TheDukePatio - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Interesting Points (Score 1) 163

by TheDukePatio on Friday January 15, 2010 @03:16PM (#30782404) Attached to: Antitrust Case Against RIAA Reinstated

Ever wonder why the Mob doesn't get into pirating music? The RIAA, that's why. It's far more risky than armed hold-ups, protection schemes, drugs, hookers, murder-for-hire, etc. Find me a 'Made Man' who's pirating music, and I'll find you a man who's closer to jail than he thought he was.

Submission + - Lyrid meteors no moon this weekend

Submitted by

mdsolar

on Thursday April 19, 2007 @12:42PM

mdsolar writes: "If you want to take a chance on the Lyrid Meteor Shower you should be looking this weekend. This shower is usually a quiet one but can result is spactacular displays from time to time. Sky and Telescope http://skytonight.com/observing/objects/meteors/33 05866.html has this to say:

In 1982 the rate unexpectedly reached 90 for a single hour, and 180 to 300 for a few minutes. A brief outburst of 100 per hour was also seen in 1922. And on April 20, 1803, residents of Richmond, Virginia, upon being rousted out of bed by a fire bell, were startled to see great numbers of meteors in all parts of the sky.

http://www.earthsky.org/article/49561/who-should-w atch-the-lyrid-meteor-shower gives viewing times as the very early hours of Sunday and Monday morning. The Moon will have set by then."

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