Sunday, November 17, 2002

As Scooby Doo would say, "Ruh Oh!"
KYW radio in Philadelphia says Meteor Storm Coming:
People along the east coast, including in the Philadelphia region, are in for an astronomical spectacle Monday night into Tuesday morning. Forecasters are predicting not the annual Leonid meteor shower, but a meteor storm.

At the peak of a meteor shower you can usually see about 10 meteors an hour racing across the dark sky. But during a meteor storm, Wayne Adams, a sky watcher with the Bucks Mont Astronomical Association, says you see many, many more:

"This year they're predicting that we can see anywhere between three to five thousand meteors per hour at the peak."
Over at Free Republic, BenLurkin says:
Yikes! I know what happens next. The people who watch the meteors all go blind. . .and then the meteors deposit seeds that grow into trees . . . only the trees eat the blind people . . AND . . .these trees can pull up their roots and chase people down. . . it will be horrible . . .

Wait, that's the
Triffids not the Leonids . . .

Never mind.