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The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« on: July 25, 2013, 11:38:58 AM »
Ok, let's try this again. Post cool stuff you read here and there about science and nature.

I'll start:

1) Scroll down a bit, there's a woman putting on sunscreen while being filmed by a camera that only sees UV light. So cool.

https://www.lifepixel.com/galleries/uv-ultraviolet-photography-gallery

2) "Mudskippers", fish that evolved the capability to walk on land. It's eerily close to all those depictions of evolution where you see a fish dragging itself onto land:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAz7iMcC8e0
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2013, 10:48:06 AM »
Bummer. Nobody is interested in this kind of stuff?  :(
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2013, 10:55:29 AM »
that lady needs to eat something
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2013, 11:47:45 AM »
Because she isn't overweight?
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« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2013, 12:03:09 PM »
I love the Nat Geo stuff.
     

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2013, 12:08:15 PM »
I need to learn more about the sciences. Starting by reading Bill Bryon's history.

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2013, 12:09:31 PM »
Ok, let's try this again. Post cool stuff you read here and there about science and nature.

I'll start:

1) Scroll down a bit, there's a woman putting on sunscreen while being filmed by a camera that only sees UV light. So cool.

https://www.lifepixel.com/galleries/uv-ultraviolet-photography-gallery

Oh man, that's awesome. I mean, it's precisely what you'd expect, but still really cool to actually see it.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2013, 12:12:03 PM »
Because she isn't overweight?

look at her shoulder/arm in that bottom pic.  Does that look right to you?
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2013, 02:00:24 PM »
Yeah, it does to me. She is skinny, sure, but she just happens to have an angular face.
If I  may say so, it looks to me that due to the obesity epidemic your "normal" has shifted to the point where a skinny person looks anorexic to you.
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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2013, 02:02:51 PM »
I need to learn more about the sciences. Starting by reading Bill Bryon's history.

I finally finished MLK's autobiography yesterday, which means I can return to Brian Greene's latest book about the origins of the universe. I love reading that stuff, even though I expect a ton of stuff I already know.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2013, 02:20:34 PM »
Yeah, it does to me. She is skinny, sure, but she just happens to have an angular face.
If I  may say so, it looks to me that due to the obesity epidemic your "normal" has shifted to the point where a skinny person looks anorexic to you.

I don't know...in that last picture, the lady's right arm/shoulder looks so thin as to be deformed.

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Her face is fine.

Very cool site, though!   :tup
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2013, 05:00:20 PM »
Because she isn't overweight?

look at her shoulder/arm in that bottom pic.  Does that look right to you?

She looks a little bony and underweight to me too... but we are Americans after all, so that must mean that the obesity epidemic has completely skewed our perception of this matter.
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« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2013, 05:04:56 PM »
A very cool bit about the lady's UV pic:

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2013, 05:19:13 PM »
Because she isn't overweight?

look at her shoulder/arm in that bottom pic.  Does that look right to you?

She looks a little bony and underweight to me too... but we are Americans after all, so that must mean that the obesity epidemic has completely skewed our perception of this matter.

Her chest looks rather concave, as well.   ???
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2013, 10:27:23 PM »
Yeah...she needs to eat more than a couple lf almonds for lunch. Has nothing to do with the American obesity epidemic..Jesus...she's incredibly skinny. Bony in fact. But the UV absorption thing is cool. Anyhoo! Back on topic.

If this thing came out of the woods and approached me, I think I'd wet myself getting away from it. Very cool though.


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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #16 on: July 28, 2013, 11:02:51 AM »
This is pretty cool: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/50-000-year-old-forest-of-fresh-trees-found-in-4657102.php

Interesting. Bummer that the article doesn't explain the mechanism of the preserved underwater forests. It seems to me the forest must have suddenly been buried under the water, since a gradual water level rise would just slowly have killed off the trees.
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« Reply #17 on: July 28, 2013, 11:13:10 AM »
Skinny is good. That skinny is bleach
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #18 on: July 28, 2013, 12:51:27 PM »
This is pretty cool: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/50-000-year-old-forest-of-fresh-trees-found-in-4657102.php

Interesting. Bummer that the article doesn't explain the mechanism of the preserved underwater forests. It seems to me the forest must have suddenly been buried under the water, since a gradual water level rise would just slowly have killed off the trees.

