One time my girlfriend and I were just lounging around in bed after sex and she just randomly said, "You know, if I ever got pregnant, I could never get an abortion."
You know that confused, frightened expression Edward Norton has? Yeah, I did that. I felt a little misled because she had said a few times before that she was pro-choice. But dammit, why would you bring that up right after sex? You bring that shit up before sex.
One time my girlfriend and I were just lounging around in bed after sex and she just randomly said, "You know, if I ever got pregnant, I could never get an abortion."
You know that confused, frightened expression Edward Norton has? Yeah, I did that. I felt a little misled because she had said a few times before that she was pro-choice. But dammit, why would you bring that up right after sex? You bring that shit up before sex.
That's not what "pro-choice" means. But I guess you know that now. You have had a "what if" discussion, right? Because if you're going to be regulary participating in activities that can result in a life-changing end state, it's a good idea to have a plan.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
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Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Was this last year? Because The Aurora went really far south last year. or the year before. Can't remember which.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Was this last year? Because The Aurora went really far south last year. or the year before. Can't remember which.
It was about 10 years ago. Does the Aurora result in instantaneous green flashes reminescent of lightning?
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Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Was this last year? Because The Aurora went really far south last year. or the year before. Can't remember which.
It was about 10 years ago. Does the Aurora result in instantaneous green flashes reminescent of lightning?
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Was this last year? Because The Aurora went really far south last year. or the year before. Can't remember which.
It was about 10 years ago. Does the Aurora result in instantaneous green flashes reminescent of lightning?
I've heard of a phenomenon called the green flash. It happens when the sun is setting and is just a very brief flash of green. Although as far as I know, it is pretty rare and can only be seen in a couple places on earth, so it probably wasn't that. I would guess it was a transformer blowing like Doc said.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Was this last year? Because The Aurora went really far south last year. or the year before. Can't remember which.
It was about 10 years ago. Does the Aurora result in instantaneous green flashes reminescent of lightning?
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Also, it wasn't the "green flash" phenomenon, because it was already several hours past dusk.
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I've read all of these threads, and I've never read that story.
Think that one is from the Employee Lounge in G&T.
Ah, crap... Sorry about that! I read most of these in one long ass chain. They kind of squish together :oops:
Yeah I've only told the story once before and it was in the Employee Lounge - I never thought people would be listening, let alone remember it, so cheers!
This one time, when I was like fifteen or so, my mom made me ask a bunch of my friends to come over and help get rid of the water bed that she had.
So my friends come over, and we get about two-thirds of the waterbed emptied before we decide to just lift it. A one-third filled water bed is really, really fucking heavy. Even for five fifteen year olds.
But that's not the point of the story. The point is, my mom... Didn't clean out under her bed. One of my friends - Jeremy - finds this tin can under there... He asks my mom "What's this?"
She goes "Oh, let me show you."
She opens it up... Inside is a dildo, some fuzzy handcuffs, body paints, and other various nasty stuff about which I still have nightmares.
My mom wiggles the dildo in Jeremy's face. He screams and runs out of the room. My mom gives chase. She chases him out of the house, wiggling her dildo. Meanwhile, the rest of us are like "WTF was that?"
My friends didn't come over to my house anymore after that.
Also, it wasn't the "green flash" phenomenon, because it was already several hours past dusk.
Certain metals and gases burn very specific colours. A load of gas from a chem plant, lighting system, electric system, swamp could cause it.
but I would put my money on:
1) A meteroite - which burn very specific colours on entry.
2) Cosmic Ray shower. When a highly energetic particle enters the atmosphere it hits an atom in the upper atmosphere shattering it into it's individual protons and neutron and electrons - but also all kinds of weird shit like muons, pions, gamma-rays. All this hits other particles causing a chain reaction. The light this all gives off are detectable by people with good eyes.
