Mashup Challenge $100,000 prize - WTF if Spectate Swamp wins?



  • Shrooms mmmmh yummy

    @bstorer said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    There is a big Nuclear debate raging here in Whitecourt. I videoed 3 of the forums.
     

    Oh, please.  If you're any indication of the sort of backwards-thinking hicks populating Whitecourt, then the only debate currently raging there is whether or not thunder means God is angry.

    The Shroom cloud is far more impressive than any image on a piece of toast or pancake.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @bstorer said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    There is a big Nuclear debate raging here in Whitecourt. I videoed 3 of the forums.
     

    Oh, please.  If you're any indication of the sort of backwards-thinking hicks populating Whitecourt, then the only debate currently raging there is whether or not thunder means God is angry.

    The Shroom cloud is far more impressive than any image on a piece of toast or pancake.
    Explain how this post has any relevance to any conversation that has ever happened in the history of the world and I'll give you a freaking cookie!


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The Shroom cloud is far more impressive than any image on a piece of toast or pancake.
     

    Similarly, the piece of gum that was stuck to the bottom of my shoe is far more impressive than the lint I found in my pocket.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @WeatherGod said:

    MediaWiki uses MySQL, but it isn't C#/.NET based. 
     

    PHP?

     

    NVM, got the chance to just look it up myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The Shroom cloud is far more impressive than any image on a piece of toast or pancake.

    QFT



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    The Shroom cloud is far more impressive than any image on a piece of toast or pancake.

    Can the birds help you detect images in your pancakes ?



  • @pitchingchris said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    The Shroom cloud is far more impressive than any image on a piece of toast or pancake.

    Can the birds help you detect images in your pancakes ?

     

    Only if they have holes in them.



  • Alien Doe-see-doe ain't no NetSquare dance

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    EDIT: http://www.spectateswamp.com/  is also 'up' now. Right now it just mirrors the other site, but I am open to suggestions...
    I have a ton of t-shirts and mini-stones to contribute. Just went through my storage shack. There are 10 or more different t-shirt versions. Some dating back 20 years. The newest is from 2000. All this talk of collaboration has got me sharing t-shirts, aliens, stones, dino mummys, great software. Maybe next I'll share the great outdoors with you all. The winter trapline... One learns a lot on the trapline. Use the right bait and tease the prey. When they are mad mad, mistakes happen.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    EDIT: http://www.spectateswamp.com/  is also 'up' now. Right now it just mirrors the other site, but I am open to suggestions...
    I have a ton of t-shirts and mini-stones to contribute. Just went through my storage shack. There are 10 or more different t-shirt versions. Some dating back 20 years. The newest is from 2000.

    It's probably too early to talk merchandising.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @WeatherGod said:

    MediaWiki uses MySQL, but it isn't C#/.NET based. 
     

    PHP?

    Yup, PHP5 with no special libraries or anything. Simple as heck to install.

    By the way, I'm definitely in favour of a wiki idea in general. Static page editing is so last decade. =)



  • @WWWWolf said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @WeatherGod said:

    MediaWiki uses MySQL, but it isn't C#/.NET based. 
     

    PHP?

    Yup, PHP5 with no special libraries or anything. Simple as heck to install.

    By the way, I'm definitely in favour of a wiki idea in general. Static page editing is so last decade. =)

     

    Yeah, it has been a while since I went and set up PHP and everything, guess I may need to dive back in.... yuck.



  • @WWWWolf said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @WeatherGod said:

    MediaWiki uses MySQL, but it isn't C#/.NET based. 
     

    PHP?

    Yup, PHP5 with no special libraries or anything. Simple as heck to install.

    By the way, I'm definitely in favour of a wiki idea in general. Static page editing is so last decade. =)

     

    In the spirit of SSDS, we could just put everything in one HTML file and tack on new stuff at the end.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I have a ton of t-shirts and mini-stones to contribute. Just went through my storage shack. There are 10 or more different t-shirt versions. Some dating back 20 years. The newest is from 2000.
     

    I don't care. If it ever becomes popular enough to sell merchandise you will have nothing to do with it. Imagine thousands of people wearing pictures of you with "The Stupidest Man on Earth" printed under it.

