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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:13 PM
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Anyone know what this might be? Washed up on beach in UK


Here's part of the related article, Mystery container found on beach, at the Beeb:

    Experts are trying to identify a huge metal container that has been washed up on a beach in the Western Isles.

    The tank, which is 27m high, has no markings and is thought to have fallen from a ship before being washed up on the west of Benbecula.

    It was discovered by a dog walker on Poll Na Crann beach - known locally as Stinky Bay - near Griminish.

    Stornoway Coastguard is using two numbers on the container to try to find out where the item has come from.

The article says it probably contained liquid of some kind, but it's ruptured and empty.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:14 PM
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1. looks like a fuel cell for a rocket of sorts
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:16 PM
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4. That's what we thought, but surely NASA would have missed one of those? n/t
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:19 PM
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8. there's more than one space program going on in the world
;)
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:22 PM
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17. Why do you hate America so?
:)
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:14 PM
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2. Did it contain those missing White House files?
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:21 PM
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11. no, it's way to small. n/t
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Liberty Belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:41 AM
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49. ha! good one. ;-)
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:14 PM
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3. It's an Iranian A-bomb! Run!
:rofl:
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:16 PM
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5. Skylab!
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:52 AM
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54. YES! We had a portion of Skylab land on our shed at Camp Clearwater
when I was eleven. There's the rest of it!!:bounce:
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:17 PM
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6. I'd say it probably came from the USA at one time or another.



That number '8' was written like an American would make it.



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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:18 PM
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7. It's a 5580. Sheesh.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:19 PM
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9. Yeah, late model-slash-B. Dam shame about that dent.
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:22 PM
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16. You sure it's a slash-B? The matriculator looks like a slash-C
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balantz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:20 PM
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10. Huge water filter?
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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:21 PM
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12. Iso Tank w/o the frame? n/t
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:21 PM
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13. very large pod people? world's biggest recycleable soda can? nt
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Froward69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:22 PM
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14. Silo or a beer vat...
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:48 PM
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33. Ding ding ding - we have a winner - Beer Vat
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:10 PM
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38. Yep
See post #37
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:22 PM
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15. Numbers indicate that it probably didn't come from an Arab country
as the numbers in Arabic are far different from those used in the West (who ironically call their numeration system "Arabic"--it is not--it came from India via the Arab traders, who didn't use it themselves).
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:23 PM
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18. It's Pickles lost Chardonnay supply for November. n/t
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minnesota_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:32 PM
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21. Pickles seems like a BOX wine kind of gal (n/t)
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minnesota_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:36 PM
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25. dupe
Edited on Sat Dec-29-07 08:37 PM by minnesota_liberal
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Dawggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:25 PM
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19. Sorry, that's me. A bit too much to smoke with the Doctor last night
and I wandered to a taxi afterwards to get to my flat.

I'll pick it up in a day or two. Please don't let them tow me.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:31 PM
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20. As in, it's a Tardis?
Bloody hell, doesn't the Doctor know to leave the inter-dimensional parking brake on?
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Dawggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:34 PM
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23. Naw, the Tardis is god knows where.. I'm a friend of Captain Jack's
this one's named Mable.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:33 PM
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22. Hmmmm. Those are Arabic numerals written on it. Coincidence? NT
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:34 PM
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24. It came from the codpiece of li'l Georgie's war hero jet fighter pilot costume
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BelgianMadCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:38 PM
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26. The rectal pill
Edited on Sat Dec-29-07 08:38 PM by BelgianMadCow
Bush* deserves?
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Dawggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:39 PM
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27. On the serious side, it looks like a chemical reactor of sorts.
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minnesota_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:42 PM
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28. Homer Simpson's PIG CRAP silo
Edited on Sat Dec-29-07 08:43 PM by minnesota_liberal
From "The Simpson's Movie"
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:42 PM
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29. Industrial storage silo
My guess.

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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:58 PM
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35. That looks about right in shape and size
Wish there was a better photo of the beastie to compare the other end to that diagram.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:22 PM
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40. Probably was being delivered on a ship
Edited on Sat Dec-29-07 09:27 PM by ThoughtCriminal
and washed off in rough weather. I heard that is very common.

Not an expert on these things, but it also looks to me like the tank is insulated because there seems to be an inner tank that would match the diameter of the cone. I assume this would support the theory that it was designed to hold a liquid.


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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:45 PM
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42. It's in the Outer Hebrides. Could also be from a North Sea oil platform.
Edited on Sat Dec-29-07 09:46 PM by Xithras
Some sort of storage tank on one of the platforms that blew off during a storm? That would also explain the insulation.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:52 PM
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44. I don't think it was installed
The plates that the gantry(?) would be bolted to do not seem to be torn or bent.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:42 PM
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30. I don't know but
:tinfoilhat:
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:44 PM
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31. Anthrax supplied by the Chimpy and Dick as retribution for discontinuing
the use of "War on Terror". Either that, or lots of pressurized whipped cream. :shrug:
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:44 PM
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32. Could be one of Saddam's floating mobile chemical weapons labs.
Check with Powell.

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momster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:50 PM
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The Illudium PU-96 Explosive Space Modulator
Of course.

"Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
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postulater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 08:50 PM
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34. Benbecula is an island in the Outer Hebrides
Benbecula's main settlement is Balivanich (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a'Mhanaich, meaning "Town of the Monk") in the northwest. It is the main administrative centre for the three islands, and has the council offices and the administrative centre for the artillery deep sea firing range on South Uist, which is managed by QinetiQ. The village is also home to the airport and the island's bank.

- From Wikipedia

Could be related to the artillery deep sea firing range nearby.

Or again it could be just a vat from one of the local whisky distilleries. Talisker on nearby Skye used to have to float their barrels out to the ships in bad weather just to get them somewhere where they could be sold.

I like to think it's the whisky.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:47 PM
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43. Heh, and it was "emptied" after the locals found it.
n/t
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:01 PM
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36. Saddam's nuke
Those WMD's gotta be here somewhere.

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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:09 PM
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37. It's a beer vat
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:56 PM
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45. Nice find. You win. n/t
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:47 AM
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53. Hmmmm, looks like we may have a winner here
How'd you find that pic?
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:58 AM
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55. I lived in a beer vat before moving to the nave of a church.
Now I live with a few cute mice who try to keep me sober long enough to share the cheese.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:10 PM
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39. It's Cheney's shredder.
He moved it before he torched his office.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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A HERETIC I AM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 09:23 PM
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41. Dammit, i was wondering where that went....
I had it in my backyard only yesterday and off it floats, as if Scotland is SOOOOO much nicer than Fort Myers.

I wish i had never built the damned thing. Fuckin' tank with a mind of it's own. All i wanted was for it to stay put while i fermented this last batch of.....oops..never mind.
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 10:09 PM
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46. I could be wrong, but that looks like a beer vat to me....
I've seem them unloaded at Miami airport, the one I saw was Dark Ale beer from Spain.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 11:34 PM
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47. It's a K8 5580. Says so right on that cone tip.
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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:05 AM
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48. Major Nelson and Major Healy might know
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:44 AM
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50. I'm voting for hoax.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:45 AM
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51. Just a giant fuel filter
...everybody knows that! :D

Maybe a grain silo as suggested above - who knows.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 12:46 AM
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52. It's the last shred of my dignity.
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Kip Humphrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 01:47 AM
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56. ALIENS!!! (the outer space kind) - We're being invaded!
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-30-07 02:06 AM
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57. Cheney's escape pod.
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