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Once in a lifetime events
The comet thread got me thinking, how many BIG once in a lifetime things have you seen personally?
Not things like rode a bike, ate a rock, everything you did you had to do a first time.
I can think of:
Haley's and Hale Bopp comets,
The new Milennium,
The Lone Rock Meteor,
The 2011 Tsunami, we were waaay too close for comfort there
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought..... 
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
The comet thread got me thinking, how many BIG once in a lifetime things have you seen personally?
Not things like rode a bike, ate a rock, everything you did you had to do a first time.
I can think of:
Haley's and Hale Bopp comets,
The new Milennium,
The Lone Rock Meteor,
The 2011 Tsunami, we were waaay too close for comfort there
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Ken,
How bout back in June when Venus passed in front of the Sun.
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03-03-2013, 11:39 AM
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Great additition to the thread. Expecting something?
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Ken,
How bout back in June when Venus passed in front of the Sun.
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Yes! Forgot that, I got pictures of it! Great one!
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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03-03-2013, 11:43 AM
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With the stuff that usually flies on this forum your question opens up way too many  responses. That's all I was inferring.
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I still remember Hale Bopp (a.k.a. The Great Comet of 1997) ^, like it was yesterday.
Can't wait for Ison in November ... it could be even bigger! 
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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1997 Easter break. I was living on the coast and decided to take my two youngest, boy and a girl to visit my brother who was living south of cereal.
It was very early morning as we drove across the prairie and the kids were sleeping.
As we headed north Halebopp was streaking across the sky, the moon was eclipsing and the northern lights provided a back drop for the show.
I stopped, shut the lights off and woke the kids.8 and 10 years old.
It was totally amazing.
They don't remember it. 
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"Sputnik scared the hell out of us, and then the first landing on the moon made everything all right again. "
Sputnik may have scared us, but I think Muttnik really scared the dog. 
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one step forward .
First flight of concord trans Atlantic, watched her taxi out of Heathrow, NY bound. Jackie Stuart 's autograph. Joe Louis 's autograph. Shaking the hand of a man on his way to fight Ali,Joe bogner. Scotland's grand slam of the five nations. Celtic fc defeat of Barcelona.
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Ther Berlin Wall being torn down .
End of ww2 .
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03-03-2013, 03:52 PM
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Ther Berlin Wall being torn down .
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You personally saw the end of WWII?
I thought you were much younger! 
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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Ohhhh I didn't know it had to be personally , my grandpa personally saw it and my mom grandpa and grandma and my uncle watched the tearing down of the Berlin Wall . I lite a fart once I'm sure everyone thought it was a world ending event lol .
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Twins
My twins boy and girl were just born at 230pm today. Probably one of the biggest events for us
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BIG CONGRATS Savage!!!! 
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Henderson Scores !!!! never gonna see anything like it again.
The twin towers coming down.
The Berlin wall coming down.
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Working at the Edmonton international airport for 911 was a pretty interesting experience. Typical of rampies I wore a reflective vest adorned with the badges that I'd managed to tear off expencive luggage and a pair of earmuffs that I'd stollen from the Air Canada bagage room ( AC gives their guys hearing protection, Hudson General didnt). At the end of about a 3 straight day gongshow, sleeping when I could on a couch in the locker room, I took my vest and earmuffs, as well as a 911 special addition of the Sun that ran on the same day and tucked them away in a chest where they remain to this day.
To me there is alot of personal meaning in that keepsake. Shortly after that I quit the airport to get a real job, quit playing in bands, quit riding BMX, dumped my first real girlfriend, and gave up a number of other highschool era activities I'd been hanging on to. In short I grew up, I know 911 was a terrible event but I feel an awfull lot of nostalgia when I dig that stuff out.
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The day the world stood still ... November 22, 1963 (Dallas, Texas).
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The day the world stood still ... November 22, 1963 (Dallas, Texas).
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I remember this one TriggerFinger...changed the world for sure. If only...
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We all have our 'big' moments...
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The world pre-texting, cell phones, Internet and all the crap that's ruining our kids.
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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Things that occurred that I can remember clearly
John & Robert Kennedy & Martin Luther King assignations
National Energy Program - working in Calgary and a massive layoff occurred in a office tower - people just standing in the street
Challenger disaster - came down to a conference room with people crying
9/11 - just started working at the University and saw this on the screens in SUB
Berlin Wall coming down
My first laptop - 14lbs 286 with massive floppies - first one in the company - 
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i forgot to.
Wow can't believe I/we forgot the death of Elvis. All hail the king.
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Lady Gaga! 
Paging Boberama......
Madonna in a play something magazine
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Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck
I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought.....
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Ken,
How bout back in June when Venus passed in front of the Sun.
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Cool pic
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