Sunday, October 30, 2005

The mystery of the eye

While watching NBC2 coverage of Hurricane Wilma about two dozen residents called the station reporting an unusual sighting. While watching a Doppler loop of Hurricane Wilma coming ashore, a number two appeared in the eye of the storm.

(Via Chapel Perilous.)


Weather-modification theorists are going to have fun with this one, assuming they haven't already.

15 comments:

Ken said...

Ya, read about this a couple days ago and disregarded it as BS. Now, not so sure. Past Secretary of Defense Cohen is often quoted as saying that folk were using weather, earthquakes, etc., and I have never know what to think of that. Now this. Mayhap it IS possible to use weather as a weapon. As if there were not enough things to be paranoid about!

Anyway, if true, technically speaking, this too sucks. A great big green one.

Anonymous said...

You know very well that its the face on mars communicating with us. fess up.

W.M. Bear said...

I (somewhat) facetiously remarked in an earlier post that Katrina was actually a DARPA hurricane-control experiment gone wrong. Now it looks like these kinds of weather control experiments MAY actually be taking place. That "2" is simply TOO PRECISE to be accidental. (Unless, of course, this is yet another "Internet hoax." You never know.)

Ken said...

I have never known any anonymous poster to have any balls. Go pick your nose, kid.

JohnFen said...

Just to play devil's advocate, the precision of the 2 could speak against its artificiality. I could buy weather modification that allows the creation or manipulation of large-scale events in aggregate, but modification that allows such precision in cloud layer over space and time to engage in brief typography seems a bit of a stretch.

Ken said...

Oh, yeah, sure does. Bit of a stretch. But, the TV station maintains this an unaltered image. And, if this is supposed to be covert tech, why do that at all? The entire subject is quite difficult for me to believe, but apparently SecDef Cohen really did say that. Search me, I dunno. I certainly don't want weather modification to be true just yet. Better to wait until we're a bit more civilized.

Y' know, out here we have BUNCHES of crap weather, and if it ever starts numbering itself, I'm for North Dakota. Or someplace. ;-)

infotheorem said...

Ken,
Soon enough North Dakota is going to have some nice beach front properties and have nice year-round temperatures ... buy now!

Ken said...

Yeah, thanks. Beach front. 'Course, it used to be an inland sea. But, think I'll wait until the real estate bubble bursts.

Actually, since I can't seem to live beyond sight or smell of salt water, maybe ND would be just right. By then, this island, or at least my house, would be drowned, Hollyhocks and all. :-{

W.M. Bear said...

You guys! Can't you take ANY conspiracies theories at least HALFWAY seriously?!

Ken said...

I take too many of them too seriously. Just have to stand back and laugh at myself now and then. It helps.

Actually, the history of humanity IS a history of conspiracy. There is no reason at all to think that has stopped merely because we were born. It's still going on, just like always. There's still folk who want to rule the world, and who are actively working to that end. Nothing has changed.

razorsmile said...

Well, this hurricane season does smack of someone testing out a new toy ...

Marti said...

Wishing everyone on my blogroll a boo-tiful day! LOL!

Happy Halloween!

Mac said...

I have never known any anonymous poster to have any balls.

Brains, either.

Ken said...

Well, you too, Marti. A little old house out in the sticks, eh? That's where I grew up.

..."If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery"...

Well, that's the yearning I had, and would not recommend it to any young man. Rough road. But I'd imagine you consider that a simile, not career advice. ;-)

Well, good luck with your pumpkin farming, and finish the book. I still regret not having finished mine, and don't you do that.

I'd tell ya chin up, but you have that covered. :-D

JohnFen said...

You guys! Can't you take ANY conspiracies theories at least HALFWAY seriously?!

haha! You might be surprised at how many highly improbably things I believe. Or maybe you wouldn't. But the most enjoyable theories are those that hold up to at least light skepticism!