Explanation: What type of cloud is that? It is not a naturally occurring one. Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster (or the Flying Spaghetti Monster?) , the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. The jet that released the flares, a C-17 Globemaster III, is seen on the right. The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel. The circular eyes of the above smoke angel are caused by air spiraling off the plane's wings and are known as wingtip vortices.
Monday, August 21, 2006
A Smoke Angel or Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Explanation: What type of cloud is that? It is not a naturally occurring one. Looking perhaps a bit like a gigantic owl monster (or the Flying Spaghetti Monster?) , the cloud pictured above resulted from a series of flares released by an air force jet over the Atlantic Ocean in May. The jet that released the flares, a C-17 Globemaster III, is seen on the right. The flares release smoke and the resulting pattern is sometimes known as a smoke angel. The circular eyes of the above smoke angel are caused by air spiraling off the plane's wings and are known as wingtip vortices.
Ohhh it is the almighty flying spaghetti monster.
ReplyDeleteAll bow to his noodliness!!
This clinches it for me. I'm now a Pastafarian.
ReplyDeleteFor the best cinematic use of vortices, see the closing scenes of Die hard 2 as the planes are coming in to land - Yippee-kye-ay!
ReplyDeleteReminds me of Mummenschanz. I'm not sure I got the spelling right but I remember seeing commercials for it on tv when I was a kid. Some kind of perfomance art thing with guys that had rolls of toilet paper for eyes and weird stuff like that.
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