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And the homeowner just happens to be a NASA aficionado?

Why not? This place isn't very far from the Kennedy Space Center.

The Kennedy Space Center is on the east coast of Florida. The house was on the west coast of Florida. And they're about 180 miles (290 km) apart. I guess from the point of view of space, they're not very far, but from someone living in Florida, I'm not sure I agree.

That's only a few hours drive, not very far.

I thought the same thing. I’m sure he’s the primary investigator of this case, but I still wonder how he came to suspect the ISS for a solid soda can ripping through two stories of his house.

If something that looked as weird as this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIvJrciWwAAKWXY?format=jpg&name=...

Came flying through my roof and two floors of my house, I would immediately think it came from space.

It looks like a huge bullet.

Yeah I’d think a misfired c-130 20 mil cannon round before I thought random space stuff hit my house.

I'm surprised, it looks nothing like a cannon round, also, as far as I'm aware the military has no kinetic bombardment it uses, I know a couple of years back they talked about the rods of gods system, but outside that I don't believe there are any rounds in the military that are just massive chunks of metal?

Why, do you live in a hospital?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike)

> 42 people were killed and over 30 were injured

> United States would be making condolence payments of $6,000 to the families of those killed in the airstrike

Wow. How generous.

From this angle. But it's half melted. I don't think bullets of this size half melt.

This time it was. Maybe there's actually a bunch of unreported "dark debris" hitting roofs of people who aren't NASA aficionados with Xitter accounts :)

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