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This is very, very weird, I havent seen anything quite like this before. As I look out of my window here in Derbyshire, the sky is a very strange yellowy grey, but mostly pink colour. I have seen this before, but never as pronounced as this. Its freaky, like being on another planet. As I look down the road, I cannot make out the colour of anything properly, everyones windows are dark pink, brickwork is pink, all the cars are pink, even the pavement and road are pink. My 9 year old has just come in, and he's freaked out, he thought something horrible was going to happen. Do any weather bod types know what causes it?
I think it's probably just a variant of "red sky at night" coupled with refections from the cloud base. As you know, the setting sun often appears red due to dust particles in the atmosphere. It's usually associated with warm summer days when there is lots of dust floating about but you can get it at other times if the year too.
I didnt see it as im stuck in an office and a veiw of the sky is a luxury my employer cant afford.
It wouldnt have anything to do with the asian quake would it?
I know when volcanoes erupt they can make the sky different colours during sunset/sunrise. (though I would question weather an earthquake generated tsunami could kick up enough particulate matter to cause such an effect, dispite the scale of the devistation caused)
It wouldnt have anything to do with the asian quake would it?
I know when volcanoes erupt they can make the sky different colours during sunset/sunrise. (though I would question weather an earthquake generated tsunami could kick up enough particulate matter to cause such an effect, dispite the scale of the devistation caused)
thats the view from my bedroom window hence the power cables 
Maybe its because the Earth has tilted about an inch on its axis and speeded up as a result of the earthquake according to NASA?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041229/325/f9bwc.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041229/325/f9bwc.html
I've just spoken to my mate in the government. It turns out that there was some atmospheric nuclear testing done earlier this week off Iceland. The prevailing northwesterlies have carried the radioactive "daughters" across in the airstream. As this has been a test of a gamma emitter, the radiations are triggering a type of resonance which is being decayed by the low energy photons present in evening sunlight, producing emissions of excess reddy light. As long as you don't breathe the white dust which will coat everything in a few hours, you should be fine.
docevi1 said:
I refer Mr Love Machine to the gullible thread and explain that the white powder took it too far. I had believed it until then.
I mean, we did have Radioactive sheep after Chenoybl.
No seriously, the main decay products of this type of testing are generally an oxide of magnesium. Hence the white powder. This is common with the other forms of fall out. Usually Strontim compounds, a little Cobalt, some Titanium, Copper, Vanadium and the short lived technetium. All the other compounds form water soluble salts which dissolve and will have rained out by now. The powder aggregates may be present. It depends on the size of the test. From the best of my knowledge, people are concentrating on sub-critical mass type devices with elctrostatic/beryllium, neutron triggers, hence the fall out could be small. However the excited atoms bathed in the right frequency of light, even in low concentration would give out their excess radiation, in the form of a low frequency light, even infra red. (was it warmer than usual, perhaps by only a degree or so?) Not certain, but this type of phenomena is rare and a product of these sorts of tests. I wouldn't worry as the key substance of threat to man, is Tritium, with a half life of about 21 days (if I remember rightly) it is only a beta emitter and therfore not too much of a threat to animal (man) flesh. Although all it takes is one event to cause a genetic chaos (tumour). The probablility is low and if concerned, I would get on the phone to the EA.
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