[meteorite-list] OT Vesta

Sun Jul 17 18:55:50 EDT 2011

Well, Rob ok!

Now, you are absolutely right about that.  Curiously you've now picked 
my absolute favorite children's book of all time (Is it coincidence or 
did you know), which two kind and generous list members actually had me 
shaking in my shoes by giving me the entire mushroom planet series of 
books.  The kicker is ... the author of Mushroom Planet despised 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and created quite a scandal and 
old-style flame war fighting it out with Charlie's authors...because 
the premises of Charlie and ..."  was a terrible direction to corrupt 
young minds with given the existing body of literature available to 
children.  The same concerns are why the Oompa Loompas lost their green 
hair after the book was written.  Charlie is one of my top ten as well 
so I guess I'm corrupted, but there was no foul smelling sulfur on 
Vesta like Basidium, Vesta is a sweet as a burst of chocolate so we'll 
have to hang the jury?

As for the green Mushroom people, I still think I'm one of them - and I 
have claimed being from Vesta before (Why not, Sterling is from Venus). 
  The whole thing can be reconciled if we are talking about the same 
crowd which staged a journey from Vesta on Basidium-X, a Vestoid, and 
hitched up to a gaggle of Wild geese to Earth after Mrs. Pennyfeather 
died and they were out of Sulfur (which is not naturally ocurring on 
Basidium-X) in the 1950s, and then established themselves in 
Oompa-Loompish until Mr. Wonka picked them up in the 1970s.  I'll drink 
to that ;-)

Best wishes
Doug
ref: stolen ideas from Mushroom Planet, Chocolate Factory, Little 
Prince, and another book or two as the arrival at Vesta seems as 
unbelievable as it has been long-awaited

-----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 6:14 pm
Subject: OT Vesta

I'll give ya the crater (I didn't know that until now - Ries/Nördlingen 
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? 
> 
> 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 
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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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