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lwien

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I'll never forget going thru a 7.3-7.5 quake a long time ago. I was just a kid, about 8 years old, but I remember looking out the front windows of our house, and the street and sidewalk were rolling just like waves on the ocean. So strange.
 
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Purple-Days

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Nurburgring. Pagani Zonda eclipses Ferrari record. It's a helluva ride. Amazing. The Ferrari driver, who set the previous record, was never as near the edge as this fellow was. Very impressive and utterly insane or genius depending on your view. The final couple of kinks in the long straight are pretty icy and he tightens the belts for what may be his last crash ever, just in case... :cool:

http://jalopnik.com/5597644/the-pagani-zonda-rs-insane-nurburging-record-run
 
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Happycamper

Happycamper

Sweet Dreams Babycakes
Does anyone know what thats called when soil moves like liquid, i though it was soil liquefaction, but it seems not to mean that. Amazing to watch.

edit......maybe it is that after all.


or maybe..it's just called a landslide

now i'm stoned and paranoid.
 
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Happycamper

Happycamper

Sweet Dreams Babycakes
Just a little update on the facebook networking thing.....for me it is huge right now, people are finding my business in 1000's of ways i never even thought they would. I am not even paying for advertising at all atm. I am getting good sales from it!

HOWEVER i do like twitter, bu i am finding it is a lot slower to take off, i got really lucky before and the lead i stumbled across does not normally happen. But i don't totally understand twitter. My time has been spent on facebook, which is really worth any business getting a page for free up there!!

Never been on myspace.........yet!

Any other business people out there with a thirst for knowledge, to share ideas?
 
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Lo

Lo

Combustion free since '09
The earth is buzzed today :D

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/08/earth.two.asteroids/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn
Asteroid buzzes Earth; another one coming

(CNN) -- A small asteroid passed within the moon's distance from the Earth on Wednesday morning, and another will do likewise later in the day, space watchers say.

The double encounter is an unusual event that shows the need for closer monitoring of near space for Earth-threatening encounters, according to NASA.

The objects don't pose a threat to Earth, and they will not be visible to the naked eye, said Donald Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Program, which tracks potentially hazardous asteroids and comets within 28 million miles of Earth.

The objects are visible from Earth as tiny specks of light with the help of moderately sized amateur telescopes, he said.

Near-Earth asteroid 2010 RX30, which is estimated to be 32 to 65 feet in diameter, passed within 154,000 miles of Earth at 5:51 a.m. ET Wednesday, the website PopFi.com confirmed.

The second object, 2010 RF12, estimated to be 20 to 46 feet in diameter, will pass within 49,088 miles of Earth at 5:12 pm ET.

In case you were wondering, that means the two asteroids will pass within 0.6 and 0.2 lunar distances from the Earth, respectively.

Roughly 50 million objects pass through near-Earth space each day, Yeomans said. But what makes this situation noteworthy is that these two asteroids are passing so close to Earth on the same day and that NASA spotted them so far in advance.

"Things like this happen every day that we simply don't know about because we don't have the telescopes large enough to find them or surveys that are looking full-time," he said. "This demonstrates the system's working on some level, but we need larger telescopes and more of them to find objects that are coming this close."

The Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, discovered both objects Sunday morning during a routine monitoring of the skies, NASA said.

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first received the observations Sunday morning, determined preliminary orbits and concluded both objects would pass within the distance of the moon about three days later.

Yeomans described the discovery as a warning shot in a field of study of low-probability events with global, high-impact consequences. He said that it was only when scientists began looking for near-Earth objects in the 1990s that they realized there was a "problem."

"We have only recently appreciated how many of these objects are in near Earth's space and [it's] best that we keep track of them and find them," he said. "I think this is Mother Nature's way of firing a shot over the bow and warning Earth-based astronomers that we have a lot of work to do."]
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Purple-Days

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Saw 'The Earth gets buzzed' post.

This is a sight I go to most days. http://spaceweather.com/ Very interesting to see video of the other side of the sun some days. And very interesting things on this side too. Then there are the fly-bys.... will 'they' list the one that won't 'fly-by'? Who knows... a 7 meter rock flew 50G away today, the Moon is 250G. And the best part is they didn't see this one coming. Hey maybe that's best. :2c:

Here is something new to me, controlled chaosomness...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJB5T_a13CI&feature=player_embedded#!


And how about Ron Jeremy's school of harmonica?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIcwvrkXDo&feature=player_embedded#!
Smell your harmonica son...

And for some more controlled chaos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cs-zZ0Qu5Y&feature=related

One more, maybe the best for last...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJmVJZbmIk&feature=player_embedded
 
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charliedontsurf

charliedontsurf

Medical
Excellent sitar-guitar jam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx4N_bZ7nRo

And his homemade acoustic guitar-sitar:
http://www.youtube.com/user/HIMAT11#p/a/u/1/XglbpEESlrY

Has anyone ever had the chance to play a guitar or any instrument with a scalloped fingerboard? I'm so curious how it affects playing. Is "Camelbone Bridge" not a completely bitching band name?

And here's a question, why can't one goddamn Indian restaurant I've ever been to play real Indian music? It's always Bollywood stuff. And Indian/Pakistani is my favorite food so I've eaten quite a bit.

PD, that wingsuit video has shite music but wow, awesome footage! I might even ponder being sober for that activity.

This years Lagunitas Something Wild is the best its ever been. Superb, hoppy, experimental saison at a absurdly low price for the style - hot damn.
 
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Purple-Days

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Yes, I played a scalloped fretboard once. Might have been a Schecter? Anyway, I disliked it a lot. Probably because I just didn't understand it. It was totally foreign. I play fretless and fretted, not scalloped. Don't touch one, it will give you bad dreams. :2c:
 
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