First of August

Ahhh, Thunderstorms...

That's like that famous line from the cartoon... "Ahh, Charles..."
Only different...
yeah...


What do the Dead Sea Scrolls, a total Solar Eclipse on 23 November 2003, a total Lunar Eclipse on 24 October 2004, and the Perseids Meteor Shower on 12 August 2004 have in common?


Hah. Like I'm gonna say. It's not like there's a certain answer anyway.


It's just stuff that most people ignore, and yet, if you think about it, could be a bit of really important information.

Background info:

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956. There were 11 caves, in all, and the texts contain Old Testament stuff for the most part, dating around 300 BC, so they say. They started getting fully published in the late 90s and into these last years, too.

Solar Eclipses are just really cool. The interesting thing about them is that in a total eclipse, you can see planets and some stars like it's night, only it's definitely not. They only happen once every couple of years or so, with the total Lunars coming the year after.

Lunar Eclipses are also among my favorite pieces of astronomy, partially because the moon goes dark, like the sun, only instead of having that flare at the moment of totality, it goes all red. It looks kinda creepy, to be honest, but really cool. The light comes from the defracting light around the Earth's atmosphere, and the deepness of the red varies from eclipse to eclipse.

Perseids Meteor Shower is prolly the most famous one (certainly one of them) and it's been going on for about the last 2000 years every August. It peaks on that date, but can be seen from as early as late July. Shooting stars from a point in the Perseus constellation, just below Cassiopia. Yeah... cool...


Just one of those things that makes me think sometimes...

I could add some more things to that list of "in commonness," but that might make this too easy...

K, I'm done being silly.