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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."
Err... do you think this article could have been posted, say, yesterday?
Will these be visible from, say, Australia, where I live?
./ which has readers all over the world. I wish posts like this would give info about other time zones/longitutes/latitudes or at least acknowledge that they are referring to US times and locations.
Not that I wish to invite flaming, but 'before dawn' is a highly relative concept for a site like
Read Pynchon.
It makes a little more sense to me to search for our "LEV meteor/asteroid" in these known meteor shower zones. A rogue asteroid hitting the earth would require the overcoming of astronomical odds on par with hitting an incoming missile with an interceptory missile. Since we know and can track these meteor showers, I imagine that scanning the areas in which the space debris exists is the first place we ought to be looking for life-ending rocks.
I have been pwned because my
Couldn't this article have been posted earlier, and not a few hours before the action.
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Then take drugs again. If it's the only way things in life are beautiful, wouldn't it be worthwhile? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm horribly wrong and downing cehmicals to paint a better picture of reality is against the order of things. But I think maybe the mind expanders and the trippers and the pot smokers are on to something. When you can't sit under a tree on a sunny day anymore and not think of everything, have it all flood your mind, can't stop thinking of the scores of people dying, suffering, screaming out in pain for reasons so totally inane that you can't conceive how it can happen. When you don't see blue skies anymore, but refracted light, or leaves hanging from a branch without all the equations that tell you how exactly that leaf remains where it is, how it flutters in the wind, all of its coefficients and strengths and the exact moment it will finally let go and fall to the soil below. When you have to cover your eyes but still you see it all, and you end up crying about the things everyone else can seem to forget. Maybe then its needed; something to just wash it away, blank the canvas and put back all the colors, even if only for a little while. Temporary ignorance. Temporary peace. Just a little while to sit down and watch the lights in the sky, and think of nothing else at all.
story posted at: 11:04pm
time difference: +5 hours
local time posted: 04:04am
Thanks guys. Thanks.
Even worse, I didn't see the story until just now when I got up. Pisses me off, cause I was up until 1am working on my final year project...