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Post by theshee on Nov 7, 2014 9:32:11 GMT 10
It looks beautiful.
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Post by theshee on Nov 7, 2014 9:31:51 GMT 10
Astronomers have captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star as part of the testing and verification process for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array's (ALMA) new high-resolution capabilities. This revolutionary new image reveals in astonishing detail the planet-forming disk surrounding HL Tau, a Sun-like star located approximately 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. ALMA uncovered never-before-seen features in this system, including multiple concentric rings separated by clearly defined gaps. These structures suggest that planet formation is already well underway around this remarkably young star. "These features are almost certainly the result of young planet-like bodies that are being formed in the disk. This is surprising since HL Tau is no more than a million years old and such young stars are not expected to have large planetary bodies capable of producing the structures we see in this image," said ALMA Deputy Director Stuartt Corder. All stars are believed to form within clouds of gas and dust that collapse under gravity. Over time, the surrounding dust particles stick together, growing into sand, pebbles, and larger-size rocks, which eventually settle into a thin protoplanetary disk where asteroids, comets, and planets form. Once these planetary bodies acquire enough mass, they dramatically reshape the structure of their natal disk, fashioning rings and gaps as the planets sweep their orbits clear of debris and shepherd dust and gas into tighter and more confined zones. The new ALMA image reveals these striking features in exquisite detail, providing the clearest picture to date of planet formation. Images with this level of detail were previously only seen in computer models and artist concepts. ALMA, living up to its promise, has now provided direct proof that nature and theory are very much in agreement. "This new and unexpected result provides an incredible view of the process of planet formation. Such clarity is essential to understand how our own Solar System came to be and how planets form throughout the Universe," said Tony Beasley, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, which manages ALMA operations for astronomers in North America. HL Tau is hidden in visible light behind a massive envelope of dust and gas. Since ALMA observes at much longer wavelengths, it is able to peer through the intervening dust to study the processes right at the core of this cloud. "This is truly one of the most remarkable images ever seen at these wavelengths. The level of detail is so exquisite that it's even more impressive than many optical images. The fact that we can see planets being born will help us understand not only how planets form around other stars but also the origin of our own Solar System," said NRAO astronomer Crystal Brogan. ALMA's new high-resolution capabilities were achieved by spacing the antennas up to 15 kilometers apart. This baseline at millimeter wavelengths enabled a resolution of 35 milliarcseconds, which is equivalent to a penny as seen from more than 110 kilometers away. "Such a resolution can only be achieved with the long baseline capabilities of ALMA and provides astronomers with new information that is impossible to collect with any other facility, including the best optical observatories," noted ALMA Director Pierre Cox. These long baselines fulfill one of ALMA's major objectives and mark an impressive technological and engineering milestone. Future observations at ALMA's longest possible baseline of 16 kilometers will produce even clearer images and continue to expand our understanding of the cosmos. "This observation illustrates the dramatic and important results that come from NSF supporting world-class instrumentation such as ALMA," said Fleming Crim, the National Science Foundation assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. "ALMA is delivering on its enormous potential for revealing the distant Universe and is playing a unique and transformational role in astronomy."
