Comments on: The global distribution of dust devils on Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-global-distribution-of-dust-devils-on-mars/ Sat, 17 May 2025 20:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-global-distribution-of-dust-devils-on-mars/#comment-1587464 Sat, 17 May 2025 20:17:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114050#comment-1587464 Dust devils and tornadoes have always interested me—some have horizontal vortices…like the Tuscaloosa 2011 twister.

To the Kiowa, he is Man’kayi’a.

In Native Alabama, however the name of the wind-spawn is Mahlikánko.

The storm
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/12/inline-BAMS-D-20-0251.1-f9.jpg

“…of rushing airy presences to be heard faintly at certain hours from stated points at the bottom of the great ravines; The children and the womenfolk whimpered, kept from screaming by some obscure, vestigial instinct of defence which told them their lives depended on silence….’ made o’ sep’rit wrigglin’ ropes pushed clost together”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhawca13wjk

Negotium perambulans in tenebris.

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-global-distribution-of-dust-devils-on-mars/#comment-1586832 Thu, 15 May 2025 05:49:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114050#comment-1586832 Heh. Good thing Mars is just the Red Planet and not the planet of Reds.

]]> By: Ronaldus Magnus https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-global-distribution-of-dust-devils-on-mars/#comment-1586689 Wed, 14 May 2025 17:35:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=114050#comment-1586689 The most pressing question is the fair, equitable distribution of Martian Dust Devils. C’mon, Man! Perhaps Harvard can spend some of its endowment on this pressing issue.

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