[raybbr]

The two-mile thick, continent-size cloud over the Indian Ocean -- dubbed the "Asian Brown Cloud" -- was discovered in 1999 by Indian scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan.

It took a scientist to see this?

[Trace21230]

"It took a scientist to see this?"

Yup, and probably $100 million dollars worth of pork-barrel spending to fund the research.

Trace

[Grampa Dave]

It took a scientist and 25 million $'s (probably our tax $'s) to see this cloud.