[meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

Sun Jul 17 17:28:18 EDT 2011

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 <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. .' 

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Rob Wesel 
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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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