[SunkenCiv]

[Credit: Ron Garan, ISS Expedition 28 Crew, NASA]

[JRandomFreeper]

It's a frigging shooting gallery up there. Ain't safe.

/johnny

[TChad]

From http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/08/perseid-meteor-shower-2014-how-to-watch-the-spectacular-annual-light-show/:

According to Gary Boyle, president of the Ottawa chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, each streak of light is caused by a piece of dust half the size of a grain or sand or smaller, burning up as it careens into Earth’s atmosphere at almost 60 kilometres per second.

If I was taking that photo, the "half the size of a grain of sand" would sound good, the "60 kilometres per second" would sound very, very bad.

[BenLurkin]

Nice!