Winnipeg

Seems weird seeing my TWP nation (Southern Eureka) refered to as a large nation, but I guess it's true at this point...I created it back when Eli moved the forums onto my server....like what...2006 or so Eli? I regret I was not able to be online much during Z3 due to work and other RL obligations. I set SE to Cure as soon as I could.

All done.

Amazing video...reminds me of the year I lived in Northern Manitoba (about the same, if not a little closer to the magnetic north pole than Yellowknife). About the only thing I miss from that year are the Northern Lights. Although the author seems to have forgotten how to spell Canada Here in Lethbridge, without fail the last 3 years, everytime there is a solar storm that promises good Aurora, sure enough, Clouds as far as I can see.

Ocelot!

Ok, everyone calm down... A) This is TWP, so honestly, threadjacking is expected. So please don't let this be the reason you get butthurt. The OP is making a request of everyone participating in the thread to try and stay on topic...so try and get along C) Cookies

We don't currently have a Prime Minister masking...let me get back to you on this.

*looks in* I see Westie beat me to the punch as usual these days.

People still believe that Nigeria has Princes with large sums of cold hard cash they need to get out of the country... Or that Microsoft will cold call you when your PC is infected with Malware and instruct you to install a tool to remove it...

I love my new Cat almost as much as my last one...but I really wish she could find something else to puke her grass on other than my carpet...

Long time no see NP what brings you back around these parts?

Yeah, my overall bill for the last 12 years probably would be up there too.

He's being paid for his servers/infrastructure, which cost him both time and money to build and maintain. You may dislike the person, but enough people use his services the NS Admin Team feel it's worth saving from the boneyard, so honestly, he deserves to be compensated. Open Source means you have the right to use the code all you want to build your own version of NS++, or whatever. It does not mean he has no right to be compensated for his time if others find his end product worth something. It's not really that much different than anyone that runs offsite forums like myself. I spend $35-40/month on the server we have here, and I don't expect anyone to contribute. I get other benefits from it that makes it worth my wild (plus I'm just a nice guy...sometimes), so it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. With the numbers using NSWiki, NS++ and other services, his bills are likely higher than mine.... Overall I think this is probably a good event as it takes that infrastructure away from someone no one seems to like or really trust and puts it in someone's hands that is far more trusted by the Community.

Ask him to send a spare Million this way

CISO, not a job I would want... I'm already effectively the "IT Security" guy at work....bleck Congrats to your Nephew though.

Apparently not many canucks playing in TWP these days...or anyone for that matter...the forums are pretty quiet...

What more to say other than, Happy Canada Day!

If you look in the upper centre-right of the photo you can see that white line, could be a shooting star, or a plane, or possibly a satellite, although I bet the exposure time for the photo would have seen a much longer line if it was a sat, and if it was a plane, I think it would be intermittent due to the blinking navigation lights.

Even managed a shooting star in the photo! Nice.

Lethbridge had a Chinook Arch overhead last night, so no stars, shooting or otherwise to be seen. bah! I can't remember the last significant event, be it meteor showers, or aggressive auroras that Lethbridge has had clear skies for.

Yeah, looking forward to chance at least...too bad it's not a little earlier, but at least being in Mountain Time it's Midnight to 2am, so I don't have to stay up too late.

I guess that really depends on what's powering it/providing it with energy to continue...but yes, storms do eventually come to an end. Would be kinda sad though...for most of written history Humans have known Jupiter by the Red Spot, but in a generation or two it there might be no red spot for humans to see.

*sigh*...it feels like we're moving backwards going back to the apollo style space craft. Where are my damn space planes (that are far more reusable than the Space Shuttle ever truely was).

I'm pretty sure that theory calls for a proto-planet hitting earth rather than just a big asteroid...the Giant impact hypothesis calls for a planetary body, similar in size of Mars. That said, it's a theory, and apparently unfalsifiable, as it can be expanded to explain away future discoveries, so who knows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis

That's now officially my fav photo of Waterton. The panoramic style made me almost not recognize it.

Those are alot harder to get a good view of compared to the northern ones. I've only seen them from photos taken on the ISS. Even made a video of them like 2 years ago. Three Cheers for Public Domain!