Alien Autopsy

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Remember the infamous ''Alien Autopsy'' hoopla 8 years ago? Just wondering if anyone knows if it's been put in the officlal hoax box.

[Franklinnoble]

Why?

[Suicane75]

I think it's been confirmed that that was footage of Anna Nicole Smiths augmentation surgery.

[dawgfan]

Isn't common sense enough to convince you it was a hoax?

[Karlifornia]

LOL@this thread. Oh man...I'm laughing so hard right now........Nevada does do weapons testing, so maybe Chemical Soldier got a little too close to one of the blasts...Just kidding, bro.

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

I knew it was a hoax to begin with but just wondering if people still thought it wasnt. :p ;)

[Desnudo]

Wasn't it on FOX? So there is some credibility there.

[sterlingice]

I thought that since it was on Fox, it was in the hoax box ;)

EDIT: Dang, Desnudo beat me to it.

SI

[Desnudo]

Read before you post. Knowing is half the battle. ;)

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Read before you post. Knowing is half the battle. ;)
GI JOE!

[sterlingice]

Read before you post. Knowing is half the battle. ;)
Well, what it was is that the first time I log in for the day, I open up all the threads I'm reading in new tabs so that I "pick them up where I left off" because if you reload any, the "View First Unread" tag will lapse. So, it took me more than the 7 minutes between your post and mine to get to this thread (ie I opened up the thread about 5 minutes before you posted but didn't post in it for 15 minutes)

SI

[sterlingice]

GI JOE!
How very 4th of July. Speaking of which, why isn't Cartoon Network showing that all day?

SI

[Desnudo]

Well, what it was is that the first time I log in for the day, I open up all the threads I'm reading in new tabs so that I "pick them up where I left off" because if you reload any, the "View First Unread" tag will lapse. So, it took me more than the 7 minutes between your post and mine to get to this thread (ie I opened up the thread about 5 minutes before you posted but didn't post in it for 15 minutes)

SI

All that obfuscates the fact that you should:

Read before you post. Knowing is half the battle. ;)

[Suicane75]

obfuscates
You, AgPete, QuikSand, MrBigglesworth and albionmoonlight.
I'm keeping tabs on you guys.

[sterlingice]

You, AgPete, QuikSand, MrBigglesworth and albionmoonlight.
I'm keeping tabs on you guys.
Like Nixon's enemies list?

SI

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

What have I done!?!? I've created a monster!!!!

[Desnudo]

You, AgPete, QuikSand, MrBigglesworth and albionmoonlight.
I'm keeping tabs on you guys.

I'm just a simple poster, trying to earn a living.

[QuikSand]

Can someone give me an update on Sidd Fynch? I suspect he must be just about ready to break into the bigs by now... I'm very excited.

[Franklinnoble]

Can someone give me an update on Sidd Fynch? I suspect he must be just about ready to break into the bigs by now... I'm very excited.
Winner. :D

[dawgfan]

Can someone give me an update on Sidd Fynch? I suspect he must be just about ready to break into the bigs by now... I'm very excited.

Didn't you hear? It was the steroids that gave him all the velocity - with the new testing program in place his fastball suddenly dropped from 160 MPH to 80MPH. He's just another junkballer now...

[MikeVic]

Can someone give me an update on Sidd Fynch? I suspect he must be just about ready to break into the bigs by now... I'm very excited.


When I read that article, I half-believed it... there was the side of me saying "how the hell is he not in the major leagues, and why hasn't this been headline sports news??" But there was also the side of me that hoped it would be true. Imagine that velocity. :D

[MikeVic]

dola,

is there any research available on what the human arm is topped out at? I've never heard of anyone throwing over ~105mph... is there a limit to the torque a human arm can take?

[Desnudo]

http://baseballguru.com/attiyeh/bbread20.html

Was the fastest pitch ever, 101 MPH?

Kimberly wrote:

At the water cooler I overheard a co-worker claim that the fastest timed pitch thrown in major league baseball was 101 mph. Hasn't Clemons and Johnson both topped that mark ?


Mike Attiyeh's Response

Hello Kimberly,

On official record, the fastest and most accurately recorded pitch during a major league game remains 100.9 mph, registered by Californias Nolan Ryan on August 20, 1974 at Anaheim Stadium.

