For those of you in North America and Australia, there is reason to watch the skies. There is a meteor storm (yes, storm, not shower) of "Leonoid" meteors that will be viewable throughout the night near the constellation Leo. Considered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, at peak it's possible to see 100 seperate meteors streaking across the sky in a single minute.
Unfortunatly, there has been a thick fog hanging over northern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio for about two days now, and I can't see a bloody thing!!! GRRR!!!
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Yeah, a Tropical thunderstorm just blew in over Brisbane... hopefully it'll have gone by 3am... when the heaviest showers of metors are supposed to occur. then at 4am - but the morning twilight will wash out the effects...
I was thinking of driving out to a beach - about 20 mins away - it overlooks the ocean and not the city - (i.e. your still looking NE) and there'll be no light in your way...
But I think I'll stay home... It's not too bad from our pool decking - we've got a nice view of the N->NE->ENE-E
Andrew
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
I went to bed. I would have like to see it though.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I was at work. Around 0415 local, a cute girl who I'd rightly like to fuck into temporary paralysis (& if things continue to develop along the lines they have been, I might get to--yay for being polyamorous!) came in & we stood outside & watched for about 15 or 20 minutes. I got to play science geek & point out a couple constellations that I could remember/recognize/actually see through the lights, although I'd turned off all the store lights. She was, to say the least, mightily impressed.
And by the way, it's "Leonids," not "Leonoids." Easy to remember--just think of Brezhnev being dropped from orbit.
[ November 18, 2001: Message edited by: Shik ]
Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :
Damn clouds. Whenever something big is going to happen, we always get clouds and fog...
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
Yup, overcast here also. Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
I was working until around 0400-ish, but driving home I noticed that it was overcast and thus I didn't see a thing.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
The Leonid showers were pretty good over here back in 1995 and 1996. Especially in 1995 when they were yet to keep the streetlights on all night where I lived at the time.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
That was pretty amazing. I hiked up to a nearby bluff that's pretty dark and just stretched out on the ground and watched for like 2 hours. I saw some really big ones. I've never seen them so vividly with the tinges of green streaking and tracers. Mightily impressive.
[ November 18, 2001: Message edited by: Balaam Xumucane ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
We had quite a spectacular display of clouds here, too.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The FREAKIEST thing happened here - that storm... well it hung around ALL night... raining quite heavily - then around 3am... the clouds parted and for 1/2 and hour we got nice clear skies - and boy did I see some GREAT scenes even from our backyard... it was so awesome... I saw some really bright greenish ones - with those fabulous 'vapor' trails... and I even saw (different to last year and the year before some really bright white and yellow ones, that didn't leave a trail but must have come in at a really sharp angle and sort of banged in and moved a bit jaggedly! Those were FREAKY! Then at about 3:20 am a really really huge cloud bank rolled in and I thought I better pack up and go in - luckily the rain cameback and it started pissing down again! I didn't get to see the 4am burst - but at least I got to see SOME... I would have like to have been out all night to see it - or even out in the country/outback where the skies are so clear and there are so many stars that the milky-way casts shadows! But even in the middle of the city I reckon at one stage I counted in one burst about 8 in ten seconds!
Andrew
Posted by Alshrim (Member # 258) on :
it was too cloudy here in Ottawa, Canada to see anything Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
Would have been nice if I wasn't working on my College Final Project and not worked for about 15 hours straight........
Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
I would have, but considering that I had no memory of the previous night, I thought it wiser to get some sleep.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
I always watch the skies. Not for meteors. But for something else. The mighty crafts the Greys use to visit our planet.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
*opens mouth*
*deceides against it*
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I saw some very nice meteors, but no storm. I attribute this to the inherent unfairness of the universe.
Also my own laziness.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
. I got to play science geek & point out a couple constellations that I could remember/recognize/actually see through the lights, Shik did you remember to point out Bob the cowboy and Jerry the cowboy. Pepi " Oh pappa Homer you are so learn-ed" Homer " That's learned"
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
No, but I DID point out the ISS, give her detailed first-hand image descriptions of various stars & their planets as well as meteors, and quoted Rutger Hauer from "Blade Runner."
