Rain.
It did. It rained. We had a couple of mils. It helped with the containment of the fires. We've spent much of the day wondering whether the fire at Daylesford will skip containment lines, and burn down Claire's folks' cottage. But, you know. Money. Jobs. So on. Real stuff like economics really comes into focus when you're worried about ephemeral stuff like a family home that's been built over years being destroyed in minutes... So, um, yeah. That's all. Charlie. ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
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Charlie wrote: It did. It rained. We had a couple of mils. It helped with the containment of the fires. We've spent much of the day wondering whether the fire at Daylesford will skip containment lines, and burn down Claire's folks' cottage. But, you know. Money. Jobs. So on. Real stuff like economics really comes into focus when you're worried about ephemeral stuff like a family home that's been built over years being destroyed in minutes... Glad to hear you've had a little rain Charlie, hope its enough to keep your family's cottage (and many others) safe. Doug ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
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On 26/02/2009, at 5:00 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote: Glad to hear you've had a little rain Charlie, hope its enough to keep your family's cottage (and many others) safe. Actually, no. *sigh* Another 40 degree day tomorrow, and strong winds. Many schools have been closed. Charlie. ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Red rain result of meteor explosion?
Not sure how I ran across this, but it seems to be an interesting theory. It was hosted on a Cornell server. The links below are for the PDF of this document. If you are interested in reading the entire document, but can't open a PDF, email me and I will email you this article as a Word Document. I have no idea of the scientific accuracy, but the only implausible part (the me at least) is why didn't the debris disperse in the atmosphere over the two month period? Gary Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala Godfrey Louis A. Santhosh Kumar School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam - 686560, Kerala, India. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 5, 2003 Red coloured rain occurred in many places of Kerala in India during July to September 2001 due to the mixing of huge quantity of microscopic red cells in the rainwater. Considering its correlation with a meteor airbust event, this phenomenon raised an extraordinary question whether the cells are extraterrestrial. Here we show how the observed features of the red rain phenomenon can be explained by considering the fragmentation and atmospheric disintegration of a fragile cometary body that presumably contains a dense collection of red cells. Slow settling of cells in the stratosphere explains the continuation of the phenomenon for two months. The red cells under study appear to be the resting spores of an extremophilic microorganism. Possible presence of these cells in the interstellar clouds is speculated from its similarity in UV http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0310/0310120.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/2sxuh ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Fred Hoyle is dead, but it seems Chandra Wickramisinghe has some followers . . At 10:10 AM 5/8/04, Gary Nunn wrote: Not sure how I ran across this, but it seems to be an interesting theory. It was hosted on a Cornell server. The links below are for the PDF of this document. If you are interested in reading the entire document, but can't open a PDF, email me and I will email you this article as a Word Document. I have no idea of the scientific accuracy, but the only implausible part (the me at least) is why didn't the debris disperse in the atmosphere over the two month period? Gary Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala Godfrey Louis A. Santhosh Kumar School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam - 686560, Kerala, India. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 5, 2003 Red coloured rain occurred in many places of Kerala in India during July to September 2001 due to the mixing of huge quantity of microscopic red cells in the rainwater. Considering its correlation with a meteor airbust event, this phenomenon raised an extraordinary question whether the cells are extraterrestrial. Here we show how the observed features of the red rain phenomenon can be explained by considering the fragmentation and atmospheric disintegration of a fragile cometary body that presumably contains a dense collection of red cells. Slow settling of cells in the stratosphere explains the continuation of the phenomenon for two months. The red cells under study appear to be the resting spores of an extremophilic microorganism. Possible presence of these cells in the interstellar clouds is speculated from its similarity in UV http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0310/0310120.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/2sxuh ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- Ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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- Original Message - From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:32 AM Subject: Re: Red rain result of meteor explosion? Fred Hoyle is dead, but it seems Chandra Wickramisinghe has some followers . . Sure, panspermia has many adherents and seems to be gaining credence currently. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astrobiology_nrc_040507.html We know that life had to begin somehow and somewhere. The bias that life could only arise on a planetary surface could possible be a conceit. Theories abound. (Or should I say hypothesis?) But there are actually very few facts concerning the origins of life. xponent To The Best Of Our Knowledge Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Red rain result of meteor explosion?
