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- From: marcia@rap.ucar.edu (Marcia Politovich)
- Subject: Re: Trailer Park Humor (Was: Tornadoes around the world)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.154633.15699@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: NCAR, Research Application Program
- References: <1992Dec18.234652.18214@ncar.ucar.edu> <ns.726505642@csd.cri.dk> <24JAN199316285820@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:46:33 GMT
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- In article <24JAN199316285820@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu> keller@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Dec18.202619.29890@ncar.ucar.edu> ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec18.170955.17961@serval.net.wsu.edu>, jeffp@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke) writes:
- >>>> A friend from Africa said there were no tornadoes there. Is North America
- >>>> the only continent where tornadoes ocurr? If so, why?
- >>>
- >> various comments, which the humor-impaired will likely take seriously..
- >
- >>>Finally, let us not overlook the importance of trailer parks, which
- >>>serve as "tornadic magnets." There are far more trailer parks in the
- >>>US than anywhere else, and these trailer parks are crucial to the
- >>>formation of tornadoes, as observational evidence indicates that
- >>>tornadoes nearly always occur in their vicinity.
- >>>
- >> I have always thought that as a weather modification project,
- >> for tornado dissipation, they (who??) ought to drop trailers
- >> out of the back of some large cargo plane, like a C5a. This
- >> would immediately attract any tornadoes in the area, give them
- >> something to chew on (literally), and voila, the problem is
- >> solved.
- >
- >You've all missed the point. These "bogus" trailers ought to
- >be fully instrumented so as to collect data on the atmospheric
- >variables in the immediate vicinity of a strong to violent
- >tornado. I am the national head of just such a project (not!).
- >If you wish to contribute to this project, send me money! :^)
- >
- > -- Nah, forget my name --
- >
-
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT - wrong
-
- By instrumenting the trailers you bias the experiment.
- "You can't fool Mother Nature". She'll know these
- aren't *real* trailers and will ignore them.
-
- (I left in all the above stuff since this is a
- fairly old thread....)
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