    Randomly flung "Jam It!" "Boondoggle" "Gee-haw!" all over the back of it...

    You got your wish, you will be (even more so than currently) the laughing stock of the internet.



  • @bstorer said:

    In the spirit of SSDS, we could just put everything in one HTML file and tack on new stuff at the end.

     

    We could build a wiki based off a flat file DB? Pull every page from text in inmail.txt?



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Yeah, it has been a while since I went and set up PHP and everything, guess I may need to dive back in.... yuck.
    apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql(whatever)

    FTW

    Replace apt-get with yum if you're running Fedora.

    Haven't fully caught up on the thread, I'm currently on the 13th page,  I think it's just before you decided to make a tribute to the best troll ever, so I don't even know if you're running Linux.



  • @belgariontheking said:

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Yeah, it has been a while since I went and set up PHP and everything, guess I may need to dive back in.... yuck.
    apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql(whatever)

    FTW

    Replace apt-get with yum if you're running Fedora.

    Haven't fully caught up on the thread, I'm currently on the 13th page,  I think it's just before you decided to make a tribute to the best troll ever.

     

    Installation isn't the hard part, setting the site up and everything is the part I need to get warmed back up to.

    I am throwing together a quick static page until I can get everything all wiki-tized.



  • This outbreak of collaboration is bringing the parable of stone soup to mind, and I find it disturbingly apt.

    Do you really want SpectateSwamp to think we're all playing into his hands and building him a shrine? 



  • @Noser said:

    Do you really want SpectateSwamp to think we're all playing into his hands and building him a shrine? 
     

    Yes.



  •  Does anybody have the full size picture of ole yellowhead still kicking around? I need to start collecting this stuff up. Has anybody already started collecting all the images?

    How about you Spectate? Do you have both of your major threads here in a giant text file? Could you put it on your website for download for me?



  •  I have this version that elgate made.  (html shrunk).




  • How about throwing up a list of everyone's favorite Spectate quotes? Just plain text is fine, I can add quotes and credit if needed.

    I think he has an incredible amount of hilariously retarded one liners... You post 'em, I will throw them in for now.



  •  @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    How about throwing up a list of everyone's favorite Spectate quotes? Just plain text is fine, I can add quotes and credit if needed.

    I think he has an incredible amount of hilariously retarded one liners... You post 'em, I will throw them in for now.

    For starters...

    • "My email moves with me. Like the wind on a DVD." (from [url=http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/7593/142296.aspx#142296]this post[/url] on the desktop search thread)
    • "These animals are beautiful. The ones that know the most about them are the trappers. They are amazing creatures.  I'm not too keen on only seeing the dead ones either.  Mike tells me they get skinned then go to Europe." (from [url=http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic2/483185]this thread[/url] on a photography forum)


    •  "Sometimes I don't listen that well. But people keep reminding and reminding me." (from here)
    • "Most of your great Grandparents were trappers. They won't like the names you call them.  When you pass over."  (from here)
    • "The Main rule is keep nothing incriminating on your computer. Write it down and bury it." (from here)
    • "I think this code can even be ported over to Cobol." (Because that is a selling point? From here)
    • " Use the camcorder like a garden hose. Follow that butterfly till it lands." (from here)
    I'll find more later.


  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    How about throwing up a list of everyone's favorite Spectate quotes? Just plain text is fine, I can add quotes and credit if needed.
     

    One of my favourites is kinda recent:

    "At the MashUp I would be demonstrating what the software could currently do: Big screens, Aliens, Dino Mummies and Flashy Swampies. We'd have won."

     

    I also rather like:

    "I however, am very careful when doing curses. As to not physically harm anybody and inadvertently destroy the World as a result."

     

    Glad to hear it. I'm still holding out for a curse/blessing video though, that could be a new level of awesome.



  • Okay, this one is lame (and slightly out of context):

    "It's not really editing. Just using an editor.... I have yapped so much about not editing. That it came back to bite
    me. That kind of stuff happens to people all the time."

    Another lame one: 

    "I don't think I'm very good at explaining things."

    (It's lame in isolation, but maybe in the context of his other quotees it's sorta funny?  Maybe not.)

