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  1. 30-Dec-2012 #1
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    2013 - Comet Ison

    A comet discovered by two Russian astronomers will be visible from Earth next year. Get ready for a once-in-a lifetime light show, says David Whitehouse.

    Comet Ison could draw millions out into the dark to witness what could be the brightest comet seen in many generations – brighter even than the full Moon.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...y-8431443.html
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    uh oh. . its red dust for us all. . .

    night-of-the-comet-empty-clothes.jpg
    "When the dead walk, we must stop the killing, or lose the war."
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    Quote Originally Posted by clanglee View Post
    uh oh. . its red dust for us all. . .

    night-of-the-comet-empty-clothes.jpg
    How funny is it that's the first thing I thought of of too.

    By the way, DMK sez "hi".
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    Quote Originally Posted by MoonSylver View Post

    By the way, DMK sez "hi".
    Pfft...he's history!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    Pfft...he's history!
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    Good news is it will be visible from the northern hemisphere

    Other good news is there's a spaceship in its tail supposedly with a naked lady in!

     
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Good news is it will be visible from the northern hemisphere

    Other good news is there's a spaceship in its tail supposedly with a naked lady in!

     
    Despite knowing how that works out, you had me at "naked lady" Especially that one.
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