https://xkcd.com/2931

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Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    154 months ago

    Okay, but now I want to chase an ice cream truck with a convoy of vehicles…

    • @GoosLife
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      114 months ago

      “Convoy Lead, this is Echo Three. Visual on Tango Ice at grid two-four-niner by one-seven-five. Heading east on Maple Avenue. Initiating pursuit. How copy, over?”

  • @SkyezOpen
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    124 months ago

    Neighborhood possums is rated too low.

  • kbal
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    104 months ago

    “The International Date Line” makes this one worthwhile.

  • FunkyMonk
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    94 months ago

    It was hard to do and took a shit ton of fuel but the Tornado Whales were worth seeing ole sport.

  • @NeptuneOrbit
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    84 months ago

    I thought “total solar eclipse” would be on the chart. It appears not to be.

    Grand Canyon is actually fucking sweet from an airplane. I guess you don’t have to chase it with radios etc but I flew from Denver to San Diego one time and it was amazing from my window seat.

  • bach37strad
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    64 months ago

    Maybe not chasing, but meteor showers are actually a really big deal to ham operators. They cause certain bands to open up allowing us to talk all over the world!

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    I’d probably rank the international date line above sand traps, because (I think) more people have seen a sand trap in person and there’s an interesting naval tradition associated with crossing it traveling west.