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Hydrogen Sulfide and Dust Plumes on Namibia's Coast

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Cloudless skies allowed a clear view of dust and hydrogen sulfide plumes along the coast of Namibia in early August 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image on Aug. 10, 2010.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1745.html

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NASA's LRO Reveals 'Incredible Shrinking Moon'

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The mare basalts that fill the Taurus-Littrow valley were thrust up by contractional forces to form the Lee-Lincoln fault scarp, just west of the Apollo 17 landing site (arrow). It is the only extraterrestrial fault scarp to be explored by humans (astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt). The digital terrain model derived from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) stereo images shows the fault extending upslope into North Massif were highlands material are also thrust up. The fault cuts upslope and abruptly changes orientation and cuts along slope, forming a narrow bench. LROC images show boulders shed from North Massif that have rolled downhill and collected on the bench.

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Another fault cut across and deformed several small diameter (~40-m diameter) impact craters (arrows) on the flanks of Mandel’shtam crater (6.5°N, 161°E). The fault carried near-surface crustal materials up and over the craters, burying parts of their floors and rims. About half of the rim and floor of a 20 m-in-diameter crater shown in the box has been lost. Since small craters only have a limited lifetime before they are destroyed by newer impacts, their deformation by the fault shows the fault to be relatively young.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University/Smithsonian
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/shrinking-moon.html

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[Ngati_Grim]

Those are some nice plains there Astro....


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[Hav0k]

this is a plane...

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[EskemoJoe]

No this is plain. amidoinitrong?

[Dr Woomanchu]

No this is plain. amidoinitrite

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[doberman-08]

Those are some nice plains there Astro....


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lol nice one Grim

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Larry Wong / Edmonton Journal Donald Brinkman, from the Royal Tyrrell Museum, holds up a tooth believed to belong to a dinosaur named Albertosaurus.

EDMONTON -- It's not completely unheard-of to find a dinosaur fossil out in the Alberta badlands where wind and water have worn away the earth to uncover the fragments of a time long past.
But discovering 70 million-year-old fossils from a species similar to Tyrannosaurus rex 30 metres under one of Edmonton's toniest neighbourhoods -- that tends to raise eyebrows.
Earlier this month, construction workers Ryley Paul and Aaron Krywiak were digging a sewer tunnel in Quesnell Heights, an area along the North Saskatchewan River Valley where many homes have front gates and lawns that look like golf greens.
They started noticing some strange rocks as they worked. One was split in the middle with crystals inside.
At first they figured they might have struck it rich and found diamonds. Then, a few days later, they found what was obviously a pointy, serrated, 10-centimetre tooth. That's when they knew they were on to something quite a bit less lucrative, but more interesting.
"It was pretty distinguishable that it was a dinosaur tooth," Paul recalled Monday as the City of Edmonton showed off his find.

"So we went back and looked at some of the rocks that we had found and realized that they were bones too." They called police and the medical examiner first, just to be sure there was nothing sinister at play.
Late last week, they turned to the experts at Edmonton's University of Alberta and the Royal Tyrrell Museum, based in Drumheller, Alta.
It has since been determined the fossils are likely those of an Albertosaurus, a smaller cousin of the carnivorous T.-Rex, and an Edmontosaurus, a plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaur that was probably its prey.
Don Brinkman, with the Tyrrell, said the find will give scientists a better picture of the prehistoric world.
"The significance of the find is largely where the material is. The animals we know, but having a new locality and showing the associations is what makes it significant."
It's proof that dinosaur fossils are everywhere, said Michael Caldwell, chairman of the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Alberta.
"We generally do most of our fossil collecting in badlands and around the margins of rivers where water has cut through the sentiment," he said.
"This time around, we get to do something really unusual, which is to crawl down into a long deep hole and then walk in a long deep tunnel to actually encounter dinosaurs in just about as much of a native habitat as they have anymore, which is buried beneath our feet."
Construction on the tunnel will continue to move forward. Researchers will work with crews to examine any dirt that is removed. Krywiak and Paul are left with a story they will long remember.
"It's pretty cool," Krywiak said. "I never though I'd have a dinosaur bone in my hand like that. Just something you don't get to experience every day."

-- The Canadian Press

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 24, 2010 A2
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/dino-mite-discovery-101362484.html

[bigROBOTbill]

Some-one brought in a megaladon tooth to be framed the other day, you can still feel the serrations along the edges, supposedly between 2 and 15 million years old.

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[Pyromanik]

Bullshit, in no way at all do they both have to be mutually exclusive.
Both are true if you ask me.

Everything we hate controls us through things we love and our infinite distractions...

[ChineseKiwi]

What's closer to the truth though......

[Pyromanik]

Depends on how far you look.




We are a captive culture where the truth is often concealed from us.
What is the main medium of that propaganda though? Bullshit like fox news. And advertising, etc.
Through advertising one can cause huge influence on a population.
For what end? Keep them placated usually.

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Saudi couple "hammer 24 nails" into Sri Lankan maid

A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid after she complained of a too heavy workload by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead, officials said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67P17420100826

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Mount Ararat Ishak Pasa Palace,
Ishak Pasa Palace

Mount Ararat Ishak Pasha Palace minaret,
Dining hall, Pasa Palace
Ishak Pasa Palace, often referred to as the Taj Mahal of Turkey, this palace has 88 rooms, 24 of which were devoted to the harem where the women and children lived a sheltered and luxuriously life in the first centrally-heated building in the world. The palace, covering 7600 square meters, is situated on a high and vast plateau on the famous Silk Route near the Iranian border. Russians removed the gold-plated doors (now in a Russian museum), but they couldn't carry off the beautiful tree-of-life motifs on the fountain in the inner courtyard. Construction started in 1685 and was completed in 1784. It is one of the most beautiful places in the whole of Turkey.

http://www.mountararattrek.com/turkeytours.htm

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The Romans longed for socks and underpants in frozen ancient Britain

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100046336/the-romans-longed-for-socks-and-underpants-in-frozen-ancient-britain/

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[Scunner]

That's using your head!

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[bigROBOTbill]

Here's a job

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http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/index-e.html
Impressive images of the Super-Kamiokande Neutrino detection facility reaching 1,000m underground in Hida City, Gifu, Japan.

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A Strange Ring Galaxy

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Is this one galaxy or two? Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object. On the outside is a ring dominated by bright blue stars, while near the center lies a ball of much redder stars that are likely much older. Between the two is a gap that appears almost completely dark. How Hoag's Object formed remains unknown, although similar objects have been identified and collectively labeled as a form of ring galaxy. Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and the gravitational effect of a central bar that has since vanished.

This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in July 2001, reveals unprecedented details of Hoag's Object and may yield a better understanding. Hoag's Object spans about 100,000 light years and lies about 600 million light years away toward the constellation of the Snake (Serpens). Coincidentally, visible in the gap (at about one o'clock) is yet another ring galaxy that likely lies far in the distance.

Image Credit: NASA, R. Lucas (STScI/AURA)

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Typography on cars
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