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Fredski
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What Is It?

02/19/2016 12:55 PM
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Re: what is it?

02/19/2016 12:59 PM

In space nobody can hear you beep...mechanical space flower...in bloom

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Re: what is it?

02/19/2016 1:24 PM

A garbage truck.
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02/19/2016 1:43 PM

sort of, the dump is even more exciting
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Re: what is it?

02/20/2016 9:44 AM

I dont see any wheels or hear a back-up alarm
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Re: what is it?

02/20/2016 1:50 AM

alien life-forms double-teaming a closet-bound
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Re: what is it?

02/20/2016 4:35 AM

Cutting head for a tunnel borer?

PS.I missed the small NASA sign.....

PPS. So it will never become an "accidental" Tunnel Borer!!

New guess, targets for "docking"?

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02/20/2016 8:11 AM

its a simple trash can!.....now it will be incinerated in the atmosphere
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Re: what is it?

02/20/2016 6:34 AM

Looks like the arse end of a Project Orion rocket (?) after half-a-dozen impulses.
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02/20/2016 8:51 AM

If the photographer would have stepped forward, and used a wider angle lens, we would be able to tell.... it is either a wobble-ating opto-acoustic discombobulator for launch-exhaust gases, OR, replacement guts for the Space Station's waffle maker (it IS kind of hard to tell them apart).
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02/20/2016 9:10 AM

https://youtu.be/_0H4E5IXEuk
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Re: what is it?

02/20/2016 9:30 AM

In all fairness, that was going to be my next guess...
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