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Vectorwulf posted:In addition, maybe ask folks to post at least a *little* information, if not a decent synopsis, of whatever the links are? Just to stave off any derails from others asking what the articles are about. Everything about the site from the accident until now fascinates me. The wikipedia article on the Chernobyl disaster describes fungi that live within reactor #4 now  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Flora_and_fauna quote:A robot sent into the reactor itself has returned with samples of black, melanin-rich radiotrophic fungi that are growing on the reactor's walls.[124] gently caress your normal/boring photosynthesis, I need some high-test poo poo. Give me gamma rays  .
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Erghh posted:Another old stand-by, Lost Cosmonauts. It probably stoked the fires just a little bit when astronauts on board the ISS released SuitSat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuitSat It was an old space suit that was beyond its service life, so they made a limited-duration satellite out it. The orbit of it decayed pretty quickly though, and it got incinerated as soon as it came low enough to start re-entry. Speaking of atmospheric re-entry, it's probably one of the most extreme processes we can put something through. SpaceShipOne gets away with it because they didn't have enough horizontal velocity to even get to orbit, only to get to space for a minute before falling back down. The space shuttles came down from orbit at around Mach 25, and on the 2nd shuttle flight the pilot of the craft flew the entire re-entry profile by hand (on every other flight of the program, computers handled this part). Then we get to things that are from beyond Earth orbit; these are asteroids, comets, and occasionally a spent Saturn V fuel tank from the Apollo program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J002E3) and are moving extremely fast, relative to Earth. If the orbits line up just right, these can hit the atmosphere so fast that they only spend a second or two burning through the entirety of the atmosphere before hitting the ground.
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dpack_1 posted:PYF: scary or unnerving article or Wikipedia or long rear end discussion about scientology that nobody cares about. Following the rabbit hole of the Bloop I went to the list of other strange sounds in the ocean. Some of them are seasonal, and others are one-time events that just make you wonder what exactly the planet is doing where we aren't looking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unexplained_sounds And of course the page has a link to random hums (like in Taos, NM), the general article about numbers stations, and random sonic booms like are rumored to happen occasionally on beach that is only about 10 miles from where I live (Carolina Beach, NC). I didn't find a wikipedia article on them, but there's this: http://www.rense.com/general13/mysterybooms.htm saying that the booms date back to at least the 1850's.
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Genetic diseases are all kinds of terrible, unnerving and usually depressing due to their tendency to affect and kill people that are still very young (ie children). Here's one that's pretty high on that chain. This entire article is probably  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva quote:The effects of Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a disease which causes damaged soft tissue to regrow as bone. Sufferers are slowly imprisoned by their own skeletons. One of the most tragic parts of this disease is that when a surgeon goes in to remove some of the extra-skeletal bone, the body will often re-grow more bone in the area (as if to spite any attempts to remove it). The picture on that article is from a man named Harry Eastlack, who died less than a week before his 40th birthday (how he lived to be almost 40 with this condition is probably worth a few on it's own). quote:At the time of his death his body had completely ossified; even his jaw locked up, leaving him able to move only his lips. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Raymond_Eastlack Thankfully this is a very rare disease, only occurring in 1 out of every 2 million births.
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1stGear posted:This is pretty much exactly when you get trained to qualify as a scuba diver, every instructor, every book, and every course will continually repeat "Always dive with a buddy, always dive with a buddy, ALWAYS DIVE WITH A BUDDY JESUS." There's a diving course now for "self-reliant divers" offered by PADI  http://www.redhookdivecenter.com/?q=padi-selfreliant Not that I would do it, I'm perfectly capable of drowning even with people around 
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RCarr posted:Has there ever been a case of a diver being attacked by a shark? It seems like a terrible thing to not be able to surface quickly in case of an emergency like that. http://www.undercurrent.org/blog/2009/09/10/diving-shark-attack/ It's...not a good read. On the anecdotal side, my dad had a shark steal one if his dive fins near Hawaii. He thought it was a test bite to see if the shark wanted any more of him, I guess fins don't taste very good though
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New Wave Jose posted:English is not my first language, but is that a typo? Asexually means "not sexually" right? You’re correct.
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