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Lioness + Buffalo + Traffic Jam = High Drama.

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:10:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Buffalo escaped. Excitement for the spectators though.

This stunning series of pictures shows the moment a water buffalo becomes a road-hog.

The convoy of cars came to a halt to watch - but the passengers then found themselves part of the action as the two beasts lumbered on to the road, oblivious to their gaze.

Battle lines: The lioness and the buffalo size each other up at the start of the attack in Kruger National Park, South Africa

Dinner time: The buffalo screams out in pain as the lioness attacks by sinking her teeth into the giant beast

At first the rest of the countryside seemed desolate, and then passengers began to see lion heads popping up out of the foliage a further 20m away.

Buckin' bronco: The lioness keeps a firm grip on its prey

'The female lioness was injured in the back leg and looked as if it had tried to attack the buffalo previously and was injured in the process.

At this point, the tourists became uneasy as two male lions began to pad their way over.

The Machine That Could Deliver the Future

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:35:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Quietly, quietly, in the background, .... there is hope.

Clip Source: www.blog.speculist.com

Pictured above is "The Z Machine." This x-ray genterator was built originally to gather data about the shelf life of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. After several upgrades, it has become something more. It is the best hope of the U.S. in the race for fusion.

Z Machine scientists have been pushing up the power generated by this machine for twenty-five years.

Sandia's Z machine has produced plasmas that exceed temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin -- hotter than the interiors of stars.

First, the radiated x-ray output was as much as four times the expected kinetic energy input.

Ordinarily, in non-nuclear reactions, output energies are less -- not greater -- than the total input energies. More energy had to be getting in to balance the books, but from where could it come?

One explanation is that fusion is taking place. This could mean that fusion reactors could be made smaller, cheaper, and sooner than theorized in the past.

FACTS ON FARTS

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:14:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Including all the ones you don't want to know, you need to go to the site for all the answers. Some are pretty tacky, some are hilarious.

Clip Source: www.heptune.com

Do men's farts smell worse than women's farts?

Is it true that some people never fart?

Do men fart more than women?

At what time of day is a gentleman most likely to fart?

Why are beans so notorious for making people fart?

Is it harmful to hold in farts?

How long would it be possible to not fart?

Do all people fart in their sleep?

Where do farts go when you hold them in?

How can one cover up a fart?

Is it really possible to ignite farts?

Is it possible for a talented person to earn a living through flatulence?

Do fish fart?

Why do horse farts smell worse than people's farts?

What kind of animal has the highest worldwide output of flatus?

Is it true that cow farts contribute to global warming?

How can we tell when it's only gas needing to come out, rather than something more serious?

What is the best position for farting?

Why do chicks always deny farting?

Is it possible to get stoned after inhaling two or three farts in a row?

Is it possible to capture a fart in a jar and save it for later use?

Tags: biological, jet, propulsion

Awesome Photo that destroyed a camera lens.

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:26:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Whatever the lens cost, it was worth it. Some interesting comments at the site.

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

The particular setup for this was sound activated. The lens was destroyed (worth it of course) but the camera survived this one despite being severed from its ratchet straps and thrown to the ground, and the sound device used for this one disconnected from the camera and thrown about 200 feet backwards into the pad perimeter fence (still worked!). All settings are preset manually. No one is allowed closer than several miles from a launch.

Pics to make you FEEL GOOD.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:55:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pics say it all.

Clip Source: animalpicture.ru

Weird and wonderful new digital species.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:01:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lack of biodiversity? no problem, make your own.
I've been trying to think of some appropriate names for these creations.

Clip Source: www.funpic.hu

Fanged frog, 162 other new species found

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:13:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The site I clipped this from, is a very interesting one. Sad to think we could lose a lot of amazing animals before we even know they exist.

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

BANGKOK - A gecko with leopard-like spots on its body and a fanged frog that eats birds are among 163 new species discovered last year in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, an environmental group said Friday.

WWF International said that scientists in 2008 discovered 100 plants, 28 fish, 18 reptiles, 14 amphibians, two mammals and one bird species in the region. That works out to be about three species a week and is in addition to the 1,000 new species catalogued there from 1997 to 2007, the group said.

Researchers working for WWF warned that the effects of climate change, including an upsurge in droughts and floods, threaten the diverse habitat that supports these species. That is on top of traditional threats such as poaching, pollution and habitat destruction.

my son pointed out that my hand was on a rock mere inches away from the head of a pit viper," Grismer said in a statement. "We caught the snake and the gecko and they both proved to be new species

PHOTOS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD II.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:28:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More of the best and the worst of us, some are shocking, but should not be ignored. Explanations for each are on the website.
Thought about flagging this as mature due to the graphic nature of some pictures, but I don't think you should censor history.

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Starving Child Vulture

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The Baby Hand

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The Power of One

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The Falling Man

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Burning Monk

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Palestinian father shields son

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Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud

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Tiananmen Square protests

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Oklahoma City bombing

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Starving boy and missionary

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Face off - Oka Crisis

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Flag raising on Iwo Jima

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Execution of a Viet Cong

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The lynching of young blacks

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Dying Soldier Hangs to Priest

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Last Jew of Vinnitsa

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Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper

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Palestinian Woman Pleads

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Death of a loyalist soldier

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Conrad Schumann

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Reichstag flag

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The First Photograph

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I Have A Dream

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Dead on the Beach

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Flag raising at ground zero

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Dragging Vietcong Soldier

Can the antarctic be eco-engineered to save the planet.

