Meteors. I stole that from "and the earth will shake" (Robert Anton Wilson). There was a description of The Royal College of Astronomy, or somesuch, harrumphing about such a ridiculous, and ignorant superstition.
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The idea that rocks sometimes fall from the sky.
"Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal". --J. R. Bob Dobbs
I'm a retired programmer. A recent attempt at writing a Python script showed me that I have forgotten a LOT of the syntactic details. With that in mind, these are the langs that I have used professionally. "Know" might be an exaggeration at this point. HP basic Fortran C C++ C# Java Perl Python HTML (if that counts) Awk/sed
Wonderful series, but as much as I love King's work, the man just does not know how to end a story.
Standing in line in the basement of the CS building at UofM to get access to a card punch machine and type up my Fortran 4 program.
That was an episode of Sliders.
Yep, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
We don't need no stinking badges!
(Just in case: not hate, just a possibly obscure reference)
Took me a few seasons to figure out that every season was the same. "I think we've found a place to settle down, but there might be a problem...".
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I would say once they hit the ground they are meteorites. But while they are falling they are meteors. Based solely on my own assumptions. Not a hill I care to defend.