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bambam
Since 15 Mar 2005
760 Posts
Hood River
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Fri Sep 29, 06 11:16 am It Starts... |
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Hey NW Kiters... Anybody check the Stevenson sensor in the last twenty minutes???
Yup, she just turned WSW. Keep an eye on the ramp up, but hope to see the throngs at Stevensvillerburger later this afternoon...
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
6548 Posts
Couve / Hood
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Fri Sep 29, 06 11:19 am Re: It Starts... |
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bambam wrote: | Hey NW Kiters... Anybody check the Stevenson sensor in the last twenty minutes???
Yup, she just turned WSW. Keep an eye on the ramp up, but hope to see the throngs at Stevensvillerburger later this afternoon... |
sorry I farted in it's general direction...
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bambam
Since 15 Mar 2005
760 Posts
Hood River
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Fri Sep 29, 06 11:30 am |
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Ah, you gone and done it now... The Phillip "Butt Effect" might just go and make it too windy now...
The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.
The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or, for that matter, prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.
Recurrence, the approximate return of a system towards its initial conditions, together with the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, are the two main ingredients for chaotic motion. They have the practical consequence of making complex systems, such as the weather, difficult to predict past a certain time range (approximately a week in the case of weather).
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Onad
Since 04 Mar 2005
1435 Posts
Coast<<PDX>>Gorge
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Fri Sep 29, 06 11:36 am |
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bambam wrote: | Ah, you gone and done it now... The Phillip "Butt Effect" might just go and make it too windy now... |
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pkh
Since 27 Feb 2005
6548 Posts
Couve / Hood
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Fri Sep 29, 06 11:41 am |
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that's how you get extra low end.
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pacifichigh
Since 11 May 2005
1004 Posts
ATX
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Fri Sep 29, 06 11:46 am |
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she does have a nice low end!
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registered
Since 12 Jul 2005
1319 Posts
tsunami
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Fri Sep 29, 06 3:09 pm |
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onad , I usually enjoy that ad and hope the seams will fail.
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