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Post by theshee on Nov 7, 2014 9:27:32 GMT 10
The man suspected of murdering his girlfriend who then died after being Tasered by police allegedly gouged out his victim's eyes and was found 'eating her face' like 'Hannibal Lecter', witnesses have claimed. The 34-year-old - who has not been identified by police but has been named locally as Matthew Williams - was allegedly eating the 22-year-old victim's eyeball when security staff at the Sirhowy Arms Hotel, south Wales, burst in on the horrific attack. Staff raised the alarm before police arrived at the hotel in Argoed, a village in Caerphilly, to find the female victim unconscious on the floor with appalling facial injuries. Officers then tackled Williams - who was reportedly released from prison just two weeks ago - with a high voltage Taser, knocking him to the floor. Moments later, he became unresponsive and died, despite efforts to save him. The woman also died from her injuries, police said. A murder inquiry has been launched while the use of the Taser has been referred to police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Jill Edwards, who lives near the hotel, said: 'This animal was eating this girl to death. He murdered her so police stopped him - good on them. 'Security said they told him no girls in his room and he didn't answer, when they opened his door he was eating her face.' Williams - known by his nickname Fifi - had just served half a five-year prison sentence for a violent attack on his partner who lives nearby. He was staying at the hotel, which operated as a bail hostel, and had taken his victim back there for a drink when the attack unfolded. Lyn Beasley, who lives close to the hotel, said: 'He went Hannibal Lecter on the woman, he gouged her eyeball out, ate them and ate and half her face. 'He had just been released from prison and was high on coke.' A security guard at the hotel, who did not want to be named, also claimed the killer had been eating the woman. A Home Office pathologist and scenes of crime officers were at the hotel today trying to discover how the couple died. Gwent Police confirmed both the man and young woman were known to each other. They said the Taser was discharged and the man was arrested. He then died at the scene despite police trying to save him. The spokeswoman added: 'We are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident and an investigation is underway.' The matter has been referred to police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission. A spokeswoman for the watchdog said: 'The IPCC is independently investigating an incident overnight in Blackwood in which a man and a woman have died. 'Gwent Police referred the incident to the IPCC early this morning.' Witnesses reported seeing forensic officers in white overalls at the scene, as well as a police cordon which blocked access to the hotel as well as the local Baptist church's graveyard. Police were also seen carrying out forensic tests on a silver BMW believed to belong to Williams which was parked outside the hotel. Local resident Cindy Farr, 41, told MailOnline of a 'significant' police response, adding: 'You do have police going back and forth regularly but I've never seen any problems. It is quite out of character.' Grandmother Susan Gibbs, 71, who lives near the hotel, said: 'I'm not really surprised that something like this has happened. Police seem to be here every other night to sort out the violence. 'This was a quiet peaceful village before it was opened, now it's got to the stage where our houses are being devalued because of the problem. We've even had people sleeping rough overnight in the hedge rows. 'Once of the bodies was brought out wrapped in a brown bag on a stretcher.' And Reverend Charlotte Moss of Argoed Baptist Church told MailOnline: 'We're doing what we can. All we can do at the moment is we've opened the building and made it available for people.' She said she had been 'back and forth' to the church today - and added that it was there to support local residents, describing the area as 'a typical Valleys village'. Welsh Ambulance Services were called by police at 1.30am and said they 'responded with a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle and a crew in an emergency ambulance'. A spokesman added that a man and woman were both pronounced dead at the scene. linkWasn't there a drug people were on a while back in the USA that was causing this type of behaviour???
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Post by theshee on Nov 7, 2014 9:24:11 GMT 10
Well his girlfriend fucked him good. Hahahaha
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Post by theshee on Nov 6, 2014 9:08:00 GMT 10
