Tim B
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Necro post I know but seeing this thread reminded me of a story I read a couple of months back.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3829894/Big-cat-mauled-my-dog.html
Damage to livestock from wild panthers is common but I've never head of one attacking a large wolf like that before, so if I panther didn't do that to the poor dog then what the hell did?
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Any sighting in the skies over this country at least by pilots (regardless of faction affiliation because it is our airspace) must be reported to our civilian air traffic controllers by law, so if there was a confirmed sighting of an extraterrestrial aircraft over the UK then I imagine we would find out about it fairly quickly due to this.
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1997 was Comet Hale-Bopp. Some people committed suicide because they thought they were going to die (oxymoron?). Others just enjoyed the show
Yeah I remember that well, though there was also a big asteroid that went between us and the moon that year same as now.
I'm not quite sure I'd describe "every 15 years or so" as, "all the time" in human terms, although in astrological terms it probably is.
Yeah that's what I meant in terms of the Earths' astrological life or terms of human existence overall, every 10 / 15 years is nothing in that regard when you think about it. We will be hit by an asteroid like this again sooner or later as it is inevitable, lets just hope it hits a sparsely populated area or a desert.
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My most hated weather is the same as yours Chion, especially when I have stuff to do.
Go out without a coat and get soaked in rain, go with one and get soaked in sweat. It's a win win situation..
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I've seen loads of things in the skies that I couldn't identify but I've never seen any alien craft up close though! Most I could explain later after careful thought though as all kinds of things can distort the appearance of normal aircraft or project ground based objects in to the sky.
Most UFO sightings are very terrestrial in origin though I believe a small minority are indeed alien, perhaps one in every million or so.
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Happens all the time does this actually, a massive asteroid passed between us and the moon in 1997 (I think).
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Went to the window just now to check on this cloud burst when a huge forked bolt shot over the cloud base right as I twitched the blind, made me jump. Loud too.
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Heavens have opened!!!
Looks like that squall that was over me an hour or so ago has reached you.
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Been rumbling away here for the last half an hour, here's why:
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I put it down to delay, with the sferics being where the precip was about an hour previously, if its the Netweather radar your using.
Sounds about right.
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The precip and sferics in my area do not line up, what the hells going on here..
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Ooo, refreshing shower and a blue sky.
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Manchester airport now reporting electrical activity in that cell.
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Ahh! The games afoot, huh?
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Worth keeping an eye out now as the front cuts in, Wales for example..
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Alien space ship or shockwave?
Hills generating lift, I am counting on this mechanic to produce storms once the front passes.
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Alien invasion..
Reduced image size by 60% so it should fit the image thingy better.
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Alien invasion..
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Even more interesting if the 18:15 forecast was correct the difference in temps. You would have thought that would provide the forcing.
It might.
I've been watching the sky here too and it is now looking very unstable, something could break out at any second.
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EXTREMELY dark clouds coming over Cardiff. Intensifying rapidly over Bristol Channel. Just heard thunder.
It is the line of showers I have been watching for the last few hours, it intensified rapidly as it hit land and it is now approaching your area at around 40 mph.
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I meant for my area.
17.8C with a dewpoint of 13.3C and humidity at 75%. Isn't the best recipe for storms!
Actually this may be an indication that activity is developing or will do soon as cooler air from somewhere has cut under the warmer air in the region, and there is only one direction that warm moist air can go.
Upwards.
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As I suspected, that area in the south-west has pepped up having made landfall and is now generating lightning.
Lets see where else this happens overnight.
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We have left it that we can get more filming done between now and the end of July for the programme so hopefully something crops up between now and then -
What programme is that?
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Wait, the Wales radar. Magnify!
*Chain sneezes*
Damn grass..
Squirrel-proof Bird Feeders
in Space, Science & nature
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Yeah I heard that too, been meaning to test it since we get nothing but greedy greys around here.
I think it was on the one show.
As for stopping invasive gray squirrels from treating your bird food as a free al fresco meal then your best bet is a mechanical feeder with a set of scales built in to it which cuts off the food supply when a squirrel stands on it, which wont happen with the birds feeding off it.