No, it's not martians.
We did it yesterday. We kinda got bored and went up and cleansed the thingy up there with cloth and spit.
So, no martians up there.
Sorry to disappoint you.
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No, it's not martians.
We did it yesterday. We kinda got bored and went up and cleansed the thingy up there with cloth and spit.
So, no martians up there.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Tal> Next time you are bored, make your way towards my house as well along with your cloth, please but no spit please! I will provide the water and window cleaner! :D
*looks up his calendar'
Hmm, it seems like that next time We will be bored in *calculates on fingers* exactly 343,42 years. I'd be happy to step by then.
*puts her hoover and mop away for the next 34,342 years*
Suits me! :p
Yet another reason to read books!!! :D
Bookstores Rated New York's Best Pickup Spot
2 hours, 18 minutes ago Oddly Enough - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Looking for a New Year's Eve date? Check under fiction at your local bookstore.
According to a survey of 1,003 New Yorkers aged 25 to 35 released by American Express on Wednesday, the bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has the best singles scene in the city.
Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said she was not surprised.
"We've actually had requests from people who have met in our stores ... asking if they could be married in our stores," she said. The chain has hosted a number of weddings, she added.
Among the survey's other findings: 42 percent of those polled said they thought the best way to ring in the New Year was "at home, enjoying a quiet evening for two."
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...nm/newyears_dc)
Giant cockroach among jungle find
A "monster" cockroach and other new insects have been discovered in the jungles of Borneo, scientists say.
An expedition of caves and cliffs, led by the Nature Conservancy, also said it saw previously unknown fish and plants.
"In just five weeks, the expedition team discovered numerous new species previously unknown to science," the conservancy's Scott Stanley said.
"Who knows what else is out there?" he added, calling for the area surveyed in East Kalimantan to be preserved.
"If something is not done soon to protect these areas, dozens of species could disappear before anyone knew they ever existed."
Borneo is one of the world's richest regions, in terms of biodiversity, but the area had no special status that might have protected it against illegal mining or logging.
The team of scientists explored four "karst" systems of limestone caves, cliffs and sinkholes in the Sangkulirang Peninsula, about 1,200km (750 miles) north-west of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
At 10cm (4in) long, the newly-discovered cockroach is believed to be the largest in the world.
As well as the "monster" cockroach, the scientists reported a new "micro-crab", a pure-white 6.5cm-long millipede, two new species of begonia, two new species of snail and several new types of fish, the conservancy said.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/4121637.stm)
Interesting . . .
http://lexus.msn.com/id/2074206/sid/2086196/>1=5877
Happy holidays everyone... :(
Death toll in Asian disaster nears 28,000
COLOMBO (AFP) - The confirmed death toll from the massive earthquake and tidal waves that devastated much of Asia's coastline approached 28,000, with officials warning the figure was likely to rise steeply.
In Sri Lanka more than 12,200 people, including at least 70 foreigners, were killed in Sunday's disaster.
More than 8,500 people were reported killed in India with many more victims expected, officials said.
Among them were about 4,000 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, close to the epicentre of the quake, where thousands were missing after five villages were swept away, an official said.
Around 4,500 were killed in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the former French colony of Pondicherry, officials said.
In Indonesia, nearly 5,800 people were killed as the country took the full force of the huge earthquake and tidal waves that swallowed entire coastal villages.
The vice president has warned the toll could reach as high as 25,000 once the true scale of the catastrophe becomes clear.
Nearly 1,000 people were killed, among them more than 700 foreign tourists, in southern Thailand, the deputy interior minister said.
Officials have said they expect the real toll to be twice as large.
In Malaysia 60 people, including many elderly and children, were killed, officials said.
At least 56 people were killed in Myanmar and the toll was expected to rise substantially.
At least 52 people including two British holidaymakers were killed while another 68 were missing in the tourist paradise of Maldives, officials said.
In Bangladesh a father and child were killed after a tourist boat capsized from large waves, local officials said.
Fatalities also occurred on the east coast of Africa where 100 fishermen were declared dead in Somalia and 10 in Tanzania.
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra measured 9.0 on the Richter scale -- making it the largest quake worldwide in four decades.
Death toll:
Sri Lanka: 12,271
India: 8,523
Indonesia: 5,774
Thailand: 990
Malaysia: 60
Myanmar: 56
Maldives: 52
Bangladesh: 2
Somalia 100
Tanzania 10
Total: 27,838
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...1228100140&e=3)
Awful disaster indeed. I already collecting some used clothes to be given to the red cross for consolidation and some money as well. That's the best thing I could do at the moment I suppose. But I read news today and the things that are really needed there in the "disaster scene" at the moment, are body bags for dead corpse, gloves (to prevent from herpes infection), candles for light, and clean water.
