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Chasing

Title text: Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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This comic is a scatter plot comparing how exciting it is to see various things with how possible it is to chase those things using a convoy of coordinated vehicles.

The least chasable are stationary places like the Grand Canyon or International Date Line. It makes no sense to chase them because they don't move around, you just go to their known locations. At the other end of he chasability spectrum are animals that move around rapidly, and fleeting astronomical and atmospherical phenomena like clouds, meteors, and aurora. However, some of these are difficult to chase because they're small and hard to detect from a moving vehicle, e.g. gnats.

Entity	Explanation
The Grand Canyon	Stationary place in Arizona
Niagara Falls	Stationary place on the border of US and Canada
Tourist attractions
Tourist traps
Sand traps
The International Date Line	Stationary place around 180 degrees of longitude
Meteors
Rainbows
Comets
Sunsets
The Moon
Unusual clouds
Regular clouds
Fog
Rain
Gnats
Aurora
Your favorite band's shows
Rare birds	Many birders will "twitch" to see rare birds, and this requires a fair amount of checking location, behavior, etc. Also, rare birds tend to be exciting to see.
Hot air balloons
Radiosondes
Tourist traps
Regular clouds
Regular birds	These are easier to see than rare birds.[citation needed]
Neighborhood possums
Sand traps
Fog	Very few people will chase fog. [citation needed]
Rain
Regular balloons
Ice cream trucks
Gnats	Nobody wants to track down gnats, but people could theoretically use fancy instruments to do so.
Tumbleweeds
Speed traps
Other chasers

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[An X Y axis graph]

[Y axis label:]

Exciting to see in person

[X axis label:]

Possible to chase in a convoy of vehicles coordinating over radio and using instruments and data to find optimal viewing locations?

[X and Y axis values (from bottom left):]

No

Yes

[Top left quarter:]

The Grand Canyon

Meteors

Rainbow

Comets

Niagara Falls

Sunsets

The Moon

Tourist attractions

Unusual clouds

[Top right quarter:]

Aurora

Tornadoes

Whales

Your favorite band's shows

Icebergs

Rare birds

Hot air balloons

[Bottom left quarter:]

Tourist traps

Regular clouds

Sand traps

Fog

Rain

The International Date Line

Gnats

[Bottom right quarter:]

Regular birds

Radiosondes

Neighborhood possums

Regular balloons

Ice cream trucks

Tumbleweeds

Speed traps

Other chasers

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