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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Algolei" data-source="post: 2063659" data-attributes="member: 1073">Comets don't do that.  But satellites do.  And, uh, airplanes.  (I think there's an airplane called the Comet, if that helps?)Comets appear so slow-moving in the night sky that it takes many many hours--days, usually--before they seem to have moved at all.  The reason is because they are very far away from earth; even though they are hurtling* through space at high velocity, they are so distant that the arc of their passage is very tiny.  An object would have to come very close to the earth before you could see it moving across your field of view that quickly.And I'm still not sure I understand what you're saying about your friend.  A doctor butchered him?  What country was this in?I mean, it's a horrible thing to have happened to your friend, but I want to understand what happened and how it came about.  Has this hit the American news?*Yay!  I said "hurtling" today!</blockquote>