I WILL have this girl.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Good luck Shik but remember Spock: After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. Amok Time
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
If the sex gets bad, I'll drop her. Until then, I still intend to give her temporary paraplegia as much as possible. Just like all the other women.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
Now there's a thread stopper
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
And yet it didn't.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
What in the world were you quoting from Blade Runner?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
:::clears throat:::
"I've...SEEN things you people wouldn't beLIEVE...atTACK ships on fire off the SHOULder of Orion. I've watch seabeams glitter in the sand off the Tannhauser Gate....all those memories..will be LOST...like..TEARS...in rain..."
And let me amend my previous statement to read "sexually-induced temporary paraplegia."
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Now if only you had quoted it CORRECTLY you might have won her over...
"I've...seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire, off the Shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-Beams, glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those...moments...will be lost, in time...like...tears...in the rain... Time...to die..."
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
My version got me a hug & a feel of nice tits against my chest. What'd yours get?
Besides. For only seeing someone for about 5 minutes at a clip every few days...werd.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Mine gets...well, it doesn't get me laughed at for being wrong...
Although Sarah seems to like it...
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Quoting sci-fi in order to get a girl.
Nice to see people still trying in the face of overwhelming evidence.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The thing that bothers me is that they claim it worked...
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Yeah, I guess its kinda like Lotto. If you win, you win big. Chances are: you'll never win.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Hey, what can I say. According to my prot�g�, I'm "a damn sexy bitch, yo." But then...sexual & muscial muse. So.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I don't trust the opinion of anyone who would seriously say "damn sexy bitch, yo". Especially about a guy.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
That's cause you're not a hepster like me, Timmy boy. I'm so ghetto, Louis Farrakhan listens to me. I'm so black, I absorb light. I'm so emo, I cry when the flying stars screensaver comes on. I'm so indie, I only like bands that haven't even FORMED yet.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I smell Leo.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:I only like bands that haven't even FORMED yet.
Sounds like Simon
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I have trouble telling when Shik is winding us up, and when he's being serious.
I did get told off once on these forums by someone for saying "In the house. Word." Which was strange, as I didn't think anyone said that anymore anyway.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
What? You mean this whole time I've been saying things thinking that I was all of that... Heavens to Murgatroid! Next you're gonna tell me these ultra-tight acid-washed jeans make me look silly. Oh, fiddlesticks.
Posted by The Antagonist (Member # 484) on :
That meteor storm had a luck effect over my night. I was at a friend's house that night partying, and this girl and I decided we had better not miss the metoer shower, so we *ahem* went out to enjoy it on the nearby golf course.
Afterward when I was driving home, I kept seeing glimpses of lights in my rear-view mirror (falling meteors as if turned out). Quite bright, too. Suspecting it was a siren in the distance, I immediately panicked, slowed down, and realized I was driving on the wrong side of the road. A few moments later, I noticed a patrol car in a darkened driveway waiting to pull over unsuspecting drunks. I wasn't one of those that night, thankfully.
On a side note, I learned that the holes in the golf course make GREAT cupholders.
[ November 22, 2001: Message edited by: The Antagonist ]
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Yeah, but did you get a hole in one? 8)
Posted by The Antagonist (Member # 484) on :
I found the 19th hole, so to speak, but it wasn't an eagle that night, no. *sigh* Ahh, well, I never was good at golf.
Speaking of golf, have you ever realized the amount of funny innuedoes in golf terminology?
For example: foursome: Depends where you are. In the States, a group of four playing together. In Britain, a match between two teams of two, each hitting one ball alternately.
fairwood: Any wooden club that’s not your driver. Nowadays, you say fairway metal because you don’t see many wooden clubs anymore.
head cover: Protection for the clubhead, usually used on woods.
And perhaps the funniest, in my opinion, why, i don't know, but it is one of those early morning highs where everything is hilarious now and makes no sense later...
hole: Your ultimate 4 1/4-inch-wide target.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
As far as the innuendo of that last one goes... If your target holes are 4.25 inches wide, there's something very wrong...
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Oh dear god... Posted by The Antagonist (Member # 484) on :
Yes thank you I am very aware of that.
Those are all terms, by the way, right out of this golf rulebook I got about a year ago while I was taking an independant study class in high school. Can you believe you could golf and bowl for a credit? I ain't complainin' though, it helped me graduate.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Your sig seems to say it all... :-)
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:I was at a friend's house that night partying, and this girl and I decided we had better not miss the metoer shower, so we *ahem* went out to enjoy it on the nearby golf course.
Afterward when I was driving home...
You TOTALLY missed that pun there! Actually there were three ways that could have been taken...
Driving home - car Driving home - golf Driving home - sex! ;o)
