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Leonid Meteor Shower 2002
Jacer writes "Adler press reports that 'approximately every 33 years the Leonid Meteor shower becomes a breathtaking meteor storm -- capable of illuminating the night sky with thousands of meteors per hour. Astronomers predict that the height of the storm over North America in 2002 could possibly generate 40 meteors every minute -- over 2,400 per hour!' Space.com has plenty of information available. I wanted to submit it early so you could plan ahead. It'd make for a long work or school day, but it's not something I'd care to miss."
where's my wishlist...
I thought this was last year... Or was there another meteor shower?
-- derby
And damn, I'm pretty sharp to have caught this, since I'm pushing 90 now...
Is get the hell away from NYC so I can see the sky fall.
Look Skyward November 19 In The Early Morning Hours To Catch The Leonid Meteor Shower.
And just what! am I going to use to catch a Leonid meteor? and if I do, can I sell it on EBay without NASA busting me for selling a piece of space rock that they say belongs to them?
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Somebody set us up the Meteor shower!
I have always wanted to watch the Leonid Meteor Shower, but unfortunately I live in Cleveland where we have two types of weather. Cloudy, and Cloudy with Rain.
I'm a Tasty-vore. If it's Tasty, I'll eat it.
I'd hate to end up missing something like this and instead be out having meaningless sex...
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...that smashing head-first into a powered CRT monitor gives the same effect.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
strange, last year's show was incredible, at least for me. I laid down in an empty field in central PA (about 10 minutes from Penn State - there are plenty of fields around here!) to watch the show. Early on, it was slow going, but there were many spectacular fireballs which seemed to come in a spectacular variety of colors. The pace picked up throughout the evening, and I recorded a total of 1,332 sightings in the hour between 4 and 5 AM local time.
Me, being the geek that I am, wrote a program for my TI-89 (with nothing but one of those red LED keychains) to keep track of button presses. This made it much easier to count than trying to keep track in my head.
The sad thing was, I was supposed to bring a hot chick with me to watch, but she must have figured out I was a Slashdot reader and she bailed on me. So, of course, I was all alone (as usual).
--- At my sig, unleash hell.
Oh, and fucking. Lots and lots of fucking.
Obviously, you are not part of the core \ . demographic.
Oh boo hoo. I went to see last year's meteor shower and I'm up in northern Canada, we just brought lots of hot chocolate and we were fine, eh. Then one of the meteorites came flying down and landed in the field, it was still hot so we put some grass and wood on it and a huge bonfire to keep warm eh. Then the aliens came down and wanted their rock back so we had to give it to them, but they let us go without a probing, which was nice. Come to think of it, I think our hot chocolate's may have been a wee bit Irish. I like stories. Don't you like stories?
-hero.
You'll be blinded, which will make you easy pickin's for the man-eating plants that will have sprouted by next morning. I mean, geez, doesn't anyone else here watch science documentaries?
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
One of those meteors will crash to earth and some invisible phantoms are going to emerge from it. They will ravage the earth for 35 years, people will seek refuge in "barrier cities" until a nicely animated, girl with hair from a shampoo ad saves us all. I read about it here
13 year old white supremacists are shitty web designers.
I went to the Space.com website and most of the page was obscured by pop-up ads. Sadly this made me remember that last year I got up at 4 a.m. to watch the show and was greeted with thick fog.
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I brought a hot chick. I forgot to ask for one with a brain though. She spent the entire evening talking on the phone. I WISH she'd bailed.
funny munging
Geeks... She should of had your cock in her mouth...
Then both meteors and your girlfriend would have been going down all night!
Finally being an unemployed programmer pays off. If i had to go to work on Tuesday I wouldn't be able to wake up at 4:00am to check this out.
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If the Earth spun the other way 'round, meteor showers would always be best just after sunset. But, sadly, I was not consulted during the design phase...
Obviously we need a project to reverse the earth's spin. After all, what decent geek gets up EARLY IN THE MORNING?
Certainly not me, which is why I usually miss these shows.
The only good weather is bad weather.
Good. It's nice to see /. doing it's part to help geeks appreciate how important showers are.