Typhon's nature

Jeff Wilson · 12 Oct 2011, 02:05 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:05:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) Typhon's nature
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On 10/11/2011 5:45 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>
>> Jeff Wilson wrote (11-10-2011 08:30):
>>> On 10/11/2011 12:25 AM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>>> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>>> "Hmm, weather patterns continue to deteriorate... Great Me,
>> what is that
>>>>> THING on the infrared?"
>>>>
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> With no evidence, I imagine the sea monsters cold-blooded, so they
>>>> wouldn't show up on the IR.
>>>
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/yoshihirata/
>>>
>>> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071015215148.htm
>
> The fish is illuminated by an infrared source

Like the sun illuminates this river delta? Imagine if you saw a moving, 
compact shape on this scale.

http://www.visualphotos.com/image/1x6053922/pearl_river_estuary_infrared_satellite_image

>
> http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050277
>
> and I'll bet the beautiful creatures on Flickr are too.  In some of the pictures it seems the source (the sun) is visible.  So maybe if Erebus swam or oozed over a volcanic vent...
>
> Of course this has nothing to do with Wolfe, and I don't mind if it turns out I'm wrong.

It's still relevant in that the cooling sun will increasingly shift its 
peak output into the infrared frequencies, so Typhon would have reason 
to have set up IR monitoring.


-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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