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Emergency ALERT! OIL SPILL - BULG on ocean floor, methane gas buildup - EXPLOSION
Post Date: 2010-06-25 00:16:58 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Emergency ALERT! OIL SPILL - BULG on ocean floor, methane gas buildup - EXPLOSION
(2010) Mustang Gets 48.5 MPG Goin’ the Distance
Post Date: 2010-06-24 17:51:56 by X-15
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A Ford Mustang with a V-6 under the hood and a NASCAR driver at the wheel averaged 48.5 mpg as it completed more than 1,000 laps at Bristol Motor Speedway. Ford’s been making a big deal out of the V-6 Mustang, because it’s the first car to deliver more than 300 horsepower and more than 30 mpg. Eager to show off its fuel economy — 19 city, 31 highway and 23 combined — Ford sent a bone stock pony car, NASCAR driver David Ragan and four engineers to Bristol, Tennessee, on Wednesday. The goal was to run 1,000 laps (533 miles) on a single tank. They did that and more. By the time the tank ran dry, the team had finished 1,457 laps (776.5 miles) of the half-mile circuit in ...
Methane: the Great Dying?
Post Date: 2010-06-24 17:18:58 by Original_Intent
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Methane: the Great Dying? What caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history 251 million years ago? This event is one of the most catastrophic in life's history: the P/T extinction. An asteroid or comet colliding with Earth? A greenhouse effect? Volcanic eruptions in Siberia? Or an entirely different culprit? Scientists have suggested many possible causes for this "Great Dying": severe volcanism, a nearby supernova, environmental changes wrought by the formation of a super-continent, the devastating impact of a large asteroid -- or some combination of these. Whatever happened during this period left no form of life undisturbed: No class or species was spared from ...
Methane Thought To Be Responsible For Mass Extinction
Post Date: 2010-06-24 16:11:20 by Original_Intent
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Methane Thought To Be Responsible For Mass Extinction ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2003) — EVANSTON, Ill. -- What caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history 251 million years ago? An asteroid or comet colliding with Earth? A greenhouse effect? Volcanic eruptions in Siberia? Or an entirely different culprit? A Northwestern University chemical engineer believes the culprit may be an enormous explosion of methane (natural gas) erupting from the ocean depths. In an article published in the September issue of Geology, Gregory Ryskin, associate professor of chemical engineering, suggests that huge combustible clouds produced by methane gas trapped in stagnant bodies of water and ...
History Channel Mega Disasters - Methane Explosion
Post Date: 2010-06-24 14:52:20 by abraxas
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Very interesting short video clip discussing the explosive power of methane.....
Methane in Gulf "astonishingly high": U.S. scientist
Post Date: 2010-06-24 14:47:39 by Original_Intent
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(Reuters) - As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday. Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are "astonishingly high." Kessler's crew took measurements of both surface and deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead. "There is an incredible amount of methane in there," Kessler told reporters in a telephone briefing. ...
UFO makes six circles over Fresno - and it's one of ours
Post Date: 2010-06-24 11:00:23 by gengis gandhi
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UFO makes six circles over Fresno - and it's one of ours June 23, 8:05 PMUFO ExaminerRoger Marsh Previous 3 comments S MUFON Store Center for UFO Studies - IUR DVD special The UFO that made fast circles with a contrail behind it is apparently one of ours - but witnesses to the June 3, 2010, sighting over Fresno, CA, are considering this might be something the military is testing. Take a look at the video youself and see what you think. The witnesses state on the video that the craft could not be seen - just the contrail it was leaving behind. They also said it was very "fast moving." The vehicle made six large circles over Fresno skies. Observed with a telescope, they still ...
Nish Motorsports - 386 MPH Run
Post Date: 2010-06-23 00:36:52 by X-15
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Poster Comment:Well, that was fast...
The End of the World as we know it
Post Date: 2010-06-22 06:38:48 by Ada
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Forget man-made threats – the catalyst for the apocalypse will come from outer space, warns astronomer Apocalyptic thought has a tradition that dates to the Persian prophet Zoroaster in the 14th century BC. Recently, anxiety has grown over the prediction of the end of the world in the Mayan calendar. It's true that the Mayan odometer will hit zeros on 21 December 2012, as it reaches the end of a 394-year cycle called a baktun. But this baktun is part of a larger 8,000-year cycle called a pictun, and there's no evidence that anything astronomically untoward will happen as the current baktun slides into the next. However, that hasn't stopped the feverish speculating that ...
