Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion

puroresu writes "Astronomers in Ireland have appealed to the public to contact them with eyewitness accounts of a massive explosion in the sky over the country. From the BBC: 'Astronomy Ireland chairman David Moore said: "So far, reports have been registered by residents in west Cork, Kerry, Cavan and as far north as Donegal, thus suggesting that this spectacular event may have been witnessed by people all over the country. In the past two decades there have been two major explosions in the skies over Ireland. When we investigated these, we were able to conclude that one was a Russian military satellite that exploded over the country, and the other was a rock from space."'"

Re:Alternative Explanation

[Canazza]

"Ders a big ball o fire up der, like a big exploshun, it's bin der all day and it goes awa' at night, whaddaya think it is Padrick?"
"It's the Sun, John, you racist git, bugger off back to London."

Re:To whoever tagged story as uk

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, then call an Irishman "British," because Ireland is in the British Isles. *NOW* do you see his point?

Re:Robin Williams

[alzoron]

It isn't that American university degrees aren't completely suspect. The majority of graduates from our universities are actually fairly bright individuals. The problem is that there the three ways to get a degree are to either be rich and donate a lot of money, bring fame to the school in some way, or genuinely be intelligent. The first two ways only really comprise a small fraction, the only problem is that they generate an inversely greater amount of attention. This is mostly what lends to the American universities are bullshit attitude that we see thrown around most of the time.

Now I'm not saying that famous people and rich people are inherently stupid, but their actual intelligence usually doesn't factor into their acceptance most of the time.

Re:To whoever tagged story as uk

[Anonymous Coward]

Except that despite being geographically incorrect, people use, "American" to refer specifically to a citizen of the United States of America.

Re:To whoever tagged story as uk

[slashmojo]

The six-continent combined-America model is taught in Latin America, and some parts of Europe including Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent [wikipedia.org]

Re:Idiocracy

[anarchyboy]

Planets that are visible by the naked eye and look like stars are often called stars even though we now know they are not, like venus for example. also some of the 'stars' in the night sky may be galaxies and shooting stars have nothing to do with stars either. Calling twinkly points of light in the sky stars even if they're something else is not uncommon.

Re:To whoever tagged story as uk

[erroneous]

"People" have a long tradition of being oppressive cunts.

Every society, religion, race or creed that's had the opportunity has gone ahead and done it. It's human nature - human nature that we should attempt to change as we civilise ourselves - but it's not specifically English behaviour.