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Volcano footage, AWESOME
Great computer animation on those pictures, but at those flows are not lahars. They are pyroclastic flows.

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It appears the creator of the video has corrected his mistake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbD_VL7rn0


written by cybrbeast  | 2 days 22 hours 38 minutes ago | CH
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Rachel Maddow: Sarah Palin's Awkward Dinner Night
Haha racialist, he must have been listening to Ali G reporting @ 2:50




written by cybrbeast  | 3 days 22 hours 56 minutes ago | CH
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Feynman - The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
*talks *promote


written by cybrbeast  | 4 days 10 hours 32 minutes ago | CH
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Aliens Of The Deep - Mission To Europa
demon, you did not understand me correctly. I think microbial life could be quite likely, though not complex multicellular life. I know the black smoker communities rely on bacteria that perform chemosynthesis. But this doesn't produce oxygen. The bigger life around the black smokers still uses oxygen provided by photosynthesis elsewhere.
Also a cable does not seem practical for communication. The ice may be more than a 100km thick. If the cable was only 1cm thick, which is quite thin for something in usch an extreme environment, you would already need 8m3 storage space, just for cable. That quickly becomes impractical.


written by cybrbeast  | 4 days 14 hours 12 minutes ago | CH
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Is it me or did the Sift just change? (Mystery Talk Post)



written by cybrbeast  | 4 days 15 hours 57 minutes ago | CH
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Is it me or did the Sift just change? (Mystery Talk Post)
Ah right, weird, I don't remember clicking that theme though.


written by cybrbeast  | 4 days 16 hours 16 minutes ago | CH
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Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer
I, for one, welcome our new ... overlords.


written by cybrbeast  | 4 days 17 hours 5 minutes ago | CH
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Aliens Of The Deep - Mission To Europa
demon, it seems unlikely that there will be complex bigger lifeforms. That is because at least on Earth oxygen respiration is required to sustain energetic multicellular creatures. No sunlight reaches the depth of Europa so oxygen generating photosynthesis is unlikely. So if we only harm a small place in, the worst case scenario of a leak or meltdown, then I don't think it would matter that much on a planetary scale. However leaving the reactor in the water will doubtlessly cause it to leak after decades or centuries. Maybe they could drive the meltprobe back up a bit after the mission is done. If it then locks into the ice it should remain so.

Crake for communication a wire would bring problems as you say. What they could do, is drop radio beacons at certain distances along the way down which could then relay the signal back up the surface. Or maybe use really longwave radio signals which might be able to penetrate the ice, though could only carry very low bandwidth.


written by cybrbeast  | 4 days 18 hours 37 minutes ago | CH
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mauz15 (Member Profile)
Thanks, I'll check it out. Read some stuff about it, it's bizarre. Hope this sheds some light on it.

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
Since you posted http://www.videosift.com/video/Liquid-Helium-II-the-Superfluid-a-Physics-Demonstration I thought this http://www.videosift.com/video/Bose-Einstein-Condensate-The-Coldest-Matter-in-the-Universe would interest you.


written by cybrbeast  | 5 days 2 hours 11 minutes ago | CH
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3D Porn - The future of masturbatory technology?
Q "What do you like about it?"
A "Titties and ass, I like titties and ass"

good comedy


written by cybrbeast  | 5 days 3 hours 24 minutes ago | CH
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Aliens Of The Deep - Mission To Europa
No, Europa has a negligible atmosphere, so there won't be a re-entry burn. Sterilizing the probe will be one of the biggest challenges. (Earth) life is very hardy and has traveled with Apollo to the Moon and back (on the outside of the craft).
I also very much doubt a probe, even if it leaks, would damage the environment much, only very locally. Europa should have a vast ocean and Uranium doesn't dissolve that quickly. The oceans of Europa might contain some uranium already, just like Earth's ocean at 3 parts per billion (or 10^13 kg (2 × 10^13 lb) total). That's 10 with 13 zeroes.


written by cybrbeast  | 5 days 3 hours 51 minutes ago | CH
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Spill.com Review
Well not really, because even if you're hammered, the movie still drags on and on. Even pretty explosions and CGI get boring if there's nothing else to carry the movie.


written by cybrbeast  | 5 days 11 hours ago | CH
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Gantz (Japanese Opening)
Subbed or dubbed is just a preference. I often don't like the extreme exaggerated Japanese voices and have more difficulty in relating to them.


written by cybrbeast  | 5 days 12 hours 55 minutes ago | CH
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Aliens Of The Deep - Mission To Europa
I don't see the problem with a nuclear power plant. It's designed so that there's not too much fall-out if the rocket would fail during launch.
And about contaminating another planet. You should know that the Jupiter system already has an extraordinarily intense radiation due to the strong magnetic field. Furthermore a reactor might help in heating and sterilizing the probe to remove any Earth life, which might be a far bigger threat to the alien life if it's there.


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How the Fig Tree Strangles Other Trees For Survival
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written by cybrbeast  | 5 days 13 hours 2 minutes ago | CH
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