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Strange 'S'-shaped radar phenomenon appears off W[estern]A[ustralia] coast
ABC ^
| Thu 13 Feb 2014, 8:15pm AEDT
Posted on 02/14/2014 10:29:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
The shape was spotted on the weather bureau's radar map on Wednesday about 30 kilometres west of Rottnest.
After checking the satellite, the bureau's Neil Bennett ruled out the phenomenon being caused by cloud.
"There's no cloud, there's nothing to produce a rain echo, ... which we do see a lot, but not this particular shape," he said.
"They don't take on S shapes and things like that.
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To: Larry Lucido
Look at the face of old man winter near Chicago in this NASA (use control + for a closer look, control - to get back to normal) image. This was taken 2/13 before the big southern storm.
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:08:31 AM PST
by
BushCountry
(If you're wondering, "I got my screenname before GW was elected the first time.")
To: fso301
Yup. My first thought was that it was an artifact.
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:12:58 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: BenLurkin
An out of control missile launched from a Chinese submarine would be my guess........
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:18:25 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
To: Army Air Corps
It's a sine!What you did there.... I seen it.
To: martin_fierro
“From this angle it looks more like a “N”
Political graffiti? Just had to drag Obama in to it,
didn’t you.
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:34:21 AM PST
by
Slambat
To: Dallas59
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:36:16 AM PST
by
Slambat
To: BenLurkin
It’s “strange” only because in some peoples’ minds it resembles the letter S.
In reality, it is not strange. In reality, it is a normal phenomenon.
Like the “face” on Mars that wasn’t a face, people see things that they want to see that aren’t there.
Besides, it’s not a very good letter S.
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:41:12 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s too symmetrical to be anything natural or random. If a jet had to waste some time, this shape would be about right. If the air was in an unstable equilibrium, the contrail could have upset it and produced something the radar saw.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:55:51 AM PST
by
OwenKellogg
(Fundamental transformation sucks.)
To: BenLurkin
I’ve working as a radar engineer for over 30 years, spent a couple modeling and peddling weather radar, and can pretty much guarantee that that is not a meteorologic or propagation artifact. My bet (speculation) is either a software artifact, perhaps a test pattern used by the software developers, or a prank, possibly an Easter egg planted by a software developer, or a joke by the operators.
To: BenLurkin
For what it's worth, it occurred to me that this location is at the antipodes of the American eastern seaboard.
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posted on
02/15/2014 4:58:28 AM PST
by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
To: BenLurkin
Nessie takes a vacation, or a wrong turn in one of those underwater tunnels.
To: Dallas59
- Space aliens sending advanced tech designs to Earthlings: OK
- Scheming political rivalries in the scientific class: CHECK
- Warp-speed space travel: GOT IT
- Charismatic Christian character portrayed as an oaf: OF COURSE
- Jodi Foster having hetero sex: WTF?
To: martin_fierro; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
LIke Figure "F" on this diagram:
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posted on
02/15/2014 7:12:03 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
02/15/2014 7:19:41 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: BenLurkin
They're pazzonous!
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posted on
02/15/2014 7:24:54 AM PST
by
Walmartian
(I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
To: BenLurkin
The best comment seen elsewhere is that apparently somebody obtained all seven of the Dragon ball orbs.
To: martin_fierro; BenLurkin; Charles Henrickson
"Friendship Is Universal."
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:28:18 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Something is Rottnest in the State of W.A.)
To: BenLurkin
definitely caused by global warming.
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posted on
02/15/2014 9:32:29 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
To: Starstruck; BenLurkin
“To Serve Man”
It’s a cookbook!
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posted on
02/15/2014 11:23:35 AM PST
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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