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Archaeo-Histories
@archaeohistories@ohai.social  Â·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

In 1959, a cement mixer with a full load of cement, wrecked near Winganon, Oklahoma 🇺🇸

By the time a tow truck came to haul it away, all of cement had hardened inside of mixer. Tow truck was not able to remove all wreckage at same time because of weight, and decided to haul only cab/frame and would come back for detached mixer later, which never happened.

Today, 67 years later, it still sits where it fell. Locals have painted it and added "rocket thrusters" to make it look like a space capsule.

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@xChaos@f.cz replied  Â·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@archaeohistories how many reply-guys are needed to replace thrusters on a failed space capsule filled with err... cement or concrete? mastogrin

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חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen
חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen
@hananc@tooot.im replied  Â·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@xChaos @archaeohistories out of boardom I read the comments and was happy to know they are not a part of my fediverse.

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@xChaos@f.cz replied  Â·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@hananc they are not just entirely pointless mastoinnocent I am not reply-guy hater, in fact, I find this kind of Internet debate kind of amusing, it is somehow how we were always doing. I am bit of an aerospace nerd myself, so I must acknowledge, that some of the comments have pretty good point.

But if you ask me, if this is the way, how the federated nerdom of Internet is going to beat the combined Trumpism, Elonism, Putinism, and other mad -isms, plagueing the world these days... well, I am not sure. 🤔 But is is marginally funny.

Of course, they are missing the whole spectrum of possible symbolic meanings of that sculpture in public space, which on the other hand seems so obvious to some people, that the don't even bother to comment. But may it is obvious, but people choose to comment in a silly way, because it is more fun. This is why I posted this. I need to figure it out... masto_wink

Anyway, the space capsule artifact is a good job.

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חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen
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@hananc@tooot.im replied  Â·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@xChaos

What I love about the fediverse is that I can choose my small circle and no algorithm will shove to my feed people and posts I don't want.

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