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Trish
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Posted - 12/13/2008 :  18:34:11  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Was driving late one night and saw a meteor fly overhead. The thing flashed then broke into at least two visibly distinct pieces. Wanted to call and notify those folks I'm supposed to call when we see that kinda stuff - at CU Boulder. Spaced it. Cool sight though.

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Simon
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Posted - 12/13/2008 :  19:21:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Trish Cool sight though.


Sounds like it!

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Posted - 12/13/2008 :  19:37:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Was it the famous Candian meteor? Or is Colorado too far south to have seen it?

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Trish
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Posted - 12/13/2008 :  20:04:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Was it the famous Candian meteor? Or is Colorado too far south to have seen it?


Dunno. We're 38ºN. But I saw this in August not in November. The fox news report on that page though - the one showing the one breaking into pieces is the one that I saw.

...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
Edited by - Trish on 12/13/2008 20:12:08
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 12/13/2008 :  20:42:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Trish
But I saw this in August not in November.
Maybe it was precognition?


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Trish
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Posted - 12/13/2008 :  20:51:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Trish a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by H. Humbert

Originally posted by Trish
But I saw this in August not in November.
Maybe it was precognition?


More likely a hallucinagenic state induced by sleep deprivation and too many hours driving. Or maybe I just didn't know what day it was. I was at the time maxing my DOT hours.

...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
Edited by - Trish on 12/13/2008 20:53:29
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