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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: Free ThinkerNY
That helps cool the Earth, right?
Another factor that cannot be measured by the Global Hoaxers computer climate models.
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07/21/2009 6:56:28 PM PDT
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GeronL
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To: 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.”
Somebody is going to post a picture of Helen Thomas here and then I’m going to have this thread pulled....
;-)
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:57:47 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Gee, you mean Mother Nature did something and humans had no control over it? Astonishing.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:58:24 PM PDT
by
Signalman
To: Free ThinkerNY
Dustball? I’m more worried about a certain dirtball in Washington, DC.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:01:40 PM PDT
by
Jaxter
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
maybe it will finally plug that darn ozone hole.
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07/21/2009 7:01:50 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
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To: GeronL
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:02:02 PM PDT
by
Nuc1
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Since this was 2007, it must have been Bush’s fault.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:07:20 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: Bobkk47
Gee, you mean Mother Nature did something and humans had no control over it? Astonishing. Don't worry. Algore and the UN are already writing regulations to make sure the planet does nothing that isn't under their direct control.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:15:52 PM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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A warm convection flow then lofted it further to between 26,000 ft and 32,500 ft, well above cloud level." Me thinks that some knave has written "ft" when the correct unit of measurement should be meters.
Lots and lots of clouds above 26K feet and even 32.3K feet. However, not that many above 26K meters (85,301 ft).
To: SERKIT
Since this was 2007, it must have been Bushs fault.
I inherited this dustball--Prezident Obie
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:17:49 PM PDT
by
newheart
(Obama. We kind of underestimated the creepiness.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
That explains the top of my book shelf. Dang Communists.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:18:52 PM PDT
by
mad puppy
(Never have I felt so politically radical and I swear I didn't move an inch.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Back in the ‘30s, we were able to create our own dust balls.
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07/21/2009 7:18:59 PM PDT
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Larry Lucido
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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.
I've heard that Taklamakan translates as "you go in, you don't come out". :')
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07/21/2009 7:20:06 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Rurudyne; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; xcamel
Good title for a horror movie.
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07/21/2009 7:20:52 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It’s sure better than their fish and crab balls.
To: Free ThinkerNY
Um...I think I got one of those under my bed.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:21:37 PM PDT
by
Krankor
("Quit talking about the eight men, or there's gonna be nine.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
LoL I thought it said “giant cheese dustball” LOL
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:26:06 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Aren't we talking dust cloud here?
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:33:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(" A new Dark Age made more sinister .... more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.")
To: BenLurkin
Giant Chinese dustball circles the Earth
Wouldn't it be a dust-bar or a dust ling by now?
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:39:44 PM PDT
by
aruanan
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