    Oh, here is the original, unedited large Swampy pic:

    http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/dbp0057.jpg 

     



  • Another gem:

    "The year 2012 is the end of the Myan Calendar. That's why I'm here. Waiting for whatever it is. Then I'll take the Stones to nearby House Mountain and Dance away the problem."



  • One more: 

    "More Aliens than you can shake a stone at: 

    There was a lot more action in that video. It's been so long that I forgot. That tobacco leaf shoots straight up into the clouds at a distance. In the middle of the screen. Way too fast for the human eye. But birds and Shamen with camcorders can see them."

     



  •  http://www.thestupidestmanonearth.com/Quotes.aspx

    Check it out so far...

    I am going to leave it with that list for now, until I can either wiki this pig or make that DB driven. I just don't have the time at the moment...

    (yes, lots of stuff is broken, I don't want to hear about it)



  • Anyone want to volunteer to write a biography of what we know about Spectate that we can start with?

    I think it has been sort of done on this thread, but it would be good if it was all compiled into one article.



  •  Also, anyone who wants to volunteer CSS or image changes, feel free to let me know.



  • Quotes?  I've been collecting these since the beginning so I can laugh my ass off when I'm bored.

     

    SpectateSwamp: I'm in a need not to know mode. Why would want to learn about something outside my control SSDS gives me control. I like control. Lots and lots of it on my computer. Video. Music. hahahaha

     

    jakkle: hahaha that was terrible
    SpectateSwamp: Yup. I have my standards to keep.

     

    SpectateSwamp: Put a noodle or 2 in the code and Magic happens. Jam it till it's right.

     

    CodeSimian: If you tell him that most media players can do this, he will reply: "But can they search with line-wrapping and highlighting?"

    SpectateSwamp: But can they capture aliens. Can they? Swamp Search does.

     

    Spenk: Filming a tv screen / monitor is a moronic idea at best. You get scan lines showing, the camera wobles and loses focus (or yu do anyway). Software exists that can zoom in on a video - you are an idiot for not using it.

    SpectateSwamp: Here is a prime example of a Resolutionist ElgateSwamp. They Yap and Yap about this being bad and that no good. But nothing, they produce nothing.

     

    Spenk: And mushroom clouds are significant how exactly?

    SpectateSwamp: There was one exactly like this one in the same location about 2 weeks later. I think they are there looking for Dino Mummys.

     

    SpectateSwamp: It helps if you have a bird in the picture. Birds can see video artifacts.

     

    SpectateSwamp: Hitting pause no pause is no way to search for aliens.

     

    By the way, this thread is now responsible for making me burst out laughing in the middle of English class (it was the sloth image that did it).  Thanks a lot, guys.



  • http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/7593/142389.aspx#142389

    "Dump some huge amount of text and check it out. GF on your jpgs or mpgs or mp3 stuff Now they can't touch you. You are in control of your DATA."   (What if I want my data to touch me?)

    Also, I believe the SSDS1 image came from elgate.

    link to another image post from elgate:

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/7593/144378.aspx#144378

     



  • @belgariontheking said:

    Also, I believe the SSDS1 image came from elgate.
     

    Already done. Gave credit where credit is due. Thanks for letting me know.  If you know who did any others I did just let me know.

    http://www.thestupidestmanonearth.com/DesktopSearch.aspx

    @belgariontheking said:

    link to another image post from elgate:

    http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/7593/144378.aspx#144378


    I have that one, just need to figure out where to use it. Too good not to use it really. Open to suggestions.

    Plus I am waiting for elgate to officially give me permission.



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Anyone want to volunteer to write a biography of what we know about Spectate that we can start with?

     

     

    I'll take this one on.  Will take me till tomorrow evening - can't post while at work - they took my privileges away :- (  But I can still READ the threads!

     



  • @spenk said:

    You didn't meet the entry requirements!!!! hat the fuck did you expect????
    I just found my next tag cloud attack.



  • @burntfuse said:

     

    SpectateSwamp: It helps if you have a bird in the picture. Birds can see video artifacts.

