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Watch out you heads, TU24 it’s in our way!

Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:11 pm
by Nestor

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:10 am
by pollux
Jimmy,

This electromagnetic disturbance could have some nice effects on your Rhodes..

Any volonteers for a TU-24 plugin? :lol:

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:22 am
by wayne
Biggest Theremin Ever!!! :D

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:54 am
by Zer

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:28 am
by Zer
Image

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:51 pm
by next to nothing
whatever your angle is, why bother?

if its a negatively loaded piece of xenosomethingscary which will blow us all to smitherines, well so be it. if it doesnt, hey, life goes on.

its all digital, 1s and 0s :) (as in "well fuck we cant do anything about it anyways").

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:05 pm
by hubird
a relatively enormous Mars that Mars :lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:51 am
by next to nothing
im still alive!

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:11 am
by Tau
Here it is: THE BIG NIGHT!

I'm planning on spending the night watching the sky with my Meade Telescope, trying to get a glimpse of our travelling friend. Unfortunately, I never got around to buying the camera / CCD adapter, so... no pictures.

Anyway, anybody else planning on doing the same? It's chilly here, but I'm hoping for a blue aurora.


BTW, not a single piece of news on TU24 was broadcast in Portugal. And it's not to avoid creating panic, as all we hear is how "all kaida" is planing to attack our country, and how people are dying stupid death because or government thinks it's cool to shutdown hospitals so we can have the TGV... Anything that might bridge the gap between countries / cultures / civilizations / ordinary people is just put aside.

here's to a bright night, and a radiant future.

Cheers,

T

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:32 am
by hifiboom
I have a scope but couldn`t see it at all. :lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:37 am
by Tau
hifiboom wrote:I have a scope but couldn`t see it at all. :lol:
focus, hifi, focus...


:lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:02 pm
by Zer
must be something objective

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:44 pm
by Lima
I've got a Meade too, but in these days there are plenty of clouds here... Arg...
and I'm near the city too, so clouds + light's pollution + high magnitudes makes the observation impossible! What a pity!
:-(

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:05 pm
by Nestor
So, it didn't seem to be a great deal after all...

Now they say that there is a satellite that may fall down anywhere around the globe.

Here: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas ... atellite-0

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:05 am
by wayne
We had one fall here a while back - Skylab.

"An Australian municipality, the Shire of Esperance, fined the United States $400 for littering. In 2004, the History Channel documentary "History Rocks" stated, in an episode covering major events of 1979, that this fine has never been paid. " :D

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:31 am
by garyb
hey, i heard Australia apologised to you. cheers! :lol:

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:44 am
by wayne
To my wife's mob - yeah, they're about to.

Things are changing over here a little bit :)

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:15 am
by Nestor
The claim about the TU24 was not as silly as it seem to be, have a look:

first page only:
http://www.tu24.org/

then the news:
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&hl=e ... tnG=Search

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:05 am
by astroman
neither do I... ;)
what do you expect in winter, anywhere on earth ?
and all those 'extreme' reports in recent years... well, it's probably the omnipresence of 'news-communication' in even the most remote locations and a general change towards a more 'sensational' driven way of reporting :D

cheers, Tom

btw what about the Mars impact thing they announced ?
- oops, predictions were amended...

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:45 am
by Nestor
I’m not sure either, but I wouldn’t demise their findings so fast… We don’t have proves for one side, or the other of the coin. If we want to be truly scientific in our approach, we should nor deny or believe in anything, but rather listen to what people have to say, and then investigate by oneself.