Nature involves Science, too! (Nobody Cares...)

[Casey Pelous]

My favorite response:

 

[Clara D.]

Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High

The dolphins' expert, deliberate handling of the terrorized puffer fish implies that this is not their first time at the hallucinogenic rodeo

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[danielravennest]

My favorite response:

(1) We already know the drag coefficient for a sphere.

(2) Because only physicists use spherical approximations. Aeronautical engineers use realistic shapes to determine when a tornado will generate airborne bovines.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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Walker 'stunned' to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall

David Morris encounters rare optical illusion known as superior mirage while out on coastal stroll

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

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Walker 'stunned' to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall

David Morris encounters rare optical illusion known as superior mirage while out on coastal stroll

www.theguardian.com

Is this proof of the Earth being flat, or round?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Is this proof of the Earth being flat, or round?

The existence of Cavorite, I think.

 

[Free]

The existence of Cavorite, I think.

Too deep a dive for me.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Too deep a dive for me.

There used to be a cavorite mine somewhere in SL (Bay City, maybe?) with a conveyor belt bringing out bouncing, floating, chunks of green-glowing ore.

 

[Sid]

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Walker 'stunned' to see ship hovering high above sea off Cornwall

David Morris encounters rare optical illusion known as superior mirage while out on coastal stroll

www.theguardian.com

Badly positioned.
You see that in SL all the time.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

There used to be a cavorite mine somewhere in SL (Bay City, maybe?) with a conveyor belt bringing out bouncing, floating, chunks of green-glowing ore.

Northwest corner of Caledon Moors, built by Horg Neurocam. It also featured an Ancient Aliens feature.

edit: west

 

[Innula Zenovka]

No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

www.theatlantic.com

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A very clear demonstration that weather is science, and then it digs far deeper -- fascinating on the history, infrastructure and energy cost of the cloud.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Vertical mulcher rides to rescue of ancient Northumberland peat bog

Nine-tonne timber harvester clears trees as part of 50-year project to restore Border Mires dating from ice age

www.theguardian.com

 

[danielravennest]

Vertical mulcher rides to rescue of ancient Northumberland peat bog

Nine-tonne timber harvester clears trees as part of 50-year project to restore Border Mires dating from ice age

www.theguardian.com

Here is one of those machines eating trees:


Personally, I find this kind of tree genocide horrible. I do woodworking, and can't help but think how many things you make with them besides wood chips. Mulch up the small branches, sure, but the big pieces are too useful to destroy.

 

[Free]

True Spring is trying to make itself known...

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Iceland is erupting again! \o/

After weeks of strong and alarming swarms of earthquakes in western Iceland, in the area somewhat between the capital city Reykjavik and the town of Keflavik where the international airport is located, people were finally beginning to relax their fears of an imminent volcanic eruption over the last couple of days as the earthquakes seemed to dramatically fall in number and severity.

But tonight at around 930PM local, and quite unexpectedly, a fissure opened at the old Fagradalsfjall shield, about 20 miles south of the capital.




There hasn't been an eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in almost 800 years! Right now all the roads in the area are closed and the airport is shut down too; but it seems to be a very calm eruption and no populated areas are considered to be in danger.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Walsall boy, 6, finds '488-million-year-old' fossil in garden

The schoolboy was "digging for worms" when he came across the fossil, which dates back millions of years.

www.bbc.co.uk