Hilarious!
Hilarious!
the small minded are easily amused.
Are you implying that you act like a jerk because of a brain tumor?
Thats rich, whats your excuse?
Thats rich, whats your excuse?
Just the standard "you started it" - nothing fancy.
In all your time stargazing, have you ever seen anything out there that you cant explain and if you dont mind, what is your take on elenin?
I haven't seen anything that wasn't in the realm of normal. You know I'd like a crack at a UFO if I had my scope right there. I could get a much better view of whatever it is than the usual digicam and video camera shots, and could either see it for a balloon/flare/etc. or as something more mysterious.
Elenin is just a little comet, unfortunately looking to remain pretty dim. I may check it out with my big binoculars when it gets brightest, if just to say here that I've seen it.
edit: One very intersting experience was when I was in Tikal, Guatemala (Big Mayan site in the jungle), and one night there was a strong red glow in the sky, coming up from the horizon. Blood red, crimson. I had no idea what it was and no one else around, including the natives did either. Two or three months later I picked up an astronomy magazine in Mexico City and they noted a very strong auroral display, a red auroral sheet, on the very same date as my observation. Mystery solved. That was the big display of 1989 and even further south in Panama they could see it. It was so dark in that jungle, with the closest lightbulb probably 50 miles away, that the color was very strong.
One: So jealous. I really want to go to Tikal. It's on my top twenty list.
Two: When I was a teenager, I was up in the middle of the night to check on a horse that was about ready to foal. The sky lit up almost as bright as the sun. It was a rather large meteor. I was very lucky to have seen it.
I've seen two UFOs in my life; One I only glimpsed for a split second and don't really remember what it looked like, but I know it didn't look like an ordinary plane or anything. The place where I saw it was right next to a big US airforce base though, and they have a bunch of weird experimental aircraft being tested. The other one flew over my house on New Year's Eve, and consisted of three bright lights flying fairly slowly across the sky in a group. My step-dad later looked it up and it turned out that a bunch of other people saw it and that it was a weather balloon that had gone off-course.
One: So jealous. I really want to go to Tikal. It's on my top twenty list.
Two: When I was a teenager, I was up in the middle of the night to check on a horse that was about ready to foal. The sky lit up almost as bright as the sun. It was a rather large meteor. I was very lucky to have seen it.
I have yet to see such a bright meteor. You have to be lucky to see those.
I didn't know you lived next to Area 51.
Coronado's the next best thing.
We only have Bigfoot sightings up my way.
Here in Africa we have only the Mokele Mbembi, which even has a line in the Alekhine's defense named after it.
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damn opposable thumbs
Shame that such a good name goes to waste on a horrible opening.
In all your time stargazing, have you ever seen anything out there that you cant explain and if you dont mind, what is your take on elenin?
I haven't seen anything that wasn't in the realm of normal. You know I'd like a crack at a UFO if I had my scope right there. I could get a much better view of whatever it is than the usual digicam and video camera shots, and could either see it for a balloon/flare/etc. or as something more mysterious.
Elenin is just a little comet, unfortunately looking to remain pretty dim. I may check it out with my big binoculars when it gets brightest, if just to say here that I've seen it.
edit: One very intersting experience was when I was in Tikal, Guatemala (Big Mayan site in the jungle), and one night there was a strong red glow in the sky, coming up from the horizon. Blood red, crimson. I had no idea what it was and no one else around, including the natives did either. Two or three months later I picked up an astronomy magazine in Mexico City and they noted a very strong auroral display, a red auroral sheet, on the very same date as my observation. Mystery solved. That was the big display of 1989 and even further south in Panama they could see it. It was so dark in that jungle, with the closest lightbulb probably 50 miles away, that the color was very strong.
I know tikal, id love to go there too, you are lucky to have seen that it sounds amazing. Thanks for the reply. So you dont dispute the existence of aliens then?
Hilarious!