La Burle is a wild highland, sparsely populated, with a harsh environment. It also holds the French record for unexplained aircraft accidents. Bounded by Mount Pilat, Mount Mézenc, and the town of Le Puy, the Burle Triangle (or "le Triangle de la Burle) is named after the frosty wind blowing in the area, which causes frequent snow storms. In 1982, l’Eveil ("The Awakening"), a local newspaper of Le Puy-en-Velay city, spoke of a "Triangle of Death" where more than 60 victims died in miscellaneous plane crashes. A number of these incidents are said to be accompanied by strange events and what some believe to be UFO sightings. In November 1943, a Halifax bomber plane crashed, leaving only one sole survivor. The witnesses who saw the crash reported that the plane was "surrounded by a multitude of small multicolored lights.” However, the Halifax was navigating with all lights off, as was appropriate for the nighttime mission. Other accounts include the 1963 crash of two English Javelins, one on Jaujac, and the other nearby, the ejected pilots never found, and the 1965 account at Mount Mézenc, where two F104’s went down, and witnesses claimed to have seen six small pinkish spheres surrounding the sight. Another incident in 1971 consisted of a Nord 262 aircraft crashing at Suc du Paradou, killing all 17 passengers. Curiously, 18 corpses were found, and one of them has never been identified. -------------------------------------------------- Everyone knows the Bermuda Triangle with these disappearances and unexplained phenomena, and although we have in France Triangle Burle also called Bermuda Cevennes, located approximately between Mount Mzenc, the Puy en Velay and the Massif du Pilat. 45°11'12.18"N 4°18'30.29"E This region has the largest airline disasters, mostly unexplained see disturbing. More than 60 deaths since 1943 whose sister of President Kennedy in 1948. Not only a large number of planes crashed, but most often these disasters are accompanied by observations and strange events like Unidentified Flying Objects or flying stones. No one really knows why the triangle Burle holds the record of aircraft accidents ... Some argue rational explanations for these strange phenomena disparities relief (peaks rising to over 1500 m with peaks up to 1200 m altitude), defective equipment or degradation time. Other drivers claim to have been destabilized by unexpected events such as the presence of a magnetic force that disrupts curious inexplicably navigational instruments, the presence of flying objects in the sky or the appearance of fireballs ... In 1943, a Halifax bomber loses control. The report of the pilot before his death is disturbing: it says that the device is taken incredible tub, that no instrument more work, he made ??a sudden warmth that immediately follows a cold. Ground staff who observes the sinking bomber says the device is surrounded by "small colored lights" or it was impossible because it was sailing without lights. In 1965, witnesses claim to have seen 6 saucers around two aircraft plummeting In 1980 an aircraft in distress has been surrounded by fire and smoke. Several brigades have searched the wreckage never able to locate it. No airport has announced its demise.
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Post by theshee on Nov 6, 2014 8:38:18 GMT 10
If you have woken up from a vivid dream, only to forget what it was about, you might want a dream recorder. While such a consumer device may be years away, researchers have created a system that uses a biosensor headset to edit moving images shown on a screen according to changes in an individual's brain activity. The film that’s created is a visual record of a wearer’s subconscious mind, giving them a glimpse into the dream world. Manchester-based animator Richard Ramchurn came up with the idea for the #scanners cinema experience, which allows everyone to watch a film differently. In its initial format, his setup allows a single user to manipulate a digital art installation. ‘Narratives and layers can be built that are all governed by the user's concentration and meditation levels. Edit points can be created by monitoring the users blinking. ‘The audience can project their feelings onto the film that they are seeing, the film they watch will have a series of overlapping structures that they can interact with and/or disregard,’ he wrote on Kickstarter, which he used to raise funds for the project. ‘The goal of the project is for people to be able to physically see and hear their dreams,’ he explained. ‘We tested the device at Manchester University last year and a lot of people who used it compared the experience to lucid dreaming.’ The technique relies on the MindWave Mobile - a headset developed by tech company NeuroSky, which costs £100 ($159). In trials, volunteers were asked to wear the headset and watch a short film. Mr Ramchurn said: ‘The rhythms of the editing, how the movie jumps from scene to scene, depends on the mind state of the person watching it. ‘Much like a dream you can’t really control what happens on screen. 'Your brain chooses the sounds and sights you experience but you can’t really direct them - you just have to go with it.’ He was inspired to come up with the project after reading Walter Murch’s book In The Blink Of An Eye, which compares dreams to films. He said: ‘Films and dreams are very similar. 'The problem is it’s easy to remember a film because you’re conscious while it’s playing, but it can be hard to recall a dream once you’re awake. ‘The headset is the perfect device for exploring dreams, because it brings your subconscious to the forefront, placing it on a screen for you to experience consciously.’ Mr Ramchurn predicts that scientific advances may make detailed dream recording possible in the near future. ‘There is research which suggests we may be able to fully record a dream within the next 10 to 15 years,’ he said. link
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Post by theshee on Nov 5, 2014 7:51:04 GMT 10
