#when does a comet become a meteor

[haley-harrison]

I see your "when does a cabbage become a meteor", and I raise you

"when does a cabbage become a meat-eater?"

[retrowitchinghour]

When does a “cabbage” become a meteor, when does a candle become ablaze, when does a man become a monster?

(had some fun with this haha)

[user-without-a-cool-acronym]

if I had a nickel for every time a musical used the image of a comet to symbolise the change a character went through over the course of their story, I'd have two nickels

[non-cannon]

Okay so the line "When does a comet become a meteor?" is a pretty dope lyric, but it is a question with an answer.

I think.

This is all going to be pulled from what I can remember from my high school astronomy class, no googling*.

But comets are basically dirty snow/ice balls that normally stay in the Oort cloud out past the Kipler belt (where Pluto is), and they orbit the sun with incredibly elliptical orbits, so most of the time they're super far away, but sometimes, when we can see them, they come in close to the sun and it's heat makes them melt/sublimate*/fall apart which is what the tails are, and since ice is super reflective, we can see them.

Meteors are bits of space rocks that enter Earth's atmosphere. We can see them as shooting stars and during meteor showers because we can see the light created as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere. Slight tangent, but they become Meteorites if they don't completely burn up and some solid bit of them actually reaches Earth's surface.

So to answer the question: "When does a comet become a meteor?" when/if it enters Earth's atmosphere.

*I googled this word because it was bothering me that I couldn't remember it.

[eri-pl]

A Númenorian lullaby

I'm writing some drabbles for Numenor week and this is something that didn't quitte fit in there, so I'm posting it here.

It is a nursery rhyme, or children's counting song, or whatever you call those, from early-ish Númenor, and yes it is a drabble too. It's not beautiful but I think I managed to capture a certain vibe that this kind of songs has quite well. Oh, and yes: it is loosely inspired by a fragment form a song from Epic, because I love that part and it's very Numenor-coded to me. and the rhyme scheme is ...quite freeform?

A star is rising in the sky, Tell me where it goes. A candle burns and bright moths fly, Tell me what light knows. A child is bored and wants still more, Tell me when he grows. A wave is rising near the shore, Tell me when it bows. I know a song of ancient lore, Tell me: is it true? If you won't tell me I shall cry, If you won't tell me I shall weep, And in the night I'll call to you, And then you'll sing me back to sleep, Until the sun will wake the sky.

[ithydoodles]

I have a moto stylus phone so The first pic was me trying my first doodle of Odysseus with the note thing.

Yes, I forgot what Greek clothes looked like 😞

I prefer the one that is not colored 😮‍💨

[vokkart]

So far I've only listened to the Troy Saga, but I'm already in love this musical 😭😭

[saixria]

Kinda funny how ruthlessness = fire one liners in Epic

[iwanttobepersephone]

Watching EPIC the Musical animatics after, what, a year of constantly seeing content for it? And I just got to Just a Man and started yelling along with it

[void-critters]

" I'm just a man... "

[retrowebz]

I cannot stop thinking about it please help

[alora-mae]

I’ve been bopping non-stop to Epic: the Musical for the past couple of days while working on little polymer clay projects, and I think this might be the happiest and calmest I’ve felt in months ??

[jaakunxkaze]

✦ ─ ━еχρᚱеႽႽ оɴɩ ❝You know at first I was slightly hesitant for Sunday to join the express even if temporarily but at the same time, I believe in second chances. I can also understand leaving your home behind and wanting to start fresh so having him here should be interesting there.❞

[astoryofsuchwoe]

i played some epic in the car while driving my dad around and he loved it omg ?? i win ?? he's a sucker for good vocals and lyrics tho so obviously he'd like it

[mikahorror]

just listening to the whole Epic saga on repeat. again

[quietlyblooms-gone]

ummm someone help me think of a legitimate villain/criminal/etc au or an au in which chiyo’s changed and hardened bc i’ve listened to that loop of “when does a man become a monster?” from epic one too many times and i need to write some tragedy i fear