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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:03:26 AM EDT
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Yeah, watch the meteor shower… then go blind and get eaten by carnivorous plants.
No thanks.
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:10:29 AM EDT
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The Geminids can be very impressive. Naturally, it's supposed to be cloudy tonight here.
In mid-December every year Earth passes through the Geminid meteoroid stream. The resulting meteor shower is unusual in several ways. It's often the richest reliable shower of the year, and it seems to be strengthening over the decades. It becomes nicely active as early as mid-evening, so you don't have to wait until after midnight (as is the case with many other showers). Its meteors are relatively slow, arriving at 36 km (22 miles) per second, hardly more than half the speed of the Perseids, Orionids, and Leonids. Also, these meteors often appear yellowish, and their deep plunges into the atmosphere betray them as dense bits of rock rather than fluffy dust clods like most cometary meteors... MORE INFO HERE |
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:15:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah, watch the meteor shower… then go blind and get eaten by carnivorous plants. No thanks. Maybe it will just make all the machines come to life.  |
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:17:17 AM EDT
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No thanks. Maybe it will just make all the machines come to life.
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Yeah, watch the meteor shower… then go blind and get eaten by carnivorous plants. Maybe it will just make all the machines come to life.
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:32:06 AM EDT
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I might take a quick look if the sky is clear enough. |
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:38:56 AM EDT
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it's gonna be 10 degrees and windy tonight. not worth it to me.
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:40:40 AM EDT
[#7]
I will check it out. I should be worthwhile to take a look.
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:44:44 AM EDT
[#8]
Clear and 27 here. If I'm up, I'll definitely check it out.
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:45:06 AM EDT
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I saw one last night at 9pm heading west. It was as green as an airplanes nab light and it was trucking!
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:46:44 AM EDT
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Saw a big one last night while walking the dogs at about 10 mountain time
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Posted: 12/12/2013 7:51:50 AM EDT
[#11]
Thanks for the heads-up!
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Posted: 12/12/2013 8:16:06 AM EDT
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No work tomorrow and clear tonight. Sounds like I will be having some drinks and laying on the driveway... just like every weekend
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Posted: 12/12/2013 8:23:57 AM EDT
[#13]
Time to bust out the night vision again.
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Posted: 12/12/2013 8:25:54 AM EDT
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Time to bust out the night vision again. My initial thought is that they would be worthless but give it a try and compare with someone looking the same direction just visually. |
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Posted: 12/12/2013 8:43:25 AM EDT
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My initial thought is that they would be worthless but give it a try and compare with someone looking the same direction just visually. Quote HistoryQuoted:
My initial thought is that they would be worthless but give it a try and compare with someone looking the same direction just visually. "Well, I can see the trees, and the dogs, but the white dog blends into the snow, I can only see certain color frisbees and I can't make out the branches on the trees" 
-Close scoped eye, open un-aided eye- "And I can't see my hand in front of my face."
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Time to bust out the night vision again. With night vision, every night is meteor shower night! |
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Posted: 12/12/2013 2:52:16 PM EDT
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Thanks for the info, I usually forget these and if i do remember it's cloudy out
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Posted: 12/12/2013 2:55:18 PM EDT
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No work tomorrow and clear tonight. Sounds like I will be having some drinks and laying on the driveway... just like every weekend
Try face up this time!
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