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Incoming Coronal Mass Ejection == Pretty Aurora
Bill Kendrick writes: "SpaceWeather.com reports that a recent coronal mass ejection on the sun (photo) will be hitting the earth tonight and tomorrow night, causing midnight auroras in northerly points. The moon being a crescent will help, too. Check the skys around midnight, wherever you are."
Why couldn't god have created the Earth such that those of us in the tropics have a chance to see the auroras every once in a while. Why should a frozen wasteland such as Canada get to have them and we don't?
"If I hadn't had Slashdot when I was coming out, I don't know what would have happened. There would have been no one to connet with, no twinks to share my rage with, no bears to gain knowledge from. Slashdot was the ultimate gay hookup and for that alone am I thankful I created it years ago."
Obviously, Slashdot serves more than the "tech community" it purports to cater to. In 1999, Slashdot hired then-Wired columnist Jon Katz, another openly gay literary genius. Sporting blue hair and multiple facial piercings, the angst-ridden Katz expresses in his writings are clearly visible in real life. "I'd found a home, with Rob [...] Wired was too straight, but at Slashdot I fit right in."
Finally, in early 2000, public homosexual and Nazi censor Michael Sims joined the Slashdot orgy crew. "I wanted to introduce goat sex and a lot of non-Slashdot, homosexual, erect male penises to the group," said Sims, "so ESR got involved with donkey dicks and we all like to suck each other off." Without Rob Malda, Michael Sims would be nothing except an aggravated gay male without a place to call home.
"Slashdot is definitely the place to be gay" concluded Sims.
"Definitely the place to be gay."
Much better then "System backup on the weekend is running longer then we expected and some systems will be down"
I actually liked this comment from further down
CLOSE ENCOUNTER: On March 8, 2002, a 70-meter wide asteroid glided by Earth only 1.2 times more distant than the Moon. Named 2002 EM7, the space rock approached our planet from the direction of the Sun and was discovered by MIT's LINEAR search program four days after the flyby. Recent observations suggest that the asteroid won't come so close again for at least 100 years.
Try to place yourself between the sun and the enemy. This puts the glare of the sun in the enemy's eyes and makes it difficult to see you and impossible for him to shoot with any accuracy.
Oswald Boelcke, 1916
Just my luck, when it's the foggiest cloudiest night I've seen in two years something pretty happens.
~Anztac
Holland is in the Netherlands, not in Michigan, you dumb fuck.
I'd like to interrupt this regularly scheduled troll fest and take the opportunity to complain about the new large ads.
/. in "light" mode, the large ads don't play very nice. They cover up the buttons to change the threshold and to reply to the article (as viewed with Mozilla (I don't care about how well your browser displays them as I don't use your browser!)).
When viewing
On a personal note, I don't see how the large ads will generate more revenue or clicks. They are simply more annoying then the old ad size. The products they advertise are more memorable. But when I see the product somewhere else, all I think of is, "That's that product in those fucking annoying ads!"
Thank you for you time. We now return you to your regularly scheduled troll fest...
Go not unto/. for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (but have nothing to do with the question)