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I was standing in the garden about a week ago when a hazlenut dropped a few feet in front of me in a generally downwards direction. As I looked at nut 1 it was joined by another nut (nut 2). I would estimate time between nuts to be in the order of three seconds or so. Terminal velocity of both nuts was not enough to cause damage to the nuts themselves or surrounding flora/patio. Closer examination of the nuts revealed that they were perfectly ordinary nuts, although without the usual covering of toffee and chocolate.
In my limited experiance of nuts and gardens this is not a usual occurance. Nut 1 appeared to fall staright downwards, entering my peripheral vision from above and continuing downwards to the nut/ground (ng boundary) interface. The trajectory of nut 2 is unknown due to the observer not observing it. Weather conditions were British.
Can anyone give me a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon?
 
A subversive squirrel, having eaten the toffee and chocolate (the best bit of an otherwise quite plain though natural snack, in my opinion!) to spite you?
 
If we take the ng boundary into account and factor the n1 and n2 into the gravitic equations of Einsteins Relativity theory and factor in height 12 feet speed "pretty slow" and general fortean rating "medium" then we actually get NWO=alienhelphelp so I think it is actually a friendly alien trying to warn us of the evil aliens in charge. In his own way.
 
I think you grossly miscalculated the fortean factor in this case.
I stand by my Subversive Squirrel Hypothesis (S.S.H.).

By the way, do you know where I can get a Holy Prepuce? My old one is getting a tad shrivelled now. Note: I'm not showing off or anything, but I need a LARGE one.
 
Aaah! the lack of scientific knowledge!

If something drops , it will drop downwards ! How else do you expect it to drop!

Then there's the botanical factor - if they break, they're not performing their reproductive function!

The next issue is, of course, the confectionary angle - Hazelnuts have, for years, been surrounded by chocolate, but not usually by toffee - and I can claim great experience in transforming bars of Hazelnut Chocolate into small bags of (plain) hazelnuts (cf Birds of a Feather, episode number unknown, but funny!)

By the way, do you remember what kind of tree you were standing under? Wasn't Hazel, was it?

Extensive research (sorry I can't tell you more at the current time) suggests that Aliens can't handle Hazelnuts - Brazil nuts, peanuts, whatever, OK, but the shells on Hazelnuts play gyp with their dentures.

And finally, Holy Prepuces: I'm currently waiting on a new batch being delivered, and, due to the currently innaccurate communications between us and Barnard's Star (caused by excessive interstellar ionisation), sizes may vary from pre-circumsicion to extra-monster, but I don't really know.

Patience, as they say, is a virtue.:)
 
Thanks for the info all but I don't think I have the answer yet.

DerekH, It's a well known scientific fact that things only fall downwards if there's someone there to see them. Point noted about nuts being broken when dropping, will examine mine closely and report back. The only tree in the area was a helicopter tree and it was off to the side. Nut 2 could have come from the tree with an L shaped flightpattern while I wasn't looking. Not sure about the feathered birds, hazel nuts have no husk to grab and the local birdlife isn't large enough to carry nuts.

Tubal Cain, the squirrel theorum is interesting but, I'm afraid, flawed. My research has shown that squirls only hand out bits of rag and in-flight magazines. Also to get the angle for nut 1 it would require a flying squirl, which is a silly idea I'm sure you'll agree. Also don't see connection between my nuts and your shrivelled relic...

Phadrox, v. impressive maths but the space aliens could have just phoned like they normally do, no? I think this is the direction for further study though, especially in light of the chief reptoid's recent blood drinking binge.
 
Maybe they fell out of a plane passing overhead?
Suggest that maybe a bird dropped them...... or something...
 
I believe I know! Do you have neibours (can't spell!!!! aarrgh!)? I suspect a catapult structure being tested by nearby catapult testers. Why use a rock/person when a nut will do? ;)
XCOM
 
Hmmmmm... that's got me thinking, what would happen if there was, say, a Fortean rain of leaves, but it happened near some trees, in autumn. No-one would ever notice!

Sorry, I'll keep me thoughts to meself in future...
 
Could they have come from a catupult if they dropped straight..?
I stand by the plane..... either that or the UFO pilot found out that he/she/it didn't like hazlenuts.... and so teleported it outside..... okay, I'll take my pills now....
 
You people don't know nuffink.....I listened to some geezer on the radio the other day and the fact is that everything that falls from the sky...........everything mind you, is cos of tornadoes......everything......he should know, he went to university.
 
