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Shuttle Launches Form Arctic Clouds
core plexus writes "The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that in late May, researchers reported finding that the shuttle's exhaust, 97 percent of which is water vapor, quickly migrates to the highest reaches of the atmosphere above the Arctic.
There the vapor spreads out about 50 miles high in Earth's mesosphere, just below the thermosphere, the air's highest layer, and settles to form a wispy type of cloud called noctilucent clouds.
The shuttle trails a giant plume of exhaust while rising through the atmosphere, Mike Stevens, the study's lead author, said earlier this summer on Arctic Science Journeys Radio at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
"You can think of it as essentially a long garden hose that is on the order of (621 miles) long," Stevens said."
That ought'a help counteract all the global warming associated with it.
That's sarcasm, folks.
Maybe I should have read the article or something, but what'd they mean by "Shuttle Launches Form Arctic Clouds"? I envisioned Bespin or something. Heh.
"Derp de derp."
Because in Soviet Russia, Arctic Clouds form you!
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Anyone read it as "Shuttle Launches From Artic Clouds?
Totally confused when the new Artic Cloud Energy or A.C.E. technology was no where to be found in the article!
Ultimately I think this should win the award for "Most unanticipated research" category....
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.