Re: Hurricane Ivan and M51

From: Craig MacDougal (macdouc_at_prodigy.not)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 02:45:29 GMT

"David B. Thomas" <dt@dt.prohosting.com> wrote in message
news:uhdpa12jm.fsf@dt.prohosting.com...
> I was just looking at a satellite snap of Hurricane Ivan and suddenly
> it hit me: in that position (taken on Sept. 13), it looked a whole lot
> like M51. The similarity was so striking that I made a composite
> picture.

Similarly, Hurricane Frances looked like a perfect face on galaxy for
several days running. In idle moments after I finished the "approaching
hurricane checklist" I considered taking one of those satellite shots, edit
it to remove the land, add a few fake field stars, and post it on
alt.binaries.pictures.astro and see who could identify it. :-)

> If only 2^(7/12) were equal to 3/2, music would sound a lot better.

I don't know. It might be too bland. I mean, what would consonance be
without dissonance?

Clear Skies,
Craig in Tampa