Now, very rarely, very very energetic particles enter the atmosphere that cause incredible showers that cover many square km. This cascade of particles are all travelling faster than the speed of light (in air) and so cause the visual equivalent of a sonic boom - called cherenkov radiation which can be colours from blue to green. There a large telescopes that detect these comsic rays by looking for this very light.
If it was this - your a very lucky guy.
(I did my masters degree project on Cosmic Rays - they are pretty badss - and sorry if you know all this)
This one time, when I was like fifteen or so, my mom made me ask a bunch of my friends to come over and help get rid of the water bed that she had.
So my friends come over, and we get about two-thirds of the waterbed emptied before we decide to just lift it. A one-third filled water bed is really, really fucking heavy. Even for five fifteen year olds.
But that's not the point of the story. The point is, my mom... Didn't clean out under her bed. One of my friends - Jeremy - finds this tin can under there... He asks my mom "What's this?"
She goes "Oh, let me show you."
She opens it up... Inside is a dildo, some fuzzy handcuffs, body paints, and other various nasty stuff about which I still have nightmares.
My mom wiggles the dildo in Jeremy's face. He screams and runs out of the room. My mom gives chase. She chases him out of the house, wiggling her dildo. Meanwhile, the rest of us are like "WTF was that?"
My friends didn't come over to my house anymore after that.
There is no fucking way this happened. I refuse to believe it.
My mom wiggles the dildo in Jeremy's face. He screams and runs out of the room. My mom gives chase. She chases him out of the house, wiggling her dildo. Meanwhile, the rest of us are like "WTF was that?"
My friends didn't come over to my house anymore after that.
Your mom is awesome. Also reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine.
He had been snooping in his parents bedroom one time, looking for his Christmas presents (this guy was about 16-17 years old, so he had this shit coming).
Well, he sees a shelf high up, and figures that's where they are. He starts feeling around up there and feels something kinda weird (tee hee). He grabs it to take a look at it, and whadya know, it's a huge weener.
He freaks out, and like throws it against the wall. His mom hears this noise, and goes to see what's the matter. So right then and there he has to sit and have his mom explain that while his dad is gone, it's perfectly normal to pleasure herself.
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This one time, when I was like fifteen or so, my mom made me ask a bunch of my friends to come over and help get rid of the water bed that she had.
So my friends come over, and we get about two-thirds of the waterbed emptied before we decide to just lift it. A one-third filled water bed is really, really fucking heavy. Even for five fifteen year olds.
But that's not the point of the story. The point is, my mom... Didn't clean out under her bed. One of my friends - Jeremy - finds this tin can under there... He asks my mom "What's this?"
She goes "Oh, let me show you."
She opens it up... Inside is a dildo, some fuzzy handcuffs, body paints, and other various nasty stuff about which I still have nightmares.
My mom wiggles the dildo in Jeremy's face. He screams and runs out of the room. My mom gives chase. She chases him out of the house, wiggling her dildo. Meanwhile, the rest of us are like "WTF was that?"
My friends didn't come over to my house anymore after that.
There is no fucking way this happened. I refuse to believe it.
This happened at 3rd grade, I think, yeah, 3rd grade(a long time ago):
It was some boring class and my friend seated in front of me, Francis, does this maniacal Darth Vader-like laugh (this guy could pull it off). "ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" He does it again and gets a good chuckle from everybody. The teacher couldnt care less 'bout him. So he does it again facing the wall (his right) and did it louder.
Now, me, being the easily influenced kid tried to do so as well. So we agreed on doin' it at the same time, him facing the wall and me facing infront of me, towards where he is.
Me: "ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--*cough*(big wad of phlegm flies out of my mouth and into his ear)... :shock: ... :oops:...
Francis:"ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--... ...:| ...:? ... :x
When I was in 5th grade, we had been practicing the song "Don't throw your trash in my back yard" (??? :? ).
Anyway, so our resident class fuckup/psycho brings an old grenade into class and at a really good moment asks the teacher if he should throw that instead.
