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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Moonlady » Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:11 am

Beyond wrote:Even ducks have to watch out for quack-ups.

http://www.wfsb.com/video?clipId=7695568&autostart=true
Mom duck: Kids this is the LHC, take care of the particles, they are fast!

Kids: Yay, whirlwind!

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Mom duck : Now tell me which particles did we learn today?

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Ann » Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:50 am

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Ann » Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:54 am

For those who don't want to eat squashed duck (my goodness, Beyond, I'm glad the little ducklings made it!!! :shock: ):
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:12 am

WOW :!: 2014 pounds of Moo. That's a lot of beef to have with someone. Good thing it was with Guinness, so there was a lot of Ale to wash it all down. :lol2:
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Re: I Didn't Know That

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:35 pm

Quest To Reach Buried Antarctic Lake Ready To Begin.
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:47 pm

Gallery of Mysterious Lights. Some man-made and some natural.
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Tue Sep 11, 2012 5:04 am

A small silver lineing amid the melting polar ice?

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-eskimo-vi ... 15624.html
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Moonlady » Thu Sep 13, 2012 4:22 pm

Beyond wrote:A small silver lineing amid the melting polar ice?

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-eskimo-vi ... 15624.html
Oh, all the people who thought hiding bodies in arctic ice is a good choice are now sweating :D , but hey think positive!

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by BMAONE23 » Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:02 pm

The site is known as Nunalleq and is believed to have been inhabited between AD 1350 and AD 1650. During that time, the area reportedly suffered what’s termed as “The Little Ice Age.” In contrast to our climate issues, the Yup’ik were subjected to rapidly falling temperatures and expanding ice caps.
Sounds to me like the implication is that the site was as warm as or warmer than now for the village to have been founded back in AD 1350. This also means that it is likely that the site was as warm as or warmer than now for the some of the 300 year period between AD 1350 and AD 1650 prior to the low point of the LIA.

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:29 am

Moonlady wrote:http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholi ... ingday.htm
I'm not so sure we should have a positive thinking day. It may screw up all the negitive thinkers too bad. Then where would we be :?: :lol2:
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Fri Sep 14, 2012 3:39 am

BMAONE23 wrote:
The site is known as Nunalleq and is believed to have been inhabited between AD 1350 and AD 1650. During that time, the area reportedly suffered what’s termed as “The Little Ice Age.” In contrast to our climate issues, the Yup’ik were subjected to rapidly falling temperatures and expanding ice caps.
Sounds to me like the implication is that the site was as warm as or warmer than now for the village to have been founded back in AD 1350. This also means that it is likely that the site was as warm as or warmer than now for the some of the 300 year period between AD 1350 and AD 1650 prior to the low point of the LIA.
REALLY?? You mean it just could be that the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles on it's own, and no matter how much we try to help it, it doesn't really matter much? Why, that would ruin a few peoples' days :!: :mrgreen: On the positive side though, we do seem to have helped in makeing and expanding a hole over the Antarctic, so we haven't entirely failed. :mrgreen:
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:12 pm

World's Tallest Dog.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/19536188/grea ... allest-dog

I would have put a picture here, but THIS computer said it was too big, and MY computer kept telling me that it would lose transparentcy when i tried to save it after re-sizing. So due to computers being computers, you'll have to click the link to see the dog.
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Moonlady » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:25 pm

Beyond wrote:World's Tallest Dog.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/19536188/grea ... allest-dog

I would have put a picture here, but THIS computer said it was too big, and MY computer kept telling me that it would lose transparentcy when i tried to save it after re-sizing. So due to computers being computers, you'll have to click the link to see the dog.
Beautiful dog, how much food (cans) does he need per day and how big must be his playground, he needs much space like horses, or ponies, I could ride this dog,
because I am much smaller, yehaaaa :cowboy:

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:35 pm

Moonlady wrote:
Beyond wrote:World's Tallest Dog.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/19536188/grea ... allest-dog

I would have put a picture here, but THIS computer said it was too big, and MY computer kept telling me that it would lose transparentcy when i tried to save it after re-sizing. So due to computers being computers, you'll have to click the link to see the dog.
Beautiful dog, how much food (cans) does he need per day and how big must be his playground, he needs much space like horses, or ponies, I could ride this dog,
because I am much smaller, yehaaaa :cowboy:
The article said a 30lb bag of dog food every 2-weeks, but i think they made an error. seems like he would eat more than that.
Yehaaaa :cowboy: giddy-up little doggie. :lol2:
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by BMAONE23 » Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:03 pm

a 30lb bag every 2 days is about 2lbs per day. I have a shih tzu that eats 2-11oz cans every 3 days (fat little dog) and weighs 21lbs. 2lbs a day sounds reasonable to me

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Beyond wrote:World's Tallest Dog.
http://www.wfsb.com/story/19536188/grea ... allest-dog

I would have put a picture here, but THIS computer said it was too big, and MY computer kept telling me that it would lose transparentcy when i tried to save it after re-sizing. So due to computers being computers, you'll have to click the link to see the dog.
I love it! The dog is so big he doesn't fit into the computer! :lol2: :puppy: :lol2: :puppy: :lol2:

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Beyond » Sun Sep 16, 2012 4:33 pm

This was something that wasn't related to the thread that didn't work, so i erased it.
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Moonlady » Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:38 pm

a 30lb bag every 2 days is about 2lbs per day


I am not good in calculus...feeding every two day 30 lb would be 15 lb per day?

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Moonlady » Sun Sep 16, 2012 6:43 pm

I am thinking of the dog's doo...the giant dog must have giant doos right?!
Maybe it can be made to flat round things, like cow pats, this would be then dog pat...dry and burn...anyone barbecue? :mrgreen:

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by BMAONE23 » Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:25 pm

30lbs/2 weeks = 2lbs-day
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Post by bystander » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:14 pm

The Warp Drive Could Become Science Fact
Discovery News | Clara Moskowitz, via SPACE.com | 2012 Sep 17
New calculations of the energy required to warp spacetime suggest the Star Trek propulsion favorite could be tested.
A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel -- a concept popularized in television's Star Trek -- may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say.

A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. A concept for a real-life warp drive was suggested in 1994 by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, however subsequent calculations found that such a device would require prohibitive amounts of energy.

Now physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially bringing the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

"There is hope," Harold "Sonny" White of NASA's Johnson Space Center said Friday (Sept. 14) at the 100 Year Starship Symposium, a meeting to discuss the challenges of interstellar spaceflight.

How to Make an 'Energy Efficient' Warp Drive
Discovery News | Ian O'Neill | 2012 Sep 24
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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by rstevenson » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:49 pm

From further down in the linked article...
The only problem is, previous studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter.

But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.
Donut power!

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Post by Moonlady » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:51 pm

rstevenson wrote:From further down in the linked article...
The only problem is, previous studies estimated the warp drive would require a minimum amount of energy about equal to the mass-energy of the planet Jupiter.

But recently White calculated what would happen if the shape of the ring encircling the spacecraft was adjusted into more of a rounded donut, as opposed to a flat ring. He found in that case, the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of a spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe NASA launched in 1977.
Donut power!

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Rob, your avatar makes me always hungry :!:

What would scientists do, if there weren't the donuts to explain the shape of a donut so people understand easily?
Maybe car tire?

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Re: I Didn't Know That

Post by Ann » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:07 am

But what if you get so hungry that you eat the donut encircling your spacecraft and bringing your energy budget down?

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