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Lava ocean may have flowed on Mercury’s surface billions of years ago

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A recent experiment conducted by MIT researchers has led some experts to believe an ocean of lava may have been flowing on Mercury’s surface some four billion years ago. The finding came as scientists feverishly analyzed data from NASA’s Messenger probe, which has given them some of the best insight into Mercury’s composition. The presence of two vastly different types of rock on the planet was a curious discovery, and led the MIT team to create an experiment that would hopefully point to a geographical process responsible for the disparity. Researchers recreated the rocks in a lab and exposed both to a variety of temperatures and pressures. “You can tell what would happen as the melt cools and crystals form and change the chemical…

What are some of the effects of Ocean Dumping?

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Author: Brandon Zimmerman

Question by Gee-Z?: What are some of the effects of Ocean Dumping?
Just some of the effects of dumping wastes into the ocean.
also, when was it recognized?

Best answer:

Answer by jim z
plastics getting eaten by turtles, 6 pack strangling animals, trash washing up on beaches, small fish using the litter for shelter from larger ones, nutrients providing additional food sources, harmful bacteria added to water making it unsafe for human exposure,

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Large Hadron Collider affected by full moon, ocean commiserates

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Author: Angela Chin

Large Hadron Collider not running properly? If you’ve read the docs and restarted it, check for a full moon. After noticing fewer particle collisions while on her shift, Pauline Gagnon reached out to a control room operator who casually explained that they adjust beam alignment during full moons. Yes, the tide-producing orbit of Earth’s satellite tugs the LHC’s inner workings ever so slightly askew. Though minute, the changes add up over the collider’s 27km circumference and are picked up by monitoring equipment sensitive enough to measure elementary particles. However, Luna isn’t the only thing that affects the accelerator — the water level in Lake Geneva and passing high-speed rail trains also do the trick. Will your hand react differently to the LHC’s beam under a Harvest Moon? Probably not. In any case, hit the source for the scientific details.

Large Hadron Collider affected by full moon, ocean commiserates originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Marine Ocean Alive’s Phytoplankton Elements of Life & Sunfood

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Author: Brittany Turner

Marine Ocean Alive's Phytoplankton Elements of Life & Sunfood

www.superfoodliving.com obtain energy through a process called photosynthesis and must therefore live in the well-lit surface layer (termed the euphotic zone) of an ocean, sea, lake, or other body of water. Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton are responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth’s atmosphere half of the total amount produced by all plant life.[2] Their cumulative energy fixation in carbon compounds (primary production) is the basis for the vast majority of oceanic and also many freshwater food webs (chemosynthesis is a notable exception). As a side note, one of the more remarkable food chains in the ocean remarkable because of the small number of links is that of phytoplankton fed on by krill (a type of shrimp) fed on by baleen whales. Phytoplankton are also crucially dependent on minerals. These are primarily macronutrients such as nitrate, phosphate or silicic acid, whose availability is governed by the balance between the so-called biological pump and upwelling of deep, nutrient-rich waters. However, across large regions of the World Ocean such as the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton are also limited by the lack of the micronutrient iron. This has led to some scientists advocating iron fertilization as a means to counteract the accumulation of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere[3]. While almost all phytoplankton species are obligate photoautotrophs, there are some that are mixotrophic and other, non-pigmented species that are …
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Amazon’s Bezos finds Apollo 11 rockets in ocean, contemplates shipping options

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Author: Trixi Anderson

Ya’ know, there’s nothing like a little rocket hunting to save oneself from the doldrums of generating billions of dollars in revenue in the private sector. At least that appears to be the case for Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who spearheaded an ocean expedition to find the F-1 rockets used in the Apollo 11 mission. Forget newer stuff like the GENIE, Vega and ~~Slytherin’s~~ SuperDraco — the classic F-1 is still the rocket that ignites Bezos’ proverbial liquid fuel. Having found his prize resting 14,000 feet below the surface via deep sea sonar, Bezos’ team is now trying to recover at least one of the rockets. Bezos says NASA still retains ownership of the F-1s but he’s hoping the agency will allow one of them to be displayed at the Museum of Flight in Amazon’s home turf of Seattle if both are successfully retrieved. No word on whether the rockets will be delivered via Super Saver Shipping.

Amazon’s Bezos finds Apollo 11 rockets in ocean, contemplates shipping options originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Smooth: Tourists Follow GPS Directions Into Ocean

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Author: Charity Woods

Bitchin’ tan, bro.

In a move that proves manufacturers probably shouldn’t jokingly print “best worn over your head like an astronaut helmet” on plastic bags, a group of Japanese tourists followed the GPS directions in their rental car into the channel separating two Australian islands. “…But there’s water up ahead.” GUN IT — MAYBE WE’RE SUPPOSED TO HYDROPLANE!

