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03 Feb 2012, 10:44 am

http://www.popsci.com/technology/articl ... orologists

WTF!?!


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03 Feb 2012, 11:11 am

It makes me think of the Michael Caine film "Blue Ice"!



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03 Feb 2012, 12:34 pm

Strange things are going on with the weather. Much evidence suggest that is is being controlled more and more by human design rather than nature. This could be a sign.

Or, it could be some weird natural phenomena.



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03 Feb 2012, 12:35 pm

emtyeye wrote:
Strange things are going on with the weather. Much evidence suggest that is is being controlled more and more by human design rather than nature. This could be a sign.

Or, it could be some weird natural phenomena.


No human controls the weather. It is driven by non-linear chaotic dynamics.

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03 Feb 2012, 12:38 pm

RarePegs wrote:
It makes me think of the Michael Caine film "Blue Ice"!


I thought the same thing as well.

Blue Ice


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03 Feb 2012, 1:02 pm

It was sodium polyacrylate.

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03 Feb 2012, 1:08 pm

ruveyn wrote:
emtyeye wrote:
Strange things are going on with the weather. Much evidence suggest that is is being controlled more and more by human design rather than nature. This could be a sign.

Or, it could be some weird natural phenomena.


No human controls the weather. It is driven by non-linear chaotic dynamics.

ruveyn


China and Russia routinely alter precipitation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_We ... ion_Office



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03 Feb 2012, 2:39 pm

Hmmm... have they already eliminated a leaking toilet tank on a jet?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(aircraft)


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03 Feb 2012, 3:20 pm

ruveyn wrote:
It was sodium polyacrylate. ruveyn

Article: Blue Balls Mystery Solved by Scientists

Steven Morris wrote:
"Spherical objects discovered in Bournemouth garden found to be sodium polyacrylate, an absorbent polymer used in nappies"


Show's over, folks! Nothing more to see! Move along...

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03 Feb 2012, 3:24 pm

shrox wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
emtyeye wrote:
Strange things are going on with the weather. Much evidence suggest that is is being controlled more and more by human design rather than nature. This could be a sign. Or, it could be some weird natural phenomena.
No human controls the weather. It is driven by non-linear chaotic dynamics. ruveyn
China and Russia routinely alter precipitation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_We ... ion_Office

It's called "Cloud Seeding" - it's used to encourage clouds to turn into rain. It doesn't always work, though.

Quote:
"Clouds were seeded during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing using rockets, so that there would be no rain during the opening and closing ceremonies. although others dispute their claims of success."



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03 Feb 2012, 3:36 pm

Mundane.

The person who found them on the ground made a collosal assumption that they fell from the sky. They didn't.



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03 Feb 2012, 3:38 pm

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Mundane. The person who found them on the ground made a collosal assumption that they fell from the sky. They didn't.


I often wonder why it is that "I don't know why" so often becomes "It came from the sky / outer space / Heaven!! !" or even "God did it!"?



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03 Feb 2012, 3:39 pm

Fnord wrote:
shrox wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
emtyeye wrote:
Strange things are going on with the weather. Much evidence suggest that is is being controlled more and more by human design rather than nature. This could be a sign. Or, it could be some weird natural phenomena.
No human controls the weather. It is driven by non-linear chaotic dynamics. ruveyn
China and Russia routinely alter precipitation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_We ... ion_Office

It's called "Cloud Seeding" - it's used to encourage clouds to turn into rain. It doesn't always work, though.

Quote:
"Clouds were seeded during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing using rockets, so that there would be no rain during the opening and closing ceremonies. although others dispute their claims of success."


Yes, that's why I posted it.



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03 Feb 2012, 7:31 pm

noooo folks ya'll got it all wrong, It's angel sh*t!! !! ....LOL jk

anyway thanks for clearing that up Fnord. Interesting article. However I can see how someone would assume if something was not visible before a hail storm, but appeared right after the storm passed, that it must have fallen from the sky during the storm.

Neat example of how things are never as they appear.


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03 Feb 2012, 7:40 pm

jojobean wrote:
... thanks for clearing that up Fnord. Interesting article. However I can see how someone would assume if something was not visible before a hail storm, but appeared right after the storm passed, that it must have fallen from the sky during the storm.

You're welcome.

jojobean wrote:
Neat example of how things are never as they appear.

Also a neat example of how people tend to speculate first, and determine the answer later (if ever).



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04 Feb 2012, 2:49 pm

Okay.

What about those round metal football sized things that just fell from the sky in Namibia (in the same list of newslinks)?


Some say they are fuel tanks from either Russian, or from extra terrestrial, space ships.


I think that Bertand Russell's tea pot is real- and just slammed into earth!