The nation is awash with a new black market commodity... Across the country, retailers are finding massive amounts of this product missing. In West St. Paul, Minnesota, one enterprising individual has taken $25,000 dollars of this chemical that some Police Departments are calling liquid gold:
Tide Detergent
posted by symbioid
on Mar 13, 2012 -
100 comments
"The
Earth tide is a little-known daily event, similar to the oceans' more familiar tides. But the sun and moon's gravity doesn’t just pull on water, it deforms the Earth itself, causing the ground beneath us to bulge toward the pulling heavenly body."
[more inside]
posted by Paragon
on Mar 10, 2011 -
12 comments
Green electricity from the artificial, tethered
ray (the fish, not the beam). Video
here.
posted by megob
on Mar 2, 2011 -
21 comments
Mention
Whirlpools, and people tend to assume you're talking about a Jacuzzi.
But not all
whirlpools man-made. When powerful tidal currents are forced between a narrow fjord, and then come up against another current traveling in a different direction, the result is a large water vortex.
Being tidal means they are predicable. Some of the more famous
whirlpools are the
Corryvreckian(Scotland), "
Old Sow" (Canada), Moskstraumen and
Saltstraumen (Norway), and the
Naruto (Japan). Notice how they each claim to be the largest of them all.
...Just one more thing to ponder the next time you
pull the chain
posted by BentPenguin
on Aug 11, 2002 -
14 comments
