #5 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 20:10:11 » |
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good old wiltshire folk from pewsey! ohh arh.
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If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit...
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« Reply #6 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 22:44:58 » |
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300kgs?? That's over a quarter of a ton in real money!
Well exactly. If they were floating up a block of cheese weighing 300kg I think they'd be one hell of a lot of arguments to allow it. Think of the speed that 300kg block of cheese would be falling. It'd damage planes and people pretty easily. |
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« Reply #7 on: Friday, July 31, 2009, 23:18:29 » |
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Well exactly. If they were floating up a block of cheese weighing 300kg I think they'd be one hell of a lot of arguments to allow it. Think of the speed that 300kg block of cheese would be falling. It'd damage planes and people pretty easily.
Imagine processing the insurance claim - "Cause of damage to property? - a 300kilo block of cheese fell from space through my roof" |
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 19:12:08 » |
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Imagine processing the insurance claim - "Cause of damage to property? - a 300kilo block of cheese fell from space through my roof"
Emmen tahling you, it was an accident. |
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« Reply #9 on: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 19:12:42 » |
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Emmen tahling you, it was an accident.
its an Edam disgrace |
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #10 on: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 19:45:41 » |
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Getting cheese into space isn't rocket science. It's Brie-sy peasy.
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« Reply #11 on: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 19:58:47 » |
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Its not Brie-sy peasy its inCheddarbly difficult.
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