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Update#1: Larger image now linked to small above;)
Mike Davias brought some attention today to one of the Tusk’s favorite subjects: Carolina Bays. His wonderful LIDAR image of the bays — above and first revealed here on the Tusk — was selected as today’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Picture of the Day. Applause!
These enigmatic features…
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Here is a cool LIDAR image of the Carolina Bays in the vicinity of Maxton, N.C. from Michael Davias. Note he highlights a special one that is hard to explain — from any perspective. Michael also has a new Google Earth file I’ll post soon. I haven’t seen the file yet, as my laptop is down (again!?).
The good news is I have now downloaded a (this time well working) blogging tool.
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Dr. Edward Teller
REPOSTED FROM: http://www.project1947.com/gfb/cap21649.html
[ – Blacked Out – ]
UNCLASSIFIED
CONFERENCE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA
Held at 1300, 16 February 1949, in conference room P-162, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Present:
4th Army: Major Winn
Major Godsoe
Captain Neef
AFSWP: Commander Mandelkorn
University of New Mexico: Dr. LaPaz
FBI…
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The Rupununi event
I now move on to the suspected explosion over British Guyana in 1935. The main source for information on this event is a story entitled Tornado or Meteor Crash? in the magazine The Sky (the forerunner of Sky and Telescope) of September 1939(5). A report from Serge A. Korff of the Bartol Research Foundation, Franklin Institute (Delaware, USA) was printed, he having been in…
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The Day the Earth Trembled
by John McFarland
reposted from the Armagh Observatory here.
When the sun began to rise on the morning of 13 August 1930 like any other morning, little did the inhabitants along the banks of the River Curuçá in the Brazilian Amazonas region, near the Peruvian frontier, realise what was about to happen. The women of the community had started washing clothing and the…
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Assuming a thermal breakup for 73P, Wiegert and colleagues have calculated the most likely trajectory of its dust cloud. Their results: dust should reach Earth in 2022, “producing a minor meteor shower–nothing spectacular. However,” he adds, “the ongoing splitting of the comet means new meteoroids are being sent in new directions, so a future strong meteor shower from 73P…
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From: http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/caseof.html
Holmes; Are you carbonizing onions or smoking rope in that calabash again?
BY GEORGE WATSON LOOK AT THIS! GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! Neutrons out of something the size of a football from a sustainable D to D fusion. Seems it was thought up years ago by old Farnsworth, the fellow who invented television, but the implications were ignored. Now it’s…
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