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:45:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

This past January, German research vessel Polarstern is steamed at full power from Capetown to the Antarctic, where it deployed a cargo designed to re-engineer the local environment as part of an effort to save the planet from pollution

A global team of scientists added twenty tons of iron sulphate to a nutrient-poor region of the arctic ocean to trigger a local increase in the algae population. Observation of this short-lived surge in ocean life provided data for larger scale projects. The oceans and the vast banks of singe-celled life they hold are massive regulators for the ecosystem - learning to control them would be an enormous step forward in environmental engineering.

A UN body recommended that all oceangineering be suspended until a "global, transparent and effective control and regulatory mechanism is in place for these activities", which is a very grand way of saying "Let's never do anything ever

IS REALITY REALLY REAL? A test of Quantum Theory.

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:07:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you have an interest in this stuff, you need to go to the website and read all three pages, if you think you really exist, that is.

Clip Source: seedmagazine.com

Anton Zeilinger heads up the IQOQI lab in Vienna. Photograph by Mark Mahaney.

A team of physicists in Vienna has devised experiments that may answer one of the enduring riddles of science: Do we create the world just by looking at it?

Some physicists still find quantum mechanics unpalatable, if not unbelievable, because of what it implies about the world beyond our senses. The theory’s mathematics is simple enough to be taught to undergraduates, but the physical implications of that mathematics give rise to deep philosophical questions that remain unresolved. Quantum mechanics fundamentally concerns the way in which we observers connect to the universe we observe. The theory implies that when we measure particles and atoms, at least one of two long-held physical principles is untenable: Distant events do not affect one other, and properties we wish to observe exist before our measurements. One of these, locality or realism, must be fundamentally incorrect.

Tags: science, quantum theory

Incredible LEGO Artworks by Nathan Sawaya

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:47:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Amazing, it really is art.

Clip Source: www.boredpanda.com

1. Heartfelt

2. Underneath

3. Blue

5. Circle Triangle Square

6. Think!

7. Mt. Rushmore Replica

8. Rebirth of New Orleans

9. Hands

10. Gray

11. Hand

12. Life size Replicas

13. Iwo Jima Replica

14. Grasp

15. Green

17. Mask

18. Reflection

19. Stop, Look and Live

20. Red

Tags: art, sculpture, lego

Parallel universes,... are they more than a figment of our imagination?

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:53:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I just love Quantum Mechanics, it's so,....."Alice in Wonderland".

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

"The multiverse is no longer a model, it is a consequence of our models.”

~Aurelien Barrau, particle physicist at CERN

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There are a variety of competing theories based on the idea of parallel universes, but the most basic idea is that if the universe is infinite, then everything that could possibly occur has happened, is happening, or will happen.

According to quantum mechanics, nothing at the subatomic scale can really be said to exist until it is observed. Until then, particles occupy uncertain "superposition" states, in which they can have simultaneous "up" and "down" spins, or appear to be in different places at the same time. The mere act of observing somehow appears to "nail down" a particular state of reality. Scientists don’t yet have a perfect explanation for how it occurs, but that hasn’t changed the fact that the phenomenon does occur.

Unobserved particles are described by "wave functions" representing a set of multiple "probable" states.

Tags: science, quantum theory

Strange & Fantastic Buildings, Architecture.

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:19:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If someone can think it, someone will build it.

Clip Source: www.instantshift.com

Device to Root Out Evil (Vancouver, Canada)

The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

Experience Music Project (Seattle, Washington, USA)

Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)

Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)

Forest Spiral Building (Darmstadt, Germany)

The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)

Upside Down House (Szymbark, Poland)

The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)

Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)

Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, USA)

Stata Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)

The Hole House (Texas, USA)

Erwin Wurm: House Attack (Viena, Austria)

Ripley’s Building (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)

Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)

Shoe House (Pennsylvania, USA)

Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)

Edificio Mirador (Madrid, Spain)

The Valencia Opera House (Valencia, Spain)

Eden project (United Kingdom)

John Curtin School of Medical Research (Australia)

Montreal Biosphère (Canada)

Esplanade Theatres, Singapore

Pabellon de Aragon (Zaragoza)

Ancient Man Used Stone "Sat Nav" 5000 Years Ago

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:57:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They must have launched the satellites with gigantic catapults.

Clip Source: www.stumbleupon.com

It's considered to be one of the more recent innovations to help the hapless traveller.

But the satnav system may not be as modern as we think.

According to a new theory, prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a similar system based on stone circles and other markers.

The complex network of stones, hill forts and earthworks allowed travellers to trek hundreds of miles with 'pinpoint accuracy' more than 5,000 years ago, amateur historian Tom Brooks says. The grid covered much of southern England and Wales and included landmarks such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill, claims Mr Brooks,

He analysed 1,500 prehistoric sites in England and Wales and was able to connect all of them to at least two other sites using isosceles triangles - these are triangles with two sides the same length.

Mr Brooks added: 'The sides of some of the triangles are over 100 miles across, yet the distances are accurate to within 100 metres. You cannot do that by chance.

Rare tongue-eating parasite found.

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:41:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Looks a bit fishy to me.

Clip Source: www.stumbleupon.com

A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.

"Really quite large, really quite hideous - if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought 'that's a bit of a nasty beast'.

"I struggled for weeks to find an identification for this thing until, quite by chance I stumbled across something that looked similar in a Victorian journal.

"Apparently there's not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it's lost its tongue."

Experts at the University of Southampton confirmed that the creature was an isopod and that there had been several sightings of them in Cornwall in 1996.

Mr Chambers added: "It doesn't affect humans other than if you do actually come across a live one and try and pick it up - they are quite vicious, they will deliver a good nip."