Happy Weekend. Just a little fluff in honor of the new DK5. I am looking forward to it because I tried it out in beta and can post pictures again. Wahoo. Look out.
Today, it's a heads up about the Taurid meteor showers going on above you at midnight, your local time. Usually these meteor showers aren't much to look at. But, this year the Earth is traveling right through the debris field making for a really good show. Shades of Ed Sullivan, so to speak.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday:
BadKitties
Tuesday:
ejoanna
Wednesday:
Caedy
Thursday:
art ah zen
Friday:
FloridaSNMOM
Saturday:
Siris
Sunday:
loggersbrat
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This is a fun video about large meteor strikes and their impact on Earth:
I'm including this video, not just because there's some great video and the anchor, meteorologist & scientist are just too cute, but check out the pickup who makes his own lane on the left side of the freeway towards the end of the video!
Great pictures at the Meteor Picture gallery on Spaceweather.com. Click on the picture for larger view and details of where and when, click again for full screen.
There is currently a huge coronal hole in our Sun with the solar wind from it hitting our Earth Nov 10 or thereabouts. You know what that means. Auroras! Here's the latest gallery of aurora pictures.