Comments on: The Sky is Falling https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/ Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Blind Squirrel FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530099 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:56:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530099 Oh, for the love of the FSM. I am referring to the term Yeck zone in Greg’s reply to my first post and I am aware of the subtle difference between desert and dessert.

]]> By: Blind Squirrel FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530098 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:22:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530098 I think you might have won the intertubes award for the most obscure scientific term of the day. I can’t find it in a cursory Google search. I assume it refers to the erosion zone seen on rocks in the dessert. Did R. D. Yeck coin it? Anyhow, it doesn’t seem like an absolute limit when one considers sand storms or wind devils, thankfully rare in MN.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530097 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:49:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530097 Blind: I was thinking the same thing … not just magnetite, but anything ferric because you are using a magnet to search. One would think a tall building would make a difference. You need to get above the Yeck Zone which, with snow and wind, is probably fifteen feet at least.

I would imagine that the micrometeorites would look like tiny burned up spheroidal thingies. Maybe I’ll look for them this year, finally. I’ve always wanted to do that.

]]> By: Blind Squirrel FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530096 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:57:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530096 It would be easy to be fooled by magnetite anywhere in the Midwest. I would want to check the gutters on a very tall building. Are the micrometeorites spherical?

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530095 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:37:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530095 Aw, come on, Strider. He said, “yet.” Surely you can wait until the end of the week or so.

Not that the end of the week is anything other than an arbitrarily chosen time. Nope, nope. Of course not.

]]> By: Strider https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530094 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:35:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530094 Yah, so, why have you been reading about meteors in the Antarctic ice? Hey man, you started writing this blog and so you OWE it to your blog readers who want to know the minutiae of you daily life, damn you!

]]> By: John J. McKay https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530093 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:24:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530093 We must stop those meteorites from falling on Antarctica!! If the Nazi Yeti get hold of them, who knows what chaos they might wreak?!!?!

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530092 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:53:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530092 Going on a new field trip eh Greg 🙂

]]> By: Doyle https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530091 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:03:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/01/the-sky-is-falling-1/#comment-530091 One can, indeed, pick up micrometeorites by sifting with a magnet. It was an activity I did several times with students when I taught at a science center in California.

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