Posted on 03/18/2012 7:54:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Indeed.
"Since the HFA causes material to flow sunward, away from the planet, it may operate almost like a vacuum cleaner, pulling that bow shock further away from Venus. The size of the ionosphere would swell in concert."
"Is that an HFA in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" -- Solar Wind to Planet Venus
This just seen on the Twitter feed:
“Professor Morse of McGill University reports observing a total of three explosions on the planet Mars, between the hours of 7:45 P. M. and 9:20 P. M., eastern standard time. This confirms earlier reports received from American observatories. Now, nearer home, comes a special announcement from Trenton, New Jersey. It is reported that at 8:50 P. M. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of Grovers Mill, New Jersey, twenty-two miles from Trenton. “
IIRC, these are the opening lines for the famous 1938 Orson Welles radio play based on the H.G. Wells novel “War of the Worlds.”
Yes. The transit time from Mars is too short to be realistic.
I tried it with Mrs. blueunicorn6. I swooned when she hit me with a frying pan.
Apropos of nothing, I loved the frying pan scene in “Throw Momma from the Train”. ;’)
That was the problem with the broadcast. Didn’t seem to bother those who fell for it. I mean, really, I’ve got it on record (LP) around here somewhere, and there’s the “we return you to our program of dance music” breaks that last a short time, then the dead soldiers have been moved from the encounter site to a hospital and autopsied, and they’d died of burns or whatever (for example). Some of the radio stations used to rebroadcast that on Halloweens when I was a kid, and it was a curiousity item at best, but people here and there around the country continued to have that hysterical reaction every once in a while.
Here is another astronomical link with beautiful picture. SC - Perhaps worthy of its own separate post?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/neil-degrasse-tyson_n_1354898.html?ncid=webmail17
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