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Missing space flight cheese may have landed in south Bucks (From Bucks Free Press)
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Cheesemakers ask for help to find missing piece of Cheddar
5:20pm Wednesday 29th July 2009 in News By Alex Hayes
A GROUP of cheesemakers believe a piece of cheese lost after being launched into space could have landed in south Buckinghamshire.
The team from West Country Farmhouse sent the 300g piece of Cheddar up into the outer atmosphere on a weather balloon this morning, but lost track of it after a GPS tracking device failed.
They believe the cheese would have come down somewhere between Pewsey in Wiltshire, where it was released, and Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire, and would have passed over south Bucks.
The stunt was started at 4.30am yesterday to mark the 40th anniversary of the lunar landings.
It was expected the balloon would burst on the edge of space, about 100,000 feet and float back down in its capsule with a specially made parachute.
Philip Crawford, chairman of the group, said: “It seemed appropriate we should mark the anniversary of the first moon landing with a giant leap for cheesekind.
“We will not rest however until we know if the cheese did indeed make it where no cheese has been before, so would ask the public to help us with the safe return and contact us through our website if they find it.”
To contact the group log on to www.farmhousecheesemakers.com.
Comments(14)
WycombeMan&Boy
says...
6:31pm Wed 29 Jul 09
It even made it on to BBC News homepage!
http://news.bbc.co.u
k/1/hi/england/somer
set/8175347.stm
J B Blackett
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8:45pm Wed 29 Jul 09
OllieNewbury wrote:It's says 40th above Ollie N !
More sloppy reporting. Did the Lunar landings occur in 1949?:
"mark the 60th anniversary of the lunar landings..."
Was this written by a journalist?
Did you misread it by mistake ?
I think Apollo 11 landed during last week of July in 1969 , so it is believed.
Regards
OllieNewbury
says...
8:58pm Wed 29 Jul 09
J B Blackett wrote:Nope- it's been corrected. It said 60th earlier, in fact I copied and pasted the line above- proof for you.
OllieNewbury wrote:It's says 40th above Ollie N !
More sloppy reporting. Did the Lunar landings occur in 1949?:
"mark the 60th anniversary of the lunar landings..."
Was this written by a journalist?
Did you misread it by mistake ?
I think Apollo 11 landed during last week of July in 1969 , so it is believed.
Regards
Fancy not knowing the year of the lunar landings! What sort of training do these journalists undertake? If they spent two minutes proof-reading their articles, I'd have more respect for the BFP.
Castlefield
says...
10:14pm Wed 29 Jul 09
demoness
says...
7:47am Thu 30 Jul 09
OllieNewbury wrote:Most journos - well from reputable papers and magazines, have to have a degree in something like English language or history as it shows their reasoning skills and also there is obviously a lot of arguing and research involved in these subjects.Either that or they have to demonstrate that they are able to write a fluent, interesting and well thought out piece of work.
J B Blackett wrote:Nope- it's been corrected. It said 60th earlier, in fact I copied and pasted the line above- proof for you. Fancy not knowing the year of the lunar landings! What sort of training do these journalists undertake? If they spent two minutes proof-reading their articles, I'd have more respect for the BFP.OllieNewbury wrote: More sloppy reporting. Did the Lunar landings occur in 1949?: "mark the 60th anniversary of the lunar landings..." Was this written by a journalist?It's says 40th above Ollie N ! Did you misread it by mistake ? I think Apollo 11 landed during last week of July in 1969 , so it is believed. Regards
How do I know this? Because I have a friend who IS a journo, who has been an editor on a national magazine and who has read ( and laughed) at some of the articles written on here.
I actually think it is completely the fault of the editors and sub editors who allow this stuff through.
It is shoddy and doing the journos NO favours at all - if they want to be taken seriously by more heavyweight papers, this is not the way to do it.
ferrellcat
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9:46am Thu 30 Jul 09
TheT0nemeister
says...
9:53am Thu 30 Jul 09
ferrellcat wrote:Lol. I am surprised he wasn't found routing through the burnt out bin.
Anyway,just seen Ivor in hughenden walking about with 2 slices of bread in one hand and looking under the bushes with the other
Plus ça change...
says...
10:28am Thu 30 Jul 09
Extreme cheese rolling?
Story got me all churned up.
Now I'm just cheesed off.
frankbutcher
says...
11:23am Thu 30 Jul 09
demoness
says...
11:36am Thu 30 Jul 09
TheT0nemeister wrote:What and disturb all the yobbos that congregate around it?
ferrellcat wrote: Anyway,just seen Ivor in hughenden walking about with 2 slices of bread in one hand and looking under the bushes with the otherLol. I am surprised he wasn't found routing through the burnt out bin.
Plus ça change...
says...
1:27pm Thu 30 Jul 09
Maybe the cheese crashed into the stars of 'The Plough' and formed a Ploughman's.
Spitfire
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1:39pm Thu 30 Jul 09
demoness wrote:Only two slices of bread? Don't you mean 2 loaves?!
TheT0nemeister wrote:What and disturb all the yobbos that congregate around it?ferrellcat wrote: Anyway,just seen Ivor in hughenden walking about with 2 slices of bread in one hand and looking under the bushes with the otherLol. I am surprised he wasn't found routing through the burnt out bin.
acjy1985
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3:24pm Thu 30 Jul 09
uk.msn.com/odd-news/
article.aspx?cp-docu
mentid=148891047 I live in Cressex and was alarmed to read in the report from the above link that it was 300kg!!! So glad it was only 300g. Seems like sloppy journalism is spreading. It started here first!
OllieNewbury says...
6:18pm Wed 29 Jul 09
"mark the 60th anniversary of the lunar landings..."
Was this written by a journalist?