Talk:2979: Sky Alarm

♫♪ Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me... ♪♫ :) NiceGuy1 (talk) 04:55, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

I've tried to do just this by subscribing to a channel promisingly named "AstroAlert", which then proceeded to spam me 500 times per day with messages about a random meteor on the opposite part of the world. Woe. 162.158.110.200 05:15, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Hence the need for this alarm, to keep it LOCAL, :) That's the thing, any such thing needs a LOCATION, to limit results to what is locally relevant to each person. :) NiceGuy1 (talk) 05:19, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

This comic seems super simple, so I added as muc( explanation as I can think of... NiceGuy1 (talk) 05:19, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Local58 moment 💔

172.70.85.138 11:27, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

With that device, no work is ever going to be done again... D: 108.162.221.24 11:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

There is a nice site called Astronomy Picture of the Day that is like this. Alas, it is "A cool space thing happened three days ago - sorry you missed it". --Divad27182 (talk) 11:41, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Sounds like it needs a sky dome camera system (like they made for immersive filmimg) on the roof coupled with statistical analysis (mistakenly aka AI) to recognise and record 'interesting' things, coupled with localised alerts for known phenomena. A product for someone? RIIW - Ponder it (talk) 11:46, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Most cool astronomical events don't come up so suddenly that you need an alarm. We know about eclipses years in advance, meteor showers recur annually, comets have months of warning, and unusual auroras are usually known a few days early. Anything sudden will probably also be short-lived, so by the time you get outside it will be over. Barmar (talk) 15:26, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

If you're anything like me, you're often eager to see (predicable space phenomenon) and then get reminded of it a day too late when the photos starts appearing on the internet. Though that could just as easily solved with a reminder on a standard calendar app, if only you had something reminding youto set up reminders. What would be nice would be an app where you put in your location and it gives you the next week's A) weather forecast, and B) list of interestingly visible space thingies. 172.69.246.142 14:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Seems like there should be a name for these alerts, like "Amber Alert" for missing children. I nominate "Neil Alert" -- it should probably use Neil deGrasse Tyson's voice. Barmar (talk) 15:28, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Since the characters in the comic are the same as in the previous ISS comic, I like to think that they're in the ISS and Megan is getting ready to do an EVA (ignore the fact that such a desk wouldn't make sense, or the walking, or that prepping for the EVA would probably take well over a full orbit) 172.71.223.93 17:58, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Dang, we really cleaned up all the incomplete explanations, didn't we? Either that, or someone just went around and removed all the tags New editor (talk) 19:50, 31 August 2024 (UTC)

Does anyone know of anything like this? Something that will tell me about things like upcoming meteor showers, comets, auroras, etc. the day before, rather than hearing about it the day after from people who somehow knew about it? To this day I still have no idea how people find out about these things before they happen

I previously changed the words from the alarm in the Transcript to italics, but I wasn't convinced that the noises from the alarm were also italicized. I see someone else changed them to italics as well, but I wonder if anyone else is of the same mind as myself. Ianrbibtitlht (talk) 14:16, 1 September 2024 (UTC)