Posted on 04/05/2012 7:31:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
I sat in a west Oklahoma Pizza Hut watching what I then thought was a large dust devil dance around a field. Guess I was wrong; it didn’t come anywhere close to 12 miles high. Gak.
Tornadoes have been observed to have and electrical component and may be a form of plasma discharge to the upper atmosphere occurring at a much slower rate than lightning.
Maybe it was related to the hybrid Tasmanian Devil/Rock Eater? (Rocky Tasmanian Devil Eater?) (Eating Tasmanian Rock Devil?)
They look like girly-boys to me...
Mars is not part of O'Reilly's "no-spin" zone.
Yet another reason why Venus is a better place to colonize. Even a twelve-mile high dust devil would still be twenty-three miles below the basement.
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