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- From: benson@gemed (Mark Benson 5-4228)
- Subject: Re: I can't see stars anymore at night with naked eye
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.213516.20314@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:35:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.014009.24559@macc.wisc.edu>, bunner@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Dana A. Bunner) writes:
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- >That's because there are no more stars. I haven't seen one since October 26th.
- >The Supreme Being apparently vaporized all of them and now the sky is
- >continually filled with a thick, swirling nebula mist. Even the Sun and
- >Moon were taken, although by some miracle it does continue to brighten a bit
- >each morning and then darken a little in the late afternoon.
- >
- >My other theory is that Wisconsin was swallowed by "The Nothing" from
- >_The Dark Crystal_.
-
- This is a slight exageration. I can verify a solar observation from
- North Praire to New Berlin, WI for almost an hour on the morning of 19 November.
- My wife confirms that a brief apparition was also observed in Eagle, WI.
- This situation quickly corrected itself, rendering solar, stellar, lunar,
- and unfortunately, cometary observation once again impossible. :^(
-
- I believe this is almost certainly explainable by the fact that deer season
- opens on Saturday, requiring there to be a certain amount of mud, ice ,and
- just general misery to be present in the field. Any affects on astronomy are
- purely coincidental.
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- Mark Benson benson@med.ge.com
- GE Medical Systems Milwaukee, WI USA
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