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    The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia

    Global Warming Means More Dire Respiratory Problems

    A Satellite View of Tennessee's Kingston Fossil Plant, Before and After the Toxic Spill

    Photon Farming in the Vast Solar Fields of Northern China

    Dried Mushrooms Could Stop Global Warming, Say Scientists

    Tokyo's Eco-Apocalypse

    This Summer the Northwest Passage Opens, When the North Pole Melts

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    I saw this episode. It's a Stargate.
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    Image of FelixA9 FelixA9
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    I still want to know what causes the rotating hexagon on Saturn.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    @FelixA9: An Allen wrench. Saturn is from Ikea.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    @crashedpc: A/K/A SÄTURNDÖRD
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: And the rings are just flatpacked moons that lady God hasn't gotten around to unpacking. And I'll be damned if I'm gonna help her.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Actually, you'll be damned if you don't.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:


    STEP 1. *picture of confused guy staring at deflated moons on floor*


    STEP 2. *beer*

     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    What we need to look for is a giant ice fisherman looking around cluelessly while a giant saw is cutting a circle in the ice.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    Looks like God's leaving her coffee cup laying around without a coaster.

    Thats right ladies, I said her. I'm sensitive.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Rather than being so sensitive, maybe next time you'll pick it up and wipe the table off yourdamnedself instead of waiting for her to do everything.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I did that once before she was done with it and she friggin smote me!!
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Got it. So you just carted it off to the ocean and washed it out instead of bothering to look for a coaster?


    *cough*Passive-aggressive much?*cough*


    You know, if things don't work out between you two, and your looking for somebody else to praise and worship, howsabout you just keep. on. walking.


    *sigh*


    Worshippers, they're all the same.

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    Image of volvoxnomad volvoxnomad
    05/28/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Um, a lady god would NEVER leave her coffee cup laying around without a coaster. Have you never read the book "Stereotyping for Deities"?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Come by our house of worship! You know that whole Blind Idiot God thing? TOTALLY NOT TRUE*


    *is true

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    @crashedpc: Blind Idiot Gods??? Not. For. Me.


    Let's just say that Arty wasn't leaving any coffee rings!


    (Well at least not when I first started.)

     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Ok, ok. How about Nuclear Chaos? You know you want to worship a deity named Nuclear Chaos. Eh? Eh?
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    @crashedpc: Nah. Too mercurial.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: I worship him, but know him by his non-nickname Xenu.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    @volvoxnomad: Totally. Duh. MEN. (rolls eyes, flips hair)
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Oh HELL NO you just lumped Azathoth in with S-. You. Bastard.


    It's time to call Ithaqua. Watch your windows, punk.

     Reply
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    05/29/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Repeat after me, bitch.



    + Watch video
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/29/09

    @AngryEddy: Love that video. Love the hair, the wacky background, the cracked out street preacher. Ahh, memories.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/29/09

    @AngryEddy: I'm just amazed that people out there have the wherewithal to actually go out and convince a public access station to give them a show, then show up. I mean, it looks to me like he couldn't even stay at the barber the whole time.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    That circle. It is very nice. Very round. Very pretty. Indeed, it is very, how should I say...circular.


    But no, no, it is not perfect.

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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    so that's where my DeathRay hit...damn Targeting Computer crashed...
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/28/09

    @KhaiJB: Mwahahaha, you think you can hit me with COMPUTER ELECTRONICS?
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    05/28/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: just wait right there....
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    Image of ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H. ggodo, the man from R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    @KhaiJB: WHy would you want to destroy the pleasure bunker? Why oh why would you do that?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/28/09

    In reply to The Mysterious Ice Circles of Siberia
    It's those damned seals screwing with our heads. Wiseass nerpas.
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    Image of TheDarkWayne TheDarkWayne
    05/28/09

    @Grey_Area: it's like they want us to club their children
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/28/09

    @TheDarkWayne: No wonder they are endangered.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    02/20/09

    In reply to Global Warming Means More Dire Respiratory Problems
    But global warming doesn't exist!


