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[Emrico1]

^Watermelon to the chops! That's gotta hurt.

[Menial]

^Watermelon to the chops! That's gotta hurt.

It hit bloody hard.

[mattnz]

I saw it on youtube, and it didn't seem as bad as it looked. I think she broke her nose, but she was conscious afterwards.

[bigROBOTbill]

[One-legged rooster, pet of the Roosevelt children]

  * Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c31917 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c31917
  * Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-131917 (b&w film copy neg.)
  * Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

[bigROBOTbill]

Got earthquake?
Talk about aksking for trouble...




http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/09/spain-on-edge.html

[bigROBOTbill]

Which one is the real you Emmi?


actually reminds me of Snowy Park in Medal of Honor for some reason.

[Who_ate_my_rice]

LOL those doggies are insane!

[Emrico1]

[Emrico1]

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Knights of the Rotund table

[kilabee]

^^My God....why would you post that LOL

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[Ngati_Grim]

Australian Politics:

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[doberman-08]

Fossil hunters drawn by the lowest tides of 2010

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Keen fossil hunters are expected to flock to beaches this weekend as unusually low tides are set to reveal more fossil-rich land usually underwater............
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/dorset/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8981000/8981936.stm

[420fairy]

our good friend got these made in singapore - similar to the optimus prime i have at work

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work colleague spent 4 years doing this puppy up - the owner is the old dude white the crazy white hair, the photos dont show all the detail. the headlights have a clear skull inner bulb cover with red eyes, he has it wired so he can turn the eyes on and thats all that comes on; same with the rear, the gearstick knob is the same. its old fashioned but very modern as well; modded it all inside with nice gauges, manual fans, push button start..

the hell bound wagon

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[bigROBOTbill]

^^ What a waste of money.

[bigROBOTbill]

This is a friend for Emrico's dog

[bigROBOTbill]

One for the girls?

[Craigor]

Who you callin' a girl

[Mr_St1nky]

Maybe they could have spent some of that airbrushin effort to give him some muscular definition. He looks like my last bitch...

[[tsw].Forsaken]

Maybe they could have spent some of that airbrushin effort to give him some muscular definition. He looks like my last bitch...

lol didn't know you liked them hairy...

(was gonna post a picture of a hairy woman but I thought it would be tasteless)

[doberman-08]

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[doberman-08]

This Planet Smells Funny
Sept. 13, 2010: Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something.

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Would you believe swamp gas?

To the surprise of astronomers who have been studying the Neptune-sized planet using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, GJ 436b has very little methane (CH4).

"Methane should be abundant on a planet of this temperature and size, but we found 7000 times less methane than what the models predict," says Kevin Stevenson of the University of Central Florida (UCF). Stevenson was lead author of a paper reporting the result in the April 22, 2010, issue of Nature. The methane deficit is surprising because in our own solar system all gas giants are methane-rich. Hydrogen and carbon are abundant in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. These atoms naturally get together to form the simplest hydrocarbon, CH4.

The example of our local gas giants shaped expectations when Stevenson and colleagues pointed Spitzer in the direction of GJ 436b, only 33 light-years away. Finding methane was a foregone conclusion. But when the researchers analyzed the planet's spectrum, they found little of it. Instead, the atmosphere was rich in carbon monoxide.

"Actually, it blew our minds," says principal investigator and co-author Joseph Harrington, also of UCF.

Where did all the methane go? One possibility: it's being broken apart. "UV radiation from the planet's star could be converting the methane into polymers like ethylene," says Harrington. "If you put plastic wrap out in the sun, the UV radiation breaks down the carbon bonds in the plastic, causing it to deteriorate as the long carbon chains break. We propose a similar process on GJ 436b, but there hydrogen atoms split off from methane and let the remnants stick together to make ethylene (C2H4)."
Also, they speculate, strong vertical winds in the planet's atmosphere might be sweeping up material from deep hot layers where carbon monoxide is abundant. CO thus replaces CH4.

Or it could be something else entirely.

"This planet's atmosphere could have some sort of alien chemistry going on," says Harrington. "We just don't know yet."

Giant planets aren't the only worlds with methane. CH4 is fairly common on Earth, too. Methane forms in the stomachs of cows and goats. It also bubbles up from the bottom of swamps, a byproduct of organic matter decaying in deep mud. On gas giants, methane is just common chemistry, but on our planet, it is a sign of life.

For this reason, researchers have long planned to look for methane in the atmospheres of distant Earth-sized planets. NASA's Kepler mission is expected to discover many such worlds. Methane floating alongside oxygen could be compelling evidence of biological activity.

But what if planetary atmospheres don't always follow the rules of our own Solar System? GJ 436b certainty doesn't. Investigators might have to go back to the drawing board and re-figure their chemistry.

"GJ 436b is telling us something important," says Harrington: "We’re not in Kansas anymore."


Authors: Dr. Tony Phillips, Dauna Coulter | Credit: Science@NASA


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/13sep_funnyplanet/

[Emrico1]

[Emrico1]

[camy205]

I <3 the internet.



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[bigROBOTbill]

Oh for a balloon to pop!