Feb 20 2008Tonight's The Night For Sky Watching
There's a total lunar eclipse tonight that you should probably step outside and take a look at later. "The moon will be completely within the shadow of the Earth as of 10pm EST, and won’t start to come out again until 10:50pm. During that time it’ll turn a lovely reddish-orange, thanks to the sunrises and sunsets refracting light past the limbs of the Earth."
Also during that time the US is going to try to shoot down the spy satellite we've been hearing so much about lately. They're going to use a modified SM-3 missile launched from sea near Hawaii and I'm totally going to go pick up the pieces which are expected to land in central Canada. They've got to be worth something right? It's like when I was a kid and dug up baby dinosaur bones in the backyard. I was so excited I tried to sell them to a museum. That's when my parents broke it to me that they were the remains of Nibbles, my guinea pig. Those assholes had told me he was on vacation.
Spacewatch: Wednesday Is A Big Night [ohgizmo]
Reader Comments
1. davey - February 20, 2008 1:00 PM
2012 is coming ZOMG
2. Sambob - February 20, 2008 1:21 PM
Tagged with "somebody tell my neighbor to pull his damn pants up" WTF!!
3. Trevor - February 20, 2008 2:14 PM
LOL, man your humor cracks me up and totally breaks the monotony of my day. Thanks!
4. Joker Boy - February 20, 2008 2:42 PM
Leonard Nimoy: Ah, so the Cosmic Ballet continues...
Guy on Train: Would somebody like to trade seats??...
5. SlowMonkey - February 20, 2008 2:47 PM
You named your guinea pig "Nibbles"? lol Somebody needs to go to Naming School.
6. guate6 - February 20, 2008 3:04 PM
#5: That's a perfectly feasable name. SlowMonkey, however, is not.
I'm going out to take pictures of the entire ordeal. I hope they turn out well.
7. Jumpin_J - February 20, 2008 3:07 PM
2012 IS coming. So is 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008... oh crap, it's here! I think I just wet myself.
8. guate6 - February 20, 2008 3:31 PM
#7: you clearly didn't get the reference to 2012, but that's ok, I'll let you look it up.
9. big bob - February 20, 2008 3:52 PM
i go poo
baaa ha ha ha
10. whistle - February 20, 2008 5:21 PM
#8: I can't tell whether or not #7 got the reference. How can you? J could've been making the comment while knowing full well what davey meant.
11. Hexum2600 - February 20, 2008 5:50 PM
Oh, I also got it. It was a stupid reference.
Thanks for playing.
12. Meg - February 20, 2008 9:58 PM
Dammit, it's snowing out! Gar.
13. laz - February 21, 2008 2:57 AM
2012 theories are stupid. much like the 2000 theories were. I think #7 took the piss suitably well.
(what does nasa know anyway?)
14. Angel Mass - February 21, 2008 11:04 AM
He he I used that same Pic on my blog about that phenoma http://360.yahoo.com/profile-kIFtYgswdaEA6J3Kne2WfhI_