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Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States
pingpong writes "Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found. The Daily Camera is reporting it online here."
Field reports invited.
I think this guy owes us an explanation. Does he know something we should know?
Have you been stalked by Seth today?
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Keep salt water handy...it's your only defense! It melts them.
Give a hand, not a hand-out.
All we need now are signs in random fields and we can start to panic.
Arm those water guns!
It's gotta be weather balloons. It's always weatherballoons. Big, fiery, exploding weatherballoons
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
one of those ships from Quaoar ..
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Could it have anything to do with the three and a half pounds of sodium in the other story I just saw?
Over at the Denver Post
There was a time in my life when I would have been excited by this. ...but then I saw 'Signs'.
I'm going to go home and start filling up water glasses.
A speech...
I had the time to: understand (maybe) what it was, wake up my wife, stop the car, get out an look. Total time maybe 20 seconds. The 'object' was moving slowly, spewing green flames and eaving a long lasting orange trail behind. Trajectory was more or less horizontal. It disapeared in a flash. I tried to listen but there wasn't any noise besides the cooling car engine.
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On the "astronomical" chance of anything being discovered, Sgt. Byfield said, police would have contacted officials from the University of Colorado to determine what to do.
Dude, I'd be mad as hell if some whack journalist put my name in the same goddamn PARAGRAPH as that pun.
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Other than:
- When they arrived
- Where they were seen
- Why they were in this vicinity
- Color
- Speed
- Size
- Origin
- Composition [Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Reach for the sky, hombre!"LUNCH, NOT LAUNCH!" I yelled as he absent-mindedly pushed the button that freed the living quarters from the rest of the station.
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Ok. I seem to have crashed. I can't move my legs. Could someone please get me an asprin? I'll try to walk. Oh God! The pain... it's excruciating! Ow. I think my leg just snapped. Ow. Ow. Ow.
"And I was really really looking forward to being probed."
So you are that goatse guy. Quit promoting your site here!
Many years ago, my family was driving from El Paso, TX to Albuquerque, NM, when we saw a number of fireballs. The first occurred just after sunset, was visually a large, bright green glowing object leaving a smoke trail. It traveled east to west and lasted about 10 seconds, then broke up into two pieces and disappeared. We were just north of El Paso, and were listening to KOMA in Oklahoma, City - there were many reports called in to them from many states.
As the drive continued, we saw about 6 more fireballs, all red, all running east to west, through the rest of the evening.
Quite a show. The clear and thin high altitude air of the rockies, along with the lack of city lights, makes these sitings a lot more common in those areas.
We didn't see any LGM, however.
The only good weather is bad weather.
There are many people that believe in the year 2003, another planet is going to enter our solar system from either outside the solar system or another dimension. It's known either as Planet X, or a name that starts with N, which escapes me at the moment... I do find it an interesting coincidence that a story was just posted about the discovery of a new planet, and now to hear of these bizarre fireballs. I'm sure they're having a field day with this on the Art Bell show tonight. I'm a skeptic on all things "extraterrestrial" and paranormal, but it's still really interesting to listen to. :)
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The sodium-in-the-pool experiment must be a go-code for them. ("Go go go! Our undercovers have turned all the water into acid!")
This is the funniest signature I could ever think of.
My favourite quote: "in the Gunbarrel area...". Americans! You're so damn steeped in gun culture you name neighbourhoods after weapons' parts.
True true, but as a previous resident of Colorado I can tell you that these names are at least 120 years old. They were so-named during the frontier era when the only thing that kept you alive was your gun. Mountain men relied on thier weapon for food and for protection. That's just the way it was in the West during the 1800s, and that's why they named stuff the way they did.
It just makes a canajen boy shake his head and celebrate the difference.
Maybe you should study your countries' history a bit more.
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is the planet's name, for anyone who wants to do a Google search or look on Art's site about it. I should also mention that they expect highly evolved alien races to accompany this giant planet/spaceship. :)
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"rash of fireballs" Reading that line made me snort milk.
These big, slow green fireballs happen from time to time. The only difference this time is that there were two different consecutive fireballs in two days. Its probably two chunks of the same rock...
Just like shoemaker-levy did when it smashed an earth sized crater in Jupiter. No worries.
I note that the reports are of the fireballs landing near Boulder. Does this mean that Mork from Ork has arrived?
