TransientSignal

9705 pts · January 13, 2016


The inescapable truth of living under the soup of our atmosphere unfortunately! Or rather the not easily escaped truth - Someday I'd like to lug my setup up a mile or two above sea level, but with it weighing > 50 lbs it isn't the most appealing prospect lol

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I used one picture of a chart to discredit said chart - I make no mention about the containing report, for or against.

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Please read what I wrote: Those numbers are "approximate[s] [of] the number of deaths this chart is graphically depicting"

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Thank you, UnitConversionBot - Should be helpful for all those out there who measure their focal lengths in imperial units!

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Indeed - Also reminds me of the red weed from 'War of the Worlds'.

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Definitely a great place to visit - Can feel like an alien landscape at times!

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Yup, tons of wildfires all across the entire US & Canadian West sending literal tons of smoke into the atmosphere.

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Here in Seattle the smoke from CA stuck to the upper atmosphere so air quality wasn't really impacted - Hopefully it'll be the same for you!

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There are some noticeable distortion effects very low above the horizon (<1°), but those don't really provide any noticeable magnification.

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I wish! I'd like to try my hand at it one of these days but I'm in a pretty cramped apartment RN so gotta stay lean with the hobby stuff.

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The western United States has some incredible weather patterns, that's for sure!

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My lungs definitely don't like it.

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It's the marine cloud layer that is prevalent along much of the Pacific coast.

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It's why our healthcare is so shit - We spend so much money repainting kilometer thick white lines that we can't afford anything else.

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To be fair, this was in 1999, only 9 years after the HST's deployment.

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*Michael Giacchino Intensifies*

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I don't know about all natural disasters or trends, but NASA's FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) shows fires globally.

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If its the same haze we have down here in the WA Puget Sound, it's actually something known as 'secondary organic aerosols' from vegetation.

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Yeah there are two major fires in NE BC and a two major fires in the central South - The smoke is not quite as white, being a tannish gray.

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Absolutely - With the PNW heat wave over the past few days, the entire region has essentially been in a dehydrator so conditions are ripe.

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Yeah if you watch images over a long enough time scale, cloud activity in certain regions is remarkably dynamic.

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Indeed, 'Lava Fire' is just the name this particular fire was given, not an indication of its origin (similar to the tragic 'Camp Fire').

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Definitely a sensor artifact of some sort since its in the same place and is sharp (dust on the lens would appear as a dispersed shadow).

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Natural color - Extended color includes some near-infrared wavelengths and greater color channel separation than what human eyes provide.

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Shhh.....

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