11-29-2008, 09:59 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Meteor in Calgary @ 9:45pm
So, I was outside between the 2nd and 3rd period of the game, around 9:45pm and a fairly substantial meteor was burning up travelling from north to south. Just wondering if anyone else saw it; it was the biggest meteor I have ever seen....large white streaks burning up. It probably took a good 8 seconds before the thing finally burned up.
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11-29-2008, 10:01 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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It's the Canucks meteor
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11-29-2008, 10:09 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by missdpuck
It's the Canucks meteor
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It better not be the Canucks meteor.....it would be shaped like a whale
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11-29-2008, 10:10 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: At the Gates of Hell
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Quote:
Originally Posted by simmer2
It better not be the Canucks meteor.....it would be shaped like a whale
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We'll have to ask Hughson about it he thinks the Canucks are everything....
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11-29-2008, 10:48 PM
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#5
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Now world wide!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by simmer2
So, I was outside between the 2nd and 3rd period of the game, around 9:45pm and a fairly substantial meteor was burning up travelling from north to south. Just wondering if anyone else saw it; it was the biggest meteor I have ever seen....large white streaks burning up. It probably took a good 8 seconds before the thing finally burned up.
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Are you, by chance, a smoker?
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11-29-2008, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flylock shox
Are you, by chance, a smoker?
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a toker?
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11-29-2008, 11:45 PM
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#7
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Now world wide!
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A midniiiiight joker?
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11-29-2008, 11:54 PM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Earth's orbit takes it through an asteroid belt every year in late November, which results in a higher than normal volume of meteors. Obviously an event like the Marsden meteor is abnormal, but a lot of meteor activity this time of year is normal.
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11-30-2008, 12:03 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Optimus Prime and the autobots are landing!!! Anyone drive a yellow and black camaro?
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11-30-2008, 12:49 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Earth's orbit takes it through an asteroid belt every year in late November, which results in a higher than normal volume of meteors. Obviously an event like the Marsden meteor is abnormal, but a lot of meteor activity this time of year is normal.
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That's what the dinosaurs said!
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11-30-2008, 12:57 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Otto-matic
Optimus Prime and the autobots are landing!!! Anyone drive a yellow and black camaro?
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Maybe Megan Fox comes down with the Transformers...I'd be okay with that.
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11-30-2008, 01:05 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by simmer2
So, I was outside between the 2nd and 3rd period of the game, around 9:45pm and a fairly substantial meteor was burning up travelling from north to south. Just wondering if anyone else saw it; it was the biggest meteor I have ever seen....large white streaks burning up. It probably took a good 8 seconds before the thing finally burned up.
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Damn, what those saddledome beers does to a person!!
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11-30-2008, 01:22 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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About ten years ago, one summer towards evening, I saw a huge meteor travelling north to south while I was driving west along Marlborough Dr. I pulled over to keep it in sight and a lot of other cars did also. It looked like it was heading towards Montana. I couldn't find any reports about it afterwards and I guess to bring it up, just brings out the jokes, but Alberta has great skies for watching. Out here right now, there is about a 30' visibility range.
Last edited by Vulcan; 11-30-2008 at 01:27 AM.
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11-30-2008, 07:23 AM
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Referee
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the hill
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Sounds very cool. I do have one piece of advice though--if a black, sentient sludge comes out of it, don't wear it as a suit. Not the kind of thing you expect to have to mention, but you'd be surprised how often that seems like a good idea....
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11-30-2008, 10:33 AM
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One of the Nine
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Tell that to Tasha Yar.
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11-30-2008, 10:58 AM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Quote:
Originally Posted by icarus
That's what the dinosaurs said!
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That was a comet. They're a little bigger than asteroids and meteors.
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11-30-2008, 10:59 AM
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Uncle Chester
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 4x4
tell that to tasha yar.
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nerd!
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11-30-2008, 11:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by simmer2
Maybe Megan Fox comes down with the Transformers...I'd be okay with that.
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Meagan Fox goes down? I'd be ok with that too.
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11-30-2008, 11:15 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flylock shox
A midniiiiight joker?
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Fail.
(I'm glad skill is gone, because that is all I'm contributing at this time)
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Last edited by Temporary_User; 11-30-2008 at 11:18 AM.
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11-30-2008, 01:14 PM
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My face is a bum!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
That was a comet. They're a little bigger than asteroids and meteors.
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This post reminds me of when someone makes a hilarious joke, and then the one guy that didn't laugh starts off his next sentence with "Technically......"
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