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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


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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.


61 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.")
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To: fso301

Yup. My first thought was that it was an artifact.


62 posted on 02/15/2014 4:12:58 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: BenLurkin

An out of control missile launched from a Chinese submarine would be my guess........


63 posted on 02/15/2014 4:18:25 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: Army Air Corps
It's a sine!

What you did there.... I seen it.

64 posted on 02/15/2014 4:28:03 AM PST by Thane_Banquo (III%)
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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.


65 posted on 02/15/2014 4:34:21 AM PST by Slambat
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To: Dallas59

That was subliminal.


66 posted on 02/15/2014 4:36:16 AM PST by Slambat
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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.


67 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.)
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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.


68 posted on 02/15/2014 4:53:23 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: BenLurkin

69 posted on 02/15/2014 4:55:51 AM PST by OwenKellogg (Fundamental transformation sucks.)
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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.


70 posted on 02/15/2014 4:56:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (In the long run, we are all dead.)
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To: BenLurkin
For what it's worth, it occurred to me that this location is at the antipodes of the American eastern seaboard.
71 posted on 02/15/2014 4:58:28 AM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nessie takes a vacation, or a wrong turn in one of those underwater tunnels.


72 posted on 02/15/2014 5:03:54 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: Dallas59

73 posted on 02/15/2014 6:20:45 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
LIke Figure "F" on this diagram:

74 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.)
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To: Dallas59

That’s pretty cool!


75 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.)
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To: BenLurkin
They're pazzonous!
76 posted on 02/15/2014 7:24:54 AM PST by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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To: BenLurkin

The best comment seen elsewhere is that apparently somebody obtained all seven of the Dragon ball orbs.


77 posted on 02/15/2014 7:47:20 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: martin_fierro; BenLurkin; Charles Henrickson
"Friendship Is Universal."
78 posted on 02/15/2014 9:28:18 AM PST by mikrofon (Something is Rottnest in the State of W.A.)
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To: BenLurkin

definitely caused by global warming.


79 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.)
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To: Starstruck; BenLurkin

“To Serve Man”

It’s a cookbook!


80 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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