Jae Onasi Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 It will be your first meteor shower of 2011 if you're out viewing the Quadrantids! According to the web page on this meteor shower on Universe today, the best time and place to see the meteors is as follows: “You can start watching after 2:30am in the North to North East look between the handle of the Big Dipper -Ursa Major and the Constellation of Bootes or the Kite shaped constellation, this is the radiant location as the Meteors will appear to radiate from this general area.” says professional astrophotographer, John Chumack. “Or after 2:30am simply look between the North Star and bright star Arcturus in the East. The Quadrantid Meteors will appear to be coming from this general area of the sky. There is no moon present during this year’s shower, so you can watch all night if you like without moonlight interfering, but the best time will be after 2:30am. As the night goes on the Big Dipper, Bootes and Arcturus climb higher into the sky, so keep watching because the number of meteors usually picks up after 2:30am and gets better through 6:00am. as Earth rotates into the stream. Meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, so look in all directions of the sky as the Quadrantid radiant reaches straight over head. The Quadrantid Meteors are rather fast movers. They enter the atmosphere at about 90,000 to 120,000mph, and can have some impressive long trails.” Enjoy the show nature is putting on for us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Nature? Hah. The government is testing prototype weaponry and/or making contact with alien UFOs. The meteor show is just a cover-up/distraction. I'd also distribute tin foil hats if I were convinced they aren't being used as bio-chemo-logical weapons to eradicate those of us in the know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan7 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 My first shower of 2011, occurred in my bathroom on the 1st, can't believe some of you have left it until the 4th... No-wonder there is a smell around here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Darn I missed it. Did anyone else see the full moon eclipse a couple weeks ago? That red color was quite a thing to behold. Happens every 38 years or so...or so I believe since the last one was in 1972. @ J7: That isn't the half of it. Imagine how I felt having to clean up after that in vacation rentals. Seriously. Somehow the bathroom was STILL filthy *every* time. Even worse when they had barf and mysterious messes left behind all over the walls and such from --nevermind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediExile Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Ahh, was this for last night or later tonight? I hate missing stuff like this. And @j7 @GTA you guys are funny lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Ahh, was this for last night or later tonight? I hate missing stuff like this. Last night in the wee hours. It was posted "today" in system time, but I saw this thread late last night getting sleepy. And @j7 @GTA you guys are funny lol OH GAWD! You'd laugh at my misfortune! You TERRIBLE TERRIBLE person. . .. ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pho3nix Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Believe it or not I actually took my first shower today of 2011... I'm a dirty dirty man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth333 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 It will be your first meteor shower of 2011 if you're out viewing the Quadrantids! ! Oh! That kind of shower! So no, no shower for me for at least a few more decades! It's cloudy and it's snowing... I initially thought you were talking about a baby shower lol (we had two at the office so we put mustard in a doll's diapers and made a diaper change competition : the future father would have killed the baby at least twice while changing that diaper...)..but...I couldn't imagine someone on LF didn't take a "real" shower yet but Pho3nix proved me wrong!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Believe it or not I actually took my first shower today of 2011... I'm a dirty dirty man I was totally not expecting that one, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quanon Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 I touched myself on 3th of 2011... wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedHawke Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 I saw this thread title and got... other thoughts! *Looks around* What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sith Holocron Posted January 9, 2011 Share Posted January 9, 2011 Glad I wasn't the only one to think the wrong thing about this thread. However it does give me chance to point these odd geeky soaps I've seen: GeekyClean Note the soap shaped like the Death Star and work your way from there. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mur'phon Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 Took my first shower yesterday, not every country has a shower in every home (at least that's my excuse). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qui-Gon Glenn Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Took my first shower yesterday' date=' not every country has a shower in every home (at least that's my excuse).[/quote']Yet in that time you have bathed in some fashion...... right? Otherwise, frankly, I am calling BS! And not from the smell creeping through my ethernet cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salzella Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I've still not had my first shower of 2011. I'm seeing if i can break last year's record and last until february. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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