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Because of the storm of 1833, and the recent developments in scientific thought of the time, the Leonids have had a major effect on the development of the scientific study of meteors, which had previously been thought to be atmospheric phenomena. Although it has been suggested the Leonid meteor shower and storms have been noted in ancient times, it was the meteor storm of 1833 that broke into people's modern day awareness - it was of truly superlative strength. One estimate of the peak rate is over one hundred thousand meteors an hour, but another, done as the storm abated, estimated in excess of 240,000 meteors during the nine hours of the storm, over the entire region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains.
It was marked by several nations of Native Americans: the Cheyenne established a peace treaty and the Lakota calendar was reset. Abolitionists including Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass as well as slave-owners took note and others. The New York Evening Post carried a series of articles on the event including reports from Canada to Jamaica, it made news in several states beyond New York and though it appeared in North America was talked about in Europe. The journalism of the event tended to rise above the partisan debates of the time and reviewed facts as they could be sought out.
Abraham Lincoln commented on it years later. Near Independence, Missouri, in Clay County, a refugee Mormon community watched the meteor shower on the banks of the Missouri River after having been driven from their homes by local settlers. The founder and first leader of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, afterwards noted in his journal his belief that this event was a literal fulfillment of the word of God and a sure sign that the coming of Christ was close at hand. Though it was noted in the midwest and eastern areas it was also noted in the far west.
Denison Olmsted explained the event most accurately. After spending the last weeks of 1833 collecting information, he presented his findings in January 1834 to the American Journal of Science and Arts, published in January-April 1834, and January 1836. He noted the shower was of short duration and was not seen in Europe, and that the meteors radiated from a point in the constellation of Leo and he speculated the meteors had originated from a cloud of particles in space.
Accounts of the 1866 repeat of the Leonids counted hundreds per minute/a few thousand per hr in Europe. The Leonids were again seen in 1867, when moonlight reduced the rates to 1000 per hour. Another strong appearance of the Leonids in 1868 reached an intensity of 1000 per hour in dark skies. It was in 1866-67 that information on Comet Tempel-Tuttle was gathered pointing it out as the source of the meteor shower. When the storms failed to return in 1899, it was generally thought that the dust had moved on and storms were a thing of the past. Read more
25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows
NY Times - November 15, 2025
People keep telling me 'Hollywood is dead'. When you look around, it's hard to argue the point - a death long overdue.
Do you need to vicariously experience through films or celebrities or to vent about them as a distraction from your issues?
Originality has collapsed into endless prequels, reruns, sequels, remakes, and reboots - a looped mirror of a reality that's also rerunning itself.
In the Human Experiment, redundancy is the first sign that the Simulation is winding down.
Film has morphed into digitized images another reflection of reality. Will AI take over the industry? It is already - for better or worse.
Hollywood films have simply become too expensive - both to produce and to watch in a theater - where movie-goers pay for the expense of production - forever increasing.
Theaters often feel like luxury experiences at a time when the dominant theme in American life is affordability. Why pay for a seat in a crowded venue when most people prefer the comfort of home where they can pause, rewind, eat, answer messages, take bathroom breaks, and avoid the distractions of strangers including sick people, and parents with restless young children.
The decline of Hollywood didn't happen overnight. The shift away has been unfolding for decades. Many of my friends in the industry have spent years traveling across the U.S. and around the world, seeking locations where production costs stay within budget. As most of us know, whatever the original budget is, double that by the end of production.
Independent films - versus big-budget productions - have become more popular, but they're generally built around a screenwriter presenting a story about 'dealing with issues,' usually their own or someone else's. That's not something I'm programmed to enjoy. I'll take an action-adventure film any day. My favorites usually star Jason Statham, Gerard Butler, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, and others in that genre.
The film industry has always been riddled with abuses, scandals, gatekeepers, and astronomical production costs that inevitably bleed over to consumers. Abusive systems eventually collapse - especially when climate change and institutional dysfunction push everything closer to breaking. This will happen with the Trump administration by the end of ACT III.
Award shows are another factor, often creating their own dramas - before, at the event, and afterwards. Declining audiences are no surprise.
I am one of those people who fall under the heading ... "I haven't read a book in years because I don't like to read". I get my news online from the more reputable publications - and take everything with a grain of salt including TV and documentaries - and like everyone else process what I see and hear through my own filters. As a visual learning that works best for me + discussions with Z.
I watch films online even if I have to wait a couple of months after they air in theaters. I don't like melodramas, reality shows, or anything else that elicits tears, fears, and emotional overload. If I don't experience that in life - why would I want to watch it on the screen? People watch "issue films" because they are a reflection of their own issues, that hopefully they can overcome - much like the characters onscreen. "We are broken in the same way. I can heal like that character". Memo: Only if you're programmed to.
Sci-fi isn't what it used to be in terms of action-adventure. Again, it's all about emotions but that is what the human experiment is about so I guess that's what people seek.
I still enjoy writing my daily blogs - but how many times can I recycle the same script to make a point? Apparently, that number stretches endlessly as does the Fibonacci Sequence that creates and shapes our storylines - adapted from patterns encoded in the simulation itself.
"Healing your issues" is popular with many people who return here seeking answers - but not the way that arc spiked in the grids years ago. What I think most readers are waiting for is something that triggers a memory about closure.
Each blog awakens a specific group of people, but the final message remains encoded in my DNA and yours - waiting to be hermetically unsealed at the end of time ~ Ellie & Alchemy 101.
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