New kind of cloud

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.

link to more pix
http://www.ksntv.com/news/coolwxpics/default.asp

loosejello · 2005-05-30, 06:41 AM

Whoa that looks trippy!

john_childs · 2005-05-30, 06:55 AM

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Originally posted by loosejello
Whoa that looks trippy!

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

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Originally posted by loosejello
Whoa that looks trippy!

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/sho...readid=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

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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

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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.

2005-05-30, 06:35 AM	#1
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2005-05-30, 11:27 AM	#5
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2005-05-30, 11:55 AM	#6
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2005-05-30, 02:58 PM	#8
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2005-05-30, 09:04 PM	#9
Klaas Bil Sir Prince of Newsgroupia Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Zoetermeer, Netherlands Age: 59 Posts: 2,303	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 Attached Images Last edited by Klaas Bil; 2005-05-30 at 09:04 PM.

2005-05-30, 06:41 AM	#2
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