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Checkernuts
2005-05-30, 06:35 AM
ok so this might be old news for some of you, but I just found out about it and its completly awesome. Over Joplin, Missouri so far I dont think the clouds have a name but they almost look too cool to be real.


http://www.ksntv.com/news/coolwxpics/6.JPG


link to more pix
http://www.ksntv.com/news/coolwxpics/default.asp
loosejello
2005-05-30, 06:41 AM
Whoa that looks trippy! :cool:
john_childs
2005-05-30, 06:55 AM
Originally posted by loosejello
Whoa that looks trippy! :cool:
Not as trippy as what the clouds did in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Last Ark. That was freaky.
daino149
2005-05-30, 07:25 AM
Originally posted by loosejello
Whoa that looks trippy! :cool:

Indeed. Do you know what causes that formation?
yoopers
2005-05-30, 11:27 AM
Wow. Beautiful!
phil
2005-05-30, 11:55 AM
There are some more photos here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=1568989

Truly weird...

Phil
Fuego
2005-05-30, 02:35 PM
well, the clouds were cool, but I'm stealing maoistbanker's avatar. Truly inspiring.
MERCYME
2005-05-30, 02:58 PM
doesn't that mean the stair ways to heaven are open?! HA
Klaas Bil
2005-05-30, 09:04 PM
The clouds that I photographed just hours before this thread appeared aren't nearly as awesome, but I reckoned this is a good place to share one of them. Of course I could have increased the contrast to make it more spectacular, but this picture has only gone through an automatic image enhancement programme, and it is still largely how I saw it.

Klaas Bil
johnfoss
2005-05-31, 04:23 AM
Originally posted by john_childs
Not as trippy as what the clouds did in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Last Ark. That was freaky. Don't you mean Close Encounters of the Third Kind? I think the effect was developed for that movie. Something like milk poured into water, in slow motion.

Those real clouds are much cooler, because they're real! I wonder what the effect is that makes them?
john_childs
2005-05-31, 05:37 AM
Originally posted by johnfoss
Don't you mean Close Encounters of the Third Kind? I think the effect was developed for that movie. Something like milk poured into water, in slow motion.
I was thinking of the clouds that came down and killed the people who opened the Ark. Hmmm, but now that I think back they weren't actually clouds. More like the hand of God. The clouds in Close Encounters were cool too and more cloud like.