     

    To be fair, I paraphrased that quote from another forum and posted it here. I may have not made it clear it wasn't a direct quote.  Here is the original, in the interest of strict journalistic accuracy:

    How to capture video artifacts of your own. Sorta like a strange art
    Shoot clouds and sky with the sun at your back. Like in the video.
    If you have a bird put it in the video. You'll capture more of them.
    Because the birds seem to have the ability to see them too.

     



  • "Don't think Do" Jamming it with Spectate Swamp

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Randomly flung "Jam It!" "Boondoggle" "Gee-haw!" all over the back of it...
    One lady I trained came from Moscow. Her boss told her. "Don't think Do" that's a lot like Jammin it. My #3 program of all time is the dumps I create for each file we get during a conversion. At one point in the first billing conversion she said "everything is a print program". Pretty well. All the Prt_subscriber.bas type programs for the Shaw system were already done. Combine 2 or 3 move a little data about and you're Jamming it. You poor suckers don't know how. Doing too much thinking. (Change, compile, link, Jam it) over and over again.

     

    Looking for quotes. I wish I had kept copies of the video forum stuff. Terribly funny stuff. All taken down. Gone

    Jammin it with video works too That's how you find aliens. Shoot lots and lots. and look at it very carefully. One day there will be more of us Swampies videoing the skys. 10 cameras could blanket Whitecourt. Nobody moves without being videoed. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    "Don't think Do" that's a lot like Jammin it.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    You poor suckers don't know how. Doing too much thinking.

    Truly, you are the master of acting without thinking.  Congratulations. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Looking for quotes. I wish I had kept copies of the video forum stuff. Terribly funny stuff. All taken down. Gone
     

    Does it bother you at all that MPS is looking for quotes to put on a site called www.thestupidestmanonearth.com, featuring yourself?  It is not exactly a feather in your cap....

    There is such a thing as bad attention, you know.



  • Don't think Do - Jamming it with Spectate Swamp

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    @bstorer said:

    In the spirit of SSDS, we could just put everything in one HTML file and tack on new stuff at the end.

     

    We could build a wiki based off a flat file DB? Pull every page from text in inmail.txt?

    You are learning fast BstorerSwamp. Take SSDS and customise it to your needs. When an application can do it all. (video, audio, pictures and text) You are off and running. Worry about the nice interface later. Show people new stuff and they will watch. Don't change anything and they are gone. Me too.

    MasterPlanSwamp. Having trouble with your wiki. Could be your head has swolen and you need a bigger Fedora. Really I shouldn't be so hard on you. That crap must be hard to make work. Not easily tested either.  



  • Mushroom expert wanted - Identify Whitecourt cloud

    @MasterPlanSoftware said:

     Does anybody have the full size picture of ole yellowhead still kicking around? I need to start collecting this stuff up. Has anybody already started collecting all the images?
    Forget that has anybody caught any aliens. Or found any illegal dino stuff. Maybe even a picture of the Mushroom cloud. And this cloud looks more like a mushroom than any nuclear explosion. We need a mushroom expert to join the thread. I don't want the Latin name either.

     @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    How about you Spectate? Do you have both of your major threads here in a giant text file? Could you put it on your website for download for me?
    Cut and paste them into a big file using the "z" option at prompt #2. MasterPlanLazy

     



  • @MasterPlanSoftware said:

    Has anybody already started collecting all the images?

    Sticker by me, TDEMSYR-guy, Mess 1 by Stoned An himself, Mess 2, rc_pinchey trying to code as good as SS himself... failing, Brillant goto graph by Albatross, Some diagram by rc_pinchey, Some other diagram by rc_pinchey (I liked those), Some diagram by SpectateShit, MarcB in a desperate attempt of explaining sat ISP to SS, PhotoShoppedSwamp by Flaquito, Ender demonstrating SSDS greatness, elgate's first swamp pic, Dinosaur skin - I found some by djork



    Should be all the relevant once. The others were mostly just random internet pics or boring (e.g., SpectateSwamp posting screenshots from GoogleVideo, SS posting other random boring stuff)
    The 3 elgate-wallpapers (and a web 0.1 remake of one of them) aren't included as they've already been mentioned.



    I hope this will help you in any way =D btw this is only from the old thread.



