Meteor Shower Tonight

[Novall]

Back on topic though... I have lived on this earth for more than 26 years and I have yet to personally witness even a minor astronomical event. (other than eclipses)

How often do the others on this site actively search the skies?

Dude, you missed Hale-Bopp? That thing sat in the sky for around a week.

That comet scared the hell out of me...i kept thinking it was gonna come crashing down on us. I was in Sub school in Groton CT when it came around in 97.

[E-bo Obi]

Oh, this is some reference to haley's comet? No then, I have never seen it. In '97 I was most likely in Basic Training or radio school in FT Gordon. Given my position in those two locations I did not have time to gaze at the stars.

[TramelRaggs]

Oh, this is some reference to haley's comet? No then, I have never seen it. In '97 I was most likely in Basic Training or radio school in FT Gordon. Given my position in those two locations I did not have time to gaze at the stars.

No, Hale-Bopp was a different comet. Haley's came around in 84 I think and we'll probably never see it again in our lifetimes.

Hale-Bopp was a comet that came around circa 98. It was around for about a week and I remember looking at it in the sky. It looked like the moon, only with a comet's tail on it. It's probably one of the most memorable things I'll see in the sky.

[E-bo Obi]

Yeah, if it was before august "98 no telling what state of mind I was in. I was either babysitting 60 soldiers or drunk off my ass.

[Jabe Adaks]

This thread is still getting bumped? There is nothing to see here.

Move along, move along...

Jabe

[Dwilah]

I've always been pretty interested in the sky. As a kid my parents took us to a couple of viewings for planets and stuff at one of those big telescopes...you know, building-sized ones that rotate, and there was that comet, and a few space shuttles that I remember vividly. There's always been a lot of "something special" in looking up at the stars on a clear winter evening. Part of it is growing up near a Space and Rocket Center (always big on the field trips growing up) and also just...I dunno. One of those feelings inside. Something special. I don't always get out to look and I don't always find out about things, but they always interest me.

[Glacial]

There's a song in my faith with a refrain, "Who am I and Great are You."

I get that feeling everytime I look up there. There's so much power, beauty, history, and shear mass out there. It takes faith to think that we are anything worth mentioning. Then I think through the rest of the thought train. That's when I get that warm feeling.

Here we sit outside and watch the sky by campfire alot in the summer. My main prof here is a star specialist in astrophysics who's getting me more interested, but I don't take my astronomy course until next Fall. So the only knowledge I have is from the media and all the constellations that my dad and I used to find while we drove at night. It was his ploy to keep me relatively quiet, and him relatively awake on these long stretches of featureless highway in North Dakota. Another warm set of memories.

I better go to sleep before I get all weepy and stuff. /sniff

[E-bo Obi]

You know, I went to space camp, and am very interested in all the sci fi stuff about outer space. But rarely if ever do I gaze out at the stars.

And then I am reminded of this:

Ready are you? What know, ready? For 800 years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained! A Jedi must have the deepest commitment. Hm? The most serious mind! This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was! Hm? What he was doing! Huh. Adventure. Eh! Excitement. Eh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!

[Ekade]

You know, I went to space camp, and am very interested in all the sci fi stuff about outer space. But rarely if ever do I gaze out at the stars.

And then I am reminded of this:

Ready are you? What know, ready? For 800 years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained! A Jedi must have the deepest commitment. Hm? The most serious mind! This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was! Hm? What he was doing! Huh. Adventure. Eh! Excitement. Eh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!

I am not afraid.

[Skarr]

I was pissed...I heard about this too, so here I am flying above the clouds, no light since clouds block it out, can see all sorts of stars, but no meteors

but I did see one 1.5 weeks ago, go hrough the big dipper...but a shower of em would have been cool

[TramelRaggs]

You know, I went to space camp, and am very interested in all the sci fi stuff about outer space. But rarely if ever do I gaze out at the stars.

And then I am reminded of this:

Ready are you? What know, ready? For 800 years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained! A Jedi must have the deepest commitment. Hm? The most serious mind! This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away, to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was! Hm? What he was doing! Huh. Adventure. Eh! Excitement. Eh! A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless!

I am not afraid.

You will be.
YOU WILL BE!