Nanoo Nanoo!
[For those young whippersnappers who don't watch TV land, the popular TV show Mork and Mindy, starring Robin Williams, was set in Boulder]
Several /. readers e-mailed their concerns over a sharp increase in one-liners today, fueling speculation that these one-liners are not just a random occurance, but perhaps the first ungodly signs of the oncoming apocolypse.
..." Taco then gurgled and sputtered and dropped to a heap on the patio.
"usually we'll see a few, maybe even a bunch, of one-liners for certain stories we've posted," said CmdrTaco, languishing in a drunken hallucinagenic stupor on the steps of his villa in the south of france. "but christ, its like henny youngman possessed the populace on a scale rivaling that of
"certainly one-liners are a common, almost obligatory, form of logical reponse," said one reader, "but this many makes me want to get in a white van and shoot people at random. do these people think they're funny? its really just in bad taste."
one-liner watchers are unconcerned however. "we've seen this before - like the article about the giant Bart Simpson doll copulating with a penguin - and no substantial harm was done on the long term." some, however, are still reliving the nightmare.
with no end in sight to this barrage, Micro$oft engineers have released a worm to tack on at least 3 sentences promoting WindowsS.Ux, Ballmer Edition to each post to space out the green bars just a little further.
WOuld it be Orson Welles, by anyc hance?
Jay (=
The first conlusion we should all jump to is that this is unequivocable evidence of an extra-terrestrial encounter.
All those who say otherwise are cynical naysayers.
By the time they are convinced it could well be too late. The time for action is now.
I for one support the military action that George W. Bush is planning for these alien enemies of state. So grab a gun and head for Colorado! Time is a-wasting.
54 comments, and only one triffid reference??? and that one made reference to the _stupid_ movie where salt water killed them.
what's wrong with you people!
maybe there's just nothing funny about plants that eat people...
Yeah, well I was hanging out in the Sears on Bolt Street, when I heard about this party happening down on Breach Avenue. I got into my Colt and hammered my way down the street, with my hair-trigger reflexes in my fingers. I scoped out the target and got a grip on the situation. I squeezed my way into the crowd and set my sights on this girl. I locked and loaded my line, and came up to her and told her I could clean her bore. Needless to say, she slapped me with a magazine, and clipped my fun for the evening. Fortunately, I had the caliber to move on to the next range the day after, and soon I was rifling my way through the lanes. The alley was pretty cool, but I wasn't cocked until I saw the one of my dreams! The hunt was over, all I needed to do was hit the bullseye here. I saw her go into the powder room, and strategically positioned myself for her return. When she came out, I got a grip on my nervousness, and asked her to join me for some evening shooting. We played all night, then went back to my place. She asked me to show her the double-barrel. She chambered my round just fine, and I shot a load. I now knew the meaning of what it was like to be a sex pistol.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
If you're like me, you *want* to see some pictures.
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireballs.html
Quite a bit of extra information is on this site as well.
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You wrote: "How typically Canadian. Instilling Canadian gun culture in 4 year old children. Digusting!" Perhaps my perspective stems more from the value and education placed upon a gun. Seeing gun ownership as an extention of your Constitutional Rights and a necessary control upon your elected officials seems to play into the the perennial fascination Americans have with the wild mythos of the 'True West', not to mention the ultimate political extension in the form of the Monroe Doctrine.A gun to me is utilitarian object but potentially dangerous and is to be treated as such. Perhaps where my first introduction to gun lore was by way of two injunctions: (1) Treat every gun as if it were loaded; (2) Never point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot, perhaps the 'merican ethos is more akin to threaten to shoot as a matter of foreign policy.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
... great balls of fire!
What a concept! It simply shakes my nerves and it rattles my brains.
"My knowledge of guns started at the age of four when my first .22 calibre single shot rifle was purchased for me."
.22 when you were four?
You got a
I live in Texas and I never shot anything but a BB gun until I was 12.
How can you even make a comment about Americans and guns? =P
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
reentering our atmosphere and burining up like...FISHY FIREBALLS!
Not to be confused with the local Szechuan restaurant's seafood special, FIERY FISHBALLS!
I read a few days ago that near Irkutsk, Russia a big meteorite seem to have fallen in a remote location. The thing seemed to be huge and it seems to have landed as there was a small quake after getting out of view.