Teacher wigs out, and runs and gets help. So, naturally, he locks her out and we all go apeshit.
When I was in 5th grade, we had been practicing the song "Don't throw your trash in my back yard" (??? :? ).
Anyway, so our resident class fuckup/psycho brings an old grenade into class and at a really good moment asks the teacher if he should throw that instead.
Teacher wigs out, and runs and gets help. So, naturally, he locks her out and we all go apeshit.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
:shock: My friend and I saw the exact same thing (near St. Louis on the Illinois side of the river) driving east on Interstate 64 around 9:30 at night about that long ago around mid-to-late- fall.
It was last summer, my girlfriend was over, and we were fooling around and I was just about ready to go down on her. The only other person in the house was my little sister, so I made sure the coast was clear. So I turn out the lights (she was kind of insecure at that point in the relationship) and it's pitch dark. 10 minutes in, everythings fine. All of a sudden, my door swings open and light floods the room. All we hear is "KEVINDANIELCOMELOOKATTHISCOMELOOKAT
"
Girlfriend: "
"
Me:"
"
Sister:"
"
Until for about 20 seconds, nothing happened. My girlfriend whipped a blanket up, I was kneeling on the edge of the bed, and my sister just shut the door.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
:shock: My friend and I saw the exact same thing (near St. Louis on the Illinois side of the river) driving east on Interstate 64 around 9:30 at night about that long ago around mid-to-late- fall.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
:shock: My friend and I saw the exact same thing (near St. Louis on the Illinois side of the river) driving east on Interstate 64 around 9:30 at night about that long ago around mid-to-late- fall.
For reals.
Interstate 64 just seems like one of those random places that crazy rural alien shit should happen.
At least on the illinois side, because illinois is weird.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Could have been a transformer blowing up.
Very possible. I had a tranformer blow a few blocks from my house once, and the damn thing was so bright, it looked like a flash of lighting had touched down right in front of my house.
Also, it wasn't the "green flash" phenomenon, because it was already several hours past dusk.
Certain metals and gases burn very specific colours. A load of gas from a chem plant, lighting system, electric system, swamp could cause it.
but I would put my money on:
1) A meteroite - which burn very specific colours on entry.
I'm putting my money on this. I saw a meteorite blow up on entry once, it was incredibly bright green.
If comic books have taught me anything it's that this either:
a) Has something to do with Kyrptonite
b) The Green Lantern
c) Has given you some type of super power
I can see the tint patterns on any car window with my sunglasses on, does that count? I always thought it was just the glasses.
It is. Windshields are slightly polarized to cut down on glare, and if you wear polarized sunglasses, the two will clash which causes the patterns to become visible. If you have another pair of polarized sunglasses, look through one pair, and turn the other sideways, and you'll see the lenses turn completely black.
It is. Windshields are slightly polarized to cut down on glare, and if you wear polarized sunglasses, the two will clash which causes the patterns to become visible. If you have another pair of polarized sunglasses, look through one pair, and turn the other sideways, and you'll see the lenses turn completely black.
It works better if you do it while moving on a highway and look at it for at least a minute.
Once upon a time, I was driving down 99 towards Fresno. I was alone in the car, because I was going to be meeting my girlfriend down there. It was semi-late at night - maybe 9-ish, or so, and I believe it was late fall.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
:shock: My friend and I saw the exact same thing (near St. Louis on the Illinois side of the river) driving east on Interstate 64 around 9:30 at night about that long ago around mid-to-late- fall.
For reals.
Interstate 64 just seems like one of those random places that crazy rural alien shit should happen.
At least on the illinois side, because illinois is weird.
In Missouri somewhere 4 hours out of Cape Girardeau, my Dad and I attempted to go camping, but every park we tried was full. Getting late, we eventually found a park deeper into the woods off the interstate--it was a nicely hidden campground, chaching--and we set up tent there. Besides our tent, there were 3 others and an RV in this pretty large park.