    Matt Drudge wouldn't lie to me!


    He...he loves me...doesn't he?

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    Image of corpore-metal corpore-metal
    02/20/09

    In reply to Global Warming Means More Dire Respiratory Problems
    This is what I meant when I said that anthropogenic climate change won't kill humanity (Though it may cause fatalities from flooding and bad weather.) or kill the planet but it will make things more expensive and have lot of slow, subtle and expected effects.


    It's always the slow-grinding problems we are worst at dealing with. Not sudden and shocking enough to jar us into action, not severe enough scare us much, just slow nibbling to death that no-one can be bothered to pay to fix.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    02/20/09

    @corpore-metal: I don't think you've really applied the actual mechanics of global warming to the current political world. When large sections of whole countries stop being arable, natural aquifers are drained, port cities are destroyed by rising water... well, let's just say when a government is in trouble, it invariably responds militarily.
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    01/03/09

    In reply to A Satellite View of Tennessee's Kingston Fossil Plant, Before and After the Toxic Spill
    "toxic fly ash (a byproduct of fossil fuel production)"


    Nope, the fly ash is a product of burning the coal (electricity production) not of mining the coal (fossil fuel production).

    -Kle.

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/03/09

    @Klebert L. Hall: They just want to tar all "fossil fuels" with the same brush. Fossil fuels are EVIL you know.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/02/09

    In reply to A Satellite View of Tennessee's Kingston Fossil Plant, Before and After the Toxic Spill
    Very SCARY. My best wishes to all of you in the area as this is could be a major problem. Is the Government doing anything?


    Thought not.

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    Image of XenaElectra XenaElectra
    01/02/09

    In reply to A Satellite View of Tennessee's Kingston Fossil Plant, Before and After the Toxic Spill
    I don't think that's blackened landscape, it looks like the shadow from some sort of plume coming out of the plant. Maybe steam as a normal production byproduct?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    01/02/09

    @XenaElectra: Oh maybe you're right - they produce a lot of smoke at the plant, which is actually where the fly ash comes from.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/03/08

    In reply to Photon Farming in the Vast Solar Fields of Northern China
    You know what else is really efficient at utilizing solar energy? Plants. Just saying.
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    Image of Themindtaker Themindtaker
    11/03/08

    In reply to Photon Farming in the Vast Solar Fields of Northern China
    Y'know what I think is great? the tag, environmentalism, really isn't that apt in this case. Environmentalism, at least to me, implies a sort of sacrifice for the sake of the environment, without any direct benefit to the one making the choice. This is a sustainable technology, but implemented for reasons entirely pragmatic, because the externalities of the previous energy source choices have finally started to catch up to us.


    And I like it a lot. Though I have to agree with grey_area that they ought to expand on rooftops wherever possible; making all that concrete is a pretty carbon-intensive process.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/03/08

    @Themindtaker: Yes to rooftop solar. I also like the way some cities put solar cells in parking lots -- you shade the cars, and you get solar in an area that was previously worse than useless.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/03/08

    @Annalee Newitz: We got one of those here in my town -- it's a gov't building.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/03/08

    In reply to Photon Farming in the Vast Solar Fields of Northern China
    Oh, and Annalee? That's "working rice paddies" in the last paragraph. Not to be a noodge, but...


    Hopefully arable cropland will not be turned over to solar panel arrays in rural areas. That's the same bad trade-off as the ethanol screwup. Folk still need to eat, yo.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/03/08

    @Grey_Area: Wait, what's wrong with "working rice paddies"?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/03/08

    @Annalee Newitz: Umm, you spelled it "working race paddies".

    See?
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/03/08

    @Grey_Area: Wow, my brain is seriously in fart mode. I actually checked after reading your first comment and STILL didn't see the typo. Fixed now.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/03/08

    @Annalee Newitz: Please not to be farting cerebrally. It produces the unwanted methane and other ignoble gases. Plus it makes the hat smell more bad.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/03/08

    @Grey_Area: The problem is getting the smell out of the wrinkles in my cerebral cortex.
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