Nördlingen, 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 -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:28:18 -0400 > Von: MexicoDoug <[email protected]> > An: [email protected], [email protected] > 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? > > Nördlingen, 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 Nördlingen > (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 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected]; MexicoDoug <[email protected]> > 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 > ------------------ > Nakhla Dog Meteorites > www.nakhladogmeteorites.com > www.facebook.com/Nakhla.Dog.Meteorites > www.facebook.com/Rob.Wesel > ------------------ > We are the music makers... > and we are the dreamers of the dreams. > Willy Wonka, 1971 > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "MexicoDoug" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:36 AM > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
