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#1 2004-09-15 08:05:40
- Palomar
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Re: Gives me "the willies"
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040915.html]Yipes! 
*I've seen other (recent of course) pics of Ivan's eye from the ISS...but this is truly an incomparable image IMO. ::shiver:: 
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#2 2004-09-15 08:22:51
- Shaun Barrett
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Re: Gives me "the willies"
Cindy:-
Yipes!
You can say that again! The unimaginable brute power of these demonic-looking things is eerie when seen from the serenity of space.
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#3 2004-09-15 08:37:33
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Re: Gives me "the willies"
*Hi Shaun. It's sure easy to imagine sliding (unwillingly of course!!) down that wing of the ISS and falling head-long into THAT. Looks like a photo from a sci-fi movie or something.
And the monstrous "puff" of cloud ridge around the eye -- geez. There's a 3D pic of Ivan somewhere on the net. Maybe I can find it again.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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#4 2004-09-15 11:28:31
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Re: Gives me "the willies"
A dark swirling hole that ravages the lives of those caught within, leaving ruin and huge bills in its wake.
Looks like I have new desktop wallpaper for my workstation. ???
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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#5 2004-09-15 12:06:30
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Re: Gives me "the willies"
http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/imag … 914.html]A close-up of the Eye
::shakes head::
Those clouds look so dense, it seems you should be able to walk on their tops.
My sympathies to anyone and anything in Ivan's path.
What a view for the guys in the ISS. I just know I'd be plastered to the window.
--Cindy
P.S.: "Ivan in 3D" on the left-hand side of the link.
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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#6 2004-09-15 14:08:16
- C M Edwards
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Re: Gives me "the willies"
Egad! Mobile and Biloxi were such lovely cities. Shame they're not going to be there when I go back.
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