I saw something weird in the sky a couple nights ago. Will post about it in a couple hours when I get to work.
This struck me as humorous.
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I saw something weird in the sky a couple nights ago. Will post about it in a couple hours when I get to work.
Is that less or more than a **** load?That's the word I was looking for.
Is that less or more than a **** load?
I have seen a whole bunch of meteors over the last few years, and I was fortunate to see the northern lights once when I was in my early 20's, but I have never seen anything in the sky that I could not explain. That changed two nights ago. I was driving to work and looked to the west and saw two strange lights. They were a good ways out of town so at that distance I couldn't make out what it was. There was a red light that looked like it could be airplane lights, but directly above it and slightly to the left was a longer and much brighter light. I thought it was a star at first but I have never seen a star shaped like that. These lights were directly to my left. I got a few miles down the road and stopped to get some Del Taco. I left Del Taco and hopped onto a main road. Normally I would have turned right to go to work, but I had some time to kill so I turned left and headed out of town. The lights were now directly in front of me, so they had travelled a few miles at a slower pace than I was driving. They were getting further away which tells me they were heading northwest but didn't seem like they were travelling very fast. The red light on the bottom was now shaped the same as the bright light above it. I'd say they were 5-10 miles out of town so I didn't get a good look, but it was very strange. If I didn't have to get to work I would have went further out of town to try to figure out what the lights were. The two lights were travelling together that's for sure, and they may have even been connected to each other. I have been looking around online to see if anyone else was talking about it, but I haven't seen anything else about it.
I have seen a whole bunch of meteors over the last few years, and I was fortunate to see the northern lights once when I was in my early 20's, but I have never seen anything in the sky that I could not explain. That changed two nights ago. I was driving to work and looked to the west and saw two strange lights. They were a good ways out of town so at that distance I couldn't make out what it was. There was a red light that looked like it could be airplane lights, but directly above it and slightly to the left was a longer and much brighter light. I thought it was a star at first but I have never seen a star shaped like that. These lights were directly to my left. I got a few miles down the road and stopped to get some Del Taco. I left Del Taco and hopped onto a main road. Normally I would have turned right to go to work, but I had some time to kill so I turned left and headed out of town. The lights were now directly in front of me, so they had travelled a few miles at a slower pace than I was driving. They were getting further away which tells me they were heading northwest but didn't seem like they were travelling very fast. The red light on the bottom was now shaped the same as the bright light above it. I'd say they were 5-10 miles out of town so I didn't get a good look, but it was very strange. If I didn't have to get to work I would have went further out of town to try to figure out what the lights were. The two lights were travelling together that's for sure, and they may have even been connected to each other. I have been looking around online to see if anyone else was talking about it, but I haven't seen anything else about it.
I have seen a whole bunch of meteors over the last few years, and I was fortunate to see the northern lights once when I was in my early 20's, but I have never seen anything in the sky that I could not explain. That changed two nights ago. I was driving to work and looked to the west and saw two strange lights. They were a good ways out of town so at that distance I couldn't make out what it was. There was a red light that looked like it could be airplane lights, but directly above it and slightly to the left was a longer and much brighter light. I thought it was a star at first but I have never seen a star shaped like that. These lights were directly to my left. I got a few miles down the road and stopped to get some Del Taco. I left Del Taco and hopped onto a main road. Normally I would have turned right to go to work, but I had some time to kill so I turned left and headed out of town. The lights were now directly in front of me, so they had travelled a few miles at a slower pace than I was driving. They were getting further away which tells me they were heading northwest but didn't seem like they were travelling very fast. The red light on the bottom was now shaped the same as the bright light above it. I'd say they were 5-10 miles out of town so I didn't get a good look, but it was very strange. If I didn't have to get to work I would have went further out of town to try to figure out what the lights were. The two lights were travelling together that's for sure, and they may have even been connected to each other. I have been looking around online to see if anyone else was talking about it, but I haven't seen anything else about it.
I'm betting on a Drone. If you've never seen one at night, they will make you do a double take.
I'm south of the Rockies. I was driving so I couldn't record it on my phone. It could have been a drone. I have never seen one so I have no idea, but it seemed to be moving at a snail's pace. This happened right before sunset so it wasn't quite dark yet. It was very visable and I guarantee a lot more people saw it. I spend a lot of time looking at the sky because it is more interesting than looking at anything that is on the ground.
I'm south of the Rockies. I was driving so I couldn't record it on my phone. It could have been a drone. I have never seen one so I have no idea, but it seemed to be moving at a snail's pace. This happened right before sunset so it wasn't quite dark yet. It was very visable and I guarantee a lot more people saw it. I spend a lot of time looking at the sky because it is more interesting than looking at anything that is on the ground.
I have seen a whole bunch of meteors over the last few years, and I was fortunate to see the northern lights once when I was in my early 20's, but I have never seen anything in the sky that I could not explain. That changed two nights ago. I was driving to work and looked to the west and saw two strange lights. They were a good ways out of town so at that distance I couldn't make out what it was. There was a red light that looked like it could be airplane lights, but directly above it and slightly to the left was a longer and much brighter light. I thought it was a star at first but I have never seen a star shaped like that. These lights were directly to my left. I got a few miles down the road and stopped to get some Del Taco. I left Del Taco and hopped onto a main road. Normally I would have turned right to go to work, but I had some time to kill so I turned left and headed out of town. The lights were now directly in front of me, so they had travelled a few miles at a slower pace than I was driving. They were getting further away which tells me they were heading northwest but didn't seem like they were travelling very fast. The red light on the bottom was now shaped the same as the bright light above it. I'd say they were 5-10 miles out of town so I didn't get a good look, but it was very strange. If I didn't have to get to work I would have went further out of town to try to figure out what the lights were. The two lights were travelling together that's for sure, and they may have even been connected to each other. I have been looking around online to see if anyone else was talking about it, but I haven't seen anything else about it.
In one out of 39 scans that passed over star showed a signal at about 4.5 times the mean noise power with a profile somewhat like the beam profile. Of course SETI@home has seen millions of potential signals with similar characteristics, but it takes more than that to make a good candidate. Multiple detections are a minimum criterion.
Because the receivers used were making broad band measurements, there's really nothing about this "signal" that would distinguish it from a natural radio transient (stellar flare, active galactic nucleus, microlensing of a background source, etc.) There's also nothing that could distinguish it from a satellite passing through the telescope field of view. All in all, it's relatively uninteresting from a SETI standpoint.
Billions of stars, mega billions of planets orbiting those stars...IMO, it's hubris to think that we are the only intelligent life in the universe. They're out there...and someday we'll connect with them.
I lived in Cocoa Beach in the late 60's - my father was a launch pad engineer at the cape, deeply involved in the Apollo program. I've been fascinated by space for many years...and the idea that we're not alone. I'm STILL hoping we'll go to Mars in my lifetime...but they might want to speed things up just a tad!CarlSaganKCClone
Hey, if we could start recruiting there...