46 thoughts on “Asteroid?”

  1. ‘What Is That In The Sky?’ Floridians Catch Meteor’s Close Brush With Earth | WAMC

    It wasn’t a bird or a plane that gave Floridians a shock late Monday night.

    It wasn’t even Superman.

    A meteor shot across the sky around 10 p.m. Monday.

    On social media, residents along the state’s Atlantic coast, from West Palm Beach south to Miami, shared videos on Twitter of the surprising sight.

    Dashcam footage and security videos showed a still, dark night suddenly lit up by what appeared to be a large fireball streaking diagonally across the sky. In just a few seconds, it was over.

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  4. Former Speaker John Boehner makes his first visit to A Late Show to talk about the challenges of being Speaker of the House, and to share how he really feels about Texas Senator Ted Cruz. You can pick up his new book, “On The House: A Washington Memoir,” now. Keep watching for part two of Stephen’s interview with the former Speaker.

  5. In part two of his interview, Former Speaker John Boehner indulges Stephen by offering his unvarnished thoughts on political figures from both sides of the aisle.

  6. Whoa!!  That was impressive!! Just missed – Maybe the aim will be better next time. 

  7. LOL. Watching Boehner on MoJo. Just told Joe he was a pain in the ass as a freshman representative. And I imagine that’s exactly how Republican leadership viewed him when he first came to Congress and was in the extreme right wing of the party. And just called Mark Meadows a nice man but a bit schizophrenic.

  12. The difference is that asteroids orbit the sun.  Some are pretty big and some as small as dust particles.  Meteors and meteoroids are smaller bodies that have broken off larger ones, such as asteroids, comets, etc.  Meteors are any of the above that have entered the earth’s atmosphere.  (Thanks to NASA).  I used to love the summer meteor showers when I lived in NH and worked in Maine.  Once anchored off Mount Desert Island and climbed up to a hilltop with a group of Outward Bound students (can’t recall which hilltop – details fade) and camped in the open to watch the Perseids Meteor shower.  Man, what a wonderful night that was.  

  15. A dog was there first.  That poor dog.  A really good but sad movie is, “My Life As A Dog.”   

    Meteorites actually make it to the ground without burning up on entry. I wonder if any of it survived?

  16. Almost one hundred days into the Biden years and we are finally starting to get a bit of stuff happening that is being reported on.  Afghanistan troop withdrawal, J&J COVID vaccine not doing the right job (and adding to anti-vaxxers repertoire of reasons to be a health problem), Major back to boot camp, no extra vaccine to Michigan, and a few more items above the fold.  Nothing like what the gqp wants, but enough to say we have a “normal” presidency happening now.  What is happening is that things that are happening are taken care of.  No more biggest bag of cash wins anything.

    edit: I just saw Sam Stein tweeted pretty much the same list at the same time. Guess normalcy is noticeable now.

  18. let’s see…….greatest president in my life time…………The Haberdasher, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nix-man, Jimmy Cottah, Ray-gun, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Barack, Smokestack Sidemeat, and Biden.
    Well, I do know that Ike would be the onliest goper to even make consideration.   
    Well, I’ma just have to cheat and fudge and say FDR.

  19. But ya gotta admit…….Bill Clinton trafficking in SAX while wearing dark glasses on the TV show was just plain old kick-ass.  That was an impression to reckon with.    I had to figure, the kid’s ok.

  20. Wow…  that must have been something to see.  We are lucky to live in an area with very little light pollution…  we see the night sky clearly.
     
    Normalcy… yup… I’ll take it.
     
    CBob…  so nice to see you so happy.  I look forward to reading your nighttime musings when I get up in the morning.

  22. Steinbeck called it in TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE…….if you want to survive the coming chaos you have to go live where no one else wants to live, or something like that…….like the Arctic or the middle of a desert……

  25. you beat me to it, bink.  i was gonna say kentucky; but scranton isn’t that far off, just has more people.

  27. Coal…….look how damn primitive the whole damn thing is…….dig up the solid fuel from way down deep and ugly…….take it by barges to the towns and deliver it to the swells in their fancy caves, fill up the holds of the Caves which cross the Water………..We are us because we burn things. But hell, that goes back to the greeks…….what the hell, you can be a much better ape if you’re able to burn stuff.

    Play of the Decade: a reprise of “The Hairy Ape” by Eugene O’neill

  28. They say Eugene, he drank a lot, like so many of them did……That shit don’t write itself, you know…..

  29. I’m kinda thinkin’ Shakespeare didn’t drink.  He was probably more like Zappa.

  30. Edgar Allen Poe was like the Beethovan of short stories.

    Jerry Lee Lewis was like the Edgar Allen Poe of piano players.

  31. i knew a little somosomp’n bout steel cause of Birmingham and the world’s 2nd largest Iron man, but i never knew a damn thing about coal, except how my first FIL used to make a great show of throwing a lump of coal into the fireplace on special type nights…….He drank a lot like so many of them did. He was in a position where he couldn’t accept gifts, but he’d get things like a good size bucket of coal now and then…..large chunks.

  34. I just don’t think Shake coulda shook all that out if he was a drinker man…….That was a prodigious output whether he peersonally wrote it or hired it out and collated…..whatever, he left the stews of London in good health with a poke full of money and bought a piece of clean land in the place where he grew up where they brought him all the coal he could use. That’s one thing I like to do……I like to imagine Shakespeare in negotions with his coal vendor.

  35. I mean Poe was a drinker and he cranked out an admirable load of verbiage……. but it was mostly spurts and such, nothing consistently sustained like Shake had to do for the cheap seats……..

  36. Hey binks…….when you called the Greaseman, what’d you tell or ask him? He was probably down in Sector 4.

  37. The closest Poe ever gets to a proud mary or a brown eyed girl is “Nevermore”.   

  38. Oh, i was just a squeaky little kid, i just told him i liked his show, and he said, “thanks, buddy” and hung-up.
     
    My first lesson in showbiz

  40. I used to love the disc joskies……that’s where it was HAPPENING…….on the radio.  I used to pester all the dj’s by trying to call in…..had a couple of little spells of Imus airtime…..crazy

  42. speaking of nice places in the middle of nowhere.  Las Vegas used to be this pleasant oasis in the middle of a big desert until it got ruined by people

    Visited by Pueblo Indians as early as 300 B.C. , Las Vegas was discovered by whites in 1829, when a trading party led by a New Mexican named Antonio Armijo thought to shorten its trip along the Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe to Los Angeles by traveling north of the Colorado River. Nearly running out of water in the vast desert that stretches from what is now northwestern Arizona up into Death Valley and the Valley of Fire, Armijo dispatched a young Mexican scout named Raphael Rivera to search for an oasis; he returned thirteen days later with news of a verdant spring covered with the rolling green fields the Spanish call las vegas . Meadows there were, and plenty of water too; the traders refreshed themselves and reached Los Angeles less than three weeks later.

  44. Cause Las Vegas NM got some SERIOUS chili joints, make you tongue wanna beat yo brains out

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