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The sky is falling, the sky is falling
Chicken Little here to give everyone a heads up warning.  The Perseides meteor shower peaks over the next couple of nights.  Check with your local star gazers but this year is supposed to be a good show.

Perseids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Currently: 2008 36' Tiffin Open Road
Previously: 2007 Mid Bath
Re: The sky is falling, the sky is falling
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John I would have clicked on this faster if you had mentioned that this is a sure sign that Apple is doomed. For next time. 
Paul
'92 Mid Bath
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Quote from: John DaCrema  - 
Chicken Little here to give everyone a heads up warning.  The Perseides meteor shower peaks over the next couple of nights.  Check with your local star gazers but this year is supposed to be a good show.

Perseids - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watched it from Crowder State Park in Missouri. last year, the park manager had kiddie stuff up in the group campground pavilion and the restrooms there were open she shut all lights shut off after dark, it was a great show. We are home in Pa this year and the weatherman says no chance.
Re: The sky is falling, the sky is falling
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Judie, I think you refer to my post? It refers to the most certain way to get someone to click on a link. If you can tie Apple into your link, your clicks go up. If you can tie anything about "Steve Jobs would never..." Or "Apple is doomed to fail...", clicks go up exponentially. It was humor, but only to Apple fan-boys, (another meme to troll for clicks).  Maybe a Star Trekkies click bait would have been more appropriate. Chicken Little is kinda 20th century.
Paul
'92 Mid Bath
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Paul.  I am such a trilobite when it comes to on line stuff.  That is cool. Thanks. 

Sadly the small chick storybook reference is connected to my youth.  I was 11.   I was delivering papers to the good folks in base housing at Wheelus Air Force Base the first time I saw the shower.  The early light of dawn was just giving way to the sun that was just about to wakeup.  The sky was full of shooting stars.  WE ARE TALKING a GALLIZIONS (well maybe they were only N to an infinite y in number).   On one level I knew that they were just shooting stars.  But damn ... there were a lot of them.  It was like those grade B scifi movies that my parents would not let me watch.  But, at the same time it was so very cooool.  It really did look like the sky was falling. 

Wheelus AFB was on the north edge of the Sahara next to the Med, the sky was free of light pollution and water.  I will remember the shower as long as I live.
John
Currently: 2008 36' Tiffin Open Road
Previously: 2007 Mid Bath
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Dark skies and quiet places- so hard to find, these places amplify the experience of nature.
Paul
'92 Mid Bath
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   We went last night from 12am till 2am to the highest point of Vashon island in the Puget sound, there was still a lot of light pollution so we saw about 50 per hour way below the 200 per hour expected.  You need dark skies to see all of the fainter ones but we saw some great ones which left trails and a few were in full color.  My son wants to go tonight, gotta wait till after 12am for the moon to set.

  Karen~Liam
98 - MB - 26.5 ~ (still unnamed)

1998 ~ MB  WanderDaze
previously a 1984 Winnebago itaska- The Road Warrior, before that several VW Buses and before that a 1965 Chrysler Convertible Newport or our 1969 Chrysler La Barron with an ice box and a couple sleeping bags
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Thanks for the 'heads up'......    My oldest and I went out in our yard, but I didn't really plan (I just happened to wake up at 3:30am) so we didn't have a lot of night time.   Maybe we will plan tonight.   We live out in the middle of nowhere so there is no interfering light and it's supposed to be a cloudless night.   My son really enjoyed it, so did I....I especially liked the slow moving ones, because I didn't expect to see those. 
Thanks again

-Rebecca in WA
2016 MB
Rebecca in WA
2016 mid-bath
"Ramirez"
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We got up around 2:45 this morning and watched for about a hour. Our location in the Tehachapi, Ca mountains at 5,600 ft. makes an excellent viewing spot right from our back porch.

I'm hoping to get back to Great Basin NP for the shower someday as it is one of the best spots in the continental US for stargazing: 

Great Basin Astronomy Festival
Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
 
Re: The sky is falling, the sky is falling
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Garry--

I was going to go to the farm (6 miles south of Chilli) for the show, but it was cloudy, drizzly, & generally yucky last weekend--the humidity was typical MIssouri, so even when it wasn't raining, you could practically cut the air with a knife, so no joy watching the sky fall anywhere around here...but thx for the info, I will keep Crowder in mind for another year.
 
HILOLA-- thx for another place to plan a trip & get out of north Missouri in August...
Lynne
Lynne
LDy Lulubelle, Green '05 31' TB
Lilly, the 4-Legged Alarm
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Quote from: Lynne Broyles-Greenwood  - 
Garry--

I was going to go to the farm (6 miles south of Chilli) for the show, but it was cloudy, drizzly, & generally yucky last weekend--the humidity was typical MIssouri, so even when it wasn't raining, you could practically cut the air with a knife, so no joy watching the sky fall anywhere around here...but thx for the info, I will keep Crowder in mind for another year.
 
HILOLA-- thx for another place to plan a trip & get out of north Missouri in August...
Lynne

You're welcome! My Dad was career Air Force and, when I was a young'n, we were stationed in the Kansas City area of "Misery" (his words) so I can relate to the humidity reference!
Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
Re: The sky is falling, the sky is falling
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Quote from: Lynne Broyles-Greenwood  - 
Garry--

I was going to go to the farm (6 miles south of Chilli) for the show, but it was cloudy, drizzly, & generally yucky last weekend--the humidity was typical MIssouri, so even when it wasn't raining, you could practically cut the air with a knife, so no joy watching the sky fall anywhere around here...but thx for the info, I will keep Crowder in mind for another year.
 
HILOLA-- thx for another place to plan a trip & get out of north Missouri in August...
Lynne

Lynn
We are in the process of moving from Pa to Ohio and is has been a long process. But someday we will be back in Missouri camping as I still have a sister who is 90 still in Trenton. Maxine and I would  like to meet up with you some time when we are back in the area. Lunch or something, we love and miss those Missouri tenderloin sandwiches! We were out in our motor-home 100+ days last year and yet to spend a night in it this year..  Were in 5 or 6 different state parks last year in Missouri