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Jun. 3rd, 2004 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseSo apparently there was a big explode-y sound this morning. I totally missed it, but word is it was a bolide - a special kind of meteorite.
From the Seattle PI: Toby Smith, a University of Washington astronomy lecturer who specializes in meteorites, said the skybursts were reported over a wide area around 2:40 a.m.
Allow me to just say that I frigging love going to this school - I've taken a class with that guy!!! He's so cool!!
How cool is Professor Smith? He was lecturing about the asteroid belt one day, and he said we were gonna watch a documentary - normal stuff. "Now, this is an old film," he warns us, "so I want you to know there are going to be some inaccuracies." Lights go down, projector-screen goes blue...
And cuts to Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Leia navigating the asteroid belt.
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In other news YAY MY PERFORMANCE IS DONE!!!!!
From the Seattle PI: Toby Smith, a University of Washington astronomy lecturer who specializes in meteorites, said the skybursts were reported over a wide area around 2:40 a.m.
Allow me to just say that I frigging love going to this school - I've taken a class with that guy!!! He's so cool!!
How cool is Professor Smith? He was lecturing about the asteroid belt one day, and he said we were gonna watch a documentary - normal stuff. "Now, this is an old film," he warns us, "so I want you to know there are going to be some inaccuracies." Lights go down, projector-screen goes blue...
And cuts to Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Leia navigating the asteroid belt.
* ~ *
In other news YAY MY PERFORMANCE IS DONE!!!!!
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Date: 2004-06-03 10:08 am (UTC)Hahahahahahahahaha!! I want to learn stuff from him! That's great!!!
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Date: 2004-06-03 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-03 10:37 am (UTC)It's very cool to see your professors on the news.
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Date: 2004-06-03 11:36 am (UTC)It really and truly is. Makes up for the occasional frustrations of going to a huge research university. *G*
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Date: 2004-06-03 12:47 pm (UTC)Y'know what? I saw that last night. It was spectacular. The whole sky lit up a sort of green yellow. It was *phenomenal*, and I had no idea what the heck had just happened. My first thought was aliens.
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Date: 2004-06-03 01:40 pm (UTC)....On the other hand, you still don't have a class before noon, do you? *sighs* Nevermind.
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Date: 2004-06-04 02:54 am (UTC)...Crap. It's three in the morning right now, isn't it?
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Date: 2004-06-04 03:41 am (UTC)Video!
Date: 2004-06-04 04:06 pm (UTC)