A giant ball of FLYING red squid has been found off the coast of Turkey. (https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1081.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj349%2Flongblade%2FSmilies%2Fcthulhu_smiley-1.gif&hash=4f1b973f2016a74da11cf0bd5dcca5f02fbb1ec5)
Video here: http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/08/03/mysterious-giant-ocean-blob-squid-mass-orig.cnn-storyful/video/playlists/creatures-of-the-deep/
CNN, sadly, has not properly understood the danger. Their soundtrack is way off base. Someone needs to strip it and replace it with something more appropriate...like Midnight Syndicate.
I'll be under my bed if you need me.
Quote from: Gusington on August 04, 2015, 10:51:13 AM
I'll be under my bed if you need me.
Got a smiley for ya: (https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1081.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj349%2Flongblade%2FSmilies%2Fhideunderbed.gif&hash=3ab8ab926639de857466985bfbb5ee56b3c5e5ee)
Quote from: LongBlade on August 04, 2015, 08:42:19 AM
CNN, sadly, has not properly understood the danger.
Goldang liberal media. Where's Rush when we need him?
Rush? He was last seen swimming off the coast of Turkey.
Quote from: Gusington on August 04, 2015, 10:51:13 AM
I'll be under my bed if you need me.
Is SoM under there with you? Or do we think he's part of the Cthulhu welcoming committee?
Quote from: Steelgrave on August 04, 2015, 01:17:33 PM
Quote from: Gusington on August 04, 2015, 10:51:13 AM
I'll be under my bed if you need me.
Is SoM under there with you? Or do we think he's part of the Cthulhu welcoming committee?
He's probably morphed into an angler fish and is luring Rush to its lair right now.
No one under here but me, my helmet and my copy of Emperor of the Fading Suns.
I love it when you're in a place you can't run from.
QuoteWe may have found water on Mars, but something far stranger is happening inside Saturn.
Astronomers have noticed unusual movement in Saturn's rings. Here's the discovery in layman's terms: Generally, the ice and rocks that make up the rings travel outwards because of the gravitational pull -- but for some reason the debris seems to be moving towards the center of planet, leading scientists to believe something is moving deep within the gas giant. The astronomers speculate an object far beneath the surface is spinning at a speed of one rotation every seven hours.
Scientists hope by studying the movement of the rings, they'll be able to determine what's going on inside the planet.
"Even dropping a probe into the atmosphere would not necessarily help a lot, because the probe will only get down to a pressure of five or 10 atmospheres before it gets cooked or squashed,"the planetary scientist leading the analysis told Space.com. "We need to go much deeper to understand this."
source: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/29/something-odd-is-happening-inside-saturn/21242577/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws
Quote from: LongBlade on September 30, 2015, 11:28:57 AM
QuoteWe may have found water on Mars, but something far stranger is happening inside Saturn.
Astronomers have noticed unusual movement in Saturn's rings. Here's the discovery in layman's terms: Generally, the ice and rocks that make up the rings travel outwards because of the gravitational pull -- but for some reason the debris seems to be moving towards the center of planet, leading scientists to believe something is moving deep within the gas giant. The astronomers speculate an object far beneath the surface is spinning at a speed of one rotation every seven hours.
Scientists hope by studying the movement of the rings, they'll be able to determine what's going on inside the planet.
"Even dropping a probe into the atmosphere would not necessarily help a lot, because the probe will only get down to a pressure of five or 10 atmospheres before it gets cooked or squashed,"the planetary scientist leading the analysis told Space.com. "We need to go much deeper to understand this."
source: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/29/something-odd-is-happening-inside-saturn/21242577/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws
A cousin of Cthulu, perhaps? Or are the aliens finally re-igniting our 2nd sun? ::)
Quote from: LongBlade on September 30, 2015, 11:28:57 AM
QuoteWe may have found water on Mars, but something far stranger is happening inside Saturn.
Astronomers have noticed unusual movement in Saturn's rings. Here's the discovery in layman's terms: Generally, the ice and rocks that make up the rings travel outwards because of the gravitational pull -- but for some reason the debris seems to be moving towards the center of planet, leading scientists to believe something is moving deep within the gas giant. The astronomers speculate an object far beneath the surface is spinning at a speed of one rotation every seven hours.
