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And this catalog of clouds
is the next clue in our detective story,
because clouds caused something strange
to happen at Ben Nevis. You see, from the moment
it opened, the station observers
worked 24 hours a day. Each shift would send off
regular reports on temperature, pressure, rain and so on; and one of the reports
they had to file would be about the clouds. And, if you were on the dawn shift, you'd sometime see the clouds
in the valley do something very weird
to your shadow
is the next clue in our detective story,
because clouds caused something strange
to happen at Ben Nevis. You see, from the moment
it opened, the station observers
worked 24 hours a day. Each shift would send off
regular reports on temperature, pressure, rain and so on; and one of the reports
they had to file would be about the clouds. And, if you were on the dawn shift, you'd sometime see the clouds
in the valley do something very weird
to your shadow
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And this catalog of clouds
is the next clue
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in our detective story,
because clouds
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caused something strange
to happen at Ben Nevis.
00:00:09.675 --> 00:00:10.808
You see, from the moment
it opened,
00:00:10.909 --> 00:00:13.545
the station observers
worked 24 hours a day.
00:00:13.645 --> 00:00:16.999
Each shift would send off
regular reports on temperature,
00:00:16.115 --> 00:00:17.615
pressure, rain and so on;
00:00:17.717 --> 00:00:19.085
and one of the reports
they had to file
00:00:19.951 --> 00:00:21.586
would be about the clouds.
00:00:21.687 --> 00:00:23.421
And, if you were on the dawn shift,
00:00:23.522 --> 00:00:26.224
you'd sometime see the clouds
in the valley
00:00:26.259 --> 00:00:28.926
do something very weird
to your shadow.
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Movie Summary
Follow James Burke through the history of science and technology in this collection of 10 1-hour episodes, starting with "The Trigger Effect."