Regarding current Fun Times In The Gulf, it's certainly true that Deepwater Horizon has a long way to go before it's even close to the scale of Ixtoc 1 and other oil spills around the world, but that didn't stop me yelling "GODDAMN ****ING ****!" when I had a look at this website, which takes the current size of the oil slick and plots it over ( Read more... )

... or rather, the Chocolate Hills of Bohol, in the Philippines.


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Rocks May Be Oldest on Earth, Scientists Say
A swath of bedrock in northern Quebec may be the oldest known piece of the Earth’s crust.

In an article appearing in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, scientists report that portions of that bedrock are 4.28 billion years old, formed when the Earth was less than 300 million years old.

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remember the long burning coal fires in pennsylvania ( Read more... )

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Green diamonds are a result of exposure to radioactivity.

Quote: "The green color is usually caused by the crystal's coming into contact with a radioactive source at some point during its lifetime, and in geological terms, this is measured in millions of years. The most common form of irradiation diamonds chance into is through bombardment by ( Read more... )