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Tonight: A reminder of your insignificance

Bwog likes to report the occasional celestial phenomenon, so Stephanie Quan sends along this tip:

"Perseid Meteor Shower TONIGHT

Go outside tonight after midnight. If there isn't too much air pollution or cloud cover, there will be a spectacular meteor shower in the Northeast (strongest in the pre-dawn hours). If you're out in open, dark country, you might see up to 60 shooting stars an hour.

The Perseid meteoroids are debris from the Swift-Tuttle Comet, which takes 130 years to circle the sun. Swift-Tuttle is part of a comet kin from the Oort Cloud. Most comets from this cloud don't make it close to earth, but a few have been pulled into a trajectory closer to the earth, creating beautiful meteor showers several times a year."

It's currently rainy and miserable at this Bwogger's house. Anyone in luck with nice weather?


Posted by mmm: #1 · reply · track
August 12, 2007 at 5:21 PM
hella nice near columbia right now.
Posted by I HATE: #2 · reply · track
August 12, 2007 at 7:26 PM
I hate meteors. Fuck 'em, man. Stars that are as good as fucked. Fuck their crazy tails, fuck their panspermia-carrying payloads. Fuck 'em.
Posted by I hope: #3 · reply · track
August 12, 2007 at 8:28 PM
the FroSci tag is a sarcastic allusion to the insignificance of the course.
Posted by Leroy: #4 · reply · track
August 12, 2007 at 10:44 PM
Goddamn NHL. Muthafuck.
Posted by not to mention: #5 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
August 12, 2007 at 11:45 PM
totally irrelevant and misused
Posted by saw it: #6 · reply · track
August 13, 2007 at 12:16 AM
and boy was it amazing. one of the few perks of living in bumblefuck, i suppose - nothing between me and the stars except the occasional wayward farmer.
Posted by yea: #7 · reply · track
August 13, 2007 at 1:26 AM
this is a great meteor shower. used to watch it at scout camp all the time upstate.
Posted by Chinese factories: #8 · reply · track
August 13, 2007 at 4:50 AM
One of the definite, definite disadvantages to being in Shanghai, where on a clear night you can see, oh, maybe 3 stars...

...not to mention the meteor shower was probably during the daytime here...and on the other side of the world...in sum, this comment was pointless
Posted by meteors: #9 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
August 14, 2007 at 1:19 AM
don't care what side of the earth the sun is hitting. They're falling all the time, man.
Posted by anony: #10 · reply · track
August 15, 2007 at 4:56 PM
The title of this posting sums it up perfectly ("a reminder of your insignificance"). I find astronomy and such soooo depressing, and I thought I was the only one..
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