Scientists say Erie mirage could be real
http://www.crystalinks.com/mirage.html
AP - July 31, 2006 - Cleveland, Ohio
Scientists say it's a mirage, but others swear that when the weather is
right, Clevelanders can see across Lake Erie and spot Canadian trees and
buildings 50 miles away. Eyewitness accounts have long been part of the city's
history. The whole sweep of the Canadian shore stood out as if less than three
miles away, a story in The Plain Dealer proclaimed in 1906.
The distant points across the lake stood out for nearly an hour and then
faded away. I can see how this could be possible, said Lawrence Krauss,
chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. Krauss
and Joe Prahl, chairman of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
at Case, said mirages can occur during an atmospheric inversion, in which a
layer of cold air blankets the lake, topped by layers of increasingly warm air.
When this happens, it can cause the light that filters through these layers
from
across the lake to bend, forming a lens that can create the illusion of distant
objects. The scientists said the air has to be extremely calm for the mirage to
appear. If the wind blows, it distorts or dissolves the image. Prahl and Krauss
said such a mirage is rare.
Tom Schmidlin, a meteorologist in the Geography Department at Kent State
University, said, It's not terribly unusual. Sailors are always exposed to
this
kind of thing. Prahl, who regularly sails his 30-foot sloop Seabird from
Cleveland to Canada, has never seen it.
Bob Boughner, a reporter for the Chatham Daily News in Ontario, said he's
seen Cleveland from across Lake Erie twice, the first time four summers ago
while driving along a road near the lake. He saw it again two summer ago while
driving along the same road. All of a sudden, there was Cleveland, just off the
Canadian shore, as if it were just across a river, he said. I happened to look
across the lake and, geez, I couldn't believe the sight, he said. I could see
the cars and the stoplights. I could even make out the different colors of the
vehicles. It lasted a good two or three minutes. Boughner said he remembers
his
aunt Melba Bates, who lived all her life on Lake Erie and recently died in her
late 90s, talking about being able to see Cleveland, but he didn't believe her.
I thought she was making up stories, he said. But sure enough, I could see
the same damned thing. When it shows up, it looks like you can touch it.
- Original Message -
From: mix...@bigpond.com mix...@bigpond.com
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
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Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:10:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:China Mirage
In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:21:33 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
Multiverse M Brane intersection?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008161/Ghostly-mirage-appears-river-Huanshan-City-China.html
I find it surprising that no one appears to have made an effort to actually
identify the city itself?
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk
http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