Besides, if I don't miss things it looks like that there is one more account about a similar phenomena out of the USA. Unfortunately I don't remember the place.
So, it seems that we are inside some fresh new cloud of cosmical debris. The events we see are probably the result of Earth crossing the trajectory of Kuiper belt newcomer. Usually, when this happens, we get some spectacular phenomena on the skies, usually presented as meteorite showers. However this fireball show is surely less usual to see. The fact that this lasts for a few days is probably the result that the newcomer crumbled to pieces while approaching the Sun.
I found it odd that they said it happened at almost the exact same time on both nights and each night it was heading in a different direction.
Being in Colorado, if on the chance it was our government playing with a new toy, I wouldn't be surprised. IIRC, Nevada, offshore California and the Rocky Mountains and parts of Colorado are prime testing areas.
There are some pretty crazy ideas out there for propulsion, however I know of none that would create anything this big in such a shape (tail only 2-3x longer than width one person stated in the Denver Post article). This also doesn't explain descriptions of "chunks falling off" of the fireball.
I have yet to see "Signs." I suppose in this case that's a good thing. =)
~Dalcius
Rome wasn't burnt in a day.
Never tell me the odds.
I find it amazing that my paper, the Daily Camera could actually merit a post on slashdot.. wow..
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Having had guns pointed at me by cops I can tell you that it gets your attention real quick. Not pointing the gun at someone until you actually intend to put a bullet in them overlooks the secondary purpose of guns, which is to make the blood run like icewater in your veins.
Incidentally all I was guilty of was speeding (10 mph over) and not pulling over when they put the lights on me (my back window was iced over and there are lots of streetlights on mission street in santa cruz.) The minute they bleeped the siren I pulled over, and I rolled down my window to find two guns pointed at my head. Scary as fuck.
Also, your bit about foreign policy is just trolling. Fish elsewhere.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
yeah right.
It's very odd that the CNN article said the second fireball was going the other way from the first one. If they were both from a debris cloud and occurred at the same time in the same place they should have been going in exaclty the same direction since they would be travelling in more or less the same direction and the orientation of the Earth in relation to their path would be more or less the same...
If the article is correct, one or both of the fireballs must have been something else, such as a sattelite reentering the atmosphere, despite all the quotes from experts saying that they were meteorites...
heh. word up ;] my crenshaw homies r on it.
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O.K. aka Izzak Walton... right you are I was trolling.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Well I'm about 7 miles away from Gunbarrel in Lafayette. It's just a few miles to the east of Boulder. Gunbarrel is a nothing town between Boulder and Longmont. Nothing happens there.
To stay on topic, however, these "fireballs" are causing the most brilliant members of the Denver area to make their opinions known. Several people, went interviewed on 9 News, were convinced that an airplane had flown into a building...
Riiighht.
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to participate in it." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
We have guns in Canada???
Yeah. all those canadians. they're out to warp our fragile little miiiiinds.
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No doubt this is the beginning of the end for Colorado as the ALiens are probably kidnaping thousands of people and implanting them with mind control computers that will turn them into mindless Microsoft users. Who Cares.
It was a Cooey long rifle single shot, simple bolt action; I grew up with it as I grew up hunting. If you find my father's serious intent to teach his hunting and wilderness skills to his only son incredible, then you'll be dumbfounded to know I was born having inherited my great grandfathers 1894 44/40 Winchester. I no longer own it although I had a strong attachement to it. My dad's people trapped the tiaga for generations and hunting and wilderness lore were passed on almost like training for a trade.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
It wasn't one of the most recent fireballs, but the one on September 6th.
It was probably around 8 at night and I was walking back to my dorm room (Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs) from work. I was almost back to the campus when I saw a bright but small fireball in the northeast sky. Mostly white with a bluish tinge it moved pretty slowly (for a metor/shooting star) across the sky, parallel to the ground, and leaving behind little particles that glowed briefly before fading away. After about 30 seconds, the fireball itself faded away.
Since there was a plane in the sky near where I saw it first, I thought it was a firework or something shot from the plane. Maybe the military testing something (who doesn't like a good mystery?). For some reason, a metor never occured to me.
I've always wanted to see one of these, cool.