The Jupiter-sized sunspot AR 12192 is the largest active region seen on the sun in 24 years. he biggest sunspot to grace the face of the sun in more than two decades just rotated out of Earth's view, but it was responsible for kicking up some truly amazing solar activity this week. The sunspot (called Active Region 12192 or AR 2192) shot off four powerful flares in four days recently, with many more smaller flares sprinkled in as well. The sunspot region was about the size of the planet Jupiter and is the largest solar flare observed in 24 years. AR 2192 was actually one of the biggest observed sunspots of all time, ranking 33rd largest of 32,908 active regions since 1874, according to NASA scientists C. Alex Young and Dean Pesnell. But how does a sunspot grow this big? "The simple answer is we really don't know," Young told Space.com. "Being close to solar maximum [the peak in the sun's 11-year solar cycle] means there is more concentrated magnetic field and magnetic energy under the solar surface waiting to bubble up. But the question of why it comes up as one spot instead of two or more is really still unknown, a mystery. "I guess a good analogy is when you twist a rubber band or piece of string," Young added. "Why do, say, three knots or bunches form instead of two or four? The physics is probably too complicated for us at this point but we can get a handle on, say, when the knots will start to form once we better understand the properties of the rubber band or string and how much twist we put into them. We are not to that point with the sun but we may get there eventually." Sunspots are active areas on the sun. They generally form when magnetic field lines are warped, and if they become twisted. Part of it may break out, and show up on the face of the star. Sunspots look dark because they are cooler than the area surrounding them. The sunspot is particularly special because of the somewhat strange way scientists have seen it behave. Instead of shooting out huge bursts of plasma — called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — with powerful flares, the giant sunspot hasn't produced significant CMEs during its time rotating in view of Earth, according to Young. "What's really curious about it [the large sunspot] is that it's produced so many flares of pretty good size, but little or no coronal mass ejections," Young said. "It's not that it's never happened before, but it tends to be the case that when you have a big flare, you generally get a big CME." Earth-directed CMEs are responsible for geomagnetic storms that can harm satellites in orbit or even knock out power grids on the planet. A CME produced by a sunspot larger than AR 2192 knocked out the power in Quebec, Canada, in 1989, Young said. The sunspot just rotated out of view of Earth, according to Spaceweather.com, but that doesn't necessarily mean that AR 2192 won't make another appearance on Earth's side of the star. Huge sunspots usually tend to stick around for a while, Young said, so AR 2192 could end up surviving its two week-journey around the other side of the sun, out of view of Earth. "We don't know exactly if it's going to make it on its way around, but there's a good chance," Young, who also runs The Sun Today blog, said. "It's pretty big, and certainly there have been plenty of examples of other spots that have gone around. Some have gone around a couple times." If the sunspot does make it around to the Earth-facing side of the sun again, observers on the planet might be able to spot it. AR 2192 was visible using eclipse glasses for the past week or so, but NEVER look at the sun with your naked eye; it can cause serious eye damage. Find out how to safely observe the sun using Space.com's sun observation guide. link
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Post by theshee on Nov 5, 2014 7:47:00 GMT 10
Scientists tracked some of the hydrocarbons from the Deepwater Horizon spill to the bottom of the Gulf, shown here overlaid on seafloor bathymetry. A significant portion of the remaining oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, within 25 miles (40 kilometers) of the well, a new study finds. The BP-operated Macondo well exploded in April 2010, and gushed an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean before engineers finally capped the well in July 2010. Since that time, research has suggested that the spilled oil has affected wildlife ranging from dolphins to corals. In 2014, researchers at Pennsylvania State University reported that coral communities up to 13.7 miles (22 km) from the spill site showed damage. Now, researchers have tracked the path of oil from the water column to the ocean floor, and they found the final resting place of between 2 and 16 percent of the total oil spilled. A significant portion of the remaining oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sitting on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, within 25 miles (40 kilometers) of the well, a new study finds. The BP-operated Macondo well exploded in April 2010, and gushed an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the ocean before engineers finally capped the well in July 2010. Since that time, research has suggested that the spilled oil has affected wildlife ranging from dolphins to corals. In 2014, researchers at Pennsylvania State University reported that coral communities up to 13.7 miles (22 km) from the spill site showed damage. Now, researchers have tracked the path of oil from the water column to the ocean floor, and they found the final resting place of between 2 and 16 percent of the total oil spilled. "This analysis provides us with, for the first time, some closure on the question, 'Where