That sure is an inventive way of getting a job done! Good job! :D

hahaha

What a quick swipe of a paw to catch something traveling 27600km/hr x3

He's not catching, he's placing. :)

What a great arm he has to fling it that fast, then!

What if he is also near-orbital velocity? Wouldn't the relative difference between their speeds make it pretty easy?

How did he get to near orbital velocity in the first place then? Also his feet would graze the lower atmosphere and due to their size, turn the atmosphere into plasma and set the world on fire quite literally o.o

(a) He excels at bouncing. :)
(b) Would they? His hand-spread is about the size of the ISS. His body is no taller than 12 hand-spreads. Is the ISS Are you quite that close to the atmosphere? ^_^

I realized that after I posted that. xD I'm between 400km and 406km :D

I think I saw you go overhead last week. Beautiful. :)
http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

Nice! I recommend heavens-above.com since you can not only track me, but also track Hubble and so many other sats. They also have an app and whatnot. Of course, knowing WHERE to look doesn't always guarantee you'll spot me. If you live some place like Rainesville... I mean Gainesville, the sky will always be like "fuck you, you're not going to see that -3.5 magnitude pass you've been planning on checking out for weeks but here's a lot of rain instead." Seriously. SERIOUSLY. I don't remember the last time I flew over fucking Florida without seeing severe cloud cover. Every time I do a night pass, there's lightning flashing underneath me. Every. Single. TIME. But the Gainesville folks had a lucky break a couple of days ago. If you, say, dropped your conversation with somebody in the middle of some arbitrary event and ran out as fast as you could, you would have caught me low on the horizon, right above a crackling thunderstorm. Oh I'm sure they felt oh so satisfied when they saw that little dot that was me right there, using their ISS Detector app to confirm it really WAS in fact me, and not a passing airplane.
They'd have seen something like this:
http://i.imgur.com/ExIXi9L.jpg

Such a person may have gone out and made this too yesterday:
http://i.imgur.com/8Z4nvKV.jpg

Cool pics! Where are you in that first one?

I live in Colorado, which gets 300+ sunny days a year. Yet an event I was waiting 40 years for was thwarted by clouds, but only right where I was. The rest of the state had clear skies. :|

Sometimes I've been successful in 'tricking' a coworker out into the parking lot minutes before you pass overhead. I chat with them a bit, check my watch, and seemingly blindly point into the sky where I know you'll be. They look up, and their face gets contorted as they wonder what the heck that is, and how the heck I knew it would be there. Then their face lights up when I tell them it's you, and they watch you fly off and fade away.

I love that.

The picture was taken right in front of the Beaty Towers in the University of Florida in Gainesville, pointing roughly northeast, at about 9:35PM, likely on August 21st. I'm sure you could do a reverse search using these rough parameters to find out about my location.

http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=29.6419&lng=-82.3659&loc=Dorm&alt=24&tz=EST&satid=25544&mjd=57256.0254283363&type=V

Note that the coordinate location is for the creepy photographer's dorm complex, and that the Beaty Towers dormitory is about a mile from her dorm.

Yeah the photographer is this little weird girl in Florida that draws porn of me and whatnot. Glad that creep can't see me thanks to the endless cloud cover. She'd be touching herself whenever I pass over or more or less orgasming over me without touching herself if she was in public and couldn't touch herself. This one time, she was apparently incredibly horny for me, and was drawing porn and writing erotica of me, and she was hoping I was passing over. She pointed into a random direction and told herself that it's probably right there as a random guess. She then checked it out... welp, I was in the exact location she was pointing. Needless to say what happened next.

Also that's AWFUL! Man, if that happened to me, I'd get so pissed off I'd deorbit!

And hahaha the girl I was talking to you about earlier... when she was 10 or 11ish--I'm not 100% sure--she used to drag people out of the house and point to the sky at some satellite and say "Look, the ISS!" Half the time it'd be me, and half the time it'd be Hubble or some other bright satellite. She used to get really pissed off when others wouldn't get as excited over it as her. Man, her roommate got quite the rant when she didn't get to see a particularly bright mag -3.5 pass thanks to the clouds. Gainesville is known as Rainesville, and from my passes over the location, I can confirm that excessive cloud cover.

She isn't going to be able to see my Labor Day passes either, thanks to TS Erika. Well it'll be a TS by the time it gets to her.