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Puzzling Electric Hurricanes
SpaceAdmiral writes "Hurricanes seldom have lightning because they primarily consist of horizontal winds (as opposed to vertical winds). However, three of the biggest storms of 2005 (Rita, Katrina, and Emily) had plenty of lightning and NASA has an interesting write-up about it." Bottom line is "we still have a lot to learn about hurricanes."
btw, keep away from my rat farm
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
i hate it when they basicly say " we know nothing " after every sience articly i read on ... but do we have to be reminded of it every time ?
the web. I mean ok we get it we humans know nothing
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Judging by this picture, the moon looks just about the right size to plug the hole in this hurricane.
Wouldn't that stop it?
http://www.the-electric-universe.info/welcome.html
Burn baby, burn
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it just proves they were induced by the Conspiracy! /me loosens tinfoil hat a bit
"Generally there's not a lot of lightning in the eye-wall region," he says. "So when people see lightning there, they perk up -- they say, okay, something's happening."
incase the 100mph winds didn't have your attention already..
sigh.. hurricanes and their egos.
God is saying...
"You're screwing up my planet, I'm going to kick your ass now."
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
Thats just a glitch in the Bush anti black-people weather machine, a firmware update is expected soon, should fix everything.
Which wouldn't be noteworthy, except for the numerous other factions that make no such admission, ever.
"But all your emitter and collector are belong to me!"
I haven't watched The Wizard of Oz since I was compelled to do so in elementary school, but, I believe it was a Tornado that took Dorothy. Having been through both Hurricanes and Tornadoes, I can assure you that they're quite different.
Lets just add some conspiracy to this...
Some of my friends in Florida noticed some odd 'humming' from the MacDill AFB during the storms of the last two seasons.
In a few documentaries, non-conspiracy type, there were mentions of HAARP being used to steer storms away from high value locations (such as MacDill AFB, home of SOCOM).
HAARP is widely known to be Tesla's work. Tesla was well known for things that go zap.
The government has interesting military busdget info (PDF warning)
Bumping a storm away from valuable places such as MacDill, and letting it damage some oil stuff is worth while. It runs the price of oil up, and the damaged oil equipment can be replaced. Of course, a few people may get hurt, but that's not the government's concern.
I'm sure NASA won't be informed of the actions at HAARP, so they'll be investigating something where they will never receive the details of how it happened.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
My girlfriend suggests that it was just the hurrican's PMSing, I am inclined to agree given the severity of the storms.
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)