    While scanning the whole thread, this popped into my eyes:
    @SpectateSwamp said:

    @rc_pinchey said:
    Erm... why are you showing us a screenshot of this, exactly?

    No Reason. I'll keep it up to date. Change is Good

    Good luck setting up MediaWiki.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

     @MasterPlanSoftware said:
    How about you Spectate? Do you have both of your major threads here in a giant text file? Could you put it on your website for download for me?
    Cut and paste them into a big file using the "z" option at prompt #2. MasterPlanLazy
     

    Or you could write a tiny script to retrieve all the HTML pages of each thread using wget (available on many platforms), preserving all the hilarious images, links and formatting.  Or you could use commercial software like webzip.

    Computers are supposed to be labour-saving devices.  SSDS surely doesn't qualify as the "world's most powerful program" if you have to do 90% of the work yourself.  You yourself whined (lied?) about all the time you wasted copying and pasting your emails manually.  Of course, later on you claimed the wasted time meant nothing to you.  You PsychoPathic Liar.

     



  • What's my Dino - I hope it's not just some old DuckBill

    @CodeSimian said:

    Does it bother you at all that MPS is looking for quotes to put on a site called www.thestupidestmanonearth.com, featuring yourself?  It is not exactly a feather in your cap....

    There is such a thing as bad attention, you know.

    Not bothered at all by MasterPlanSwamps site. Maybe it will get somebody in here to identify the FishHead and the dino skin. I put the Dino mummy skin up for sale on Ebay. Knowing that would be good bait for the Dino thieving paleontologists. It did draw some attention. Auctioning off the 3 Dino Mummy sites would be even better.

     I'll finish those tobacco leaf flyer flights in more detail and post them on youtube or video.google in the next bit. Seeing is believing. The camera doesn't lie.

    Those netsquared folks weren't that nice to me. Good thing they kicked me out. For no good reason.



  • Dancing Fool - maybe not

    @CodeSimian said:

    Or you could write a tiny script to retrieve all the HTML pages of each thread using wget (available on many platforms), preserving all the hilarious images, links and formatting.  Or you could use commercial software like webzip.

    Computers are supposed to be labour-saving devices.  SSDS surely doesn't qualify as the "world's most powerful program" if you have to do 90% of the work yourself.  You yourself whined (lied?) about all the time you wasted copying and pasting your emails manually.  Of course, later on you claimed the wasted time meant nothing to you.  You PsychoPathic Liar.

     

    For the number of times I want to copy forums. My way is easier than learning something new. (not need to know mode) I would do short video segments and screen captures of the funny cartoons. To play randomly from a DVD. Or maybe not. Too much fun doing Dino Mummy and Alien stuff. Also planning the Next to last Dance with the stones. 2012 being the Last.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    For the number of times I want to copy forums. My way is easier than learning something new. (not need to know mode)
     

    For the number of forums you spam, your way is actually harder than learning something new.  And you keep bragging that learning new languages is easy, so put your money where your mouth is.

    I can't believe I'm doing this, but here's how you can download this very thread in HTML with all the pictures and formatting intact in FIVE MINUTES:

    1) Create new folder on your PC e.g. C:\search\dailywtf\

    2) Download wget for Windows:

    http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/

    Copy WGET.EXE to C:\search\dailywtf\

    3) Copy and paste the following code into notepad.

     for count = 1 to <font color="#0000ff">16</font>
      Dim WshShell, oExec
      Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
      Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("wget -p -k -N <font color="#0000ff">http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/8159.aspx?PageIndex</font><font color="#0000ff"></font>=" & count)

      Do While oExec.Status = 0
         WScript.Sleep 100
      Loop

    next

     

    Save the file with the name GET.VBS in C:\search\dailywtf\

    4) In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\search\dailywtf\.  Double-click on GET.VBS

    5) Wait a few minutes.

    That's it.  You know what?  That was the first VBScript I ever wrote in my life.  You're right - learning new languages is easy!

    It took me a few minutes to learn the relevant commands and adapt examples on the net.  Running that script is a lot easier than mindlessly copying and pasting multiple pages of HTML into a big text file, especially for a massive thread like the other dailywtf thread.  And you get to look at the thread in its original state.

