PeterSidorkiewicz
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I started watching Nathan for You, I'm really liking his show. Plus for you Canadians, he used to be on This Hour has 22 Minutes.
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I saw some great suggestions already but would like to add one more. A relatively new series called Utopia, currently in its second season.
This show is super intense and not for the faint of heart but it is fantastic.
Do Make Say Think
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Very troubling news
That giant, massive gaping hole in Siberia?
Very hot summers melted permafrost and released high concentration of methane (just under 10% of the air when it's 0.0001% usually) and created a massive underground explosion
That giant, massive gaping hole in Siberia?
Very hot summers melted permafrost and released high concentration of methane (just under 10% of the air when it's 0.0001% usually) and created a massive underground explosion
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So the ******* of the world just let one rip, that's what you're telling me? What are the consequences of this massive toot?
Edit: looked it up, the holes are the immediate consequence.
Edit: looked it up, the holes are the immediate consequence.
Do Make Say Think
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Methane gets released from permafrost around the world and could drastically worsen climate change
This is potentially (they just, just figured out what happened so I stress potentially) catastrophic news
This is potentially (they just, just figured out what happened so I stress potentially) catastrophic news
Very troubling news
That giant, massive gaping hole in Siberia?
Very hot summers melted permafrost and released high concentration of methane (just under 10% of the air when it's 0.0001% usually) and created a massive underground explosion
Apparently theres methane leaking all over the world from melting ice and thawing ground. A ton of it. The potential to accelerate global warming a 100 years within 10 years.
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Here's an article on the hole/underground explosion in Siberia: http://www.nature.com/news/mysterious-siberian-crater-attributed-to-methane-1.15649
A close up as well which is featured in the article:
A close up as well which is featured in the article:
PeterSidorkiewicz
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I'm not sure if you're being facetious here because you're a pretty funny guy
PeterSidorkiewicz
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Very. Scientists should look at where Mars was when this happened. I have a feeling Earth waited until Mars wasn't paying attention and then let it rip.
Saw that on Cosmos.
Makes me wish I was 18 again and had the brain power to become a scientist.
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bacon25
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Depending on one's own personal tastes, Archer is another show that is very good (basically a cartoon version of Arrested Development). I never got why Breaking Bad was so great though. A few other shows I can think of to add to this list are: Justified, The Inbetweeners, Undeclared (if you like Freaks and Geeks), Silicon Valley and New Girl. If you have netflix and want to watch some older shows, Scrubs and Psych are both available I believe.
Will the refurbished laptop come with a warranty? If you are tight on cash than a refurbished laptop is good, but from my experience they often don't come with a warranty.
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Jesse Brown's Canadaland podcast is an absolute must for anyone interested in Canadian media. Topics include an analysis of the changes to the CBC, the death of print media and its future, telecom monopolies and interviews with figures such as Jan Wong, Linden MacIntyre, Micheal Enright and Susan Delacourt among others. Great stuff here.
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Can't believe I forgot Archer. Yes. +1 to Archer. It's a spiritual successor (same style, different world) to Arrested Development. Many of the same actors, too. And Undeclared is the same with Freaks and Geeks, but with a young Jay Baruchel in the starring role.
Silicon Valley's good, too. I need to get caught up on that. And Scrubs, of course, is always a fun albeit silly time. Did you know the guy who plays Ted is in a legit band called The Blanks?
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dude likes hockey same reason i do!! "cause like it's really cool, cause you can like do all this stuff and like put it in the net and stuff like that". I too "love that about hockey".
cool dude
I know right? That's so cool about hockey...putting it in the net and stuff.
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Very troubling news
That giant, massive gaping hole in Siberia?
Very hot summers melted permafrost and released high concentration of methane (just under 10% of the air when it's 0.0001% usually) and created a massive underground explosion
So I study permafrost science. I think it's a degraded pingo and something went terribly wrong. The thing that is bizarre about these holes is that the ground seems to have almost exploded outward. Normally when an ice-cored mound like a pingo collapses, this happens:
Normal pingo:
Inside a pingo:
collapsed pingo:
These new sinkholes could be the result of a collapsed pingo, the size is right anyway, but it doesn't seem right, with somewhat bare earth encircling the "crater" (normally since pingo decay is a slow-ish process, the remaining soil ring stays vegetated). And where would all the water have gone? Permafrost, even if it is thawing downward, is relatively impermeable to water, so it would simply pool, like in the collapsed pingo picture.
The formation mechanisms at work here have definitely never been studied before. I blame climate change. Oddly enough, it is actually warmer and shorter winters that are ruining the permafrost up north, and messing up the temperature equilibrium more than it is the warmer summer weather. Someone in Russia is going to get an epic PhD thesis out of this.
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I watch this and all I can think about is...
EDIT: I suppose I should put a small warning that this contains some violence.
That movie is so, so, so good
And she is so, so, so hot
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So I study permafrost science. I think it's a degraded pingo and something went terribly wrong. The thing that is bizarre about these holes is that the ground seems to have almost exploded outward. Normally when an ice-cored mound like a pingo collapses, this happens:
Normal pingo:
Inside a pingo:
collapsed pingo:
These new sinkholes could be the result of a collapsed pingo, the size is right anyway, but it doesn't seem right, with somewhat bare earth encircling the "crater" (normally since pingo decay is a slow-ish process, the remaining soil ring stays vegetated). And where would all the water have gone? Permafrost, even if it is thawing downward, is relatively impermeable to water, so it would simply pool, like in the collapsed pingo picture.
The formation mechanisms at work here have definitely never been studied before. I blame climate change. Oddly enough, it is actually warmer and shorter winters that are ruining the permafrost up north, and messing up the temperature equilibrium more than it is the warmer summer weather. Someone in Russia is going to get an epic PhD thesis out of this.
meh...climate change has been occurring since the dawn of time.
I'm more interested to see what two centuries of pulling crude out of the ground and the new 'fracking' method is doing to the planet. You can't just pull millions (billions maybe by now?) of tons out of the earth and not have some sort of effect underground.
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