did the oil go, and how did it get there?'" Don Rice, the program director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, said in a statement. The NSF funded the research. Tracing a spill Scientists estimate that about 2 million barrels of Deepwater Horizon oil ended up in the deep ocean. Tracing that oil has been challenging. A research team led by David Valentine, a microbial geochemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sampled more than 534 locations near the spill site, gathering more than 3,000 individual samples. They analyzed the samples for a hydrocarbon called hopane, which is found in oil and persists in the environment for a long time. The researchers found an area of 1,250 square miles (3,237 square km), mostly southwest of the Macondo well, where a thin sheen of oil rests in patches on the top half-inch of the seafloor, according to the NSF. "Based on the evidence, our findings suggest that these deposits are from Macondo oil that was first suspended in the deep ocean, then settled to the seafloor without ever reaching the ocean surface," Valentine said in the statement. Oil damage The droplets of oil started out 3,500 feet (1,067 meters) below the ocean surface and were caught by deep-ocean currents before raining down another 1,000 feet (305 m) to the seafloor, Valentine said. This hydrocarbon rain explains the damage suffered by coral around the site, he said. "The pattern of contamination we observe is fully consistent with the Deepwater Horizon event but not with natural seeps," Valentine said. Much of the deep ocean oil is still missing, however. The portion Valentine and his colleagues traced represents only 4 to 31 percent of the oil thought to be trapped in the depths of the ocean (up to 16 percent of the total oil spilled). "This knowledge remains largely provisional until we can fully account for the remaining 70 percent," Rice said. The researchers reported their findings Oct. 27 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. link
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Post by theshee on Nov 5, 2014 7:39:02 GMT 10
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has sounded a stark warning over California's sustained drought, publishing its latest findings where satellite surveys show a rapidly depleting groundwater supply. And with California as the United States' most valuable agricultural state, and thus key to America's food supply (and much of the world's as well) that could mean drastic consequences for food commodity prices and potential shortages.The Nature Climate Change journal carried the report, which Think Progress summarized: A new Nature Climate Change piece, "The global groundwater crisis," by James Famiglietti, a leading hydrologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, warns that "most of the major aquifers in the world's arid and semi-arid zones, that is, in the dry parts of the world that rely most heavily on groundwater, are experiencing rapid rates of groundwater depletion." The groundwater at some of the world's largest aquifers - in the U.S. High Plains, California's Central Valley, China, India, and elsewhere - is being pumped out "at far greater rates than it can be naturally replenished." The most worrisome fact: "nearly all of these underlie the word's great agricultural regions and are primarily responsible for their high productivity." NASA's satellite map shows the loss of weight height just in the past three years: According to NASA: "California's Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins have lost roughly 15 km3 of total water per year since 2011 - more water than all 38 million Californians use for domestic and municipal supplies annually - over half of which is due to groundwater pumping in the Central Valley." Yes, of course, California is a desert. So, that isn't helping things. But it was reformed into a thriving economy by controversial and historically corrupt irrigation scheme, and is now vital to U.S. food security. The result of these dangerous conditions is, not surprisingly, higher commodity prices - including food and water - creating higher profits for the companies that provide these services. Privatized water could drive prices even higher. There are storm clouds gathering, so to speak, but they aren't bringing rain. In July, California's state government economic report was already warning of losses in the billions for farmers feeling the weight of drought conditions, though it claimed the national food system would be little impacted. However, time has made that claim ring hollow. In August, Bloomberg reported on the "global reverberations" occurring because of the drought in California: "It's a really big deal," Sumner said. "Some crops simply grow better here than anyplace else, and our location gives us access to markets you don't have elsewhere." [...] The success of California agriculture was built in large part on advances in irrigation that allowed the state to expand beyond wheat, which flourishes in dry climates. It's now the U.S.'s top dairy producer and grows half the country's fruits, vegetables and nuts. "Water has allowed us to grow more valuable crops," Sumner said. "Now, we have fruits and vegetables and North Dakota grows our wheat. Without irrigation, we'd be North Dakota." [...] "There will be some definite changes, probably structural changes, to the entire industry" as drought persists, said American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman. "Farmers