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    The Comet that Destroyed America

    NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave

    Record-breaking Flood Surges Down Florida River

    47 Million Year Old Skeleton Reveals the Missing Link Between Lemurs and Humans

    Redoubt Volcano Rains Ash and Spreads a Stink of Sulfur Over Alaska

    Scientists Explain How to Cause a Mass Extinction

    Where Tectonic Plates Meet in a Volcanic Pool

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    Image of cletar cletar
    07/22/09

    In reply to The Comet that Destroyed America
    That's a crappy explanation for Clovis. I don't think archaeological evidence supports that at all.
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    Image of IraeNicole IraeNicole
    07/22/09

    In reply to The Comet that Destroyed America
    If only they had Bruce Willis.
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    07/22/09

    In reply to The Comet that Destroyed America
    Esplodo.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    07/22/09

    In reply to The Comet that Destroyed America
    I watched a PBS special about this theory. and they demonstrated how an impact crater wouldn't be found. Many times comets themselves are pieces of rock, gas, and ice..instead of one large whole piece of rock. So if one were to enter the atmosphere, it wouldn't be like an asteroid that would leave a large crater. instead it would be like tossing pea gravel onto sand, but obviously on a much larger scale. Thus leaving many shallow craters that could easily fill with sediment over time.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    07/22/09

    In reply to The Comet that Destroyed America
    Gives new meaning to "America Bashing."
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/23/09

    In reply to NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave
    Am I the only person here who can't see the phrase "pyroclastic flow" without thinking of the GZA?
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    Image of neolex neolex
    06/22/09

    In reply to NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave
    Um.. Sorry, but I must complain;


    'Luckily, NASA's International Space Station was watching.'


    Since when did NASA solely own the ISS; or is the word 'International' just a PR bye line?

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    Image of ProgHead777 ProgHead777
    06/23/09

    @neolex: No, it's really "international", though, NASA did most of the heavy lifting and incurred a much larger share of the cost. Remember that it was in development for several years as Space Station Freedom/Alpha before it became the International Space Station. And those shuttle launches aren't cheap.


    What does it matter? The whole thing gets chucked into the ocean in 8 years anyway. Which NASA gets sole responsibility for, BTW. Then you can call it NASA's $100,000,000,000+ Giant Hunk of Falling Garbage.


    Actually, you could call it that now if you ask me.

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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    06/23/09

    @ProgHead777: Only because we LET it fall.

    Idiotic policy to kill a platform well before its time because the previous chimp in office didn't want to share toys with others and instead wanted to yank us away from hard science and towards playacting GI Joes on the moon. Which, inevitably, will be strangled on the vine due to budget cuts anyway. A BIG win for anti-science.


    Should reboot, focus on the station and unmanned missions, more Hubbles, etc.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/22/09

    In reply to NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave
    Geoporn! Ooooh yeah, the earth just erupted.


    Sorry, every time volcanoes are posted and tagged geoporn...

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    Image of ZanipoloLebron ZanipoloLebron
    06/22/09

    In reply to NASA Volcano Image Shows Atmospheric Shockwave
    So that is a thermal shockwave edge, a pressure shockwave edge, or the event horizon of a black hole?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/22/09

    @ZanipoloLebron: technically all shockwaves are pressure. But that's a rapidly rising mass of hot gas pushing aside water vapour that's being rapidly condensed.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    06/22/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: or moist air being heated above it's dewpoint, which would cause the vapor to disappear...
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    06/22/09

    @ZanipoloLebron: It's a photo of the LHC being turned on.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    06/17/09

    In reply to Record-breaking Flood Surges Down Florida River
    What do you expect from a state that's about a foot and a half above sea level?
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    Image of marko_ramius marko_ramius
    05/19/09

    In reply to 47 Million Year Old Skeleton Reveals the Missing Link Between Lemurs and Humans
    Umm, how exactly does this qualify as 'the missing link'? I see a long tail, five digits on the hands and feet -- nothing that differs greatly from the modern-day lemur. This only possibly proves that lemurs were able to get their asses fossilized just like everything else back then.


    Sometimes, it seems like scientists are grasping at straws in their race to publicize that they have all of the answers. We ALL know that more research is required before heavy claims like these can be made. Remember what they said about brontosauruses and the planet Pluto?

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/19/09

    @marko_ramius: The link sends you directly to an academic paper on this exact subject, so if you want to know why it's important, just read it.


    But I don't think anyone save an actual paleontologist is going to know what is important and not important.


    Unless you happen to know what a "toilet claw" is, or the "haplorhine diversification". Which you don't.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/19/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: that paper is brow-beatingly weird though. It's a language I really don't understand.
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    Image of Connor Henzel Connor Henzel
    05/19/09

    @marko_ramius: There is no one "missing link" that solves everything, human evolution didn't happen over night.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    05/19/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: "The link sends you directly to an academic paper on this exact subject, so if you want to know why it's important, just read it."


    Why would he do that????????

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/19/09

    In reply to 47 Million Year Old Skeleton Reveals the Missing Link Between Lemurs and Humans
    along with the digestive tract that allowed researchers to discover the last meal that it ingested - fruits and leaves.


    If it's MY ancestor, that sentence would read: "Bacon".

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    Image of AldoraGreel AldoraGreel
    05/19/09

    In reply to 47 Million Year Old Skeleton Reveals the Missing Link Between Lemurs and Humans
    Or, God buried her there to test us. And you failed. Shameful.


    I shall go back to sticking my thumbs in my ears now. My thumbs, of course, which did NOT evolve from a creature very similar to if not directly from this here "specimen" (read: devil test).

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/19/09

    @AldoraGreel: Christ all fucking mighty. Is it possible to have a discussion about evolution which does not mention creationism at all.


    Seriously, at this fucking point people like you actually bring up creationism MORE than ACTUAL CREATIONISTS.

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    Image of capntim capntim
    05/19/09

    In reply to 47 Million Year Old Skeleton Reveals the Missing Link Between Lemurs and Humans
    i'm sorry did you say something science? because i was just going on about how there's no examples of transitional forms, and will continue saying it
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    Image of Connor Henzel Connor Henzel
    05/19/09

    @capntim: Did you not notice the article about the transitional form? (Scroll up,you'll find it(: )
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    Image of Cicada Cicada
    05/19/09

    @Connor Henzel: I'm pretty sure that's the joke.
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    04/01/09

    In reply to Redoubt Volcano Rains Ash and Spreads a Stink of Sulfur Over Alaska
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