Not sure how I ran across this, but it seems to be an interesting theory. It was hosted on a Cornell server. The links below are for the PDF of this document. If you are interested in reading the entire document, but can't open a PDF, email me and I will email you this article as a Word Document. I have no idea of the scientific accuracy, but the only implausible part (the me at least) is why didn't the debris disperse in the atmosphere over the two month period? Gary Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala Godfrey Louis A. Santhosh Kumar School of Pure and Applied Physics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam - 686560, Kerala, India. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 5, 2003 Red coloured rain occurred in many places of Kerala in India during July to September 2001 due to the mixing of huge quantity of microscopic red cells in the rainwater. Considering its correlation with a meteor airbust event, this phenomenon raised an extraordinary question whether the cells are extraterrestrial. Here we show how the observed features of the red rain phenomenon can be explained by considering the fragmentation and atmospheric disintegration of a fragile cometary body that presumably contains a dense collection of red cells. Slow settling of cells in the stratosphereexplains the continuation of the phenomenon for two months. The red cells under study appear to be the resting spores of an extremophilic microorganism. Possiblepresence of these cells in the interstellar clouds is speculated from its similarity in UV http://arxiv.org/ftp/astro-ph/papers/0310/0310120.pdf or http://tinyurl.com/2sxuh Well seems like chtoran infestiation if you ask me Nick Better call in Jim McCarthy and Lizard, almost forgot Foreman Lidster ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Another scientist going outside his field. Red dust was wind picking up sand and dust from the Middle East. The odd structures that he thought was alien life was really that he didn't know biology and chemistry. http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2004/5/1/92822/77787 http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/regional/kerala/20030619-0.html On Sat, 8 May 2004 15:21:08 -0230, Nick Lidster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure how I ran across this, but it seems to be an interesting theory. It was hosted on a Cornell server. The links below are for the PDF of this document. If you are interested in reading the entire document, but can't open a PDF, email me and I will email you this article as a Word Document. I have no idea of the scientific accuracy, but the only implausible part (the me at least) is why didn't the debris disperse in the atmosphere over the two month period? Gary Cometary panspermia explains the red rain of Kerala ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
rain
Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even consistent rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to know about rainfall, volume of the earth, topography of the earth, etc. to make a good first order approximation? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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For a first order approximation you would throw away topography as irrelevant (after all, it starts at only 30% and gets smaller as you add water) and you would treat the Earth as a proper sphere using distance from the center of the sphere to mean sea level as diameter. Assume a constant rainfall, not adujsted for the increasing size of the sphere as the ocean gets deeper. Say, 1 inch per hour, that's a nice hard rain so 2 feet a day. It'll take a while to reach 5 miles. However, if you say wanted to know if it would fit into, say 40 days and 40 nights, you would just assume that it rained 5 miles/40 days, that is 1mile/8days, or 1/8 mile per day. It would, indeed, require a miracle. However, the miracle needed to produce such a global deluge would pale beside the erosive effects of so much precipitation. Where *DID* all that topsoil come from? On Thursday 05 December 2002 04:01 am, The Fool wrote: Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even consistent rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to know about rainfall, volume of the earth, topography of the earth, etc. to make a good first order approximation? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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From: Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a first order approximation you would throw away topography as irrelevant (after all, it starts at only 30% and gets smaller as you add water) and you would treat the Earth as a proper sphere using distance from the center of the sphere to mean sea level as diameter. Assume a constant rainfall, not adujsted for the increasing size of the sphere as the ocean gets deeper. Say, 1 inch per hour, that's a nice hard rain so 2 feet a day. It'll take a while to reach 5 miles. However, if you say wanted to know if it would fit into, say 40 days and 40 nights, you would just assume that it rained 5 miles/40 days, that is 1mile/8days, or 1/8 mile per day. It would, indeed, require a miracle. However, the miracle needed to produce such a global deluge would pale beside the erosive effects of so much precipitation. Where *DID* all that topsoil come from? It would also boil the ocean from the friction of traveling through the atmosphere. I am not a believer in miracles. Suppose you wanted a precise scientifically exact approximation? On Thursday 05 December 2002 04:01 am, The Fool wrote: Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even consistent rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to know about rainfall, volume of the earth, topography of the earth, etc. to make a good first order approximation? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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At 05:01 AM 12/5/02 -0600, The Fool wrote: Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even consistent rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to know about rainfall, volume of the earth, topography of the earth, etc. to make a good first order approximation? You need an additional 3.7 times the total volume of all the water on Earth, or a sphere of water about 1300 miles in diameter. What you do with the excess when you have finished cleansing the Earth is left as an exercise for the student. Been There Done That Maru --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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On Thursday 05 December 2002 04:01 am, The Fool wrote: Suppose you wanted to calculate the time it would take an even consistent rainfall over the entire surface of the earth to raise the sea level above the level of Mt. Everest (+5 miles or so), what would you need to know about rainfall, volume of the earth, topography of the earth, etc. to make a good first order approximation? Trent Shipley replied: For a first order approximation you would throw away topography as irrelevant (after all, it starts at only 30% and gets smaller as you add water) and you would treat the Earth as a proper sphere using distance from the center of the sphere to mean sea level as diameter. Assume a constant rainfall, not adujsted for the increasing size of the sphere as the ocean gets deeper. Say, 1 inch per hour, that's a nice hard rain so 2 feet a day. It'll take a while to reach 5 miles. However, if you say wanted to know if it would fit into, say 40 days and 40 nights, you would just assume that it rained 5 miles/40 days, that is 1mile/8days, or 1/8 mile per day. It would, indeed, require a miracle. However, the miracle needed to produce such a global deluge would pale beside the erosive effects of so much precipitation. Where *DID* all that topsoil come from? Or perhaps one can assume that flood stories actually refer to widescale local or regional flooding, but not global. Under those circumstances, what would be required for a first-order approximation, other than the land area affected? Reggie Bautista _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
