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Incredible Eye of Wilma - MUST SEE

Posted on 10/24/2005 7:10:34 AM PDT by FractalMan

I was looking at the Wilma radar page on DRUDGE when I saw these images - 1215 Zulu time. Honest they are not edited in any way. I have sent them to FoxNews...




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To: stopem

mmmmmmmm.... krispy kreme....


81 posted on 10/24/2005 9:09:17 AM PDT by kenth (There were only a few thousand hippies marching, but it smelled like half a million.)
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To: FractalMan; Right_in_Virginia
...but the aviation industry for some reason chose to call it Zulu Time.

Years ago, when long distance train travel was becoming more prevalent and passenger-carrying airlines were in their infancy, the time zone was invented to make travel timetables a little less confusing.
Beginning to the east of Greenwich, near London in England, our 360 degrees of longitude were divided by 24 zones, and were labeled A-M (omitting J for some reason), all the way around to Australia.
The zones west of Greenwich were then labeled N-Y (the Pacific Time Zone is actually labeled "U" under this system). The zone that straddles the International Date Line is split in half, M on the east and Y on the west.
That only left the letter Z, which was then assigned to the zone where it all started, the 0° longitude line that passes through Greenwich. Thereby, "Zulu" time, or the time it is in Greenwich, England, became the time that was used to synchronize the timetables of trains (and later, airlines) everywhere.

82 posted on 10/24/2005 9:19:58 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: FractalMan

I don't know what it's supposed to be but you can bet your bottom dollar it's.........BUSH'S FAULT!


83 posted on 10/24/2005 9:23:17 AM PDT by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: Triggerhippie

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


84 posted on 10/24/2005 9:25:01 AM PDT by CommandoFrank (Peer into the depths of hell and there you will find the face of Islam...)
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To: Triggerhippie
Men of Harlech stand ye steady,
Can you see that we're not ready
Can you see their spear points gleaming
To this battlefield......

Yea, I'll show you how to Zulu.

85 posted on 10/24/2005 9:36:14 AM PDT by vetvetdoug (Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Brices Crossroads, Harrisburg, Britton Lane, Holly Springs, Hatchie Bridge,)
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To: Triggerhippie
Akk

Diet Coke on the keyboard!!! :-)

86 posted on 10/24/2005 9:38:56 AM PDT by pandemoniumreigns
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To: FractalMan
I don't know, but I think Betty has better eyes than Wilma.

87 posted on 10/24/2005 10:41:59 AM PDT by VRWCmember (hard-core, politically angry, hyperconservative, and loaded with vitriol about everything liberal.)
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To: FractalMan

Whoa! That one looks like a rabbit wearing headphones.


88 posted on 10/24/2005 2:18:32 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: dinoparty

eye and see are relateed to the act of looking.


89 posted on 10/24/2005 2:26:28 PM PDT by Redcitizen (My tagline can beat up your honor tagline)
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To: FractalMan

Thanks.


90 posted on 10/24/2005 4:42:56 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: FractalMan

Looks like the eye of Elvis!!!

;)


91 posted on 10/25/2005 4:03:26 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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