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A satellite eye on the Earth

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:08:32 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: last 2 pictures:

a) Kasatochi volcano, Aleutian Islands, August 8: Dormant for 200 years this small volcano in the Pacific erupted without warning on August 7. The volcano’s plume is seen here as a brown streak in the cloud

b) Phytoplankton bloom in the Barents Sea, Norway, August 12 2008. Phytoplankton are tiny plant-like organisms that are the foundation of the ocean food web. Like plants, they contain chlorophyll that they use to harvest sunlight for photosynthesis. In northern waters, these organisms are starved for sunlight much of the year, but during the summer months, they explode in colourful blooms such as this one

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Hurricane Gustav, August 26 2008

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Well-head flare in Libya, August 20 2008

Besides the smoke, few other features stand out in this arid landscape. Natural gas often surfaces with crude oil in drilling operations.

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Tropical storm Fay, August 25

storm Fay was captured by Nasa’s Terra satellite. In the top image the flooded St John’s river can be seen snaking through the landscape.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Tropical storm Fay, USA, August 20 2008

Here the eye of the storm hovers near the east coast of Florida while clouds from the storm stretch hundreds of kilometres east over the Atlantic

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Beijing, August 19 2008

Haze mixed with clouds appears to the south of Beijing,

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Bushfires in Arnhem Land, Australia, August 17 2008

During the dry season (southern hemisphere’s winter) these grasses fuel enormous bushfires, triggered by lightning and people

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Dust storm over the Persian Gulf, August 14 2008

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Kasatochi volcano, Aleutian Islands

Until the eruption this month, vegetation (red in this image) covered the 300m (1,000ft) high slopes

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Tags: images, satellite, storm

LZ's Houses of the Holy and Giant's Causeway

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:20:51 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: slorker.com

Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy album cover

featured the Giant’s Causeway, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in the northeast coast of Northern Ireland. It’s area is made up of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns… the steps you see are the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. Discovered in 1692 and announced to the world, it became a popular tourist attraction ever since the 19th century.

Basalt columns are actually a common volcanic feature and you can see it in many other places like Armenia, New Zealand, Russia and California. I’ve seen a few of them but the Giant’s causeway seems to be most impressive. Here are some pictures of them. Definitely a place to visit in Ireland.

Weirdly wonderful blue clouds

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:55:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.livescience.com

Polar Mesospheric Clouds (also known as noctilucent clouds) are transient, upper atmospheric phenomena observed usually in the summer months at high latitudes (greater than 50 degrees) of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. This image was acquired at an altitude of just over 200 miles

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The noctilucent or "night-shining" clouds are at an altitude of 47 to 53 miles (76 to 85 km), where meteors and bright aurora lights are not uncommon and the atmosphere gives way to the blackness of space. The clouds remain a scientifically baffling phenomenon more than 120 years after their discovery.

The clouds form at dizzying heights where the air is one hundred million times drier than the Sahara. By contrast, the common high-altitude cirrus clouds only reach heights of 11 miles (18 km) up.

People first spotted the noctilucent clouds a few years after the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa super-volcano in Indonesia

We're just trying to understand now how clouds form and how they vary

Volcanic sunsets

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:18:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.spaceweather.com

This weekend, observers around Europe are reporting the same "volcanic sunsets" widely observed last week in North America.

"This was probably due to aerosols in the stratosphere spewed by the August 7th eruption of the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian Islands."

Meanwhile, back in the USA, "the sky is on fire," reports Doug Zubenel of Kansas. "The colors tonight (Aug. 30th) were about as vivid as I have ever seen (photos)." One state away in Nebraska, Jerry Chab reports "the sky was white at the horizon and turned yellow, orange, red, purple, blue then finally black up high (photos). It was like a rainbow in clear skies!"

Tags: astronomy, climate, geology, volcano, sky, sunset

Clark Air Base

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:21:27 GMT

clipped by: scorpio103174
clipper's remarks: what part of Clark Air Base looked like after the volcano eruption

Clip Source: vulcan.wr.usgs.gov

Olympic Village

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:35:18 GMT

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Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

This sex fest was not limited to Barcelona: the same thing happened in Sydney in 2000, my second Olympics as an athlete, and is happening right here in Beijing, where this time I'm a commentator. I spoke to an Aussie table tennis player this week to check out the village vibe and he launched into the breathless patter common to any Olympic debutant: “It is unbelievable in there; everyone is totally crazy once they are out of their competitions. God knows what it is going to be like this weekend. It is like a world within a world.” A British runner (anonymous again: athletes are not supposed to talk to journalists unaccompanied by a PR type, least of all about sex) said: “The swimmers finished earlier in the week and it was like there was an eruption.”

