I've been reading up on these anomalies.
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd26may99_1.htm
The first interesting thing about them is,
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"NASA scientists inadvertently
discovered TGFs while they were
monitoring bursts of gamma-ray
energy coming from the depths
of space."
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The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory was
designed to observe the universe in
gamma rays Because BATSE observes in
all directions, portions of the Earth
are inevitably in its field of view.
BATSE accidentally discovered the TGFs
shortly after launch of the satellite.
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"'I ran back to all of my notebooks
to make sure the detectors were
connected correctly on the
satellite,' said Dr. John Horack
'At first, we weren't totally
convinced that these events
weren't an instrument malfunction.
Then we took a look at the
simultaneous weather images for
each of these events.'"
"'What these weather images
revealed was that each time
a TGF was detected, a
massive thunderstorm was in
the same vicinity.' Because
TGFs seem to only occur in
the vicinity of large-scale
thunderstorms, scientists
believe the two phenomena
are somehow related.'
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Bully for them!
The bit that really gets me is this,
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"It is tempting to associate the
quick and powerful TGFs with
lightning bolts, but scientists
say that lightning alone is not
energetic enough to generate them."
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"Scientists say", eh! I bet they do.
The same breed of scientists that
denied the existence of ball lightning
perhaps. The same shower that denies
the existence of cold fusion. And no
doubt even when they put up a satellite
which is specifically optimised for
detecting earthly TGFs rather than
heavenly ones they will continue to
deny it while they slave away at their
Tokamaks.
Lord, give me patience!
Why are they so perishingly proud
and negative? Surely their attitude
should be, "I say that's interesting.
That doesn't fit in with our ideas of
how things should work. I wonder what
we are doing wrong?" Better to make
an ass of ones self with fool's gold
than to pass over a nugget of real
gold thinking it's only pyrites.
I realise I am probably only parroting
what other Vorts have said more
eloquently. But nevertheless,
the thought is worth repeating -
loud and often.
Frank Grimer
