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We can all do science! One of the positive ways that the modern communication network connects us all is making it possible to do almost instant citizen science. For example, a generation ago it would have taken time for fireball reports to come out of Siberian Russia. Weeks, perhaps, not all that long ago. Today, the fireball is caught by multiple cameras and almost instantly posted to the world. March 23 a fireball streaked across the Eastern Seaboard here in the US, and reports again were almost instant. Some reports are not scientifically useful….”cool! ” But enough know to post to the American Meteor Society’s webpage giving time, location, direction and altitude that real science can be done on a near real time basis. Want to discover an exoplanet? You can sift through the Kepler dat