Spectacular Chile Volcano Eruption

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:09:11 GMT

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Clip Source: mysterytopia.com

Nature still has the best special effects....

Chile Volcano eruption!!
Several weeks ago, a volcano that had been dormant for 9,000 years near the
coast of Chile erupted spectacularly, hurling liquefied rocks many miles
into the sky with lightning. The results, which you see here, are called a

'dirty thunderstorm,' and are quite rare.

Nobody is certain what causes them, but according to National Geographic
it's believed to be 'the result of rock fragments, ash, and ice particles in
the plume colliding to produce static charges-just as ice particles collide
to create charges in regular thunderstorms.'

Tags: science, volcanoes, chile

"In search of Western Civilisation's lost classics"

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:55:11 GMT

clipped by: cakebelly
clipper's remarks: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24096948-25132,00.html

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In search of Western civilisation's lost classics

The unique library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, buried beneath lava by Vesuvius's eruption in AD79, is slowly revealing its long-held secrets

STORED in a sky-lit reading room on the top floor of the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples are the charred remains of the only library to survive from classical antiquity. The ancient world's other great book collections -- at Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- all perished in the chaos of the centuries. But the library of the Villa of the Papyri was conserved, paradoxically, by an act of destruction.

Volcanoes. Wow!

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:35:08 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: Great Pics.

Clip Source: www.boston.com

Recent Volcanic Activity

Several volcanoes have erupted in the past few months - two in Chile (Chaiten and Llaima) and one in Alaska (Okmok). At any given time, approximately 20 to 50 volcanoes are active worldwide (depending on the definition of "active"). Collected here are photos of volcanic events from the the past several years, seen from many angles, including low Earth Orbit. (15 photos total)

Lava explodes from the Llaima volcano, one of Chile's most active volcanoes, in Cherquenco, Chile, early Thursday, July 10, 2008

Okmok Caldera in Alaska as viewed from an Alaska Airlines jet in early June, 2007. The 3,500-foot Okmok Caldera, which consists of a 6-mile-wide circular crater about 1,600 feet deep, erupted with little warning Saturday morning July 12, 2008

July 13, 2008

the Okmok Caldera erupting

Rabaul volcano, near Kokopo, Papua New Guinea on Sunday, April 13, 2008

Mt. Etna's eruption on October 30th, 2002

Mt Augustine

2006

Chaiten volcano

Chile

June 17, 2008

Kliuchevskoi Volcano

Fail: More Moldy Barracks for Wounded Soldiers

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:29:12 GMT

clipped by: cptenaud
clipper's remarks: Is it really that hard to square away barracks for the wounded? Given this latest eruption of maintenance incompetence and failure in leadership, I'd just like to direct everyone's attention back to a statement made in April by Brigadier General Dennis Rogers--Director of Operations and Facilities for Installation Management Command--in regard to the Fort Bragg barracks situation:

"I'll tell you right now before we even start: I assume responsibility for the shortfalls in barracks maintenance which were referenced in the video by Mr. Frawley. We let our soldiers down. And I note that a number of you are veterans, or most of you are veterans, and you served. So you know that there is no excuse for that. We let our soldiers down."

Of course, this statement was made after the much-hyped "nationwide walk-through."

So what's the deal now? Can we meet the standard, or what? This is pathetic. What incentive do you give people to enlist when this is what you offer them?

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: Brandon Friedman

Mon Aug 18

More problems with shitty barracks for wounded soldiers:

LAWTON, Okla. - Mold infests the barracks that were set up here a year ago for wounded soldiers after poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center triggered a systemwide overhaul, soldiers say.
Twenty soldiers, who spoke to USA TODAY early last week, said their complaints about mold and other problems went unheeded for months. They also said they had been ordered not speak about the conditions at Fort Sill.
Officers at the Army base last week ordered that ventilation ducts in two barracks be replaced and soldiers be surveyed, anonymously if they wished, about any concerns. Maj. Gen. Peter Vangjel, the commanding officer, said it was "inappropriate" for soldiers to be ordered not to talk about the mold.

