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The Leonids are coming, and it’s a pretty decent meteor storm! Sky watchers in North America may be able to spot an unusually beautiful type of meteor called Earthgrazers during this year’s Leonid shower.Earthgrazers are long, bright shooting stars that streak overhead from just below the horizon. They often display colorful halos and long-lasting trails. Earthgrazers are so distinctive because they follow a path nearly parallel to our atmosphere.

Observers in the Canaries counted upwards of 90 meteors an hour earlier tonight, and Canadians are seeing as many as 230 an hour. This is nothing like the 10,000 an hour the Leonids are expected to bring in 2001 and 2002, but it still makes for a wonderful display. Click here to learn more.
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Two weak candidates, a hung election. Who could have expected otherwise? Not only that, they begin making spectacles of themselves almost immediately. First, Al Gore, foolishly relying on television news as his source, concedes. Then, a few minutes later, he retracts his concession. Does George Bush react in a statesmanlike manner? Perhaps, if it’s statesmanlike to be snippy.

Then there follows the grotesque, contradictory and foolish battle of the ballots in Florida, as each candidate frantically seeks to get the roulette wheel to stop on his color. The actual truth is that balloting this close has a random outcome. So the electorate hasn’t spoken at all. The roulette wheel has spoken.
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With the US facing the prospect of the least-powerful government in its history, world leaders are gathering in the Hague in an atmosphere of crisis to discuss the dangers of climate change, and there is talk of compelling the US to act domestically to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions if the country will not act on its own. The discussion centers around making provisions of the controversial Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to require industrial nations to reduce releases of carbon dioxide and other gasses which trap heat in the atmosphere.
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A wonderful vintage Dreamland from November 11, 2000 about Native American Prophecies. Nancy Red Star crossed the country discovering what various traditions had to say about the star ancestors. Whitley tells about what happened when he sent researchers to the Jicarilla Apache reservation in New Mexico to find out if stories about an underground UFO base there were true. This is a unique show, almost lost, now recovered. Don’t miss it! (There is some minor file damage consisting of skipped packets in this vintage program. This results in a few lost words and phrases.)
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