    You can obviously download any thread on DailyWTF.com you want by changing the blue parts of the script.  A clever man like you should be able to adapt the script for any site on the Internet, as long as it uses a sane URL naming scheme.

    You're welcome, SpectateLazy.

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    My way is easier than learning something new. (not need to know mode)
     

    By the way, you massive hypocrite, did you ever consider that the common man might say the same thing about learning to use SSDS, with all the confusing and complex commands.  Even you, the author of SSDS, can't remember the commands in SSDS.  To use Google Desktop Search, or the built-in Windows Search, the user only has to type the search terms into a little box.  THE MASSES ARE IN A "NOT NEED TO KNOW MODE", JUST LIKE YOU.



  • Spectate Swamp Bio - Draft 1

    Here is my first take at a bio - comments please!  Yes I know it has some gaps - it is a Draft! 

     -----------

     

    <o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>

    Mr. Doug Pederson – AKA SpectateSwamp

     

    Born 26 July 1948 somewhere in the nether regions of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> – most likely a union of an interstellar alien male and a 5th generation inbred female

     

    For approximately 20 years he worked as a computer programmer utilizing Fortran H, Fortran F, Cobol, and RPG.  Picked up BASIC as a hobby language later in his life.  Wrote systems for telephone companies, Cable Companies, and Rural Gas companies.

     

    While working at a rock quarry happened upon a mid-sized rock with a hole naturally cut through it.  Dreams told him it was a very special rock and he later determined with the help of a psychic that it was an ancient Indian Medicine Stone.  Initially attempted to commercialize the rock and profit from it until the local Indian culture vehemently objected.  Ultimately determined that the rock found him because he was in actuality an Indian Shaman, and the stone found him because of this.

     

    He found additional medicine stones in his frequent wandering throughout the Canadian wilderness, and RV parks, and ultimately began using them to curse those that disagreed with him.

     

    Somewhere around this time Doug picked up a hobby of video taping everything interesting to him.  He soon realized that just about everything he taped contained evidence of alien life.  He soon realized that editing of video was a conspiracy to keep us from finding this evidence and vowed to teach the world the evils of video editing.

     


    From 1999 – 2007 little is known of him, but we believe he spend copious amount of time gibbering at his keyboard, subtly laughing to himself  while typing “GOTO” over and over and over again.  We also believe his father visited him and extracted all remaining sources of alien DNA from Doug’s body, as he was now the laughing stock of all interstellar travelers.

     

    In Jan 2008 history was made when Spectate Swamp Desktop Search was revealed to the world in a show of open source generosity.  The world was amazed.  The world was stunned.  The world could not stop laughing.

     

    Today Doug can be found traveling from internet blog, chat room, forum (at least that have not banned him for life) talking up the greatness that is SSDS

    <o:p> </o:p>

    <o:p> </o:p>

    <o:p> </o:p>

     



  • @CodeSimian said:

    @burntfuse said:

     

    SpectateSwamp: It helps if you have a bird in the picture. Birds can see video artifacts.

     

    To be fair, I paraphrased that quote from another forum and posted it here. I may have not made it clear it wasn't a direct quote.

     

     

    Ok, thanks for clearing that up.  I should've been more careful there.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    We need a mushroom expert to join the thread. I don't want the Latin name either.
     

    Uh... haven't you noticed that I am the "expert" here for all things weather?  I have a few of these things called degrees which certify that I know meteorology.  I have even published a paper and given some small presentations at professional conferences.  I am telling you that those are not mushroom clouds.  They are anvil clouds.  The reason they flatten out at the top is that the rising air that forms the cloud cannot rise anymore, but has to move out of the way of rising air below.  Thats what forms the spreading that you see in anvils.

    Mushroom clouds from nuclear and volcanic explosions have the "rolling" effect due to the fact that air further from the center do not get as much upward force, thus they move slightly slower.  Eventually, this air cannot rise as much either and will eventually "hit a ceiling" and flatten out.

    I know SpectateSwamp will completely disregard all of this and I am not sure why I just spent the last few minutes writing this.  Maybe somebody will remember this useful bit of trivia? 


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