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I have to watch/read something completely far out and unpredictable (One Piece Berserk- BSG has some good writers too!) to not know what's coming next.

thats awsome! I love it!

whats jamming you up? time constructions?

aim high

They threw every hokey gimik they could in that flick.

some stuff to get ya started Hydrates and microbes Scientists have only recently discovered that hydrates support rich and diverse microbial life. Some consume methane, others release it as a metabolic by-product. Don't try this at home: Water drips away from the burning methane (Image by Geomar) "These gas hydrates are really the food and faeces of deep-Earth microbes," said Charles Paull, a senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California, who believes the bugs are some of the "same critters" that feed on hydrothermal vents. And they protect land critters as well. "They sit there like a filter on the sea floor and retain as much of the methane as they can," said Erwin Suess from the Geomar Research Centre in Germany. "If you took this filter away, that methane would escape into the ocean, then of course, into the atmosphere." Highly pressurised drilling devices have only recently allowed scientists to bring the delicate hydrate structures to the ocean's surface. Party trick They have to work quickly - the hydrate chunks, which resemble crystallized snow and smoke like dry ice, deteriorate rapidly once they are brought to the surface. As they melt, they release methane gas. For amusement, scientists can hold burning hydrate in their palms while the remaining water drips down their hands. First time analysis of still-frozen samples has allowed them to discover bubbles of free methane gas trapped within the solid hydrate. "This is not supposed to happen," said Dr Suess. "Methane, when combined with high pressure and water, should be converted to gas hydrate." He adds that the discovery of free gas may have implications for the overall stability of the hydrate system. The bubbles make the hydrate more porous, and might make it easier for the methane gas to escape. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2940045.stm http://planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6724&Itemid=69 http://icebubbles.ucsd.edu/Contacts/Vas/vashome.html http://directory.ei.columbia.edu/displayproject.php?projectid=369

Start small. Draw all the time. Any college will due for your as in biz. When you're done with that school move on to an art school. Every semester at any college is going to be paperwork for financial aid/loans whatever. >.< Between then and now you can probably find a school that caters more toward publication artists.

you need art and business school. get your small business management degree first while taking every art class that college has to offer then pick and choose where you want to go for a degree in art.

we should all be dead before shit becomes too extreme, unless they come down from the himalayas w/ bad news. don't just dispair, do something to change the situation for the better. Change the light bulbs into your house to energy saving florecents, recycle everything, car pool or walk/bike, write your legislators and tell them you want green changes. See the movie an inconvienent truth

save me some oxys X'D

calm is good. Gaius has to be the secret cylon ne?

http://members.greenpeace.org/hotseat/ Watch the video first here Welcome to the Hot Seat Campaign There's a lot of bad news about global warming - but the good news is: it's not too late! We can implement solutions, but we need to act fast and we need our government to take the lead. That's why Project Hot Seat is turning up the heat on Congressional candidates in six key districts. Our aim is to create in Congress champions of global warming solutions. Select an active chapter: Pennsylvania - District 8 Colorado - District 7 Florida - District 22 Michigan - District 1 Vermont Washington - District 8 Scientists say we must begin to significantly reduce our emissions within the next ten years if we are to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global warming. The window of opportunity is closing, and the time for action is now. It's time for America to take responsibility as the world's #1 polluter by capping global warming pollution. Coal-fired power plants are the largest single source of global warming pollution. Cars, trucks and SUVs run a close second. Immediate action is required. America must begin to reduce global warming pollution now. We must guarantee global warming pollution reductions, with enforceable deadlines. And we need to start an "Energy Revolution" by promoting clean and efficient sources of energy, not dirty and dangerous fossil fuels or nuclear power. We are reaching for national solutions on climate change, including: A national cap and trade system that makes real reductions within a decade The idea behind a cap and trade system is that industries would be given a peak amount of global warming pollution based on their current pollution rate. That cap would be reduced over time, and industry would be forced to upgrade technology and reduce pollution. Some industries are improving faster than others, and to provide balance, those industries could sell credits to other companies who are lagging behind. But in time, all global warming pollution would be reduced. A national renewable energy standard of at least 20% by 2020 The amount of money invested in renewable energy today is a tiny fraction of the overall energy sector. With little comparative investment, wind and solar technology have come a long way, and have increasingly grown in market share. In fact, globally, wind energy is the fastest growing source of new energy. But to make a major shift away from fossil fuels will require government incentive. That's why we're calling on Congress to require 20% of the nation's energy come from renewable resources by 2020. An increase in average fuel economy to 40 mpg Raising fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks to 40 mpg over the next decade would yield cumulative oil savings of 3 to 4 billion barrels, and 15 billion barrels by 2020. That's more oil than we currently import from the Persian Gulf, and nearly ten times the oil that could be recovered from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). How YOU Can Help Only by acting now and by acting boldly can we combat the devastating consequences of global warming. We must implement policies that will curb and cut our greenhouse gas emissions. Our aim is to create in Congress champions of global warming solutions. And that's where YOU come in. Join Project HotSeat today, and help us light a fire under Congress.

