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That's one hundred miles higher than what is considered re-entry for the space shuttle and other spacecraft. It's not generally considered the "atmosphere".
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Somamech
Huh?????!!!!!?????
You make no sense, at all....we aren't even talking about re-entry dynamics!!!
WoW!!!!
Imagine not understanding a concept....this one takes some cake....
We have a guarantee that we will see the "clouds" from said bombing.
The debris will not remain suspended, as it would in Earth's atmosphere, since there is no atmospheric medium on the Moon to suspend any particles.
The DMSP satellites also measure local charged particles and electromagnetic fields to assess the impact of the ionosphere on ballistic-missile early warning radar systems and long-range communications. Additionally, these data are used to monitor global auroral activity and to predict the effects of the space environment on satellite operations.
They call it Project Cloverleaf. At night, giant planes with no pilots roam the sky over the U.S. Instead of a mere vapor trail, they are filling the sky with unknown chemicals designed to darken the earth. To thousands of people around the U.S., this is not a sci-fi movie or even a conspiracy theory; it is real.
Scott Stevens is a believer.
Stevens, a meteorologist and weatherman with News Channel 6 in Pocatello, said the phenomenon known as "global dimming" could be a clandestine operation by the government to slow the effects of global warming. While global dimming is a contentious scientific issue, some scientists think thicker cloud cover may be reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the earth.
The Contrail Effect by Peter Tyson
Dimming the Sun homepage
Are vapor trails from aircraft influencing the climate, and if so, should we worry?
www.pbs.org...
Contrails, the man-made clouds left in the wake of jet aircraft, may actually alter climate, though to what degree remains unclear.
Originally posted by Essan
Scott Stevens believes all clouds are manmade ......
Originally posted by Essan
(he used to read the weather forecasts on a local TV station until he got sacked. Blaming Hurricane Katrina on the Japanese didn't help)
Originally posted by zorgon
Well this is interesting...
They call it Project Cloverleaf. At night, giant planes with no pilots roam the sky over the U.S. Instead of a mere vapor trail, they are filling the sky with unknown chemicals designed to darken the earth. To thousands of people around the U.S., this is not a sci-fi movie or even a conspiracy theory; it is real.
Scott Stevens is a believer.
The 'red sky at night' rhyme is more than an old wives' tale though and has some meteorological foundation - in England at least.
To explain why we'll need to know why clouds sometimes appear red and how that may be used to predict the weather. Firstly, why do clouds often appear red in the morning and evening?
- Sunlight is broken into the familiar rainbow spectrum of varying-wavelength colours as it passes through the atmosphere.
- The blue/violet end of the spectrum is diverted more than the red/orange.
(This is the same mechanism that causes us to see the sky as blue incidentally, but that's getting rather off our point)
- When the sun is low in the sky, at dawn and dusk, sunlight travels through more atmosphere than at other times of day. The red wavelength is better able to go on a direct course and be reflected back off clouds, whereas the blue light is more scattered before reaching the cloud and is therefore less visible. So, we see the clouds as red as the light that is reaching them is primarily red.
...and how does that help predict the weather?
- The weather in the UK comes from the west, i.e. the wind is primarily westerly.
- The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
- If there is broken cloud in the morning we may look to the west and see red light reflecting back from the cloud, i.e. 'red sky in the morning'. As the clouds are coming towards us there must be a chance of rain, at least an increased chance compared with the cloudless period we had just enjoyed.
- Likewise for 'red sky at night'. If we see red clouds in the evening they will be in the east and have already passed us by, giving a good chance of clear skies and fine weather ahead.