The Tokyo students had wanted to take a day trip to Straddie and believed their GPS unit would be able to guide them there. The GPS forgot to mention the 15 kilometres of water and mud between the mainland and the island.

Yuzu Noda, 21, said she was listening to the GPS and “it told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate us to a road. We got stuck . . . there’s lots of mud.”

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! If your GPS told you to drive off a mountain would you do it? Because I’ll totally program it to say that if you would.

Tourists Follow Car GPS Into a Body of Water [gizmodo]

Thanks to Joel, who claims his GPS told him to go to that strip club so he can’t be blamed.

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Oscar winners crowd-sourcing the ocean with The Blu

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Author: Melissa Shroeder

Love the ocean, but hate holding your for breath for extended periods? Good news: a team of software engineers, composers, Oscar-winning animators and more have come together to recreate Davy Jones’ locker in the cloud. Wemo Media is looking for a few thousand good artists for the project, to help create a massive simulation of life under the seas built on its Maker Platform. The project has been around for a bit, but is still in closed beta, making it a private development beach of sorts. You can watch an introductory video and request an invite at the source link below.

Oscar winners crowd-sourcing the ocean with The Blu originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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UFO Found At The Bottom Of The Ocean

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Author: Charity Woods

I bet it’s a portal to Atlantis!

Is this the sonar image of a crasehd 60-foot UFO, 285-feet deep at the bottom of the Botnia Gulf? HELL NO IT’S NOT, DUMMY. And take that foil hat off, you look ridiculous.

Swedish sea treasure hunters have found something extraordinary: A 60-foot disc sunk in the bottom of the ocean, with what appears to be 985-foot-long impact tracks leading to it.

You see a lot of weird stuff in this job but during my 18 years as a professional I have never seen anything like this. The shape is completely round… a circle.

Those are the words of Peter Lindberg, commander of the Ocean Explorer. He and his team found the strange disc on June 19 2011, at 285 feet below the surface of the Botnia Gulf, which is located somewhere between Finland and Sweden in the Baltic.

Well shit, somebody needs to dive their ass down there and put this mystery to rest! Wait a minute…isn’t this how Michael Crichton’s ‘Sphere’ started? Oh shi-shi, now you got me thinking about ‘Jurassic Park’ again. *taking off pants*

Hit the jump for a video about the finding.

China Claims World’s Longest Ocean Bridge

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Author: Jon Mitchell

Pissed Japan stole back the honor of housing the world’s fastest supercomputer, China answered back this Thursday (apples to oranges style) by opening the world’s longest sea-bridge, at a staggering 26.4 miles. That…sounds like a terrible f***ing place to run out of gas.

The Jiaozhou Bay bridge in China took more than four years to build.

It links China’s eastern port city of Qingdao to Huangdao island.

“The earthquake- and typhoon-proof bridge … is designed to withstand the impact of a 300,000-ton vessel,” Guinness said.

About 81 million cubic feet of concrete was reportedly used — enough to fill 3,800 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

Well thank God they converted millions of cubic feet to Olympic-sized swimming pools, amirite?! Because otherwise all that concrete would hard to imagine.

A marathon span: China opens world’s longest bridge over water [msnbc]

Thanks to bb, who knows I get all sweaty-palmed and like to close my eyes whenever driving across bridges.

ICAP Ocean Tomo Announces Auction of OLED-Based Display Device Patents with Superior Display Quality

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Author: Matthew Wilson

ICAP Ocean Tomo Announces Auction of OLED-Based Display Device Patents with Superior Display Quality
CHICAGO, March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Developed by Image Portal and represented by ICAP Ocean Tomo , the key to this technology are the overlapping display tiles comprised of organic light emitting device (OLED) based regions which work together to create a continuous display area. The assets in this portfolio will be auctioned off at ICAP Ocean Tomo’s Spring 2011 Live IP Auction on March 31 …
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Applied Materials Introduces Advanced Technology for Manufacturing High-Performance Mobile Displays
* Smart phones, tablet PCs driving market for larger, higher resolution OLED and high-performance TFT-LCD screens * New system meets urgent need for higher productivity, lower cost display manufacturingSANTA CLARA, Calif., March 7, 2011 – â€¦
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Fraunhofer bi-directional OLED prototype incoming: Display & Camera in one [Video]
We first covered the Fraunhofer Instituteâ€™s bi-directional OLED display technology â€“ which basically combines a display with a camera â€“ all the way back in 2009; now the R&D company is bringing its latest prototype out to play. Set to show at the Smart Systems Integration 2011 expo later this month, the current model consists of a 0.6-inch 320 x 240 AMOLED panel with an integrated 160 x 120 CMOS …
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