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Deano
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:44 am Post Subject: Weird figures in the clouds |
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Hi guys,
Some unusual cloud formations are appearing on the landcare research satellite images. Take a look and let me know what you think...
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Carus
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:07 am Post Subject: |
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Hi Deano,
I can make out what looks to me something like a dinosaur standing on its hind legs in the first one. Can't make out anything in the other one though...:-) |
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Deano
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:03 pm Post Subject: |
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he he thank god you could see it too the dragons head looked strangely detailed to me but I guess you get all sorts of variations at one time or another :-)
If anybody out there spots a better looking creature in the clouds please upload the pic and post here. A chocolate fish for the best pic!!
Here is the site again...
http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz/noaa/ |
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Azimuth
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:27 pm Post Subject: |
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Hi Deano,
If you haven't already, check out the thread Nephelococcygia ((Gr.) Pron: ne fe lo kok je a)
| Quote: | Means: The tendency to see or to be reminded of familiar objects within the shape of a cloud. :shock:
Nephology -- The study of clouds; the branch of meteorology that is concerned with cloud types, their formation, development and dissipation.
Apparently the words origins are from a play about a couple of blokes who were turned into birds (feathered variety) and while building a city in the sky they kept seeing different shapes in the clouds. Funnily enough the plays name was “The Birds”, and no it wasn’t written by Alfred Hitchcock, but by a chap named Aristophanes who wrote it in 414BC. (I’m still waiting for it to come out on DVD).
So basically, nephelococcygia means “cloud cuckoo land”. :cry: :cry: |
https://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/forums/viewtopic.php?p=776&highlight=#776
Cheers
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Melody Anderson
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:32 am Post Subject: |
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| Azimuth wrote: | | (I’m still waiting for it to come out on DVD). |
I wouldn't hold my breath on that one, Azimuth - besides which, it has pretty questionable entertainment value :)
Read it if you dare:
Aristophanes' 'The Birds' 414 BC
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/aristophanes/birds.htm
I think it exercises the mind to find familiar shapes, faces etc in clouds - amazing too, the different ways different people interpret them... The thing I do have trouble with is the likes of those who talk about seeing 'Satan's face in the smoke emanating from the Twin Towers'. Sure, as with Deano's example and many others, you can see all manner of shapes and faces in clouds and smoke, but generally when I come across discussions of the Twin Towers/Devil face example, it's usually attributed some more sinister significance beyond a simple curiosity. I like to keep an open mind on things, but I'm not sure I can stretch it quite that far... |
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John Anderson
Joined: 05 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:47 pm Post Subject: |
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Hi Deano,
| Quote: | | If anybody out there spots a better looking creature in the clouds please upload the pic and post here. A chocolate fish for the best pic!! |
How about this one? Do I get a chocolate fish?
This 'Sky Monster devouring the upper South Island' image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite, on December 31, 2002.
A large image can be downloaded here:
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?24005
This one is interesting also, a 'vortex street' being shed by Mt. Taranaki:
If you download the large image you'll see a couple of interesting patterns out to the West:
http://www.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2463 |
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Deano
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:53 pm Post Subject: |
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No chocolate fish this time John but how about this... :balloon: :D
I must learn how to post pictures in the forum.
May I have your opinion on the linked picture below. It was a heavy spray day and this morning shot shows some unusual patterns. You can just see a couple of short spray lines off the west coast lower north island which I witnessed over much off that day. Further out to sea the cloud pattern seems unnatural and I'm wondering if it was to do with the chemtrail op?
http://www.mysteriousnewzealand.co.nz/photogallery/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0 |
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Deano
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:03 pm Post Subject: june 6 2007 2.17am |
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elevate
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:10 pm Post Subject: hi |
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Hi all, 3rd nice day in a row now...
When Im observing cloud forms I dont generally look for familiar shapes like faces or animals, as i do feel its easy for the mind to find these as its mentioned in this thread... our brain uses its memory bank and compares cloud shapes to stored images and can easily 'make a face' appear...
im looking for anything that seems out of the ordinary, like straight lines with a dark edge or hashing or grid patterns (which can also occur naturally), also unusual 'flaring', also funnel like formations, spirals, vortex like shapes and partucularily spiraling shapes that keep their overall shape... im interested in "stationery" clouds that dont move with the prevailing winds for example..
i dont think of the stationery ones as clouds but more like areas of artificial particulate concentration... Im gona post a series of unusual forms now in the slyph thread, although these could be considered to be something else...
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Deano
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:14 am Post Subject: |
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| Quote: | When Im observing cloud forms I dont generally look for familiar shapes like faces or animals, as i do feel its easy for the mind to find these as its mentioned in this thread... our brain uses its memory bank and compares cloud shapes to stored images and can easily 'make a face' appear...
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Absolutely, I couldn't agree more with you. However that is exactly what I'm after with this thread. Anything that looks like a face, animal, dragon, or anything else of that nature is what Im after here. No conclusions will be drawn, I am only interested in the unusual and this is not a sylph thread. Cheers. |
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jay_gee
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 12:07 pm Post Subject: |
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Here's a nice one for you. Make out any unusual shapes in this formation...?
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LukeZen
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:48 pm Post Subject: |
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| Strange this photo is named 'sylph' - it comes directly from NASA from some such launch. Funnily enough I saw this photo just this morning when I got to work. |
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