Alberta family's QR code named world's largest by Guinness
 

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2012/09/09/calgary-guinness-world-record.html[/url]

Modified Star Wars toy blows up watermelons with your mind
 

[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/modified-star-wars-toy-lets-you-explode-watermelons-with-your-mind.html[/url]

[url]http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html[/url][QUOTE]In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average. [/QUOTE]NASA animation of temperature data from 1880-2011
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via this post on Google+ [url]https://plus.google.com/u/0/116935304621714844901/posts/fA94D3LNnFV[/url][QUOTE]Mary Mactavish 8:29 PM - Public
Susan Stone originally shared this post:
Watch it. Just watch it. Takes half a minute.[/QUOTE]

We are so insignificant. We are not worthy.
 

[url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/7936905134/in/set-72157631408160534[/url]

[QUOTE=Jeff Gilchrist;310913][URL]http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2012/09/09/calgary-guinness-world-record.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

WOW! That's rather pretty, too.

@Dubslow

We accidentally deleted your diesel fuel post.

Sorry!

:mike:

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;311259]@Dubslow

We accidentally deleted your diesel fuel post.[/QUOTE]
Here is the URL
[url]http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/09/diesel-plastic-record-flight/[/url]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;311268]Here is the URL
[URL]http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/09/diesel-plastic-record-flight/[/URL][/QUOTE]

Excellent! Another use for discarded plastics! I was aware of high density polyethylene composite deck boards.

[QUOTE=kladner;311270]Excellent! Another use for discarded plastics! I was aware of high density polyethylene composite deck boards.[/QUOTE]It'd be cool if it ever became crassly profitable to skim plastic from the ocean gyres.

[QUOTE=only_human;311271]It'd be cool if it ever became crassly profitable to skim plastic from the ocean gyres.[/QUOTE]

A great idea. I have also wondered about that possibility. Perhaps some of the trawlers which are overfishing the seas could be re-purposed. Start with the ones that drag the ocean floor and leave behind a wasteland for the sake of the few fish they keep, killing everything else and throwing it back.

[QUOTE=kladner;311279]A great idea. I have also wondered about that possibility. Perhaps some of the trawlers which are overfishing the seas could be re-purposed.[/QUOTE]

Indeed. And currently there's great "fishing grounds" for plastic in the pacific between Japan and Vancouver....