its too late to totaly stop climate change but we can slow it down enough for people to make adjustments for survival. fossil fuels have got to go. The US is an enviro killer because we have an oil president. he's all about exxon mobile and makes no demands of our car companies to bring our cars up to world emission standards. We can't sell our cars in other countries because they don't meet their emission standards; they guzzel too much gas and spew too much shit in the air. There will be nothing done about climate change until Bush is out

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we'll have a freeze (another ice age) if/when the ocean conveyer belt shuts down due to too much fresh water in the ocean. Before that happens most glaciers that provide fresh water to rivers and lakes we drink and irrigate from will be gone and so will the water. Drought and starvation will kill more ppl then the freeze. Saving glaciers aint all about polar bears >.<

Oceans Warming And Rising by Julio Godoy Global Research, January 1, 2007 International Federation of Environmental Journalists - 2006-12-24 Ocean levels will rise faster than expected if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, a leading German researcher warns. Using data from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Stefan Rahmstorf, professor of physics of the oceans at the University of Potsdam near Berlin estimates that sea level could rise 140 cm by 2100. Rahmstorf, member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change, is considered a leading European researcher on global warming and its effect on oceans. "The semi-empirical model we used to process NASA data showed a proportional constant sea level rise of 3.4 mm per year per degree Celsius," Rahmstorf told IPS. "Then we applied this constant proportionality to future earth surface warming scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), and came to estimate that by the year 2100, sea level could rise between 50 and 140 cm above the level measured in 1990." Through the 20th century, global warming led to an average 20cm rise in sea level. But most computer models of climate change used at present significantly underestimate sea level rise, Rahmstorf said. "Future projections of sea level based on these climate models are therefore unreliable." Currently, sea level is rising at three cm per decade, faster than projected in the scenarios of the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Rahmstorf added. The IPCC, an intergovernmental team of scientists carrying out a wide range of research related to climate change, was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organisation and the United Nations Environmental Programme. The IPCC aims to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for understanding of climate change, its potential impact, and options for adaptation and mitigation. Scientific research has found that industrial activities have produced greenhouse gas emissions considerably higher than levels observed before the industrial revolution. Concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most potent of greenhouse gases, has risen from about 280 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere in the year 1750 to about 380 ppm today. This rise is primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent, deforestation. Scientists estimate that if the present emissions trend continues, the atmosphere could heat up by about five 5 degrees Celsius by 2100. Studies by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research suggest that this would roughly be the temperature difference between an ice age and a warm stage. But while the rise of average temperatures by some five degrees between the last great ice age and today took 5,000 years, the new global warming would need only 100 years. Rahmstorf acknowledged that forecasts of global warming and its effects on sea levels continue to be marked by uncertainty. "The fact that we get such different estimates using different methods shows how uncertain our sea level forecasts still are," Rahmstorf told IPS. A major reason for the uncertainty is the behaviour of the large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. A likely consequence of a massive melting of the ice masses on the North Pole could be the breakdown of the North Atlantic Current (NAC). The NAC is the northern extension of the Gulf Stream, and constitutes a warm water current flowing between Britain and Iceland. This has considerable impact in moderating the North European and Scandinavian climate. "One critical factor for the continuation of this current is the amount of fresh water that enters the Northern Atlantic region in the future," Rahmstorf said. "This will depend in large part on the speed at which Greenland's ice sheet melts." Rahmstorf, who earlier this year co-authored a research paper titled 'The Future Oceans -- Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour' said that reliable prediction on the risk of a total stoppage of deepwater formation in the Northern Atlantic is not possible given present knowledge. But he pointed out that experts have evaluated that risk at more than 50 percent if global warming is between three and five degrees. Rahmstorf said greenhouse gases emissions are also increasing the acidity of oceans. "In the atmosphere carbon dioxide does not react with other gases, but in the ocean it dissolves, contributing to the acidification of seawater," Rahmstorf said. This acidity is a serious threat to marine biodiversity. "There is a good chance to avoid such dangerous climate change if global warming caused by human activities is limited to two degrees in the coming decades," Rahmstorf said.