Tourists Run From Erupting Volcano

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:10:23 GMT

clipped by: coonhnd
clipper's remarks: Now what a way to ruin a perfect day of sight seeing

Clip Source: www.liveleak.com

Tourists Run From Erupting Volcano

Masaya Volcano, Nicaragua - Tourist end of running for their lives down the slope of a volcano which began to erupt. This happened on June 18, 2008...They were all able to escape it.

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Tags: volcano, eruption, video, tourism, scary

Bizarre but true facts about the Earth

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:55:50 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: The oldest living tree is a California bristlecone pine name 'Methuselah'. It is about 4600 years old. The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia growing in California. It is 84 meters tall and measures 29 meters round the trunk. The fastest growing tree is the eucalyptus. It can grow 10 meters a year.

The Antartic notothenia fish has a protein in its blood that acts like antifreeze and stops the fish freezing in icy sea.

The USA uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.

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Bizarre but true facts about the Earth

In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.

About 20 to 30 volcanoes erupt each year, mostly under the sea.

A huge underground river runs underneath the Nile, with six times more water than the river above.

Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana formed in a hollow made by a meteorite.

Beaver Lake, in Yellowstone Park, USA, was artificially created by beaver damming.

Off the coast of Florida there is an underwater hotel. Guests have to dive to the entrance.

Venice in Italy is built on 118 sea islets joined by 400 bridges. It is gradually sinking into the water.

The Ancient Egyptians worshipped a sky goddess called Nut.

The world's windiest place is Commonwealth Bay, Antartica.

In 1934, a gust of wind reached 371 km/h on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA.

American Roy Sullivan has been struck by lighting a record seven times.

The desert baobab tree can store up to 1000 litres of water in its trunk.

Tags: earth

Cassini Prepares For Close Flyby of Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:36:55 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman
clipper's remarks: This Monday 11th August

Clip Source: www.universetoday.com

Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus is of big interest to planetary scientists trying to understand the dynamics of the moon's geysers and fissures. On August 11, the Cassini spacecraft will swoop by Enceladus for a close flyby, just 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the surface, with the fractures, or "tiger stripes" near the moon's south pole, where icy jets erupt as the target of study for the Cassini instruments

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Our main goal is to get the most detailed images and remote sensing data ever of the geologically active features on Enceladus

Seeing inside one of the fissures in high resolution may provide more information on the terrain and depth of the fissures, as well as the size and composition of the ice grains inside

Enceladus flyby blog

Clip Source: blogs.nasa.gov

Prepare to be Amazed!

one of the most remarkable places in the solar system

we have the chance of seeing those very special locales on the tiger stripe fractures that we now know are active, warm eruption vents

The 08 Olympics... 1908, that is

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It very much depends on ones attitude whether you follow or not.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A century ago London hosted the Fourth Olympiad. It was a hastily organised affair, after Italy pulled out following the eruption of Vesuvius. Oh, and Britain won 56 gold medals.

When we consider the sleek and slick celebration of sport that the Olympic Games have become, it is about far more than physical endeavour and great drama.

We also - alas - tend to think of political manoeuvring; financial burdens and corporate sponsorship; doping scandals and even the odd display of bad sportsmanship.

But wind back 100 years and all these were very much a feature of the 1908 Olympics.

The first recognisably modern Games, the six month long Fourth Olympiad, based around White City in west London, seems to prove that old axiom "the more things change, the more they stay the same".

Bicycle polo is no longer an Olympic event and the tug-of-war seems unlikely to make a return to such an exalted stage. But many of the events enjoyed by our Edwardian forebears seem mighty familiar.

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Whale fart captured on film.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:49:39 GMT

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Clip Source: mine.myxer.com

Okay, we’re doing everything we can to not be crass about this phenomena that was recently photographed by the captain of a U.S. research ship.

According Australian Antarctic Division principal research scientist Dr Nick Gales: “The white bits in the photo are pieces of ice-floe, the stream of pinky color behind the whale is a fecal plume — a.k.a. ‘poo’ — the large circle in the water is indeed the physical eruption of the whale’s flatulence.”

Old school techniques demanded that the whales be killed to see what they’re ingesting … but these days, scientists can actually determine what the animals have munched on by analyzing their feces. The prey’s DNA can be identified in the poop.

Stop giggling. This is awesome science stuff.

As for the fart-on-film, scientists say it’s likely that flatulence is just as common in whales as it in humans.

We’re doing everything we can not to make a “pull my flipper” joke. Really.

Mined by: J.C. Hutchins

Tags: gas, science, whales