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AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream is heading for Earth, and so is a coronal mass ejection (CME). Together, they add up to a geomagnetic storm alert for March 17th and 18th. The impact of the solar wind plus CME will brighten Arctic skies already alive with Northern Lights:
That's not until 2012. Don't you watch the Discover Channel?
There is also a red dwarf star on a collision course with our solar system. It's due in about 1.5 million years. Now go ahead and run up your credit cards.
International Space Station goes almost directly overhead tonight from northwest to southeast starting at 8:09 PM for over 2 minutes. I'm going to check at 7:09 just in case NASA didn't reset for Daylight saving time.
[quote=Northern Maine Land Man;13321235]International Space Station goes almost directly overhead tonight from northwest to southeast starting at 8:09 PM for over 2 minutes. [quote] I'll be looking!
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I'm going to check at 7:09 just in case NASA didn't reset for Daylight saving time.
Surely NASA is smarter than me !
Thank you for the heads up on all the sky stuff! Now, if I can just remember when Wednesday night is...
Standing out in the still cold air as I watched the ISS go over I thought about an E-mail I got today about what my friend had seen in his lifetime.
I have been asked to give a talk to a group of about 150 on March 27. Here's how I'll kick it off:
A neighbor of ours, one Pvt. Bowers, served in the Revolutionary War and lived to a ripe old age. When he had white hair he met a young man named Bill Green who later lost a leg in the Civil War. Bill Green Pond in Lee is named for him. Bill Green knew Fred Dingley who happened to own the first Model T in our town. In his 80's, Fred had white hair when he told me about being Bill Green's neighbor and hearing Bill Green tell about Pvt. Bowers. Fred is gone now and I'm the white haired old man, but think about these men. Only four of us neighbors span the time from our Revolution to the present when we are at risk of losing our country.
I was in Chile in 64 the first time Allende, the Communist, tried to take over. I was in the Dominican Revolution in 1965 and served in Vietnam as a helicopter gun ship pilot. I am thankful for every day. People say I'm lucky. I don't believe in luck. I believe in Divine Providence. A few minutes ago the International Space Station rose in the northwest, right on schedule. I watched it until it was just beyond straight up when it went into Earth's shadow.
On April 19, I will fire a salute with my muzzle loader at Pvt. Bowers' grave. I'm not all that far from him. There are only two other men between Pvt. Bowers and me; one unbroken line. The sprig of evergreen in my tri-corner hat is like the ones worn by Private Bowers and the Maine men who marched off to earn our independence from England. They didn't win it. They earned it. They didn't know if they would ever see their families again, but the sprig of evergreen was the reminder that they expected to have everlasting life.
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