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Noctilucent Clouds Likely Caused By Shuttle Launches
icebike writes "In our recent discussion of the phenomenon of noctilucent clouds, there was some suggestions that these might be the product of global warming due to moisture being lofted high into the atmosphere. It now appears that these clouds are simply the product of Shuttle launches. In a story about the Tunguska blast, Science News says: 'Each launch of a space shuttle, which burns a combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as fuel, pumps about 300 metric tons of water vapor into the atmosphere at altitudes between 100 and 115 kilometers. Soon after the January 16, 2003, launch of the shuttle Columbia, a liftoff that took place just after the height of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, noctilucent clouds appeared over Antarctica. Similarly, a widespread display of the night-shining clouds showed up over Alaska two days after the shuttle Endeavour blasted off on August 8, 2007. Previous studies show that in both instances those clouds included material from the shuttle plumes.' So, man-made after all?"
Each stroke of my penis, which burns a combination of sweet love and sauciness as fuel, pumps about 300 metric gallons of sperm into yo mama's vagina at depths between 8 and 10 inches depending on sexual position. Of course, if she is in the mood and lube is available, it is deposited in her anus.
OMG slashdot is being paid by the oil companies. Anything that doesn't fall in line with Al Gore and his AGW racket is someone being paid off big time. Slashdot I hope your check is big enough when Global Warming comes and kicks you in the nuts. How can you sell out like that. If it gets hotter it's global warming, if it gets colder (in the same region that was predicted the opposite) it's global warming. Doesn't this sound like a ultra conservative christian argument. It's hot cause God made it hot...wait it's cold cause Ghost man in the sky said so. For the record I believe Global Warming is happening but I am sick and tired of the dogmatic bullshit and the politicized crap that is coming out of it.
The bigger problem in the world is that the 3rd world doesn't want to be the 3rd world anymore. The earth cannot support everyone living like the western world in it's current form. Maybe instead of inventing boogeymen we can work on that problem which would involve reducing emissions and having modern society living more modestly. Right now all this green legislation says that giant companies that are polluting can afford to pollute more and that their 10% of their kickbacks and subsidies might have to go to carbon credits while the rest of John Q public will have to make "societal sacrifices" because they don't have the money to pay off Al Gore's carbon credit company. It's nothing but feel good legislation in the US. A classic signature generally but not exclusively of Democratic leadership.
A theory completely supported by their first recorded observation being in 1885.