Obama spill panel big on policy, not engineering
Post Date: 2010-06-21 06:30:34 by Ada
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WASHINGTON – The panel appointed by President Barack Obama to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is short on technical expertise but long on talking publicly about "America's addiction to oil." One member has blogged about it regularly. Only one of the seven commissioners, the dean of Harvard's engineering and applied sciences school, has a prominent engineering background — but it's in optics and physics. Another is an environmental scientist with expertise in coastal areas and the after-effects of oil spills. Both are praised by other scientists. The five other commissioners are experts in policy and management. The White House said the commission ...
Mirror Neurons
Post Date: 2010-06-20 20:22:08 by Turtle
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Poster Comment:This is amazing stuff.
Costner's 'dream' machines debut [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-06-20 11:20:15 by buckeroo
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Hollywood star Kevin Costner debuted Friday in his supporting role as a Gulf oil-spill fighter. News agencies reported on the actor's premiere staged at the docks in the oil industry supply port of Port Fourchon in southern Louisiana as BP began deploying 32 of his "dream" machines to separate oil from water. Costner's backdrop was an oil-finding barge with his machines mounted on the deck. "At its core, my dream, this machine, was designed ... to give us a fighting chance to fight back the oil that's got us by the throat," Costner told reporters. "When you are in a fight, anybody knows you go to confront it right where it is. You don't wait for ...
Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Post Date: 2010-06-20 11:14:34 by buckeroo
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Video: Music of the sun recorded by scientists
Post Date: 2010-06-19 20:52:07 by Horse
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Astronomers at the University of Sheffield have managed to record for the first time the eerie musical harmonies produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun. They found that huge magnetic loops that have been observed coiling away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument. Related Articles Nasa's warning over pending 'solar storm' Space missions to the Sun Nasa solar flare warning: an expert writes Nasa breakthroughs: the space agency's most thrilling discoveries and pictures Science predictions for 2009 Jack EddyIn other cases they behave more like soundwaves as they travel ...
Nasa warns solar flares from 'huge space storm' will cause devastation
Post Date: 2010-06-17 11:46:15 by Ada
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Britain could face widespread power blackouts and be left without critical communication signals for long periods of time, after the earth is hit by a once-in-a-generation “space storm”, Nasa has warned. National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years. Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes “from a deep slumber” sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. In a new warning, Nasa said the super ...
What's wrong with the sun?
Post Date: 2010-06-16 15:20:22 by Original_Intent
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SUNSPOTS come and go, but recently they have mostly gone. For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months. Thanks to their efforts, we know that sunspot numbers ebb and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years. But for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. "This is solar behaviour we haven't seen in living memory," says David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The sun is under ...
The Neanderthal in You
Post Date: 2010-06-16 12:25:40 by Turtle
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The idea has been kicking around for a number of years that modern humans may have picked up some valuable genes by mating with Neanderthals (kind of like Clan of the Cave Bear, that really odd series of romance novels set in caveman days that were huge bestsellers a generation ago). A new study supports that theory. John Hawks has the background. The idea is that if Neanderthals were off evolving by themselves in the frigid North for a few hundred thousand years, they likely would have developed some well-honed genes for dealing with the difficulties of life outside the tropics. The fastest way for modern humans migrating out of the tropics to acquire traits optimized for surviving ...
"There was no big bang!" Say Several Leading Cosmologists
Post Date: 2010-06-14 11:08:26 by abraxas
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"There was no big bang!" Say Several Leading Cosmologists "What banged?" Sean Carroll, CalTech -Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology & Physics Several of the worlds leading astrophysicists believe there was no Big Bang that brought the universe and time into existence. Before the Big Bang, the standard theory assumes, there was no space, just nothing. Einstein merged the universe into a single entity: not space, not time, but spacetime. Proponents of branes propose that we are trapped in a thin membrane of space-time embedded in a much larger cosmos from which neither light nor energy -except gravity- can escape or enter and that that "dark matter" ...
