Fire ball in the sky 4/7/09

Self | 4/8/09 | Meg

[The Electrician]

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[Petronski]

There are meteors raining down on Earth all the time.

Sometimes too, large wheels of cheese, like a nice stout Edam or an improbably-gooey Camembert.

Monroeville, a suburb of Pittsburgh, was destroyed in 1987 by the impact of a massive roll of intergalactic provolone. No. It's true.

[the long march]

Perhaps you are looking for coast to coast or what’s his name Jones?

[KarlInOhio]

African fireflies escaped from a Brazilian research lab and bred with the more docile local fireflies. These “killer fireflies” are flying north and some have crossed the border. Although individually they are no brighter than native fireflies, they are aggressive, swarm to attack and synchronize their lights into one blinding flash.

[bcsco]

I saw a huge fireball furball?

There. Now it makes sense. What you see was fur flying off the Viking Kitties while furiously setting up their perimeter in anticipation of their upcoming ZOT! for this dumb post.

Nothing to see here...

[txroadkill]

Take a look at the pockmarked surface of the moon. What do you suspect is the cause ?

They're Caves for all the moon bats.

[Roccus]

Most people will see about one in a lifetime.

Really? I've seen three. Two burned out in flares as they neared the horizon and one passed almost directly overhead.

[buccaneer81]

[OldMissileer]

It was Michigan State’s basketball team.

OUCH! That hurt!

Everyone in my family has at least one degree from MSU.

I told them it was good they lost so we do not have to buy any more clothing, hats and coffee cups.

It was then suggested we could make a t-shirt that States: "At least it wasn't as bad as December." :)

[Jubal Madison]

Dang - I should have used up all of my vacation. On the plus side - I haven’t sent in my taxes yet! Thanks for the heads up Petronski. I am going to tear up the check to the IRS and buy a bottle of scotch. If you enjoy a good single malt and get to Arkansas before the whole shebang blows up - I owe you a snort. Have a Good Day! ( It may be our last one. )-JM

[brytlea]

No wonder I’ve never seen one, you’re bogarting them!

[The Electrician]

Most people will see about one in a lifetime.

Really? I've seen three. Two burned out in flares as they neared the horizon and one passed almost directly overhead.

Clearly you are living on borrowed time...

[Petronski]

African fireflies...

[ETL]

Sometimes too, large wheels of cheese, like a nice stout Edam or an improbably-gooey Camembert.

You don't believe that meteors are continually streaking through our skies?

[Sax]

It was just the hippies from Deep Purple re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.

Could you hear the famous guitar riff from 'Smoke on the Water' anytime soon thereafter?

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump

[Petronski]

Of course I do?

You don’t believe in flying wheels of Edam?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You must spent more than an average amount of time outdoors at night, or else you’re just lucky or exceptionally observant.

They are uncommon but not particularly rare. About one trillion meteors large enough to cause ionization trails enter the earth’s atmosphere every day. They are modeled as being exponentially distributed, with the relative number of objects being inversely proportional to a constant raised to size. (Select your units carefully). In other words there are about a million times as many 1 gram meteors as 10 gram and trillion times as many 1 gram as 100 gram objects, for instance. (I don’t have the proportions in front of me.)

The ones that scare me are the 10,000,000+ gram objects.

[ETL]

You don’t believe in flying wheels of Edam?

Sounds like you're a Monty Python fan! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0

[ETL]

Did you all ever notice that people who posts threads like these rarely respond to comments?