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From: berryh@udel.EDU (John Berryhill)
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Subject: Re: The Last Word on Friedman, Sevener, and Cuba
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Date: 18 Mar 88 19:23:42 GMT
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oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
>Tim Sevener needs to do some research on MIRAGES. Mirages

Someone else brought this up, but I thought it was obvious
to most people here that this isn't going to happen over
the water between Key West and Cuba.  John Carr threw in a
snide comment about temperature inversion.  Everybody
has seen the shimmering "pools of water" on a hot road
in the summer.  A "hot road," that is.  In fact, the road
surface has to be hotter than the air above it for this
to happen.  Would Mr. Carr please smugly explain how the
water surface is going to be significantly hotter than
the air above it on a nice day in Florida (not over the
Gulf Stream either)?

Temperature inversions are significantly influenced by
the local geography.  A nice flat sea isn't going to
do much for you.

--
John "I can't even see Cape May NJ from the ferry dock at Lewes across
the Delaware Bay" Berryhill