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[doberman-08]

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The Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
08.11.10
 
In a particularly parched region of an extraordinary planet, rocks big and small glide across a mirror-flat landscape, leaving behind a tangle of trails. Some rocks travel in pairs, their two tracks so perfectly in synch along straight stretches and around curves that they seem to be made by a car. Others go freewheeling, wandering back and forth alone and sometimes traveling the length of several football fields. In many cases, the trails lead right to resting rocks, but in others, the joyriders have vanished.

This may sound like an alien world, but it's actually Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, Calif. Since the 1940s, researchers have documented trails here and on several other playas in California and Nevada. Seventeen undergraduate and graduate students from the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Academy (LPSA) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., traveled to the Racetrack and nearby Bonnie Claire playas this summer to investigate how these rocks move across the nearly empty flats...................

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/roving-rocks.html

[Ngati_Grim]

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or I could have uploaded the full size image! (Full resolution‎ (30,000 × 1,000 pixels, file size: 18.09 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg))

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Systemesolaire2.jpg

[Ngati_Grim]

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/7937123/Giant-Mecca-clock-seeks-to-call-time-on-Greenwich.html

Bearing a striking resemblance to both St Stephen’s Tower, which houses the bell of Big Ben, and the Empire State Building, the Saudi upstart aims to outdo its revered British rival in every way.

The clock’s four faces are 151ft in diameter and will be illuminated by 2million LED lights along with huge Arabic script reading: “In the name of Allah”. The clock will run on Arabia Standard Time which is three hours ahead of GMT.

[Ngati_Grim]

'US financial elite destroy the dollar'

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The value of the US dollar is crashing intentionally as the Federal Reserve has been printing money without tangible reserves for several decades. President Barack Obama has helped the bankers to come out ahead in every possible situation while pushing the middle class into poverty.

The following is a transcription of an interview with Economist specialist Max Keiser who talks about the US economy's downfall and how the answer to fix it is easy.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Keiser

[Emrico1]

Headline should be 'Grim's daily conspiracy theory' <3

[Pyromanik]

Nice iris Emrico.

[Retardobot]

Nice Cyrus.

[Pyromanik]

[Retardobot]

My Cyrus is better.

[mattnz]

Cyrus is a dick

[Pyromanik]

My Cyrus is better.

[Spork]

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[maorifulla]

^^ bukkake

[Pyromanik]

From this guy:

[SteddieEddie]

Couldn't be bothered posting all 33 photo's in this link, but it is funny check it out

http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/

[Dr Woomanchu]

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[Zarkov]

Cat on a bike.

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[bigROBOTbill]

^^ see, feet don't reach the pedals though.

Got sculpture?



http://www.sprayblog.net/2010/08/carole-feuerman-sculptures/

[Zarkov]

Cat on a bike.

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Bumps cat to next page.

[Emrico1]

or not

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[doberman-08]

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A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly out from a bright explosion in this infrared light image from the Spitzer Space Telescope.

These views have revealed that this dark cloud, called M17 SWex, is forming stars at a furious rate but has not yet spawned the most massive type of stars, known as O stars. Such stellar behemoths, however, light up the M17 nebula at the image's center and have also blown a huge "bubble" in the gas and dust that forms M17's luminous left edge.

The stars and gas in this region are now passing though the Sagittarius spiral arm of the Milky Way (moving from right to left), touching off a galactic "domino effect." The youngest episode of star formation is playing out inside the dusty dragon as it enters the spiral arm. Over time this area will flare up like the bright M17 nebula, glowing in the light of young, massive stars. The remnants of an older burst of star formation blew the bubble to the left.

This is a three-color composite that shows infrared observations from two Spitzer instruments. Blue represents 3.6-micron light and green shows light of 8 microns, both captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera. Red is 24-micron light detected by Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer.

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images

[doberman-08]

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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3230-sig10-013-Bright-Lights-Green-City

Two extremely bright stars illuminate a greenish mist in this and other images from the new GLIMPSE360 survey. This fog is comprised of hydrogen and carbon compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are found right here on Earth in sooty vehicle exhaust and on charred grills. In space, PAHs form in the dark clouds that give rise to stars. These molecules provide astronomers a way to visualize the peripheries of gas clouds and study their structures in great detail. PAHs are not actually "green;" a representative color coding in these images lets scientists observe PAHs glow in the infrared light that Spitzer sees, and which is invisible to us....................