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The Lyrids Are Coming!
SeaDour writes "The year's first meteor shower, the Lyrids, will peak in the pre-dawn hours of April 22nd when the Earth plows through the debris trail of Comet Thatcher at a relative velocity of 49 km/s (110,000 mph). Lyrids usually aren't as numerous as other showers (such as the famed Leonids), but they're well-known for their spectacular tails; you can expect to see about 5-20 meteors per hour, depending on the severity of your local light pollution. Unfortunately, my current location in the midwest under stormy skies puts me at a bit of a disposition, but hopefully some other Slashdotters can share their observations with us tomorrow."
... just be sure there isn't a dead seal nearby. And that you have permission to use the house you're in.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
Unfortunately, my current location in the midwest under stormy skies puts me at a bit of a disposition,
Wow, that's really condition. I feel really emotion for you, salutation. Perhaps the condition will become adjective, and you'll be affected.
The year's first meteor shower, the Lyrids, will peak in the pre-dawn hours of April 22nd when the Earth plows through the debris trail of Comet Thatcher...
I've been waiting years to see this... Thatcher falling from the sky in a ball of flames!
$DEITY bless $NATION
I think I saw a few of those suckers streaking across the sky a night or two ago. It was the first time I'd seen more than one "shooting star" in a night. I guess I was wrong. It's not an extraterrestrial planetary attack plan in progress.
/me removes tinfoil hat
-- Stu
/. ID under 2,000. I feel old now.
Meteor showers used to be cool years ago when I used to take drugs and watch them. Now that I've quit all that stuff, they just don't excite me anymore :(
Funny, now that you've stopped taking drugs you aren't very exciting either.
your average grammar/ spelling/ punctuation nazi on the internet is a dull troll
;-)
but a grammar nazi with a sense of humor?
different beast altogether
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You're new here, aren't you?
Southern hemisphere won't see anything, apart from the usual bunyips, wobbegongs and taniwhas
God was my co-pilot, but then we crashed and I was forced to eat him.
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That's a relief. At first I thought it was the Lurids -- a different meteor shower which is too graphic and disturbing to watch and definitely Not Safe For Work.
Yeah, it's far too late to order a few million nano-Bruce Willis clones to save the Earth from all those grain-of-sand impacts. We're doomed!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
...liberal "the sky is falling" agenda item:
depending on the severity of your local light pollution.
Geez, now all light is regarded as pollution. Is there anything chicken little can't view as bad (and, usually, in the worst terms possible) for someone or something?
(as always, mod minus for non-liberal out-of-step with bezerkely post)
You are (allegedly) having some lady friend(s ha!) over, and are going to get up to watch the METEOR SHOWER, and you're calling me a big fat geek?
Well...well....my Level 478 wizard with +42 dexterity could cast a really nasty spell on you, and I have more comic books than you! Oh, and my Star Wars figures are in mint condition (unlike yours), as are my Transformers, and I installed Linux on my toaster. Stick that in your pipe, GEEK BOY.
All right, for the benefit of those that can't see the shower, I shall describe it for you......
There goes one..... theres another one!..... And another.... wow these are fast..... oooo, another one.....
That's right. All your base.
There have been reports of dihidrogen oxide pellets in the skies over the Midwest. I'd advise the author of the post to attempt to observe this phenomenon.
Margaret Thatcher? Her debris field?
/me adjusts tinfoil hat.
Oh boy, those conspiracy nuts are right.
Thanks for the advance notice, guys...