I was wondering that as well...I'm figuring the area was below sea level at the time, and whatever earthen dam was holding back the water broke in some catastrophic event and flooded the whole region.  that's pretty much the only way I can figure that it would go from dry to anoxic quickly enough to have this kind of preservation occur.
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #19 on: July 28, 2013, 01:00:20 PM »
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #20 on: July 28, 2013, 04:30:07 PM »
This is pretty cool: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/50-000-year-old-forest-of-fresh-trees-found-in-4657102.php

Interesting. Bummer that the article doesn't explain the mechanism of the preserved underwater forests. It seems to me the forest must have suddenly been buried under the water, since a gradual water level rise would just slowly have killed off the trees.

I was wondering that as well...I'm figuring the area was below sea level at the time, and whatever earthen dam was holding back the water broke in some catastrophic event and flooded the whole region.  that's pretty much the only way I can figure that it would go from dry to anoxic quickly enough to have this kind of preservation occur.

There's a more in depth article here https://www.livescience.com/37977-underwater-cypress-forest-discovered.html

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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #21 on: July 28, 2013, 04:53:29 PM »
I think that explains why the forest was conserved long term, but I think the immediate conservation is still mysterious to me. Anything gradual would have rotted the trees.
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« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2013, 07:59:24 PM »
For once some positive news when it comes to CO2: They are testing CO2 sequestration in basalt.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pilot-projects-bury-co2-in-basalt
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2013, 08:58:31 AM »
I find that I get a lot of my interesting science facts from xkcd recently.  Apparently, there is a canyon larger than the Grand Canyon buried in sediment in the lower Nile river valley.  This was discovered when core samples were drilled for construction of the Aswan dam while looking for bedrock.  The bedrock near the river banks was under about 30 feet of sediment, whereas in the center of the river, it was 900 feet below sediment. Further down river, it is much deeper.

https://groups.yahoo.com/group/InPursuitofWisdom/message/3821

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A vast deep canyon, which five million years ago looked like the Grand Canyon of Arizona, lies buried under Cairo, and extends southward for 600 miles to Aswan, Egypt, where its further path is lost.

More info   https://www.utdallas.edu/geosciences/remsens/Nile/geology.html
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« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2013, 09:22:38 AM »
Dang, that is huge. I just looked up where that dam is that marks the end of the canyon, and it's at the southern tip of Egypt!  :omg:
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
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The Earth as seen by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft on July 19, 2013. Were the small dot, halfway down the image and slightly to the right. Saturn and its rings are in the foreground. The blue haze is sunlight refracting from Saturn E ring, which is made of material shot into space from the moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA

And a slideshow of images of the earth from space... the first from 1946!
https://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/pale-blue-dots-space-missions-pictures-130723.htm
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« Reply #27 on: August 01, 2013, 07:36:42 AM »

The Earth as seen by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft on July 19, 2013. Were the small dot, halfway down the image and slightly to the right. Saturn and its rings are in the foreground. The blue haze is sunlight refracting from Saturn E ring, which is made of material shot into space from the moon Enceladus. Credit: NASA

And a slideshow of images of the earth from space... the first from 1946!
https://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/pale-blue-dots-space-missions-pictures-130723.htm
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Re: The science and nature thread v. We tried this before
« Reply #28 on: August 01, 2013, 11:00:21 AM »
Great idea for a thread. Thank you.
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« Reply #29 on: August 01, 2013, 11:10:40 AM »
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« Reply #31 on: August 01, 2013, 11:21:14 AM »
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« Reply #32 on: August 02, 2013, 06:57:43 AM »
This is my favorite quote ever, and I praise whoever made the cartoon to go along with it.

The coolest part is that the kid in it is Carl Sagan and the library story is one he used to tell all the time.  :heart

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« Reply #33 on: August 02, 2013, 07:55:34 AM »
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« Reply #34 on: August 02, 2013, 02:35:04 PM »
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