There's just so many ways to reply... but to stay with the ambience... how 'bout we've already kicked your ass at hockey, now we're just trying to help you see things a little more multilaterally. :0
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
A couple of years ago, I was hitching back to my house - a fairly short journey of about 20 miles or so. I got a lift with a guy I knew from near where I live, and we were talking about astronomy and space debris. Now, this particular night was pretty overcast, with more-or-less complete cloud cover at about 1000' and by this time, fairly dark. Just as we were stopping outside my house, we saw a fireball of some sort, presumably a meteorite, which left a bright flame-like trail and was clearly *below* cloud level. We saw it break through the cloud, then illuminate the bottom of the cloud above it.
Dood! William Empson's "Seven Types of Ambiguity" and N.O.Brown's "Life Against Death", wherein he advocated 'polymorphous perversity', informed my posts. I made a lighthearted jibe at a random bit in the newsbyte. When I got some robust replys I decided to play push the button labelled 'American Gun Culture', but I threw in the Monroe Doctrine to see if it would hit a nerve, the 'foreign policy' stuff was mostly a troll.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Canadian Fireballs ... and other Astronomy information can be had from this website. It is part of my Astronomy professor's site, and he specializes in fireballs.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Sept 20th at 0415 in the morning I was locking up the office to go home and as I turned away from the door I saw one go tearing across the sky from high in the southern sky to low in the north. It was amazing... almost the size of a dime in my field of view, bright white/blue with chunks breaking off that flamed orange and maybe a flash of other colors but it was over pretty quickly. :)
I thought the Northern Lights were spectacular but this thing blew my mind
I just never want to see one coming right for me.
Was I the only one that was expecting some photos at the daily *camera*?
Anyway, for those of you jealous of Colorado residents, take out your geeked out keychain and stare into the bright blue light. Now step outside and look at the sky. Yeah... it was a lot like that...
And don't worry, they should go away in a few hours.
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If you read the article you'll notice an utter and complete lack of any facts.
This reminds me of Orson Well's war of the worlds, but boys, isn't this about 3 weeks early to start this kind of story?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Hey, I'm not the only one to have seen this!!
I live in France, in Choisy-le-Roi, at 12 km of Paris.
At about 20:00 UTC (22:00 localtime) with (+-10 minutes of error), I've seen one fireball falling. I don't know the size and the distance at which it falled. But the direction was 170 degrees from my position. It didn't falled directly from up to down but with a small deviation from east to west.
I've called the local autorithy (Gendarmerie Nationale) at about 23:40 (localtime) but they said they had no other report.
Am I the only one to have seen this in France ?
Another witness reported seeing a bluish object about 10 to 15 times the size of a typical shooting star streak across the southwestern sky Monday night south of Boulder.
Wasn't that the guy who asked Kevin Kostner to call him "Mr. X" in the JFK movie?
From what I understand this is the same guy that also saw that indestructable "tin-foil" laying around in Maricopa by Roswell after that big bang one night. And he once had a Job on Area 51 and had this bumb-in with a small greyish green bug-eyed humanoid in a silver spandex jumpsuit.
I know that guy. He's absolutely trustworthy.
Really.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Apparently another one landed in Russia - there is a fresh impact crater reported at wired.com
Okay, here's my wild speculation to add to the bunch: These fireballs remarkably coincide with a space shuttle launch. I think they were caused by either debris or other "stuff" originating from the craft.
I'm not a big fan of seafood, but my girlfriend insisted I try one of her favorite childhood foods. It tasted about like shoving a live bass in your mouth and licking it as furiously as possible.
My girlfriend's aunt told me, "We Chinese people, for many years we do not have many things to eat, so we learn to eat anything!" and laughed and laughed. I just said, "No shit, but the frog ovaries aren't half bad."
Carmack and his merry band got more than the advertised 6 secs of flight. Where exactly is Armadillo Aerospace located?
Burning down Hemos' house wasn't enough. Now he's trying to burn down Colorado.
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Last year, while sitting on a dock in Northern Ontario (nice beer drinkin' summer night), my friends and I saw a blue meteor streak across the sky. Now, we weren't sure if it was the pot or the beer...but out of nowhere, we saw this meteor streak from East to West, clear across the horizon. Beautiful, really. The front was blue, and the tail was a light orange color. The really cool thing about it was that you could actually *hear* it.