Scientists hope by studying the movement of the rings, they'll be able to determine what's going on inside the planet.
"Even dropping a probe into the atmosphere would not necessarily help a lot, because the probe will only get down to a pressure of five or 10 atmospheres before it gets cooked or squashed,"the planetary scientist leading the analysis told Space.com. "We need to go much deeper to understand this."
source: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/09/29/something-odd-is-happening-inside-saturn/21242577/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws
LOL.
The reason the debris in the rings "travels outward" is due to their speed. Which is balanced by the planet's gravity, of course, to create their relatively steady orbit via centrifugal effect.
It's not just military hardware details journalists screw up! :))
Quote from: Nefaro on September 30, 2015, 04:06:48 PM
LOL.
The reason the debris in the rings "travels outward" is due to their speed. Which is balanced by the planet's gravity, of course, to create their relatively steady orbit via centrifugal effect.
It's not just military hardware details journalists screw up! :))
Ahem. Centripetal effect.
(Fun science / engineering fact: there is no such thing as the centrifugal force. It can still be calculated, but it's sort of a useful legal fiction. The effect comes from the real force, which is centripetal. The article is still wrong. ;) )
I guess you could also just say that it's constantly falling. :P
I don't remember much from engineering classes, including how to calculate the damn things, but I will take that bit of knowledge to my grave. And trot it out occasionally to blow people's minds. O0
Showing off is so 80s.
Quote from: LongBlade on August 04, 2015, 08:42:19 AM
A giant ball of FLYING red squid has been found off the coast of Turkey. (https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1081.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj349%2Flongblade%2FSmilies%2Fcthulhu_smiley-1.gif&hash=4f1b973f2016a74da11cf0bd5dcca5f02fbb1ec5)
Video here: http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/08/03/mysterious-giant-ocean-blob-squid-mass-orig.cnn-storyful/video/playlists/creatures-of-the-deep/
CNN, sadly, has not properly understood the danger. Their soundtrack is way off base. Someone needs to strip it and replace it with something more appropriate...like Midnight Syndicate.
My fault. We were in a cruise in those waters two weeks ago.
I spit over the side of the cruise ship. My saliva powers are AWESOME!
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1081.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj349%2Flongblade%2FGrogHeads%2F10-sea-weed.jpg&hash=1189cb29ae8e3e0dde816ff4c490106a7c013d29)
Cool pic!
Damn, that's some serious kelp. Kelp-Creatures or Kelplings?
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 18, 2015, 04:21:11 PM
Damn, that's some serious kelp. Kelp-Creatures or Kelplings?
Star-spawn.
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 18, 2015, 04:21:11 PM
Damn, that's some serious kelp. Kelp-Creatures or Kelplings?
Apparently it's rather lethal to swim in, too.
Quote from: LongBlade on November 18, 2015, 07:44:12 PM
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 18, 2015, 04:21:11 PM
Damn, that's some serious kelp. Kelp-Creatures or Kelplings?
Apparently it's rather lethal to swim in, too.
Hell yeah. Can you imagine getting accidentally tangled by it & drowning? I can.
I recall my father occasionally taking us swimming at a creek fairly regularly in our childhood. A nice deep deep & wide spot (some might call a river) which was a popular place to go for people in the area. The banks were steadily eroding to the water so big tree roots would snake out into the creek a ways down. Sometimes trees themselves would fall in.
Anyway.. we'd heard stories of people diving down to the bottom, getting tangled or an appendage stuck in the roots or in the crushed branches of a dead tree, and drowning. We didn't find out until seeing it later on the local news, but that exact thing happened to some lady one day we were there swimming. I even recall seeing her swimming nearby that day, and wondering if she'd left without my noticing. Glad I wasn't swimming down where she had been.
My uncle reportedly pulled someone out of the same situation, in time to save them, when he was young & noticed it. Same area too.
Was always worried about getting trapped like that, before and after. That pic just looks like a drowning waiting to happen, to me. :o