Abstruse Goose: In the Neutral Zone

[bystander]

In the Neutral Zone

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Clearly, HTML5 did not kill Flash (16 Sept 2010)

[neufer]

<<ADOBE (Arabic: الطوبى) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world. In hot climates, compared to wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to earthquake damage.>>

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The citadel of Bam or Arg-é Bam (c 500 BC - 2003 AD) [b][color=#0000FF]The world's largest adobe structure[/color][/b]

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<<Bam is a city in Kerman Province of Iran. The modern Iranian city of Bam surrounds the Bam citadel. The 2003 Bam earthquake was a major earthquake that struck Bam and the surrounding Kerman province of southeastern Iran at 1:56 UTC (5:26 AM Iran Standard Time) on December 26, 2003. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 6.6 on the Richter scale; estimated by the United States Geological Survey. The earthquake was particularly destructive, with the death toll amounting to 26,271 people and injuring an additional 30,000. The effects of the earthquake and damage was exacerbated by the fact that the city chiefly consisted of mud brick buildings, many of which did not comply with earthquake regulations set in Iran in 1989, and that most of the city's people were indoors and asleep. Following the earthquake the U.S. offered direct humanitarian assistance to Iran and in return the state promised to comply with an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency which supports greater monitoring of its nuclear interests. In total a reported 44 countries sent in personnel to assist in relief operations and 60 countries offered assistance.>>

[Beyond]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe wrote:

<<ADOBE (Arabic: الطوبى) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world. In hot climates, compared to wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to earthquake damage.>>

So that's the meaning of >>"Gone-in-an-Adobe-Flash"<<

[neufer]

So that's the meaning of >>"Gone-in-an-Adobe-Flash"<<

Slam Bam, thank you, Ma'am.

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[Ann]

Love that Star Trek strip! Thanks, bystander!

And thanks, Art, for that informative pieces on adobe, and for the images, one exquisitely beautiful, the other two beautiful but heartbreaking.

Then again, you may also call the second two images an illustration of the second law of thermodynamics.

Ann