Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Lets just give our dogs plain water for now

Seriously, we put a drop in his water and he calmly drank a little of it...and before we knew it he was bolting around the apartment for about 5 minutes. xp

Even better that he was a boxer. lol

Well as long as it's funny, it's fine.

So, did you guys ever find out "WTF is that above the moon?"

@Ryno Nope, I didn't see anything.

LOL.

Probably a planet.

Continuing this thread here as it got locked. https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/general_discussion/wtf_is_...
No they're not stars as what I can see above the moon has been with the moon the past couple of nights. Stars don't do that. Plus the light I can see kind of blink in and out in a circular formation, and I'm seeing three others exactly like it. The one above the star is the one that's been the most consistant though.
@Scary_Old_Lady just keep look up, itt should be easy nough to see.

I'm across the pond so all I see is daylight....wait wait..no, clouds and impending winter doom on the east coast

@dizzy_boy I can only see a small star above the moon. What part of the UK are you in?

@ inkling I'm ffrom south london. From what I can see, it looks like a bright star at first, then other lights sort of twinkle in and out of veiw around it. Try looking at it for a minute or two.

Those are called pulsating stars dear.

Weird. I'm in the South and can't see anything.

Yeah nothing really bad happened to him, he just got super hyper for a few minutes.

@dizzy_boy It's called twinkling... Not kidding. Since stars are positioned far away from Earth, they appear as a point source of light, easily disturbed by differences in air density. In easy terms; air, just like any other (semi-)transparant medium, bends light. The bending depends on the density of the air, the more dense the air is, the more it bends light. Differences in density are mostly caused by different temperatures. So when light passes through the Earth's atmosphere, and passes through different layers of air, it can appear to flicker.

If I'm not mistaken, you saw it when the moon was near the horizon, right? Twinkling is more common near the horizon, but can happen in any point in the sky. If you were away from light polution; that star would probably appear as a flickering light. Whereas the city light has probably drown out the dimmer phase of its flickering period, causing it to disappear and appear, instead of just changing luminosity.

My cameras are poor quality and I can't get any good picture's. I did find this in yahoo images which is similar to what I've been seeing.

Although, to me it's more circular in shape, and it doesn't have the blue light in the middle. Also, some lines look straight, but that's when all lights are in veiw.
The other thing to add, it's moving with and staying above the moon. Even with my limited knowledge stars stay static in the sky, and don't track the position of the moon.

Aliens

(Insert that pic of the guy here)

That History guy who looks high?

This dude.

History Channel is a joke

And yet they do help you lose weight.