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Mom duck: Kids this is the LHC, take care of the particles, they are fast!Beyond wrote:Even ducks have to watch out for quack-ups.
http://www.wfsb.com/video?clipId=7695568&autostart=true
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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. 
Oh, all the people who thought hiding bodies in arctic ice is a good choice are now sweatingBeyond wrote:A small silver lineing amid the melting polar ice?
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-eskimo-vi ... 15624.html
, but hey think positive!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.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.
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 beMoonlady wrote:http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholi ... ingday.htm
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' daysBMAONE23 wrote: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.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.
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. 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,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.
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.Moonlady wrote: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,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.
because I am much smaller, yehaaaa
giddy-up little doggie. I love it! The dog is so big he doesn't fit into the computer!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.
a 30lb bag every 2 days is about 2lbs per day
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.
Donut power!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.
Rob, your avatar makes me always hungryrstevenson wrote:From further down in the linked article...
Donut power!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.
Rob
