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clubandrew
Posted: May 25 2006, 09:25 AM


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http://www.physorg.com/news67694513.html

Surely the threshold of 312K (38.85 deg C) is too low to be registering the presence of a fire. Unless I"m missing something, I would have thought large regions of the world would have land temperatures higher than this during summer.
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aasd
Posted: May 25 2006, 12:19 PM


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Maybe it is measured during night? Should cool down in the deserts at night.
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clubandrew
Posted: May 25 2006, 03:06 PM


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But then a visual camera would work just as well.
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