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Perseid Meteor Showers

Posted by michael on from the crop-circle dept.

obfuscated writes "'Flying gravel bank' attacks the Earth's atmosphere; damage unknown. Visible now and peaking on August 12th, the Perseid meteor shower is back to trained and amateur sky watchers. At its peak as many as 60 or more shooting stars can be visible per hour from the Northern Hemisphere. This year's viewing should be especially good since the 'Earth is expected to encounter the core of the Perseid swarm, where meteoroid concentration is densest, next Monday.' Space.com as well as MSN has the full text."

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  1. Where the FUCK are the KDE3 debs??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the FUCK is taking so GODDAMN LONG???

  2. Goatse.cx is down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Check this out:

    Microsoft(R) Windows 98
    (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

    C:\WINDOWS>ping www.goatse.cx

    Pinging goatse.cx [209.242.124.241] with 32 bytes of data:

    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 209.242.124.241:
    Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 0, Lost = 1 (100% loss),
    Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
    Control-C

    C:\WINDOWS>

    Weird, huh? See for yourself by clicking this link.