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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #70 on: Yesterday at 12:42:59 PM »
Not now but last Tuesday on 12-AUG-25 we saw the Arianne 6 booster in polar orbit performing a propellant vent preparing for it's deorbit burn.  Here in Arkansas local time it started the vent at 21:33ish.  The thing looked like a regular satellite and then it flashed and quickly took on an hour glass appearance.  Diffuse at the ends and a bright spot in the middle and was orange tinted. When it went behind the tree line it was as wide as three thumb widths on an outstretched hand.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #71 on: Yesterday at 02:07:09 PM »
Quote from: Rastus on Yesterday at 12:42:59 PM
Not now but last Tuesday on 12-AUG-25 we saw the Arianne 6 booster in polar orbit performing a propellant vent preparing for it's deorbit burn.  Here in Arkansas local time it started the vent at 21:33ish.  The thing looked like a regular satellite and then it flashed and quickly took on an hour glass appearance.  Diffuse at the ends and a bright spot in the middle and was orange tinted. When it went behind the tree line it was as wide as three thumb widths on an outstretched hand.

Wow! That's Yuge. All I saw in the sky was a moon so full last weekend that it was casting shadows on the ground where we stood. When my friend and I stood there and saw our shadows, I asked him if that meant we were going to have 6 more weeks of summer. :D  It makes sense that if a rodent can predict a long winter, maybe we could predict a long summer. BTW, it's 88 degrees but feels like 90 right now.
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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #72 on: Yesterday at 06:39:03 PM »
If I can stay awake I'm going to watch the first episode or two of the new TV series Alien: Earth(7.9/10 stars) on FX and Hulu. When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat. It's the first television series in the Alien franchise and is set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien. Xenomorph XX121, the alien, is just one of 5 invasive alien species on the ship, and maybe not even the worst. :o  Mother Earth is expecting.

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Re: What are you watching?
« Reply #73 on: Today at 01:04:09 AM »
If Alien: Earth is any indication of reality, in the year 2120 the handle and blade of a guillotine trimmer for cutting paper will look EXACTLY like a Wakizashi sword. ::) That's a sword that's shorter than a Katana, but longer than a Tanto, with a blade approximately 1'-2' long. I've seen movies before where these were torn off the base of the paper trimmer and used like a machete, but to have one look like it came out of a sword factory is 10X more ridiculous.
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