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LillyBoPeep -> RE: Cool Stuff (8/22/2011 4:06:29 AM)
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street view is super fun =) there was a google maps van with a ginormous mounted camera on an intersection near my house. for some reason i didn't think they actually really did drive around recording intersections, especially fairly minor ones. =p
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But with the help of some geophysicists at UAF, I have developed a process for “cloning” fragments of ice-core samples taken from million-year-old glaciers. We make thin, tapered plastic containers, each about two square feet, and fill them with ultrapurified water. Even at –40 degrees [Fahrenheit], this supercooled water remains liquid because it lacks a seed to trigger the process of crystallizing into ice. When you drop in a small fragment of ancient ice, it provides that seed: the water instantly organizes itself to mimic the prehistoric pattern.
that is awesome...
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