That night as I lay in the tent looking at the night sky, I slowly start to drift to sleep. It was around 2:00 when we went to bed, and I drifted in and out of sleep for awhile. Right before I finally fell asleep instead of miserably drifting, an extremely (and I mean fucking bright) light lit up the entire campground and sky, and our tent shook like hell, and in less than a second it was completely gone. The light had a direction to it, as if it was coming straight at our tent. I felt that emotion of '...sssshit!' right as it came. After it was gone I was too freaked to move. There was no noise that I remember hearing aside from the tent shaking, and no dogs barking or people waking up after it happened. My dad remained asleep. My eyes actually had to readjust to the darkness; it was the weirdest thing.
The next morning I asked the people next to us if they were disturbed by a bright light last night, they said no. My Dad slept through it.
I was going to pick up some tickets at a local bar for an upcoming Tea Party concert.
I walk in there around 7:30 on a Tuesday night and am greeted by the hostess. I tell her I am there for tickets and give her my credit card. I had forgotten to sign the back, so she had to ask her manager if it was alright to process it. She tells me to follow her.
I walk into the main area where, on a lower level is the dance floor. I see a group of roughly seven or eight 13-14 year old girls dancing, having a good time. Little did I realize that they have youth nights where kids can come in and dance to a DJ. Cool idea, I thought.
At any rate, the DJ turns out to be the manager, so I watch as the waitress goes across the dance floor and around behind the equipment to speak to her boss. He's throwing on some catchy tunes, so I stand there, watching the DJ, nodding my head to the tunes. I'm crossing my fingers he'll let it go this time.
I didn't notice at the time, but I was nodding my head back and forth to the tunes and had this really cheesy grin on my face. (not sure why) I hear a door open up and I turn to see this guy just staring at me like I am a total freak.
I realize that I had been standing there, and what to him probably seemed, nodding my head slowly, grinning like a mustached pedophile at the 13-14 year old girls dancing on the floor.
I left promptly, quite embarassed. At least they accepted my credit card and I got the tickets.
It was last summer, my girlfriend was over, and we were fooling around and I was just about ready to go down on her. The only other person in the house was my little sister, so I made sure the coast was clear. So I turn out the lights (she was kind of insecure at that point in the relationship) and it's pitch dark. 10 minutes in, everythings fine. All of a sudden, my door swings open and light floods the room. All we hear is "KEVINDANIELCOMELOOKATTHISCOMELOOKAT
"
Girlfriend: "
"
Me:"
"
Sister:"
"
Until for about 20 seconds, nothing happened. My girlfriend whipped a blanket up, I was kneeling on the edge of the bed, and my sister just shut the door.
Yeesh.
Knock sometimes.
Lock the door? If it doesn't lock do it in a room with a lock?
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You know that confused, frightened expression Edward Norton has? Yeah, I did that. I felt a little misled because she had said a few times before that she was pro-choice. But dammit, why would you bring that up right after sex? You bring that shit up before sex.
That's not what "pro-choice" means. But I guess you know that now. You have had a "what if" discussion, right? Because if you're going to be regulary participating in activities that can result in a life-changing end state, it's a good idea to have a plan.
Anyway, so I'm driving along, and suddenly, the sky lights up. Kinda like there'd been a huge lightning flash, only it was bright green. And, you know, no lightning. And no accompanying sound. Just... random flash of blinding green.
The shitty thing is that I have nobody to actually corroborate the story. I wasn't with anyone, I didn't know anybody who lived in the area, and it's not like there were news stories explaining what the hell the random flash was. So I have no idea what I saw, and no real means to figure it out.
Was this last year? Because The Aurora went really far south last year. or the year before. Can't remember which.
“Y helo thar, buttsecks?â€
It was about 10 years ago. Does the Aurora result in instantaneous green flashes reminescent of lightning?
