These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth19:23 https://youtu.be/YMDJA4UvXLA What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to discover what on Earth they actually are.
That video editing irritates me but the subject is interesting.
The answer if you, like me, find the video irritating:
they are industrial scale evaporating pools for getting potash out of water that wood ash has been soaked in. Potash is an important source of elemental potassium used to make fertilizer.
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Yeah I usually like Derek's videos but that one is super fucking grating, between the absolutely inexplicable dubstep and the bizarre animations. As you said though, neat subject if you can push through all the poor editing choices!
Yo BahamutZERO no disrespect but you didn't finish the video and your spoiler is pretty misleading because of that, the answer is from 8:52 and how they mine it now is from 14:00 onwards
Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall4:59
It may not appear very lively six feet underground, but a single teaspoon of soil contains more organisms than there are human beings on the planet. From bacteria and algae to fungi and protozoa, soils are home to one quarter of Earth’s biodiversity. And perhaps soil’s most important inhabitants are its microbes. Carolyn Marshall digs into how soil’s invisible helpers support all life on Earth.
Lesson by Carolyn Marshall, directed by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson.
Morbid but a pretty fascinating watch, I enjoy the Claymation a lot
I wish I was better friends with the crows that live in my development
Just give them stuff, they remember faces.
I tried telling my kiddo that, but she gets annoyed at all the ruckus of their cawing in the huge groups found in our neighborhood and yells at them sometimes instead to quiet down.
Every time she does it, a voice in my head says, "They'll remember this."
BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
This 3.2 cm diameter Plutonium-238 oxide sphere produces 100 Watts (thermal), without any external energy input — simply as a result of radioactive decay. https://t.co/Aofmx3lKqG
The Perseverance rover is scheduled to land on Mars at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST) today, NASA is covering the landing live on their YouTube channel, which I've linked below. Perseverance's primary mission is looking for evidence of ancient microbial life in Jezero crater, which appears to have at one point in the distant past been filled with water.
Perseverance also carries a drone helicopter called Ingenuity that will be used to scout areas of interest and help Perseverance find the best routes for travel across the Martian landscape.
So like how long would you need to be near that evil magic deathball before you started to feel bad
Apparently it is only harmful if inhaled or ingested. So long as you washed your hands afterward you should be able to touch it?
So frying that egg is fine but eating it would be one of those last meals
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Just to be clear here it is not a ball of solid plutonium, because that would spontaneously explode (a 5 cm radius sphere of plutonium is already over its critical mass).
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
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but did you consider all the bad things that could happen if you didn't lick the red hot plutonium ball
but did you consider all the bad things that could happen if you didn't lick the red hot plutonium ball
You'd be giving up one of the classic comic book sources of super powers, for one.
"Licked radioactive materials" has got to be right behind "alien super science" and "my parents are deeead, but I'm suuuuper rich" on the old How'd you get your powers chart.
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Is everyone else getting weird choppy video on the NASA feed? I've been trying to troubleshoot from my end, but it seems like it might be a problem with the feed.
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I'm watching the direct mission control feed. In which you get to hear a bunch of people saying "GO!" in sequence and it makes me very jazzed every time.
I'm watching the direct mission control feed. In which you get to hear a bunch of people saying "GO!" in sequence and it makes me very jazzed every time.
I'm watching the direct mission control feed. In which you get to hear a bunch of people saying "GO!" in sequence and it makes me very jazzed every time.
Sadly I can't have this on for the duration of my class, but I am absolutely going to stop one of the activities early so the whole class can watch the control center during the landing.
So like how long would you need to be near that evil magic deathball before you started to feel bad
Apparently it is only harmful if inhaled or ingested. So long as you washed your hands afterward you should be able to touch it?
So frying that egg is fine but eating it would be one of those last meals
Plutonium decays primarily via alpha decay, which is stopped by clothing or, in the case of your internal organs, your skin. That does not mean it is good for your skin, but it is easy to shield yourself from the radiation. If you decided to be adventurous and consume it, your internal organs would be directly exposed to the radiation and bad things would happen.
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OKLAHOMA EARTHQUAKE TREND:
What a drop we've had since our record-breaking 2015! So far in 2021... not a single tremor has topped 3.0 magnitude!
Twitter image: a graph showing a rapid drop in earthquakes over 3.0 magnitude in Oklahoma from 887 in 2015 to 272 in 2017 and 26 in 2020.
Citation: FOX 23 is a local news station in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
For those of you keeping track at home, Oklahoma started instituting new regulations for fracking-related injection wells midway through 2015.
Human activity caused earthquakes powerful enough to knock down brick buildings for several years, and for a while there we were the most tectonically active area in America.
Jesus fuck. Humans are scary.
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What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to discover what on Earth they actually are.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
The answer if you, like me, find the video irritating:
Why didn’t this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall 4:59
Lesson by Carolyn Marshall, directed by Ivana Bošnjak and Thomas Johnson.
Morbid but a pretty fascinating watch, I enjoy the Claymation a lot
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Just give them stuff, they remember faces.
I tried telling my kiddo that, but she gets annoyed at all the ruckus of their cawing in the huge groups found in our neighborhood and yells at them sometimes instead to quiet down.
Every time she does it, a voice in my head says, "They'll remember this."
Perseverance also carries a drone helicopter called Ingenuity that will be used to scout areas of interest and help Perseverance find the best routes for travel across the Martian landscape.
Apparently it is only harmful if inhaled or ingested. So long as you washed your hands afterward you should be able to touch it?
it would actually be super good for you, probably
So frying that egg is fine but eating it would be one of those last meals
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
You'd be giving up one of the classic comic book sources of super powers, for one.
"Licked radioactive materials" has got to be right behind "alien super science" and "my parents are deeead, but I'm suuuuper rich" on the old How'd you get your powers chart.
this one?
link!
you just gotta go faster
... this sounds like a shitpost but no it's actually how it works, the stall speed is just much higher than in thicker atmospheres.
Plutonium decays primarily via alpha decay, which is stopped by clothing or, in the case of your internal organs, your skin. That does not mean it is good for your skin, but it is easy to shield yourself from the radiation. If you decided to be adventurous and consume it, your internal organs would be directly exposed to the radiation and bad things would happen.