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What about the amount of H2O now showing up in our upper atmosphere? That should also have a pronounced effect on overall warming and could be beneficial, if looked upon from another view point. A good deal of very long wavelength (20-100 micron) infrared radiation back into space is modulated by u...

Have there been any correlations in weather relative to the 9-14 yr fluctuations in the solar cycle? You are referring, to the 9-14 yr fluctuations in the length of solar cycle. Certainly the length of the present solar cycle is more like 10 years whereas back in the Little Ice Age days it was more...

What are some of the key earth weather effects from the 11 year sun cycle? Well, next statement has a limited validity: There seems to be a slight preference for the Azore high to extend or drift to more northern latitudes, when the sun is at his maximum activity. "So i was told", in the ...

What are some of the key earth weather effects from the 11 year sun cycle? Are the effects consistent over longer periods or are there other key fluctuations in different durations... say some harmonic in time like 22 years or 1100 (if there is any pertinant info from that long ago)? I am curious h...

What do you mean by sounding you out? I'm the new kid on the block and you're trying to size me up (and possibly steal my lunch money). Art, there is nothing kinder and gentler about the real world when sifting through the mounds of bovine fesses to get the truth, the true facts from the fairy tale...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080206.html I gave a talk at the American Geophysical Union about a year ago on how Sunspots might affect the earth's weather. While the sunspot cycle only modulates the Sun's visible output by about 0.1% it modulates the UV output by a whooping 10%. This excess 10% heats...

Well, Art, I was amazed that yah got a few at all. Not many do. They are such simple questions, and not at all meant to "proselytize" anyone. Just making the point that the bible is quite the archive of technological concepts, if looked at from a non religious view point. It probably isn'...

FieryIce wrote:Art, the interesting thing about proselytizing is that one has to be religious or of a political party, neither of which I am so you're wrong again.

So you are just sounding me out then

Cant figure out the last one? Well it wasn't meant for you; it was more or less personal to Tic Toc (who I hope will backoff now and stop proselytizing). Also, I don't think anyone here much appreciates your using profanity (even if it is abbreviated). There is a Site Administrator (hi, Dan :) ) wh...

:roll: so _________________ Tic Toc http://www.allthingsmike.com/CulturalBlender/robots/tiktok.jpg CHARLES MACKAY's MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS http://sailor.gutenberg.org/etext97/3ppdl10.txt ............................................... <<"A certain person, having occasion to...

"Go, weigh for me the weight of fire" one second of the sun's fire = 4.9 million tons "measure for me a blast of wind" Worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators is ~75 gigawatts. "call back for me the day that is past …" -------------------------------------- First...

Not to get off the subject :wink: but I do hope that folks elsewhere are getting to see this conjunction. At 60 degrees north, and with mountains to the south, I have barely been able to see Venus rise between peaks before it is too light out. The moon has been too low the past few days and Jupiter...

Neufer, I have mixed emotions about people who feel that they have to take ancient literature/scripture literally but it is fun to engage in this from time to time. I too have "emotions" about people that keep "religionizing" the bible, or ones that state that it contains no rel...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080205.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Looking through a London TELEscope : Nov., 1892 ---------------------------------------------------------------- http://cometography.com/pcomets/017p.html . <<Edwin Holmes (London, England) was ...

Actually, the echo is in the form of an elipsoid, with V838 Mon at one focus and us (the observer) at the other. This makes sense when you think of the photons (all 14 of them) that traveled past earth before hitting something 3 lightyears behind us and bouncing back. Yes but of ALL the approximati...

If an asteroid miles upon miles wide hit the Moon... oi! Possibly shattering it or breaking large chunks off. Light side, dark side, no matter. This entire region of space would be awash in the afterglow. But how large would the object need to be to cause such an event? And can scientists tell what...

Matthew 2 KJV Forgive my confusion but in this version, the wise men come from the east and have seen the star in the east. That would mean that they traveled west, away from the star or that they came from the west? I read it to mean that they saw the star when they were in the east. (But then I h...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080204.html Looks like a splash effect when it hit. Orin Maybe it: "Looks like a splash effect when THEY hit." When a [Shoemaker-Levy 9 type] broken comet hits a rotating moon/planet one gets this effect: . http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011215.html . But w...

who feel that they have to take ancient literature/scripture literally Art, you might want to read the book instead of taking to heart what others have said about the book for instance the one asking the questions of Ezra, the angel or ET about two to three millennium ago. That one asking the quest...

Conjunctions of Venus and Jupiter occur quite regularly, about once every 1-1/2 to 2 years. As pretty as it can be, certainly it is not an event of biblical proportions. Inferior conjunctions of Venus and the Sun also occur about every 1.6 years but Venus's orbit is enough off the ecliptic plane th...

By the way, I don't think the APOD image is the latest one of this object. Check here: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0617.html -Noel Thanks for this, Noel. The 12,270 KB QT hires movie is fantastic!!! The movie runs from Feb. 2002 to the Sept. 2006 view shown at http://antwrp.gsfc.nas...

Henchman, n.; pl. -men. [OE. hencheman, henxman; prob. fr. OE. & AS. hengest horse + E. man, and meaning, a groom. AS. hengest is akin to D. & G. hengst stallion, OHG. hengist horse, gelding.] An attendant; a servant; a follower. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexamenos_graffito http://facul...

Stowaway by Richard Edwards Tarantula, tarantula, Hidden in your crate, Can you feel your hunger Turning into hate? Tarantula, tarantula, Being swung ashore, What are all those whiskers And those fine fangs for? Tarantula, tarantula, Lowered to the quay, Will you thank the greengrocer When he sets y...

This is obviously a later added literary embellishment. No angels (or UFOs) in their right mind would dare to lead the Magi right TO the young child after they had placed themselves in a position where Herod's henchmen could be following them. Herod did not send henchmen or else they lost their way...

"Obviously" MY words, it had to be low in our atmosphere, duh? Now quote the part about the shepards please, , , :roll: Matthew 2:9 King James Version When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over ...