Meteor strike near Trollig Sweeden, recorded on security camera; Jan 17. Eight second video here.
Various reports here.
And in other news, still no sunspots. Fortunately, this was just marked down at Amazon.
I also found these by accidentally searching for “anime” under “Home Improvement” — but I don’t have any use for them… Searching under “Industrial and Scientific” got me some discontinued Hello Kity “car hooks.” Searching under “Office Products and Supplies” got me 314 items, including this. I’m sure it would go over well in my office — which still lacks catgirls, by the way.
That reminds me. I got the opportunity to join in a GURPS science-fiction campaign while on my recent trip. Human space is under occasional attack by aliens, and we can’t expect help from Earth for our recently-founded colony. My character is a geneticist, and I’ve convinced the planetary governor (a player character) to back my plan to start creating forced-growth clones as part of a long-term plan to build up our colony population and industry.
What, you think I’m crazy or something? Of course it’s only a cover for my secret project to create a catgirl army…duh!
Update: But not this cat!!! AIIIEEEEE!!! It’s everywhere!
Did I ever show you the picture of a candy bar the Stainless Steel Brat brought back from Japan?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=113057&l=364fe&id=1527049746
Cue jokes about nuclear-induced mutation…
Glow-in-the-dark chocolate?
The odd thing is that five minutes or so after I read this post, I stepped out onto the balcony of Pond Central… and saw a meteor, looking pretty large and pretty low, and leaving a visible smoke trail, despite the fact that it was late at night.
Burned out before it hit the ground, though. Didn’t hear anything either, so it couldn’t have been that low.