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NOCTILUCENT_CLOUDS_AND_THE_FLOOD_OF_NOAH
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Creation Scientists have proposed that from the time of Creation
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to the Flood of Noah there was a great quantity of water in the
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high atmosphere. Is there any evidence for this? Actually there
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is, and one of these evidences is presented here.
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NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS to about 25oC. At this height
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25oC is above the boiling
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From latitudes 50o to 70o in point of water. If any liquid
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the summer time special forms water or ice exists here it is
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of cloud are often seen called trapped. If it goes down, it
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`Noctilucent' or `Night- will evaporate and rise again.
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Glowing' clouds. It is not This is similar to the pre-
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immediately obvious that these flood canopy of water proposed
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are unusual clouds. However by many Creation Scientists.
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they are much higher than most This shows that before the
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at altitudes of 80 to 85 km. Flood there was a great canopy
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(The next highest clouds are of water in the atmosphere
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Cirrus Clouds which reach only that would not precipitate as
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an altitude of 13 km.) Because rain. This did eventually fall
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of their great altitude they due to some disturbance at the
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can be seen long after sunset. start of flood, giving forty
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days and nights of rain.
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When the sun is from 6 to 16
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degrees below the horizon you HOW DOES WATER
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can still see it if you are at REACH THIS ALTITUDE?
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altitudes of 80 km and higher.
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This also means that the sun If water droplets, dust or
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will light up clouds that are other particles are ejected to
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there. Noctilucent Clouds will altitudes of over 30km, (the
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glow with the reflection of upper stratosphere), it will
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the setting sun's light long move through the ozone layer
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after sunset . The clouds can at 50 kilometers up to the
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cover an area of up to three Ionosphere where the air is
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million square kilometers, and electrically charged. This
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may last several hours. Even takes about two years.
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below a latitude of 50o they
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are sometimes seen for a few Noctilucent Clouds were first
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hours. They are very obvious seen June 8th, 1885 in
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because in the evening they Germany. Within a month they
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are seen against a dark sky. were seen throughout Northern
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Europe. They have been seen
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At this altitude, known as the frequently ever since, but no
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Ionosphere, the temperature is clear records exist of their
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at a minimum, about -100oC. detection before this time. We
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Both higher and lower the know from other records that
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temperature increases. Above observations were made of the
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85 km the sun's radiation areas of the sky that would
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ionizes the air, charging it have shown these clouds, had
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electrically and heating it up they been there.
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to 1,750oC. Below this the
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ozone layer converts ultra Two years earlier a major
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violet light from the sun into event occurred that probably
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heat, raising the temperature formed the Noctilucent Clouds.
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The island volcano Krakatoa that very little water from
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exploded on August 26-27, Cirrus Clouds, travels upwards
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1883. Australians heard the above 13km. Water vapour from
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explosion 3,500 km away. Winds this and lower levels of the
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(pressure waves) from Krakatoa atmosphere goes up in minute
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were recorded around the quantities so it cannot be the
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world. Twenty cubic kilometers source of Noctilucent Clouds.
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of rock were thrown into the
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air, along with a tremendous Before the flood water stayed
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quantity of ash and water in the high atmosphere for
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vapour. Nearly half of the centuries. There is no reason
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island vanished. The water it shouldn't stay there for a
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vapour and ash took two years long time now. Instead of
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to reach the Ionosphere inventing complex ideas for
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forming Noctilucent Clouds at its replacement, it is easy to
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just the time that they were see that since it stayed for a
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seen in Germany. According to long time once, it is doing so
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Gary Thomas, an atmospheric again, but on a smaller scale.
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scientist at the University of
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Colorado, Krakatoa was the CONCLUSION
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reason for these clouds.1
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Noctilucent Clouds are the
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WHAT ARE THEY? debris from the Krakatoa
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explosion. The reason they can
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What are the clouds actually still be seen is the same
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made of? Instruments placed in reason the water canopy stayed
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rockets have established that up in the air before the flood
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the clouds are composed of of Noah. Conditions at those
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particles 0.1-0.3 microns in altitudes prevent the clouds
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diameter. They are probably from falling as rain.
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meteor dust particles, or dust
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from the Krakatoa explosion. Again this shows Creationist
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The particles themselves are thinking borne out by evidence
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too small to reflect sunlight, of science. Water vapour can
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but most have crystallized exist for extended periods in
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water vapour surrounding them. the atmosphere. The canopy of
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This is the water vapour, and water presented by Creation
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possibly some of the dust, Scientists is more than just
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that Krakatoa produced. possible, a minute version of
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it formed just over a century
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WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE? ago, and it is still there.
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Why do we still see them? ------------------------------
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Thomas states1 that Krakatoa's
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debris would not continue for The author, David M.Harris
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such a long time. He also says receives mail at: 19 Orleans
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that not enough other water Drive, West Hill, Ontario,
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vapour rises to account for Canada, M1C 4T1. (416) 286-
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these clouds. He suggests that 4282. He can also be reached
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methane from rice paddies, via the Creation Science
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swamps, cattle and termites Association of Canada in
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are the current cause. This is Vancouver, British Columbia.
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pure fantasy. These factors
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have been around for centuries 1. Discover, August 1989, p14.
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before Krakatoa. It is true `Cloudy Memories of Krakatau'
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