Science and technology links

Feb 08, 2008 21:27

The sun blows a smoke ring.

How to get rid of phobias. Via qamar.

Richard Branson wants to build a tourist space vehicle! Via jordan179.

Brits are also designing a hypersonic jet which would do UK-Oz in five hours.

Drug cartels are increasingly using submarines: Now, the cartels seem to be increasingly going beneath the waves, relying on submarines built in clandestine jungle shipyards to move tons of cocaine.
Last year, 13 of the vessels were seized on dry land or stopped at sea by Colombian or U.S. patrol boats -- more than in the previous 14 years combined, according to the Pacific fleet of the Colombian navy, which is responsible for interdiction efforts across 130,000 square miles.

About the network of undersea cables. A some cables get cut and the internet goes down across the Middle East. But Israel was not affected - clearly a conspiracy. Though neither was Iran.

Apparent evidence of abiogenic hydrocarbons. If confirmed, it could have a few implications.

Considering an obvious downside of increasing biological knowledge.

In 40 million years a giant hydrogen cloud will hit our galaxy.

55 million years ago, a tremendous release of deep ocean methane heated the atmosphere by 7 degrees Celsius.

12,900 years ago a large an object hit the Earth’s atmosphere above North America. Bad luck for most of the resident humans at the time.

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