have made changes. They've shifted. This is what farmers do." Locals in California are now reporting everything from reduced availability of produce, to higher prices in restaurants and reduced hours and activity at farmer's markets and local stores. Most farmers have cutback on what they are growing. In many cases, that means chopping down trees, orchards and not planting as many fields: "I was just talking to a farmer today who grows olives and almonds. Expect prices of almonds to skyrocket because they're cutting the trees down because they don't have enough water to keep them alive," said Helstrom. California is by no means the only place facing life threatening shortages. There are similarly alarming trends having all across the globe, particularly in arid and semi-arid places. Texas ranchers and farmers have been dealing with returning dust bowl conditions in the panhandle and surrounding regions, with very difficult drought conditions and conflicting urban competition for water which strain supply. Elsewhere, too. The 20 million people in Brazil's Sao Paulo are facing a stark 5 percent reserves in their municipal water reservoir, with Brazil's Public Ministry recently acknowledging that the Sao Paulo water supply might last only another 100 days. Further shortages in rain could easily be the makings of a disaster that could deprive its residents of the basic necessities of life, particularly the swelling poor populations. Already, rationing has crept in, and water used for cooking, bathing and cleaning has been restricted. "Suffering from its worst drought in over 84 years, the city of Sao Paulo is in the midst of a crisis. For as of this weekend the city's primary reservoir - the Cantareira - had dropped to just 5 percent capacity putting millions at risk of losing access to water." "The fall prompted the city's governor - Geraldo Alckmin - to again ask for permission to draw emergency water supplies from below flood gates to alleviate catastrophic losses from the Cantareira and ensure water supplies to the region's 20 million residents. The move would tap a river system that feeds two other states also facing water shortages - Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. But the draw is only a temporary stop gap and, without rain, the Cantareira will continue to fall - bottoming out sometime this November." Large swaths of the immense Amazon region are enduring drought, while various hotspots across South America are also drastically below average precipitation levels. NASA has also tracked serious aquifer depletion in "the North China Plain, Australia's Canning Basin, the Northwest Sahara Aquifer System, the Guarani Aquifer in South America ... and the aquifers beneath northwestern India and the Middle East," as Think Progress notes. Parts of Northern China are also seeing their worst drought in 60 years. That's pretty harsh news, and the long term impact could be pretty serious, and just one more reason to prepare a reserve food supply and prepare a plan to deal with anything that may come. There have been many other warning signs about the food supply and commodities markets - not the least of which include the billions in losses that corn farmers are facing due to market rejection in China and other countries as a result of GMO contamination. link
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Post by theshee on Nov 5, 2014 7:30:45 GMT 10
A bizarre, glittering cloud with a strip of rainbow across it has appeared in the skies over Australia – and no, it isn’t chemtrails or a UFO. Residents of the Gippsland area in the east of Victoria state were baffled and blown away in equal measure to see the unusual cloud formation, which appeared at around 1pm local time on Monday. To the disappointment of conspiracy theorists and UFO enthusiasts, the circular band in the cloud with the rainbow belt was revealed to be a Fallstreak Hole, also known as a hole-punch cloud or (most theatrically) a skypunch. According to the Cloud Appreciation Society, the holes are formed when water droplets in the cloud freeze into ice crystals, becoming slightly heavier than the surrounding droplets and pulling a portion of the cloud downward. The rainbow effect is the result of those frozen crystals refracting light. linkA fallstreak hole, also known as a hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, canal cloud or cloud hole, is a large circular or elliptical gap that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing but the water has not frozen yet due to the lack of ice nucleation particles (see supercooled water). When ice crystals do form it will set off a domino effect, due to the Bergeron process, causing the water droplets around the crystals to evaporate: this leaves a large, often circular, hole in the cloud.[1] It is believed that the introduction of large numbers of tiny ice crystals into the cloud layer sets off this domino effect of evaporation which creates the hole. The ice crystals can be formed by passing aircraft which often have a large reduction in pressure behind the wing- or propellor-tips. This cools the air very quickly, and can produce a ribbon of ice crystals trailing in the aircraft's wake. These ice crystals find themselves surrounded by droplets, grow quickly by the Bergeron process, causing the droplets to evaporate and creating a hole with brush-like streaks of ice crystals below it
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