World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming By Cahal Milmo Published: 01 January 2007 A combination of global warming and the El Niño weather system is set to make 2007 the warmest year on record with far-reaching consequences for the planet, one of Britain's leading climate experts has warned. As the new year was ushered in with stormy conditions across the UK, the forecast for the next 12 months is of extreme global weather patterns which could bring drought to Indonesia and leave California under a deluge. The warning, from Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, was one of four sobering predictions from senior scientists and forecasters that 2007 will be a crucial year for determining the response to global warming and its effect on humanity. Professor Jones said the long-term trend of global warming - already blamed for bringing drought to the Horn of Africa and melting the Arctic ice shelf - is set to be exacerbated by the arrival of El Niño, the phenomenon caused by above-average sea temperatures in the Pacific. Combined, they are set to bring extreme conditions across the globe and make 2007 warmer than 1998, the hottest year on record. It is likely temperatures will also exceed 2006, which was declared in December the hottest in Britain since 1659 and the sixth warmest in global records. Professor Jones said: "El Niño makes the world warmer and we already have a warming trend that is increasing global temperatures by one to two tenths of a degrees celsius per decade. Together, they should make 2007 warmer than last year and it may even make the next 12 months the warmest year on record." The warning of the escalating impact of global warming was echoed by Jim Hansen, the American scientist who, in 1988, was one of the first to warn of climate change. In an interview with The Independent, Dr Hansen predicted that global warming would run out of control and change the planet for ever unless rapid action is taken to reverse the rise in carbon emissions. Dr Hansen said: "We just cannot burn all the fossil fuels in the ground. If we do, we will end up with a different planet. "I mean a planet with no ice in the Arctic, and a planet where warming is so large that it's going to have a large effect in terms of sea level rises and the extinction of species." His call for action is shared by Sir David King, the Government's chief scientific adviser, who said that 2006 had shown that the "discussion is now over" on whether climate change is happening. Writing in today's Independent, Sir David says progress has been made in the past year but it is "essential" that a global agreement on emissions is struck quickly. He writes: "Ultimately, only heads of state, working together, can provide the new level of global leadership we need to steer the world on a path towards a sustainable and prosperous future. We need to remember: action is affordable - inaction is not." The demands came as the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the United Nations agency that deals with climate prediction, issued a warning that El Niño is already established over the tropical Pacific basin. It is set to bring extreme weather across a swath of the planet from the Americas and south-east Asia to the Horn of Africa for at least the first four months of 2007. El Niño, or "the Christ child" because it is usually noticed around Christmas, is a weather pattern occurring every two to seven years. The last severe El Niño, in 1997 and 1998, caused more than 2,000 deaths and a worldwide damage bill of more than £20bn. The WMO said its latest readings showed that a "moderate" El Niño, with sea temperatures 1.5C above average, was taking place which, in the worst case scenario, could develop into an extreme weather pattern lasting up to 18 months, as in 1997-98. The UN agency noted that the weather pattern was already having "early and intense" effects, including drought in Australia and dramatically warm seas in the Indian Ocean, which could affect the monsoons. It warned the El Niño could also bring extreme rainfall to parts of east Africa which were last year hit by a cycle of drought and floods. Its effect on the British climate is difficult to predict, according to experts. But it will probably add to the likelihood of record-breaking temperatures in the UK. The return of El Niño * Aside from the seasons, El Niño and its twin, La Niña, are the two largest single causes of variability in the world's climate from year to year. Both are dictated by shifts in temperature of the water in the tropical Pacific basin between Australia and South America. Named from the Spanish words for "Christ child" and "the girl" because of their proximity to Christmas, they lead to dramatic shifts in the entire system of oceanic and atmospheric factors from air pressure to currents. A significant rise in sea temperature leads to an El Niño event whereas a fall in temperature leads to La Niña. The cause of the phenomenon is not fully understood but in an El Niño "event" the pool of warm surface water is forced eastwards by the loss of the westerly trade winds. The sea water evaporates, resulting in drenching rains over South America, particularly Peru and Ecuador, as well as western parts of the United States such as California. Parts of the western Pacific, including Indonesia and Australia, suffer drought. The effects can last for anything from a few weeks to 18 months, causing extreme weather as far afield as India and east Africa. The co-relation with global warming is as yet unclear. Archaeological evidence shows El Niños and La Niñas have been occurring for 15,000 years. But scientists are investigating whether climate change is leading to an increase in their intensity or duration. http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece

Room for one more honey I like the kids in the pool one too. So many good eps on the marathon! So many actors got their break on that show.

Zoro and Piccalo got me laughin pretty good

my all time fav was just on The Midnight Sun http://www.scifilm.org/tv/tz/twilightzone3-10.html Lois Nettleton was so beautiful

their online letter campagnes work!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially listed the polar bear as a 'threatened' species, due to the meltdown of its sea-ice habitat caused by global warming. This is a huge victory for polar bears, even if it did take a Greenpeace lawsuit to accomplish it. This action comes in response to a lawsuit filed last December under the federal Endangered Species Act by Greenpeace, Center for Biological Diversity, and NRDC. What this means for the polar bear Listing under the United States Endangered Species Act -- America’s safety net for plants and animals on the brink of extinction -- will provide broad protection to polar bears, including a requirement that United States federal agencies ensure that any action carried out, authorized, or funded by the United States government will not “jeopardize the continued existence” of polar bears, or adversely modify their critical habitat. Thin Ice Polar bears live only in the Arctic and are totally dependent on the sea ice. A growing body of evidence shows that the Arctic ice is vanishing much faster than previously expected. The thick multiyear ice has been shrinking eight to 10 percent per decade, with some climate models predicting that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer as early as 2050. In some polar regions, the sea ice season has shortened as much as three weeks, and scientists have discovered that the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate - more than a million square miles - losing an area the size of Colorado in just the last year. Read more about the polar bear. Thanks to all of you who took action to protect the polar bear. It couldn't have happened without you! you CAN make a difference! Get on the greenpeace mailing list too!!!! http://www.greenpeace.org