Reliever Billy Koch, I recently heard during a radio broadcast, may have topped the speed - but on a fast gun.

Some believe Bob Feller was clocked at 98.6 miles per hour in 1947. And according to a fellow SABR member whose name I forgot, the great Walter Johnson was clocked  using a different, raw system more than eight decades ago  in the high 80s, without a warmup, mind you, and in civilian clothes. Johnson was a "Big Train" indeed.

So Kimberly, while Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens do throw fast, they have yet to officially top Ryans legendary mark, from what I have gathered.

I hope I have helped,

Mike Attiyeh

[dawgfan]

There have definitely been guys clocked higher than 100MPH, but most of them were probably on a 'fast' gun. I've seen games where Bartolo Colon has regularly been hitting 100-101 on the gun readings at Safeco, and I'm sure I've seen Billy Wagner hit 100+ on national broadcasts. I don't know how accurate these guns and readings are, but I have a hard time believing Ryan is the only guy to have legitimately hit 101.

[dawgfan]

Dola - while I can believe Randy Johnson hitting 100+, I don't think Clemens has ever been quite that fast - I thought his upper limit was around 96-97.

[MikeVic]

101mph? Really? Maybe I'm confusing 105 with Al MacInnes' or Al Iafrate's slapshots? I swear I thought Juan Guzman threw ~101mph during the 1993 World Series... I wonder how they determine which radar guns are accurate...

[Franklinnoble]

Rick Vaughn threw a 101 M.P.H. pitch against the Yankees once...

[Karlifornia]

Dennis Quaid also has one hell of a fastball.

[korme]

You, AgPete, QuikSand, MrBigglesworth and albionmoonlight.
I'm keeping tabs on you guys.
Your paucity of precocity exasperates me.

[Suicane75]

Your paucity of precocity exasperates me.
I believe at least one of those words is made up, C/D?

[korme]

I believe at least one of those words is made up, C/D?
If C/D is shorthand for Care to Defend, I am fucking money.

And none of those words are made up baby

[sabotai]

That's right...it's all just a hoax...all of it.....and DON'T YOU FORGET IT OR ELSE!

Ahem. Nothing but a hoax.

[Ragone]

Rick Vaughn threw a 101 M.P.H. pitch against the Yankees once...


funny because i watched that movie today :)

[JeeberD]

I saw Brad Lidge get up over 100 against the Brewers last year...

[NoMyths]

Why do I keep expecting Bubba to show up any minute with a Coast to Coast link disproving the hoax?

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

Why do I keep expecting Bubba to show up any minute with a Coast to Coast link disproving the hoax?
Coast to Coast has gotten stale the past year. Always with the''ghosts,'' Ufo's, Nostradamus....etc. Personally I would love for Coast to Coast to focus more on ancient civilizations (Sumeria, etc), and Geo Political stuff like they used to.

[sterlingice]

Coast to Coast has gotten stale the past year. Always with the''ghosts,'' Ufo's, Nostradamus....etc. Personally I would love for Coast to Coast to focus more on ancient civilizations (Sumeria, etc), and Geo Political stuff like they used to.
I remember listening to that from time to time when driving back and forth between Lawrence and Columbia. Could get stations from everywhere around: Denver to Cincy to Minneapolis to Dallas to Atlanta and more. But, i I were driving back after about 11pm, there was always Coast to Coast and their wacky X-Files-esque conspiracy show. My personal favorite stories were about the Illuminati like how the Bush family was trying to consolidate their power and move up in their rankings of the Committee of 300. Good stuff.

SI

[CHEMICAL SOLDIER]

My personal favorite stories were about the Illuminati like how the Bush family was trying to consolidate their power and move up in their rankings of the Committee of 300. Good stuff.

SI
Wonder if they are still a ''mid major power''?

[BigJohn&TheLions]

Wow. I completely forgot about the Alien Autopsy. Where is Rosanne Barr anyway?

[MrBigglesworth]

I believe at least one of those words is made up, C/D?
'precocity' is the root of 'precocious', as in 'a precocious child' :)

/800 SAT verbal score coming in handy for once