Back to the teapot: It didn't take long for motorists on Southern California's 405 freeway -- where evening plans go to die -- to notice something in the sky that looked a little unusual.
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It was a good deal less welcoming now, as a silhouette against a gunmetal sky, but there was something high in the hills that beckoned him: an orange glow between the trees.
When 'long-standing' football fans nobody knew about suddenly fall from the sky, they invariably offer something that would appear to be of benefit to the team as it prepares to take on the world.
That is landing with its nose to the sky, thrusters on, like something out of Buck Rogers.
"I was smoking outside the door when I looked up at the sky and suddenly the sky lit up with a bright light and something that looked like the sun fell somewhere to the south of Yekaterinburg, " wrote Sergei Bobunets, quoted by AFP news agency.
BBC: Russia meteor eyewitness: 'Something like the sun fell'
As the passage implies, even something as seemingly simple as an airplane flying in the sky is actually just one part of a large sociotechnical system composed of various human and machine elements, from the pilot and airplane to a series of airports, communication and navigation systems, bureaucracies, regulations, rules and norms of flight, and more.
Once a balloon hits terra firma, or something close, it radios its location back to its successor in the sky, which then relays the data to the SkySite website.
Next door, Christine Baker, who oversees Big Sky's children's program, also promises small classes and something even more important to parents.
And I've frequently debated with myself whether there's something unique about the meteorology, or whether one is simply more exposed to the sky while there than elsewhere.
He had penetrating sky blue eyes that seemed to look right through you, as if in search for something he desperately needed.
And some in the tech community complain that its anything-goes structure and sky's-the-limit earning potential has turned the environment at some companies into something akin to your worst stereotype of a booze-soaked frat party.
The sky just lit up in orange and red, " he said, "We could smell something in the air, we didn't know if it was gas or smoke.
Hughes's best explanation for this series of events is something known as a triple conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn - with the two planets coming close together in the sky three times over a short period.
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