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Marfa Lights Explained

Posted by Zonk on from the another-crypto-critter-explained-away dept.

billsoxs writes "The Marfa lights are ghostly lights that have been observed for years around Marfa TX (near Big Bend). They have been the subject of curiosity , a source of tourism and scientifically studied a number of times. Now a group of physics students from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) have use small lasers and traffic sensors to show that these lights are most likely headlights from cars on a distant highway. The publication is in the Society of Physics Students website. The PDF of the article is here. (Unfortunately the related video is no longer available on the web but more stuff is here.)"

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    buhahahahhahaa

  2. How much energy? by DaCool42 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The article talks about how much power this thing makes, but they never say how much energy you get from it! Saying that it makes 10kW is meaningless if you don't know how long that 10kW lasts. I'm guessing it is an extremely short period of time, perhaps even in the order of microseconds. This is not news, it's just lame advertising. Nothing to see here, move along. Oh, and gasoline isn't exactly the cheapest energy source these days anyway...

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  3. Marfa lights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    God is great garypatti@adelphia.net garypatti@adelphia.net garypatti@adelphia.net