[meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

Sun Jul 17 18:38:47 EDT 2011

Yes Matthias! Oompa-Loompas are originally from Bilanga-Yanga but have 
taken nicely to hide out in Bavaria.  They originally came to Canyon 
Diablo but were chased off by the crater patrol and decided that 
Germany was more fun and the beer was better.  In case Rob's film and 
children's book didn't get international exposure, here's the clip from 
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" in question:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Aa5ho4wCU&t=2m52s

You can watch them errupt from deep down below Ries crater (the 
altimeter reads negative before the red dot) as Willy (Gene Wilder), 
Charlie and grandpa blast off in the great glass elevator, through the 
roof of the chocolate factory clearly inside the crater, to gaze upon 
the beautiful medieval town of Nördlingen back in 1970, the circular 
crater nature is apparent....

Speaking of their language, Suebian, I wonder if the filming was from 
the town tower (or aerial for real) made of Suevite breccia.

Best wishes
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann at web.de>
To: nakhladog at comcast.net; Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; 
MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 17, 2011 5:50 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta

Ah, Doug, unmasked! Found guilty to be hand in glove with these highly 
suspicious Oompa-Loompas!  Tried to hide them as Bavarians! Not at all. 
They live around Nördlingen, yes, that's about 40 km from my home. But 
they talk ..... Suebian of course. The real extraterrestrial dialect. 
Even the Suebians don't understand it really. So the camouflage is 
perfect. A minority of them lives close to the Moldova river, their 
ancestors travelled there riding the well known Moldavites. All these 
little guys adore the Ries crater structure as a gigantic chocolate 
grinder. The seemingly feel quite well there. 

That's what I'm allowed to say about this subject. Mysterium cacaorum 
tremendum. 

Best, 
Matthias 

 be hand in glove with sb. 
----- Original Message ----- From: "MexicoDoug" <mexicodoug at aim.com> 
To: <nakhladog at comcast.net>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> 
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 11:28 PM 
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? 
> 
> 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. .' 
> 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" <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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