Could have been a transformer blowing up.
Perhaps something like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
I've heard of a phenomenon called the green flash. It happens when the sun is setting and is just a very brief flash of green. Although as far as I know, it is pretty rare and can only be seen in a couple places on earth, so it probably wasn't that. I would guess it was a transformer blowing like Doc said.
nope. It's really pretty, but not flashy.
:?:
Why would that result in a bright green flash?
Also, it wasn't the "green flash" phenomenon, because it was already several hours past dusk.
Yeah I've only told the story once before and it was in the Employee Lounge - I never thought people would be listening, let alone remember it, so cheers!
But my bad for reusing stuff.
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It might have been a tumor.
So my friends come over, and we get about two-thirds of the waterbed emptied before we decide to just lift it. A one-third filled water bed is really, really fucking heavy. Even for five fifteen year olds.
But that's not the point of the story. The point is, my mom... Didn't clean out under her bed. One of my friends - Jeremy - finds this tin can under there... He asks my mom "What's this?"
She goes "Oh, let me show you."
She opens it up... Inside is a dildo, some fuzzy handcuffs, body paints, and other various nasty stuff about which I still have nightmares.
My mom wiggles the dildo in Jeremy's face. He screams and runs out of the room. My mom gives chase. She chases him out of the house, wiggling her dildo. Meanwhile, the rest of us are like "WTF was that?"
My friends didn't come over to my house anymore after that.
Certain metals and gases burn very specific colours. A load of gas from a chem plant, lighting system, electric system, swamp could cause it.
but I would put my money on:
1) A meteroite - which burn very specific colours on entry.
2) Cosmic Ray shower. When a highly energetic particle enters the atmosphere it hits an atom in the upper atmosphere shattering it into it's individual protons and neutron and electrons - but also all kinds of weird shit like muons, pions, gamma-rays. All this hits other particles causing a chain reaction. The light this all gives off are detectable by people with good eyes.
Now, very rarely, very very energetic particles enter the atmosphere that cause incredible showers that cover many square km. This cascade of particles are all travelling faster than the speed of light (in air) and so cause the visual equivalent of a sonic boom - called cherenkov radiation which can be colours from blue to green. There a large telescopes that detect these comsic rays by looking for this very light.
If it was this - your a very lucky guy.
(I did my masters degree project on Cosmic Rays - they are pretty badss - and sorry if you know all this)
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There is no fucking way this happened. I refuse to believe it.
Your mom is awesome. Also reminds me of something that happened to a friend of mine.
He had been snooping in his parents bedroom one time, looking for his Christmas presents (this guy was about 16-17 years old, so he had this shit coming).
Well, he sees a shelf high up, and figures that's where they are. He starts feeling around up there and feels something kinda weird (tee hee). He grabs it to take a look at it, and whadya know, it's a huge weener.
He freaks out, and like throws it against the wall. His mom hears this noise, and goes to see what's the matter. So right then and there he has to sit and have his mom explain that while his dad is gone, it's perfectly normal to pleasure herself.
You had your porn folder right on your desktop? That's pretty stupid. I hide mine in My Documents/filelib. No one ever looks in the filelib folder.
It was some boring class and my friend seated in front of me, Francis, does this maniacal Darth Vader-like laugh (this guy could pull it off). "ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" He does it again and gets a good chuckle from everybody. The teacher couldnt care less 'bout him. So he does it again facing the wall (his right) and did it louder.
Now, me, being the easily influenced kid tried to do so as well. So we agreed on doin' it at the same time, him facing the wall and me facing infront of me, towards where he is.
Me: "ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--*cough*(big wad of phlegm flies out of my mouth and into his ear)... :shock: ... :oops:...
Francis:"ARGHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA--... ...:| ...:? ... :x
Suffice to say he never spoke to me again.
Anyway, so our resident class fuckup/psycho brings an old grenade into class and at a really good moment asks the teacher if he should throw that instead.
