Clipmarks | hitchhiker08's 'technology' clipshttp://clipmarks.com/clipper/hitchhiker08/search/technology/sort/latest-comments/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/hitchhiker08/search/technology/sort/latest-comments/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-us20 Ways the World Could Endhttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5E8CE836-2775-4A20-B4F6-97232AD2B835/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hitchhiker08/">hitchhiker08</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Scary...yet possible? <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://discovermagazine.com/2000/oct/featworld" title="http://discovermagazine.com/2000/oct/featworld">discovermagazine.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2> <SPAN>20 Ways the World Could End</SPAN> </H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B>Asteroid impact</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><B></B><BR /><DIV>1 <B>Asteroid impact</B> Once a disaster scenario gets the cheesy Hollywood treatment, it's hard to take it seriously.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><BR /><DIV>2 <B>Gamma-ray burst</B> If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi. </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">3 <B>Collapse of the vacuum</B> In the book <I>Cat's Cradle,</I> Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine,"</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">4 <B>Rogue black holes</B> Our galaxy is full of black holes, collapsed stellar corpses just a dozen miles wide.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">5 <B>Giant solar flares</B> Solar flares— more properly known as coronal mass ejections</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">6 <B>Reversal of Earth's magnetic field</B> Every few hundred thousand years Earth's magnetic field dwindles</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">7 <B>Flood-basalt volcanism</B> In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">8 <B>Global epidemics</B> </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">9 <B>Global warming</B> </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">10 <B>Ecosystem collapse</B></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">11 <B>Biotech disaster</B> While we are extinguishing natural species, we're also creating new ones </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">12 <B>Particle accelerator mishap</B> Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber,</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">13 <B>Nanotechnology disaster</B></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/natural+disasters/" rel="tag">natural disasters</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/human-triggered+disasters/" rel="tag">human-triggered disasters</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/willful+self-destruction/" rel="tag">willful self-destruction</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/apocalypse/" rel="tag">apocalypse</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/technology/" rel="tag">technology</a></div>http://discovermagazine.com/2000/oct/featworldSat, 23 Aug 2008 08:41:10 GMT10 longest bridges in the Worldhttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F481215B-B137-4E23-AA41-CC39645161C3/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hitchhiker08/">hitchhiker08</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://thecontaminated.com/ten-longest-bridges-in-world/" title="http://thecontaminated.com/ten-longest-bridges-in-world/">thecontaminated.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Here is a list of the ten longest bridges in the world with pictures and descriptions. Those beautiful photos are showing to us that there are no borders and everything is reachable.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>1. Lake Pontchartrain Causeway</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/7E68C198-F089-4244-BDAA-E1177AB2DFF4.jpg" alt="Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>2. Donghai Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/0DF04243-FCD8-45EA-B3B9-745DDB3D221E.jpg" alt="Donghai Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>3. King Fahd Causeway</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The King Fahd Causeway is multiple dike - bridge combination connecting Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and the island nation of Bahrain.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/71341AE6-005C-458C-9013-ED38A94F6643.jpg" alt="King Fahd Causeway Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>4. Chesapeake Bay Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/C81A9FC4-B227-4F17-8CFE-D4161741E2A1.jpg" alt="Chesapeake Bay Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>5. Vasco da Gama Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/D777F7A3-9F40-47E6-81A3-E2121E8512B2.jpg" alt="Vasco da Gama Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>6. Penang Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/8288C599-AAC2-488C-8C52-3604191967C9.jpg" alt="Penang Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>7.</STRONG><STRONG> Rio-Niteroi Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/4453E8AB-CE70-48EE-BC14-E29ED0F29FD0.jpg" alt="Rio Niteroi Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>8. Confederation Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/A04FDD03-48A0-4C74-A68E-EE7CC12BDF95.jpg" alt="Confederation Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>9. San Mateo-Hayward Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/85CF8430-926D-47B5-853C-10E86F76B93C.jpg" alt="San Mateo Hayward Bridge" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>10. Seven Mile Bridge</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hitchhiker08/512/1704C762-3EAC-4DC8-9BBF-4F1932032D0D.jpg" alt="Seven Mile Bridge" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/structural+engineering/" rel="tag">structural engineering</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/technology/" rel="tag">technology</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bridges/" rel="tag">bridges</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/motorways/" rel="tag">motorways</a></div>http://thecontaminated.com/ten-longest-bridges-in-world/Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:55:51 GMT