Posted July 5, 200618 yr terrible beauty -- yikes! :-o Explanation: The scene might have been considered serene if it weren't for the tornado. Last June in Kansas, storm chaser Eric Nguyen photographed this budding twister in a different light -- the light of a rainbow. Pictured above, a white tornado cloud descends from a dark storm cloud. The Sun, peeking through a clear patch of sky to the left, illuminates some buildings in the foreground. Sunlight reflects off raindrops to form a rainbow. By coincidence, the tornado appears to end right over the rainbow. Streaks in the image are hail being swept about by the high swirling winds. Over 1,000 tornadoes, the most violent type of storm known, occur on Earth every year, many in tornado alley. If you see a tornado while driving, do not try to outrun it -- park your car safely, go to a storm cellar, or crouch under steps in a basement. link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060702.html
July 5, 200618 yr That's amazing! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 5, 200618 yr Awesome! Tornadoes and even mushroom clouds have a conditional beauty to them. Their beauty, of course, is restricted to the sky, and certainly does not apply to what's happening on the ground in either case. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 5, 200618 yr This photo looks so fakey. And THAT, folks, is what the internet has done to me. So, so cynical.
July 5, 200618 yr This photo looks so fakey. And THAT, folks, is what the internet has done to me. So, so cynical. But ... but ... but it's on a dot-gov web site, so it has to be real. The government would never let anyone try to fool us.
July 5, 200618 yr lol! i thought i was bad and got all nutty about conspiracies after 9/11, but you guys are too much! :laugh: the site is apod, or nasa's 'astronomy picture of the day.' i've been checking it out regularly for years. its's cool....especially those fake moon landing pics! link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html check out this cool cassini moons of saturn video (or wait, is it an animation...?):
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