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Despite the "End of the World" as some 4um prophetic posters claim: The world has not ended: BP, U.S. Aim to Seal Gulf Oil Gusher Within Days, Allen Says
Post Date: 2010-07-09 16:18:59 by buckeroo
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BP Plc may contain all of the flow from its Gulf of Mexico oil gusher within the next four days by accelerating installation of a tight seal between the damaged wellhead and surface production vessels, said Thad Allen, the government’s national incident coordinator. The quickened timeline is necessary to complete surface and subsea connections needed before another storm roils the Gulf, stalling work, Allen said today at a press conference in New Orleans. It may also result in thousands of additional barrels spilled over several days while the work is done. Obama administration officials probably will tell BP to begin as early as tomorrow replacing a leaky cap atop the well that has ...
ColonelBleep
Post Date: 2010-07-08 23:56:10 by Amandil
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Poster Comment:am curious to hear the responses from some of you over this lil bit of programming from 50+years ago - briefly, it is a cartoon, aimed at children, explaining how an ET has come to Earth secretly, because Earthlings were now playing with atom bombs, and that was dangerous for the whole universe, not just us. I walked in the reality of the new age folk for quite a while and know this is a common theme amongst the ones who think ET is our friend. Even better, this being has two helpers, one pretty much nuthing more than a brute idiot(human self?) - a 3 in 1 being, here to help us and get us to stop using atomic bombs.all packaged and delivered to young children through the ...
Neanderthal genome – our red-headed, muscle-bound siblings live on within us
Post Date: 2010-07-06 13:48:42 by Turtle
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Fascinating discoveries recently shed new light on the Neanderthal – researchers have sequenced the Neanderthal genome – we now know exactly what differs and what is the same between them and modern day humans. Not surprisingly, there are some major commonalities. Now we know that humans and Neanderthals interbred to some degree. Today, there remains a part of Homo neanderthalensis which lives on in Homo sapiens. This is wonderful and exciting news for all except those who think existence is only 6k years old, and are convinced that Homo sapiens was created “special and different” from all other species. Well, hold on, Fundie-fantasy-folks, because you’re about ...
What Really Matters
Post Date: 2010-07-06 05:56:12 by Ada
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Going to the moon didn't really matter, it turned out. I say that from the vantage point of my six decades living on Planet Earth, but also because of something I saw not so long ago. It was at Booker T. Washington High School where I watched an official astronaut – a handsome, well-built man in his prime, dressed in a silver space suit with an air of authentic command – try to get the attention of an auditorium full of Harlem teenagers. It was the Board of Education's perfect template for dramatic success – a distinguished black man leading ignorant black kids to wisdom. He came with every tricky device and visual aid NASA could muster, yet the young audience ...
Three Interesting Numbers
Post Date: 2010-07-05 20:04:32 by Original_Intent
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Three Interesting Numbers By Nick Kollerstrom – 30th June 2010 I used to work at University College, London, getting by as a science historian. Having written papers on various suitably obscure subjects - from Newton’s lunar theory to the discovery of Neptune - three years ago I made what in retrospect looks like a rather large mistake. I began to take an interest in the published chemical evidence relating to the ‘gas chambers’ at Auschwitz/ Birkenau. Maybe it was foolish to imagine that hard scientific data was of relevance in this case. It strangely turned out that I was engaging with a predominantly religious issue, and I simply became damned as a heretic. There ...
Should We Nuke The Oil Well?
Post Date: 2010-07-03 11:14:53 by christine
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CBS News, the Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Reuters and Fox (and see this) have all asked whether BP should nuke its leaking oil well. Indeed, some high-level Russian nuclear scientists and oil industry experts have suggested such an approach to stop the Gulf oil gusher. Here is archival footage of the Russians killing a gas leak with a nuclear device. And Obama's energy secretary and Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Chu included the man who helped develop the first hydrogen bomb in the 1950s as part of the 5-man brain trust tasked with stopping the oil. And oil industry expert Matt Simmons proposes the use of a tactical nuclear device every time he is interviewed on national ...
Google kills Scroogle??
Post Date: 2010-07-01 20:09:51 by X-15
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July 1, 2010: Here we go again... We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google. It depends on whether Google is willing to restore the simple interface that we've been scraping since Scroogle started five years ago. Actually, we've been using that interface for scraping since Google-Watch.org began in 2002. This interface (here's a sample from years ago) was remarkably stable all that time. During those eight years there were only about five changes that required some programming adjustments. Also, this interface was available at every Google data center in exactly the same form, which allowed us to use 700 IP ...
(NSFW vid) The Professor explains the oil spill, clearly and concisely. I wish Glen Beck was this good.
Post Date: 2010-07-01 07:06:34 by PSUSA
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Giant Magma Blobs Ripple Earth's Surface
Post Date: 2010-06-30 14:14:11 by Ada
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Hot blobs of magma - the searing liquid rock beneath the Earth's crust - can spread slow-moving ripples that soar hundreds of meters high across the Earth's surface, a new study suggests. This phenomenon, which works on geologic time scales, may explain relatively rapid pre-historical changes in sea level that occurred without the typical waxing and waning of the polar ice sheets, which hold and release water on scales of thousands and millions of years. This unexplained sea level rise is one of geology's oldest mysteries. During the Paleogene era (65 million to 23 million years ago), the land under Scotland moved up and down like a geological yo-yo. The surface rippled up ...
NOAA Finds Several Leaks In Cracks On Gulf Seafloor; Leaks Where Also Caused By IXTOC Blowout
Post Date: 2010-06-29 12:27:25 by christine
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There seems to be a great deal of skepticism over the possibility that cracks in the well casing and rock formation surrounding the BP Gulf Oil spill could lead to oil leaking from cracks in the seafloor. However the chronology of the IXTOC blowout reveals that an underground blowout caused oil to leak from cracks in the seafloor. Some experts deny that there are even cracks in the rocks surrounding the leaking oil well even though MMS documents show that BP has reports a series of cracks in the well casing and surrounding rock formation as far back as February. Other experts contend that you can’t have cracks in the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico because the entire seabed is a ...
'Biggest thing in farming for 10,000 years on horizon'
Post Date: 2010-06-26 07:39:09 by gengis gandhi
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'Biggest thing in farming for 10,000 years on horizon' * Alert * Print * Post comment Dirtboffins argue for lawn-style perennial grainfields By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Posted in Biology, 25th June 2010 11:08 GMT Free whitepaper – Taking control of your data demons: Dealing with unstructured content Agro-boffins in America say that mankind could be on the verge of the "biggest agricultural breakthrough in 10,000 years", as researchers close in on "perennial grains". At the moment, most grain grown around the world has to be replanted after every crop. Farming so-called "annual" grain of this sort consumes a lot of ...
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 ...
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