interesting concept
Posted on 04/23/2018 6:32:40 AM PDT by Ken H
Pam Jones streamed this live to facebook from California on 4-16-2018
I agree - sounds like hail cannons. We get them sometimes.
I think the other sounds are being created by the vibrations from the cannons and it sounds to her like they’re going in a circle. Low clouds probably causing some of the conditions for the other noises.
Are your guns made of cheese? Why would that very slow rate of fire melt a barrel?
I heard probably 100 booms in those 8 minutes.... My 270 or 22.250 are pretty hot after 1/2 a box of ammo in 20 minutes of target practice.
That is weird!
TBH I only watched the first minute, or less. My ADHD was telling me to get back here and post my quickhit comment then find some more interesting headlines to check out.
I shouldn’t be so dismissive. It tends to be a problem. I have heard that low clouds can really screw with acoustics though. People hearing trains from the wrong direction, stationary objects that seem to move, objects in the distance that sound a lot closer, etc.
My home area. They’ve been using suppression cannons down there for years as it is a large agricultural fruit area with peaches, plums, and almonds. During the spring when the blooms are out, hail does a lot of damage to the fruit trees so they have been working with the cannons for years to try to hold off hail.
But hail is not exactly just frozen rain. Hail comes from the winds sucking the rain drops back up into the clouds where they are coated over and over with freezing water at high altitudes and very low temps. So a stone big enough to do real damage to crops is not going to be obliterated by sound waves in it’s ultimate fall because it got too big to be sucked back up. And that weight is inconsistent with size as much as wind speeds.
Cal Poly at San Luis has been trying to act as advocates for these devices since 2010, and they’ve sold the things just enough that the locals do not know what they are since they are not used very much.
There are two military sites in the area that fly at Fresno and Lemoore, but the repetition of the sound would not be fly over aircraft and sound waves do not make a metal sound follow up.
rwood
Not to worry. The government probably breached a worm hole in a weather control experiment.
Awesome song. I can match up people I know with almost every verse. Strange.
I live in Fresno and on Monday April 16 late afternoon I heard the booming late that afternoon as rain clouds moved in from the west going east. Probably 20-30 miles away from where she was recording. At first it was like low thunder but with no lightning. Than it just repeated the cycle. I thought the neighbor must be pounding on something and that was not the case. It was the exact same time and we were hearing the distant booms that she heard overhead. The closest comparison would be a sonic boom without the shock wave. I have experienced many sonic booms and this was audibly the same sound, but without the impact of any shockwave. If anything as she described it could have been an F-22 in super cruise doing circles overhead breaking the sound barrier as it descended or just circled at high speed for ten minutes.
If you had to test a hypersonic craft and had to slow down on your way into Groom Lake and used the clouds for cover and you scrubbed off speed as you circled in from the upper atmosphere that would be the same affect.
Well how do like that, a hail cannon. Yep...
interesting concept
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