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214 - The Comet's Tail

Welcome to Night Vale

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The Comet and the Comet's Comet

Cecil says he was worried about neighborhood kids killing animals in his cornfield. But it turns out they were ritually sacrificing these poor creatures to some god. He also discovered that their gods looked more like a big old ratsnake with little fluffy wings, not dissimilar to the kind you might put on a baby for halloween. And now back to the comet. astronomers had divined through the dregs in their teacups that wexell's comet, shortly after it passed by earth in 17 70, must have gotten too close to jupiter. The gravitational sway would have then caused the comet to get sling shotted into a totally different direction. To

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