Teacher wigs out, and runs and gets help. So, naturally, he locks her out and we all go apeshit.
I'm putting my money on this. I saw a meteorite blow up on entry once, it was incredibly bright green.
Did you die?
I'll bet he pulled the pin and you all died.
If comic books have taught me anything it's that this either:
a) Has something to do with Kyrptonite
b) The Green Lantern
c) Has given you some type of super power
I can see the tint patterns on any car window with my sunglasses on, does that count? I always thought it was just the glasses.
:shock: My friend and I saw the exact same thing (near St. Louis on the Illinois side of the river) driving east on Interstate 64 around 9:30 at night about that long ago around mid-to-late- fall.
For reals.
It was last summer, my girlfriend was over, and we were fooling around and I was just about ready to go down on her. The only other person in the house was my little sister, so I made sure the coast was clear. So I turn out the lights (she was kind of insecure at that point in the relationship) and it's pitch dark. 10 minutes in, everythings fine. All of a sudden, my door swings open and light floods the room. All we hear is "KEVINDANIELCOMELOOKATTHISCOMELOOKAT
"
Girlfriend: "
"
Me:"
"
Sister:"
"
Until for about 20 seconds, nothing happened. My girlfriend whipped a blanket up, I was kneeling on the edge of the bed, and my sister just shut the door.
Yeesh.
Knock sometimes.
Interstate 64 just seems like one of those random places that crazy rural alien shit should happen.
At least on the illinois side, because illinois is weird.
EDIT: Quote trees.
That night as I lay in the tent looking at the night sky, I slowly start to drift to sleep. It was around 2:00 when we went to bed, and I drifted in and out of sleep for awhile. Right before I finally fell asleep instead of miserably drifting, an extremely (and I mean fucking bright) light lit up the entire campground and sky, and our tent shook like hell, and in less than a second it was completely gone. The light had a direction to it, as if it was coming straight at our tent. I felt that emotion of '...sssshit!' right as it came. After it was gone I was too freaked to move. There was no noise that I remember hearing aside from the tent shaking, and no dogs barking or people waking up after it happened. My dad remained asleep. My eyes actually had to readjust to the darkness; it was the weirdest thing.
The next morning I asked the people next to us if they were disturbed by a bright light last night, they said no. My Dad slept through it.
Damn rural Illinious/Missouri.
I walk in there around 7:30 on a Tuesday night and am greeted by the hostess. I tell her I am there for tickets and give her my credit card. I had forgotten to sign the back, so she had to ask her manager if it was alright to process it. She tells me to follow her.
I walk into the main area where, on a lower level is the dance floor. I see a group of roughly seven or eight 13-14 year old girls dancing, having a good time. Little did I realize that they have youth nights where kids can come in and dance to a DJ. Cool idea, I thought.
At any rate, the DJ turns out to be the manager, so I watch as the waitress goes across the dance floor and around behind the equipment to speak to her boss. He's throwing on some catchy tunes, so I stand there, watching the DJ, nodding my head to the tunes. I'm crossing my fingers he'll let it go this time.
I didn't notice at the time, but I was nodding my head back and forth to the tunes and had this really cheesy grin on my face. (not sure why) I hear a door open up and I turn to see this guy just staring at me like I am a total freak.
I realize that I had been standing there, and what to him probably seemed, nodding my head slowly, grinning like a mustached pedophile at the 13-14 year old girls dancing on the floor.
I left promptly, quite embarassed. At least they accepted my credit card and I got the tickets.
Lock the door? If it doesn't lock do it in a room with a lock?
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
This is a nighttime video, but could be what you saw as well
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1134111600/Meteor_Caught_on_Tape
We were talking about shoes, you see. He said he liked slip ons. I replied with saying I liked strap-ons, meaning velcro.
Him:
Me:
Him:
Me: :shock:
He has not let me live it down.
He would not be a good friend if he did.