Oil Volcano Pressure Too Strong For Containment
Post Date: 2010-06-13 06:49:38 by Ada
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It has been estimated by experts that the pressure which blows the oil into the Gulf waters is estimated to be between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI (pounds per square inch). Impossible to control. What US Scientists Are Forbidden To Tell The Public About The Gulf What you are about to read, is what the scientists in the United States are not allowed to tell you in great fear of the Obama administration. They are under the threat of severe repercussions to the max.. Scientists confirming these findings cannot be named due to the above, but what they believe, they want to be known by all. Take a U. S. map, lay it flat and measure inland just the minimum 50 miles of total destruction all around ...
Kevin Costner could have cleaned up Exxon Valdez spill in one week
Post Date: 2010-06-11 22:08:32 by Mind_Virus
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June 9, 2010, 5:17 pm Kevin Costner Does a Star Turn on the Hill By YEGANEH JUNE TORBATI Kevin Costner prepared to testify at the House Science and Technology Energy and Environment Subcommittee on the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in Washington. Tucked at the end of a witness list otherwise filled with doctors, engineers, scientists, and disaster-response specialists testifying before a House committee today about the Gulf oil spill, one name stood out: Kevin Costner. The movie star came to Washington, not, as he put it, because he “heard a voice in a cornfield,” referring to the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” in which he starred. Rather he was there ...
Global Warming Science: A Cross Examination
Post Date: 2010-06-11 00:10:57 by Original_Intent
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Global Warming Science: A Cross Examination Monday, 07 June 2010 08:18 Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post E-mail Print PDF A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fails to stand up to scrutiny. The cross-examination, carried out by Jason Scott Johnston, Professor and Director of the Program on Law, Environment and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, found that “on virtually every major issue in climate change science, the [reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] and other ...
Making microbes produce biofuels
Post Date: 2010-06-10 07:29:16 by Tatarewicz
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The footage of oil that continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico is a stark reminder that the United States' reliance on liquid fuel has consequences. A substantial portion of this fuel powers vehicles: In 2008, 97 percent of energy consumed for transportation in the U.S. was supplied by liquid fuel—much of which was made from oil imported from foreign countries. Photosynthetic plant and algae-derived biofuels are additional sources of fuel (think ethanol and biodiesel) but today's technologies are less than 1 percent efficient at converting sunlight into energy we can use. Organisms use several other ways besides photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into energy, but so ...
Snakes declining at alarming rate, say scientists (first bees, then bats, now snakes)
Post Date: 2010-06-09 16:07:10 by abraxas
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Snakes declining at alarming rate, say scientists Study suspects sharp reduction in snake numbers in a variety of habitats in five countries is caused by habitat loss and prey. The widespread disappearance of snakes will be one impact of climate change that some people may find it hard to regret. But as vital predators in sensitive habitats such as rice fields, their decline will have wider ecological consequence, say scientists. The first major study of the problem, published today, will also be seen as another powerful sign of the worldwide destruction of the natural world, which is causing growing concern about the loss of vital services from rainfall to medicines. Scientists in ...
Half Past Human March 2010 Predictions Of Oil Disaster By Clif High 6-3-10
Post Date: 2010-06-05 15:20:52 by christine
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In light of the enormous environmental BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf Of Mexico, I've been going through the 'Shape of Things to Come' ALTA (Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis) Report, published March 12, 2010 by the amazing Clif High...the wizard behind the Half Past Human research. The following are some remarkable and haunting excerpts from Clif's ALTA Report Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved by Clif High of www.halfpasthuman.com ... "The oceans are described as being not as before." "Disastrous summerproblems with oceanic convection currents." "the supporting aspect/attributes sets for the oceans being unlike their former selves." ...
Ice People and Sun People
Post Date: 2010-06-04 13:05:19 by Turtle
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Black studies professor Leonard Jeffries once declared that whites were “ice people” and blacks were “sun people.” Prof. Jeffries is not a man whose opinions I normally endorse: he is notorious for his hateful rants against the white race. His hatred goes so far that he has even exhorted blacks not to consume foods that are white in color! But his names for the two races are quite apt: it is true that whites evolved in a colder climate than blacks, and this is the reason for the differences between the two races. As for what those differences are, here again I disagree with Prof. Jeffries. Whereas he thinks that whites’ Ice Age past made them violent and cruel, the ...
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