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Re: (meteorobs) Fireball sound nonsense



it's email acronym for 'in my humble opinion'
another often seen is afaik 'as far as i know'
there are countless(?) more

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Ferriday" <cferriday@adelphiadot net>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball sound nonsense


> WHAT DOES "IMHO" MEAN?
>
> THANKS
> ONE OF THE DUMMIES/NEWBIES
> CHUCK FERRIDAY
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Linnolt" <mlinnolt@alum.mitdot edu>
> To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:54 PM
> Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball sound nonsense
>
>
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Graham & Amy Palmer" <gramy@globedot net.nz>
> > > I am no expert, but I have heard a theory that would
> > > explain the sound
> > > observed during your fireball... It involves
> > > ionisation around the bolide
> > > somehow transmitting a signal in radio(?)
> > > wavelengths which can then be
> > > re-converted to sound if there is something to act
> > > as an antennae...
> > > (eye-glasses are a good one...) This allows you to
> > > hear the fireball in
> > > real-time..!!
> >
> > To convert radio signals to audio you need a detector. Classically a
> simple diode can act in such a fashion as you may recall from elementary
> school projects where kids build such simple radios. People dont normally
> walk around with diodes or semiconductors in their eyeglass, teeth, etc.
> which could act in this fashion. An "antennae" alone is not sufficient to
> detect RF!
> >
> > I suspect these reports are bogus, because if this kind of RF detection
> occured, everyone would be hearing buzzing when they pass by cell phone
> towers, TV transmitters, inside airplanes, using cell phones, etc, etc.
> which are much more potent and common sources of high RF flux than a grain
> of sand at 60km away!
> >
> > I think this list has been saturated with too much of this nonsense
> already, IMHO.
> >
> > Mike Linnolt
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