Spacestation
So the International Whatsim-thingie Spacestation was supposed to pass over Darwin tonight.
Out go my mum and I, all excited to see the space station. And yup, it doesn't disappoint! Three lights, blinking and going across the sky at 7:15 (it was supposed to come between 7:15-7:18, probably 7:18).
We stood and marvelled at it's incredible speed. Seriously, it was really fast. So then I went inside and was all yeah well, I'll have a shower now, it's over.
So there I am, in the shower when my dad knocks on the door.
"It's 7:15 (by his watch) now, come see the space station!!"
"Oh I've already seen it?"
"You have?"
"Yup."
"What did it look like?"
"It had three lights, moved really fast and it blinked."
"It blinked? Three lights?"
"Yup."
So he goes and I'm showering and almost done, and then I hear:
"ANDREA! COME QUICK! COME SEE THE SPACE STATION! THE REAL ONE!!"
I thought "wtf?!!?!" and grabbed my towel and raced out onto the driveway. And I see this dot, moving (much slower then the previous station) going across the sky.
Turns out, what we originally thought was the space station (and what we were all oo-ing and aa-ing over) was an... can you guess it?
It was an airoplane.
My dad figured it out cause it had three lights and it as BLINKING. And it came right on time. 7:18. What they thought that it would probably come out.
And there we were, standing on the driveway, me in my TOWEL and then a car comes past.
So I had to go hide.
Hehe.
Out go my mum and I, all excited to see the space station. And yup, it doesn't disappoint! Three lights, blinking and going across the sky at 7:15 (it was supposed to come between 7:15-7:18, probably 7:18).
We stood and marvelled at it's incredible speed. Seriously, it was really fast. So then I went inside and was all yeah well, I'll have a shower now, it's over.
So there I am, in the shower when my dad knocks on the door.
"It's 7:15 (by his watch) now, come see the space station!!"
"Oh I've already seen it?"
"You have?"
"Yup."
"What did it look like?"
"It had three lights, moved really fast and it blinked."
"It blinked? Three lights?"
"Yup."
So he goes and I'm showering and almost done, and then I hear:
"ANDREA! COME QUICK! COME SEE THE SPACE STATION! THE REAL ONE!!"
I thought "wtf?!!?!" and grabbed my towel and raced out onto the driveway. And I see this dot, moving (much slower then the previous station) going across the sky.
Turns out, what we originally thought was the space station (and what we were all oo-ing and aa-ing over) was an... can you guess it?
It was an airoplane.
My dad figured it out cause it had three lights and it as BLINKING. And it came right on time. 7:18. What they thought that it would probably come out.
And there we were, standing on the driveway, me in my TOWEL and then a car comes past.
So I had to go hide.
Hehe.