• The Environment

    Jellyfish Invasion

    By Posted on 6.4.2008 17 Comments

    For most of us, jellyfish are nothing more than a nuisance. They drift toward beach shores and into our consciousness each summer near the end of their life cycle, making a refreshing dip in the water a bit less carefree for a few weeks. But that may be changing. Last November, a 10-mile-wide and 42-foot-thick swarm of baby mauve stingers (Pelagia noctiluca) decimated Northern Ireland’s farmed-salmon population. Overnight,120,000 fish were reduced to a floating mass of carcasses by billions of the small jellies native to warmer waters thousands of miles to the south. The salmon, which were killed by stings and oxygen deprivation, had a market value of $2 million.

    7.10.2008 at 01:46am - Comment by Prof_Pudding

    Okay me and DarkFX got totally ripped and debated how earth started and then he went on Popsci and commented. It made perfect sense at the time.

  • Cars

    A Motorcycle You Can Wear

    By Posted on 5.29.2008 15 Comments

    The tripod is a fine and stable construct for photography and navigation, but how well will it work for motorcycles? We're not sure, but one student at California's Art Center Pasadena is challenging singletrack motorcycles and typical three-wheelers with an anthropomorphic, Yamaha-branded three wheeler concept called the Deus Ex Machina. The forward-looking personal conveyance is a mobile exoskeleton propelled by in-wheel electric motors—or, more succinctly, a trike you can wear.

    7.10.2008 at 01:27am - Comment by Prof_Pudding

    They probably only have the helmet attached as a safety feature so you HAVE to wear one when you ride it.

  • The Environment

    Bad for People, Great for Plants

    By Posted on 7.9.2008 12 Comments

    Tell me this isn’t a summer blockbuster—as man faces the catastrophic effects of increased carbon dioxide levels, plants flourish. German researchers from the Thuenen Institute confirmed as much Tuesday, when they released findings showing that crop yields boom when plants are exposed to high levels of CO2. Jets sprayed the plants with extra CO2—enough to match the amount that scientists predict will fill the atmosphere by 2050—and the outputs of barley, beets and wheat jumped 10 percent.

    7.10.2008 at 01:17am - Comment by Prof_Pudding

    CO2 decreases plants quality because it's too much for it .. Just like too much sunlight isn't good for our skin. Too much is bad for ANYTHING. Too much co2 and too much sunlight.

  • Technology

    Landscapes of Mars

    By Posted on 7.9.2008 11 Comments

    These detailed views of the red planet were transmitted to Earth by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). After a 72-million-mile trek through space, the craft reached Mars in March 2006, delivering some of the most advanced technology ever sent to another world.

    7.9.2008 at 12:03am - Comment by Prof_Pudding

    They call it The Red Planet because before microscopes it was pretty much a red dot in the sky. So they called it The Red Planet, and then it just stuck.



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