>>>>No lack of planes here. O'Hare Airport is straight across Mannheim Road from this office building. The soundproofing must be pretty good because I don't really hear them inside. Look out the window, though, and planes are landing at the rate of about one a minute.-- and that's just on one runway.
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>>>Lucky you, civilian aircraft.
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>>>We had two days of thunder overhead, as these guys just returned from Haiti, where they were fighting... well, whatever they use fighter planes for after an earthquake. And since the "invisible" F117a is retired, the new ones are heavier and can't make such a tight turn, they fly exactly over our heads when taking off. Soundproofing isn't bad, but occasionally we try to be outside. And they seem to know when we're out.
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>>Oh, that's nothing. We got buzzed by a meteor last night. (Really).
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>That's a one-time, and we had that a couple of years ago. They never found it, though, even though it was heard twenty miles across. At least there was no official explanation.

It's probably a good thing. Remember when the second space shuttle blew up and scattered debris across the American southwest? Dozens of people burned themselves trying to pick pieces up. Evidently it had not occurred to them that metal which just passed through the earth's atmosphere might be hot.