We weren't sure if we were actually seeing what we were seeing (remember - pot and beer) until we heard a kid from about 10 cottages down yell: "MOM!!! LOOK!!!" Lasted about 10 seconds. (or six minutes, depending on your state of mind)
Needless to say, our wives didn't believe us. (one look at the bong, and all we got was "uh huh. Sure you did...".)
I'm here at the crash scene... there is a glow and a deep hum and a glow coming from the crater... a door is opening... oh my god... they're coming towards me... this is the most incredible thing i've ever trererewwerw
Well, I happen to work in the Gunbarrel area, and I just happened to be near the airport the article mentions at about the time (extreme coincidence, I won't go into details here).
The only bright light I saw was an airplane landing at said airport. Personally, I think what was going on was a lot of drug use. (Yes, there is enough drug use in the Boulder area to have 60 people mystified by an airplane landing.)
I live in northcentral Wisconsin, and I happened to have been driving last night at about 2am (*ahem* ....) when I saw something extremely similar to these fireballs. The one I saw was relatively slow-moving (about a 2-second display,) and appeared in the eastern sky. Extremely large (approx 10x usual meteorite size) and blueish in color, it traveled in a nearly vertical line from about 70 degrees to below the tree line. (15 degrees?) I never saw it burn out. It left no vapor trail, and I immediately slowed my vehicle & rolled down my window, but heard no sound.
Perhaps these things are happening over a larger range than previously thought?
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Damn.
I once saw what I thought was a satellite or a high-flying aircraft passing through the night sky roughly from south to north -- until it made a 90-degree turn almost directly overhead and accelerated so fast it was out of sight in about 1/2 second. (If you know how slow high-flying aircraft and satellites appear from the ground, you'll know that to cover 50% of the sky in almost no time at all is fast.) I didn't hear anything either.
When I mentioned it to my dad, who's a pilot and can identify almost every man-made flying thing in existence from minimal cues, he said he had no idea what it was either. My guess is an experimental unmanned aircraft, but it seems unusual that someone would be testing such a thing over London, Ontario.
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Composition [Class III Fireball - Do not handle without proper training and protection. Consult your handbook.]
Oh no! Fireballs have HMIS information?! I already have to find the rest of those 10 000 Material Safety Data Sheets for work; where oh where am I going to find contact information for "Fireball Manufacturers"?
As if my job weren't tough enough...
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I'm not a geek, I'm just a clever script.
The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun containing many small icy bodies. It is now considered to be the source of the short-period comets.
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Hope this helps.
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It was 54 years ago in central Italy, driving at night on a desert mountain road. I saw a fiery fireball in the sky, moving slowly from left to right.
I had the time to: understand (maybe) what it was, wake up my wife, stop the car, get out an look. Total time maybe 20 seconds. The 'object' was moving slowly, spewing green flames and eaving a long lasting orange trail behind. Trajectory was more or less horizontal. It disapeared in a flash.
I (and a bunch of other people) saw something similar at Lake Tahoe a few years back. Distinctly purple, slow moving, leaving trail, no sound, no flash.
Turned out to be a space shuttle re-entering on its way to Cape Canaveral. The purple is due to the composition of the tiles. The final orbit and upper-atmosphere reentry is visible over Tahoe due to the inclination. (I think that's a side-effect of chosing an inclination that lets them switch to Vandenberg [on the next pass?] if the weather at Canaveral is too crummy.)
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I bet that somewhere there's a list that looks like this:
... and so on.
Poodle: Cooked meat.
Goldfish: Popped.
Cat: Incomplete, hard to catch.
Pickle: Glows. (?!)
Beer: No way.
Cousin Ellie: Incomplete, won't talk to me now.
Bug: Zap.
I seem to recall there was an alternate theory for the apparent patterns in mass extinctions, having to do IIRC with the solar system's periodic crossing of the galactic plane (and the associated greater number of chunks of things big enough to cause climate-altering impacts, etc.).
"Biped! Good cranial development. Evidently considerable human ancestry."
Yes, it is the Martians, or Zhti Ti Kofft as they call themselves. The fireballs were warning shots. If they really fired the death ray, the oceans would have vaporized, covering the earth with a killing hot steam. Let us be thankful we haven't made them angry enough to really attack.
