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Alaska Blob Could Be Alive: Floating Arctic Goo
A giant blob of oily biological material is making its way through Alaskan waters, and this floating arctic goo may in fact be alive. It is floating in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea in the Bering Strait. ""It's... Mission to break up island of trash in the Pacific Ocean
There is an island of trash floating in the North Pacific Ocean that is made up entirely of six million tonnes discarded plastic. It can't break down and it's twice the size of Texas. There is a mission set to... QE2 runs aground on final voyage
The Queen Elizabeth II oceanliner from the UK is about to be put into retirement. But on its last voyage it ran into some trouble off the coast of Southhampton, becoming trapped on a sandbank. The boat is set to become a floating hotel in Dubai."It was hardly the most regal... Rockin’ the boat in Sydney Harbour
"inger-songwriter Josh Pyke might have considered playing an upbeat version of Handel’s Water Music as he sailed across Sydney Harbour - but he was too busy keeping his floating guitar under control."Floating turbines offers a new approach to offshore wind power
Floating wind turbines; cheaper and simpler than turbines fixed to the sea floor. Offshore windfarms take advantage of stronger and more consistent winds, and aren't an eyesore to land-dwelling humans."Floating in the Mediterranean Sea 12 miles off the coast of southern Italy...Mysterious 'ghost' appears in couple's wedding photographs
"A schoolboy photographer is baffled after spotting a ghostly apparition hovering in the disco lights in a picture he had snapped of a newlywed couple.Wedding guest Jordan Martin, 12, took a whole series of...Giant Island of Trash
http://www.popsci.com/article/2007-10/giant-island-trash By Gregory Mone Posted 10.31.2007 at 3:55 pm A heap of trash that's twice the size of Texas is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. The...Rescued Scuba Divers Recount Ordeal of Floating Lost Overnight in Shark-Infes...
These stranded scuba divers, bobbing in shark-infested waters, had seen "Open Water." The movie recounted the tragic story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a dive boat in 1988 and were...Cambodia's Kompong Luong (Floating Village)
"It is considered as Asia's version of Venice but instead of gondolas, Kompong is known to their wide range of quality pottery wares. You can buy it there along with other items such as vegetables and handicraft...A Life in the Day: Ozzy Osbourne
"One of my biggest luxuries is that I don’t have to set an alarm. I wake up when my eyes open, usually 9 or 9.30. I couldn’t handle an alarm clock going off in my ear. It’d do my f***ing head in. I try and... QUAY 16 - NEW FLOATING RESTAURANT ON THE LIFFEY
"Floating restaurant and bar opens in Dublin Docklands
The Cill Airne, Dublin Dockland's very first floating bar and restaurant, is now open for business, just in time for the busy Christmas period. The historic...
created by infomatique | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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5981 views | 1 recommendation | 2 comments
IBM Blue Gene Times Three – On The Road To “Petaflop” :: Oblate Spheroid
"Yesterday, IBM announced that its experimental high-speed computer located at the Livermore Labs in northern California just passed by the world’s fastest calculation processing mark. IBM was able to clobber...
created by Edmund Jenks | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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486 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Floating Dutch prison for illegal aliens
With building lots hard to come by, and cities reluctant to offer
space for detention centres, the Dutch Justice Ministry has taken to
the water to house illegal aliens awaiting deportation. Stephanie van
den Berg... Plastic bottle saves Japanese sailor
"Tsuyoshi Kurosawa, a 28-year-old crewman on the 2,997-ton tanker Sakura Maru, was lost at sea for 10 hours after he fell in the sea late Tuesday while relieving himself over the side of the vessel. "As an empty plastic bottle was floating by, he used it as buoyancy until he...Sunken freighter off Ibiza leaking oil
"Ibiza, Spain - More than six weeks after a freighter went down off the coast of the Spanish tourist island of Ibiza, the wreck is again leaking oil, reports said Sunday. A 300-metre-long oil slick washed ashore...
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