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Re: Etymology of "loom"?
From: John Huth
Date: 2009 Sep 12, 12:24 -0400
From: John Huth
Date: 2009 Sep 12, 12:24 -0400
An example occurred on the evening of April 26, 1977,
when the residents of Grand Haven in Michigan
looked west over Lake Michigan and saw city
lights. The city of Milwaukee, seventy-five miles distant, is
geometrically well below the horizon and out of sight from Grand Haven. An
observation of a blinking red light convinced the viewers that Milwaukee
was the city-above-the-lake: An
ingenious observer timed the blinking and called someone in Milwaukee to find out what it could be. His
measurement agreed with the frequency of the flashing red light beamed eastward
from the entrance of the Milwaukee
harbor. Weather Service records for that
time showed a strong temperature inversion over the lake[i]
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