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I missed the meteors (living in Dallas = light pollution from hell) but like I said in an earlier post, a co-worker spotted one. He'll be excited to hear about lots of other people seeing equally stunning meteors.
:)
And thanks for the praise.
Millions of slashdot'ers have electrocuted themselves today...
Here's an interesting thing to try-- Stick a couple of old forks in a pickle with the handles pointing away from each other. Split a power cord down the middle and attach some alligator clips to the cut off part. Attach the clips to the forks and put the plug in the wall. After a few seconds, you'll see the pickel glow yellow between where the forks are stuck in the pickle. It's pretty neat to watch.
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Say you've driven up into the hills to find the meteorite, thinking you could maybe sell it to some them scientist fellers upta college. If it has broken open and is pulsing greenly, DO NOT poke it with a stick.
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nicklott wrote:
> strange, there was one in the UK last week
> (several comments link to it so I won't), and
> one that landed [bbc.co.uk] in russia
> [cosmiverse.com] too.
>
> No one seems to be linking these in any way, but
> they are quite rare events. There's a fair
> chance the UK one was also the russian one, but
> that's at least 3 fireballs within a week. Is
> that a coincidence?
Probably not. The Draconid meteor shower is expected for yesterday and today. The Draconids are known to storm on occasion. Fireballs are kinda rare, but two recent Leonid storms featured fireballs (1998 and 2001). Draco is a very northern constellation, so I would think the northern hemisphere sightings you give could be connected.
Hopefully, it is nothing to worry about. King Ghidora appeared the cover (upper right corner) and the back of the centerfold of Gamepro Magazine, and will be in two games enjoying global release at the end of the month. He's probably just showing off. Enjoy the fireworks and pray he doesn't make an appearance as the King of Terror or Mr. Mass Extinction Event!
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Here is a picture of a 1998 Draconid fireball:
r ac onids98.html
http://www.comet-track.com/meteor/draconids98/d
1998 was also the year of the Leonid storm (with fireballs) and the coming of the King of Terror in "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks".
Movie (December 1998): "The great devil will come from the sky!"
Video Subtitle (Summer 1999): "The King of Terror is coming!"
Moll, "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks"
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I thought it was fairly common knowledge that the super secret pet flight project of the government is the "Aurora". They use external combustion, essentially igniting the fuel on the wings of the plane to provide thrust. I'm not an aeronautics engineer, so I have no idea how or why that's any better than current technology, but they've been testing them for years, causing many a "UFO" sighting.
Considering that there's a couple of Air Force bases around here (Colorado), not to mention being within flight distance to Nevada, Utah, and other desolate places used for testing, it doesn't surprise me that they were seen.
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They did not intend to shoot me; They were thinking about it. It is inappropriate to point a gun at something which you do not want to perforate, but they did so to keep me cowed, which was hardly necessary as I was just a kid on his way home.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Out for a walk late last week in Southern California with some friends, a big blue streak shot across the sky...FAST, before disappearing just two seconds later. This one seemed very low and VERY bright; I'd guess maybe 10x brighter than a star. I don't go watching meteor showers or anything, so I don't have anything to gauge it against, but I have seen the Space Shuttle/ISS with the naked eye. This definitely looked much brighter, lower, and faster.
I would've suggested this company as a manufacturer of Highly Rated Fireballs, but they've switched business models. Will Atomic Fireballs do?
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
What if Newton thought the same thing when an apple fell on his head. Instead of thinking "it's just a coincidence" he gave it some thought and changed history.
The mark of a true scientist is to stop and wonder why.
War is necrophilia.
About two years ago, a friend of mine was on Wreck beach late one night when there was an absolutely spectacular northern lights display that almost covered the sky. As she was watching it, she said aloud "Oh, man, I can just imagine watching this on LSD".
3 guys (strangers) who were just behind her chimed up in unison.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
The newton episode may have been a cute story but the underlying principle is solid. The entire quantum mechanics grew out of Max Planck's asking the seemingly stupid question "why does a black metal turn red when you heat it"?
I never saw the movie sorry.
War is necrophilia.
"a helix of pure energy which spirals and radiates in ways no one understands." -- the fourth Doctor.
Yep. Gotta love that Mandragora Helix. ;-P
Furry cows moo and decompress.