[Ads-l] semantic shift: "shrapnel"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yahoo News:

 " 'Oumuamua was shrapnel from a tiny planet in a different solar system."

JL

Now, a pair
<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006706> of
papers
<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JE006807>
published
in an American Geophysical Union journal offers another theory: that
'Oumuamua was shrapnel from a tiny planet in a different solar system.

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:51 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Interestingly, the metal detector crowd has been heading down to the
> "virgin sand" on the Jersey Shore, looking for unburied treasure.
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> On Thursday, November 1, 2012, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> > At 11/1/2012 12:40 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > >CNN reports that the sand forced by the storm into New Jersey
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> > >"can't simply be dumped back on the beach, because there's nails and
> > >shrapnel in there."
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> > Maybe from German Uboat shelling off the Jersey shore during WW II?
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> > (Please put this down to the flakiness of my internet connection today.)
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