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guiner
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by guiner » Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:14 pm
No word from drillers for 5 days. They need to get packed up and out real soon before winter hits... uh oh...
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/ ... p=features " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Physical_Graffiti
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by Physical_Graffiti » Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:08 pm
[youtube]VIDEO [/youtube]
count2infinity
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by count2infinity » Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:31 am
Pretty cool video of a substance at it's triple point. I've always heard of the triple point, but have never actually seen it. Essentially what's happening is at the right temperature and pressure, a substance will attempt to go into an equilibrium state between solid liquid and gas. So what does that mean? It means boiling, freezing, condensing, melting, sublimation and deposition are all occurring simultaneously. I was always told it's very difficult to achieve and stay at the proper temp and pressure to observe this, but the video shows it quite well. Very cool stuff.
[youtube]VIDEO [/youtube]
doublem
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by doublem » Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:22 pm
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/study-i ... s-0204121/ " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
New Study Isolates Markers That May Predict Schizophrenia.
Factorial
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by Factorial » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:22 pm
After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years. Scientists are enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there but are equally worried about contaminating the lake with drilling fluids and bacteria.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... ml?hpid=z2 " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
SolidSnake
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by SolidSnake » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:22 pm
Maybe they will drill into hell again.
Physical_Graffiti
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by Physical_Graffiti » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:24 pm
Wasn't there a movie about that?
Rylan
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by Rylan » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:25 pm
C2I thanks for sharing that vid. That is beyond awesome.
shafnutz05
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by shafnutz05 » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:16 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9066 ... n-Sea.html
Scientists discover the oldest living thing on Earth.
Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old.
count2infinity
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by count2infinity » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:19 am
Between 12,000 and 200,000 years old? seems like a very large range.
rasbatch
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by rasbatch » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:23 am
shafnutz05 wrote: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9066 ... n-Sea.html
Scientists discover the oldest living thing on Earth.
Ancient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old.
Postings about Madonna need to be kept in the Madonna thread, I would have thought you'd know that Shaf?
roland
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by roland » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:56 pm
'Woolly mammoth' spotted in Siberia
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... beria.html " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The animal – thought to have mostly died out roughly 4,000 years ago – was apparently filmed wading through a river in the freezing wilds of Siberia.
The jaw-dropping footage was caught by a government-employed engineer last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, it is claimed.
"Siberia is an enormous territory and much of it remains completely unexplored and untouched by humans. "
there is a pic with the link but it's copyrighted and cannot be hotlinked here.
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shmenguin
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by shmenguin » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:58 pm
it's a bear with a fish in its mouth
VIDEO " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
roland
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by roland » Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:04 pm
shmenguin wrote: it's a bear with a fish in its mouth
VIDEO " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I see, the video on the news page wouldn't play so I was judging it by the picture alone. The story did say that there are rumors that the Wooly Mammoth is still around. Who knows.
count2infinity
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by count2infinity » Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:37 pm
i wonder why people that take these videos can never focus correctly...
shmenguin
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by shmenguin » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:04 pm
count2infinity wrote: i wonder why people that take these videos can never focus correctly...
^ also said during the erin andrews thread
Rylan
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by Rylan » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:10 pm
shmenguin wrote: count2infinity wrote: i wonder why people that take these videos can never focus correctly...
^ also said during the erin andrews thread
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by SolidSnake » Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:15 am
shmenguin wrote: it's a bear with a fish in its mouth
VIDEO " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It would of been better if Elvis was seen riding it
guiner
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by guiner » Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:26 pm
That mammoth video looks really really, REALLY REALLY fake.
count2infinity
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by count2infinity » Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:51 pm
well, can't post in political thread, so i'll post it here...
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/ ... n&emc=tya1 " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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by DontToewsMeBro » Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:02 pm
Sadly most people intellectually smart enough to be leading scientists aren't great social leaders, but the fact that our leaders are scientifically and economically illiterate is much more worrisome.
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by columbia » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:41 am
Discovered: The mini-meleon that is one of the smallest reptiles on the planet
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... l?ITO=1490 " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
count2infinity
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by count2infinity » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:51 am
whoa, that's cool.
columbia
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by columbia » Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:51 pm
Russians regenerate flowering plant from 30,000-year-old frozen burrow of Ice Age squirrel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/eur ... story.html " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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by Sam's Drunk Dog » Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:17 am
Android app detects and alerts the City of Boston about potholes.
http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/ ... hpt=hp_bn6 " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
This may cause phones to explode if developed for Pittsburgh.