Never forget April 1st 1997. Unless you we not alive. Just know nature has a way of getting us every so often.

It’s been so long since I’ve tried it that I do not remember the taste of regular Moxie. Knowing this I’ll likely never try it again. I won’t be able to wipe my brain of this possibility.

Ever try diet Moxie? Had it a few times, believe it or not it tastes better. Lol

It’s something to try once in your life. You will either love it or hate it. I don’t know many people who love it.

I don’t know I find the employees at the DMV in Cranston to be some of the peachiest people in the entire state.

It would have been interesting to test the pH of the rain with paper tests. While they’re not nearly as accurate as a calibrated pH meter, it could have given us an idea of the acidity of the rain water.

Rain water is typically in the 5.6 range. If it was more acidic and truly “acid rain” it would have been lower and around 4.

But yeah it would be nice if someone who has access to equipment capable of analyzing samples could tell us what the chemical content of the recent rainfall.

Thank you for sharing this with us. I was wondering how we would go about reporting this. I will definitely be contacting them.

It was something along those lines

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-clubs-organizations/

You may be able to find some astronomy clubs here? There are other resources online where you could find groups who meet up in the area who have star parties. You’d be surprised how many groups are out there. Even in an area like yours, especially if you live in an area with dark skies.

You could also check with your local library. Some libraries have telescopes that people can sign out. If they don’t have any telescopes, then they may know of Astronomy Clubs?

So you know what jets typically sound like coming and going from the airport. This wasn’t the typical behavior. It just kept going and going like the jets were stationary. It was odd.

True, but I haven’t heard jets in over a year since I moved here. It’s weird hearing them again. 😂

I’ve heard these guys before. First time I heard them I was totally freaked out. This sounded like it could have been faster/smaller military plans

Maybe they’re all being redirected for some reason? It’s weird. I’ve lived down here for a year after being in close proximity to TF green most of my life. Hearing it down here is odd. I never would have given it any thought otherwise. It’s been nice living further away from that noise

I thought the same, but the jets flying into Westerly usually don’t sound like what I heard last night. Maybe it was a commercial jet that didn’t have clearance to land at TF so it was just sort of killing a little time?

I saw the same thing twice on my way into work around 630am before we set the clocks back, so it was still dark but closer to twilight in the morning. Same thing, I was driving on 95N when I saw something really bright appear in the sky. It appeared to move to the Northeast, and I thought it was a plane heading towards Logan. To my surprise it dimmed out and totally vanished.

My thoughts were it was a satellite at an angle at that given time that was reflecting quite a bit of sunlight. It must have moved in such a way that caused it to brighten, and darken from our perspective.

I’ve seen the ISS suddenly dim as it is passing over. It behaved the same way.

Came here to say Sicilia’s. Best deep dish in RI and the closest thing to Chicago styled pizza you’ll find. Basically a carbon copy of Giordano’s.

Maybe conditions were not favorable for organisms such as Cyanobacteria that were the earliest oxygen producers here on earth?

Came here to say the same thing. You want dark skies in Rhode Island then this is the place.

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that the skies over Ninigret are the darkest skies you’ll find along the I-95 corridor between Boston and D.C?

Make sure you go on a night when it’s the New Moon.

Pretty sure we’re seeing them down here in Ashaway. ☹️

I sure hope it’s not them and it’s just a fluke.

Makes sense because there’s nothing to debate when you’re with your own people.

Well, I mean it is true. If you’re a Trumper then you live in a much different reality than the rest of America. You may believe that is my opinion, but it seems like if others are expressing their disinterest of living around “Trumpy Italians” then it’s no longer an opinion that Trumpy people suck, it is a fact.

Maybe in your reality.