Tornadoes - I knew there was a rational explanation.

Nut update - they have mysteriously vanished from the bit of the garden where they was left. Didn't notice any tornadoes today but I had to go do some shopping for a bit.
 
It's obvious. Something found out that you'd joined the FT message board and wanted to get mentioned so it could show off to its mates.

More nuts will soon arrive and spell out messages requesting songs to be played on the radio and birthday greetings for relatives.
 
DanHigginbottom said:
More nuts will soon arrive and spell out messages requesting songs to be played on the radio and birthday greetings for relatives.
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And what song was it that you wanted? ;)
 
I suggest that one of your neighbours simply lobbed a couple of nuts high in the air, where they were caught by the wind and ended up in your garden.
 
Why spoil a really thoughtful thread with such a nonsensical theory? Any Fortean knows it can't be that simple!

Perhaps the Earth goddess was going to make patterns with the nuts, symbolic of ultimate truths, but couldn't find enough nuts so went back to corn circles.
 
Originally posted by Evilsprout
Hmmmmm... that's got me thinking, what would happen if there was, say, a Fortean rain of leaves, but it happened near some trees, in autumn. No-one would ever notice!

But they would surely fall in perfect circles.:blah:
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Similar thing happened to me. I was in the house and my next-but-one neighbour came steaming up the path, demanding to know why I let my son (7 at the time) lob eggs around. At the same time my lad came into the house, excitedly babbling about eggs falling from the sky! We all three examined both lots of eggs and in each case there were about 3 or 4 normal hen eggs and all were ker-splatted as if dropped from a great height. The only local Bad Lad was on holiday and he couldn't have thrown eggs that far horizontally, never mind drop them vertically with such force.
I've been baffled by this for years and it certainly threw my neighbour too.
 
Did you weigh them? If your nuts are particularly light then it will affect the speed at which they decend. Did you check if your nuts were warm to the touch or cold? Cold would imply that they were in a low energy state before you touched them, hot the reverse. Observations like these are important.

Did you disect your nuts? were they filled with toffee or chocolate? If they were it implies thar they appeared through a rip in the fabric of spacetime from a universe, unimaginably horrible to us, where they eat the nuts and discard the chocolate.

Even without the chocolate filling they may still have come from somewhere outside normal spacetime. A rip with warm nuts means the place was in a state of high excitement. Were there any post-pubescent young ladies in the vicinity? They have often been associated with such states.

Finally were you standing on your head? If so the nuts fell up instead of down. Have you had any Ideas about gravity though this is more normally associated with apples
 
escargot said:
I've been baffled by this for years and it certainly threw my neighbour too.
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Sorry to be prosaic, but my mate used to keep chickens and the eggs were always being nicked by rooks - possibly a couple of rooks fighting over a couple of eggs and dropped them?

I was walking with a couple of friends across a residential street and a 2p piece just dropped out of the sky at our feet - we were right in the middle of the road at the time...
 
If rooks are capable of shifting 6-8 eggs at once and dropping them 10 yards apart in 2 close groups then yes, perhaps it was they. Though we were living in the middle of an estate, no chuckies kept for miles.
 
escargot said:
If rooks are capable of shifting 6-8 eggs at once and dropping them 10 yards apart in 2 close groups then yes, perhaps it was they. Though we were living in the middle of an estate, no chuckies kept for miles.
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Bloody hell. I think you're being bombed by war chickens mate
 
Hmmm. Weren't hazelnuts symbolic of wisdom? I seem to remember something about a magic Salmon who was only fed hazlenuts. Maybe they only LOOK like hazelnuts. Did you eat any of them?
 
In the last few weeks I've noticed seven breaks in the glass roof of the greenhouse.

They are small 2" to 3" star shaped breaks. I would have thought it was kids with air guns or catapults, BUT, the greenhouse is shielded by shrubs on two sides & there are breaks on the roof on this side as well.

The wife, says the breaks were probably made by crows. As earlier in the Autumn, she says that she saw the birds stealing walnuts from under the walnut tree & flying off with them & reckons that they probably dropped a few along the way.

So OK, this is the first year that we've had a large corp of nuts from the walnut tree, but I've never seen or heard of crows taking nuts, (in their shells as well), before!!!!!

Oh! And I've already had the: "Maybe they thought they were rather tough eyeballs" 'joke' !!!!!
 
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