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Posted: 9/4/2005 8:01:54 AM EDT
Ok, not really, but this is pretty sweet!



A Lenticular Cloud Over Hawai'i
Credit & Copyright: Peter Michaud (Gemini Obs.)
Explanation: Can a cloud do that? Actually, pictured above are several clouds all stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud. Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically. Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes. The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture. The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance. The above picture was taken near Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050821.html

Edit: Made the pic smaller, so as to not offend anyone
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 9:18:11 AM EDT
[#1]
I can't quite make it out. Could you make the pic a little bigger please
Cool pic

Link Posted: 9/4/2005 9:22:11 AM EDT
[#2]
Kind of reminds me of the clouds which the aliens arrived and departed on in the movie,
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Amazing Pic.

HS1
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 4:36:38 PM EDT
[#3]
Bump for the Sunday evening crew.
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 7:44:55 PM EDT
[#4]
Tilt your head sideways and it kinda looks vulgar!  


B_S
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 7:46:19 PM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
Ok, not really, but this is pretty sweet!

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0312/lenticular_hawaii.jpg

A Lenticular Cloud Over Hawai'i
Credit & Copyright: Peter Michaud (Gemini Obs.)
Explanation: Can a cloud do that? Actually, pictured above are several clouds all stacked up into one striking lenticular cloud. Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically. Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes. The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture. The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance. The above picture was taken near Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050821.html

Edit: Made the pic smaller, so as to not offend anyone



Yeah, I'd definatly start crying like a little girl if I ever saw that.  Kinda reminds me of the freaky-ass tornado things at the end of Donnie Darko.
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 7:47:39 PM EDT
[#6]
Why does it look at digitized?
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 7:48:46 PM EDT
[#7]
whoa, that's cool.
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 7:53:38 PM EDT
[#8]
War of the Worlds comes to mind!
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 7:59:10 PM EDT
[#9]
Photoshop a man's fingers with a wedding ring on each side of that gaping hole..
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 8:01:31 PM EDT
[#10]

Quoted:
Why does it look at digitized?



Maybe because he reduced it's size, like his post said  
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 8:03:52 PM EDT
[#11]

Quoted:
Tilt your head sideways and it kinda looks vulgar!  


B_S




Took me a minute to figure out what you meant, but i got it,


That is a damn cool cloud, im saving that picture!
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 8:04:02 PM EDT
[#12]
Cool pic
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 10:39:22 PM EDT
[#13]


Is it the 4th of July?


Link Posted: 9/4/2005 11:15:01 PM EDT
[#14]

Quoted:
Photoshop a man's fingers with a wedding ring on each side of that gaping hole..




LMFAO!!!!!


Long live Goatse........
Link Posted: 9/4/2005 11:18:31 PM EDT
[#15]

Quoted:
Tilt your head sideways and it kinda looks vulgar!  


B_S



... Shame on you!

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