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Giant Chinese dustball circles the Earth
telegraph.co.uk ^ | July 21, 2009 | Malcolm Moore

Posted on 07/21/2009 6:54:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

A giant Chinese dustball weighing hundreds of thousands of tons circled the world at high altitude in under two weeks, scientists have shown.

A group of Chinese and Japanese scientists claimed that the dustball, which weighed 800,000 tons, was kicked up during a storm in 2007 in the Taklamakan desert.

The desert, which is roughly the size of France, lies in China's far-Western Xinjiang province, and is fringed by mountains on three sides, including the Pamir mountains on the border with Afghanistan and the Karakoram range, an extension of the Himalayas.

The dust ball was formed when a wind storm ripped across the desert, kicking up the dust, and trapping it against the mountains of the Tibetan plateau.

The scientists said the dust was forced higher and higher into the air, until it reached an altitude of around 16,250ft. A warm convection flow then lofted it further to between 26,000 ft and 32,500 ft, well above cloud level.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: afanasevo; catastrophism; china; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; taklamakan; tarimbasin; tocharian; tocharians; xinjiang
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To: aruanan

Dust crowd


21 posted on 07/21/2009 7:42:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (" A new Dark Age made more sinister .... more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
What? No PHOTO?
This is NOT that dust cloud.

22 posted on 07/21/2009 7:47:51 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (I believe in CHOICE: Let the Fetus decide whether to be born or to spontaneously abort. FETAL CHOICE)
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To: SunkenCiv
"I've heard that Taklamakan translates as "you go in, you don't come out". :')"

Close enough anyway.

23 posted on 07/21/2009 9:41:12 PM PDT by blam
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To: Free ThinkerNY

24 posted on 07/21/2009 10:08:00 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: SunkenCiv

I see that Korla pears aren’t the only thing to come out of that part of China. My wife and I recently discovered those at an Asian grocery store.

http://xenohistorian.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/central-asian-pears/


25 posted on 07/22/2009 2:45:29 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Berosus

:’)


26 posted on 07/22/2009 7:43:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: blam

:’) But it’s *dry* heat.


27 posted on 07/22/2009 7:45:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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Note: this topic is from 7/21/2009. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
Hey blam, free is better than cheap. One down, one to go:
Riddle Of The Desert Mummies - YouTube

Riddle Of The Desert Mummies - YouTube

28 posted on 12/31/2014 10:35:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 7/21/2009. Thanks Free ThinkerNY.
Hey blam, free is better than cheap. One down, one to go:
Riddle Of The Desert Mummies - YouTube

Riddle Of The Desert Mummies - YouTube

29 posted on 12/31/2014 10:35:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Salamander


30 posted on 12/31/2014 10:39:13 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi

;’)


31 posted on 12/31/2014 10:50:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just make sure it’s set on “suck” and not “blow.”


32 posted on 12/31/2014 10:52:10 AM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: shibumi

Now I know what to do with the dust bunnies under the sofa.

[anybody got a spare trebuchet?]


33 posted on 12/31/2014 11:28:29 AM PST by Salamander (No more nights of blood and fire.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Hmmmm.

That's where these guys ( Tocharians) are located.

34 posted on 12/31/2014 11:30:09 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

FYI — That’s where they *used* to be — they moved, and wherever they are now, we have to refer to them as the “Fromcharians”.

Why yes, I have waited for years to spring that one. ;’)


35 posted on 12/31/2014 12:11:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: shibumi

(’:


36 posted on 12/31/2014 12:11:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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