Author: mjyang
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Twisters
Dust Devils: There are basically three kinds of twisters, hurricane, tornado, and dust devils. Hurricane originates over warm ocean water in tropical late summer. Tornado occurs along with thunderstorms, between cold and warm air masses. Dust devil, on the other hand, comes on typical clear sunny days, and, unlike hurricanes and tornadoes, it is mostly…
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Lightning Slow Motion
Following videos were created with frame-by-frame clips from youtube video Lightning Strike at 103,000 FPS, created by @theslowmoguys. The original video was taken at 28.5K frames per second, or at 35 micro-seconds interval, and plays at 24 frames per second. Even when it is played at 1000 times slower details of lightening can still be…
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Significance of Sulfur in Volcanoes and Hot Springs
This question, in my view, has never been answered adequately. Most often than not it is that sulfur deposits are mostly deep under earth crust. Through volcano eruptions, or the hot springs, it was brought up to the surface. There is this possibility that sulfur is actually still being produced, and yes, deep underground. This…
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The Shrinking Earth
Start with the dinosaurs, what evolutionary advantage there was to have such humongous size? What about 10 feet tall giant fungus, or dragon fly with wing span of 35 cm. None of them exists today. On another issue, what is driving the plate tectonics. The answer will be gravity, i.e. earth gravity, which pulls all…