DISASTER DISEASE THREAT
More than 69,000 people have now been confirmed dead across southern Asia following Sunday's tidal wave disaster, as the World Health Organisation warns that disease could double that number.
Rescue workers are uncovering more and more bodies.
Half of those killed across Asia were in Indonesia.
The north-eastern province of Aceh has been almost completely destroyed. Soldiers have found 3,400 bodies there so far.
Some 32,000 people are confirmed dead in the country, but its vice president said the number could quickly rise to 40,000.
Sri Lanka says 22,500 people are confirmed killed.
Among the British victims is film director Lord Attenborough's 14-year-old granddaughter Lucy.
The world's biggest aid operation is getting into full swing.
Dozens of countries have promised millions of pounds so far but billions are thought to be needed.
Britain has pledged £15m, the United States £18m.
The first supplies are just getting through to the areas hit hardest.
The disaster was caused by an underwater earthquake off Sunmatra measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, which caused huge tidal waves known as a tsunamis.
(http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...273300,00.html)
Father sells off kids' presents
A Texas father is auctioning off the video game systems he had bought his sons for Christmas, saying they do not deserve the expensive presents.
The 41-year-old man from Pasadena said he had bought three Nintendo DS systems - one for each son.
But fed up with their misbehaviour, he has posted the items on the eBay auction website.
"No kidding," the eBay posting says. "Three undeserving boys have crossed the line."
The man told the Houston Chronicle newspaper that he and his wife were at their wits' end.
The boys - aged nine, 11, and 15 - would not stop fighting, swearing and making obscene gestures, he said.
He defended the decision to auction off the three systems, together with three games, by saying: "Teaching accountability is NEVER EVER EVER wrong."
By late morning on Christmas day the bid for the items had reached $740, and the reserve price had been met.
A new Nintendo DS system on its own retails for about $150 in the US.
The sale ends on Monday.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4125253.stm)
Quake May Have Made Earth Wobble
Wed Dec 29,10:14 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA (news - web sites)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorized that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake on Sunday caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or one millionth of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch (2.5 cm) on its axis.
When one huge tectonic plate beneath the Indian Ocean was forced below the edge of another "it had the effect of making the Earth more compact and spinning faster," Gross said.
Gross said changes predicted by his model probably are too minuscule to be detected by a global positioning satellite network that routinely measures changes in Earth's spin, but said the data may reveal a slight wobble.
The Earth's poles travel a circular path that normally varies by about 33 feet, so an added wobble of an inch (2.5 cm) is unlikely to cause long-term effects, he said.
"That continual motion is just used to changing," Gross said. "The rotation is not actually that precise. The Earth does slow down and change its rate of rotation."
When those tiny variations accumulate, planetary scientists must add a "leap second" to the end of a year, something that has not been done in many years, Gross said.
Scientists have long theorized that changes on the Earth's surface such as tide and groundwater shifts and weather could affect its spin but they have not had precise measurements to prove it, Caltech seismologist Hiroo Kanamori said.
"Even for a very large event, the effect is very small," Kanamori said. "It's very difficult to change the rotation rate substantially."
(http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...od_nm/earth_dc)
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Originally Posted by subterranean
Subby....You live in this stricken region of the world don't you? Hope you and yours are safe my friend.
I just received an email from two of my close friends currently spending a few months in Thailand. Their small island was heavily damaged, including the resort where they are residing, but on the day the wave hit they were on the opposite end of the island, sunning themselves on an isolated beach, alone with only a few local fisherman for company. They spent the rest of that day (the waves hit at 11:35--ish am) and night high up a mountain.
On a lighter note . . .
Grady C. Wallace, 36, of Covington, faces charges of first-degree criminal mischief after police said he went to the store’s footwear section just before 6 p.m. Nov. 29 and urinated across dozens of athletic shoes on a display rack. According to a Covington police report, the incident was caught on a store surveillance tape, which showed Wallace “urinating on the shoes in a manner as to urinate on as many shoes as he could.” The report stated that 14 pairs of Rawlings shoes valued at $19.99 each, eight pairs of $54.99 Reeboks, six pairs of $34.99 Reeboks and three pairs of $29.99 Skechers athletic shoes would have to be destroyed as a result of being soaked in urine. Store officials put the damage at $1,019.69. Covington Assistant Police Chief Lt. Col. Mike Kraft said it remains unclear what was behind Wallace’s behavior, which occurred in plain view of other customers and store personnel.
ok, EEEWWWW, hehe