According to National Geographic, Thursday night witnesses a bright show from the Perseid meteor shower. A cloud of dust from the Swift-Tuttle comet will be flashing through the atmosphere and visible mostly over Europe and Asia. Around that time I will 40,000 feet above the Pacific speeding westward. I'll be spending the whole evening with my face stuck to a window to see what a meteor shower looks like at that altitude.
I'm a little worried about all the triffids booked on the flight, but I figure that as long as I keep one eye on them I'll be okay.
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No luck on the Perseids, sad to say. The entire flight to Tokyo took place in daylight, and all the rest I spent in a jet-lagged stupor.
That's stuporrific!!
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