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Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20071219

December 19th, 2007
Updated Velociraptor with Feathers
Updated Velociraptor with Feathers
(Awww… So Cuddly!!!)
  • Wow, am I ever behind on my paleontology, National Geographic has a cool website of Bizarre Dinosaurs, many of which I’ve never heard of (Must have all been discovered during my teenage years, when I was “too cool” for science).
  • Astronauts made their 100th SpaceWalk.
  • Plans to build a carbon neutral coal plant are moving forward as Illinois is chosen to host the $1.5 billion plant, which will pump carbon dioxide into the Earth to sequester it.
  • Archeologists have discovered Mammoth fossils baring the scars of a Meteor Impact.
  • The popularity of this device is just further proof that consumers are idiotic %#$&ing sheep.
  • Yeesh! CNN has a picture of the giant rat and tiny possum found in Indonesia’s “Lost World” mentioned yesterday.
    • Giant Rat
    Giant Rat
    (Awww… So Cuddly!!!)
  • As humans migrated out of Africa, they had to evolve lighter skin so their bodies could produce more Vitamin D from sunlight, apparently Signs of TB in Ancient Skulls show that the disease was our Natural Selector.
  • Ohhhh… Ahhhh… BadAstronomy has the years Top Ten Astronomy Pics.

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    1. Do you have plans to blog about how the carbon neutral sequestering process works? I find it hard to believe that pumping carbon dioxide and other elements into the earth is the solution for pollution.

           by BMF December 19th, 2007 at 9:39 am

    2. Ah! Good Question. The NPR story actually gives one of the best explanations I’ve heard. At extreme pressures, the carbon dioxide becomes a liquid and then seeps into pores in the rock, where it should stay. Apparently the science is pretty solid, but it’s never been done before. So it’s not a definate.

      It’s also expensive as hell and no company will ever voluntarily do it until we implement a Carbon Credit market to establish the fair market value of a clean environment.

           by ideonexus December 19th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    3. The epidendrosaurus looks straight out of LolCats. “OMG my hands!”

           by Carolyn December 19th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

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