little_old_man

I've often wondered how long a fart would last in a jar.

I beg to differ

There is something fishy about this thread.

http://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/580/why-does-lightning-strike-from-the-ground-up Lightning happens when the potential difference between the clouds and the grounds becomes too large. Once the voltage reaches a critical strength, the atmosphere can no longer act as an electrical insulator. First, a stepped leader is created at the base of the cloud which is a channel through which electrons in the cloud can travel to the ground. But while moving towards the ground, it searches for the most efficient(minimum electrical resistance) route possible. It does so by traveling 50-100 meters at a time then stopping for about 50 microseconds, then traveling another 50-100 meters. In this process it also branches out looking for the best route. As the stepped leader gets close to the ground, a positively charged traveling spark is initiated on some tall object (trees, towers etc) on the ground. The traveling spark moves upward and eventually connects with the stepped leader. Once the stepped leader and the traveling spark have connected, then electrons from the cloud can flow to the ground, and positive charges can flow from the ground to the cloud. This is known as return stroke. But this flow unlike the flow from up has a well defined shortest route now. This massive flow of electrical current occurring during the return stroke combined with the rate at which it occurs (measured in microseconds) rapidly superheats the completed leader channel, forming a highly electrically-conductive plasma channel. The core temperature of the plasma during the return stroke may exceed 50,000 K, which makes it shine so bright. Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens so fast - in about one-millionth of a second - so the human eye doesn't see the actual formation of the stroke. Lightning discharges may occur between areas of cloud without contacting the ground. When it occurs between two separate clouds it is known as inter-cloud lightning, and when it occurs between areas of differing electric potential within a single cloud it is known as intra-cloud lightning. Intra-cloud lightning is the most frequently occurring type.

For those of us who were around before fully automatic and digital cameras, this was a common effect using depth of field focus. Back in the good old days when you had to know the proper shutter speed and f-stop to get the desired results, and when you would spend $20 to develop a roll of film that hopefully had at least one great shot on it. Modern SLR cameras can still do it, but few people actually bother.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRhWKxqkbrg

This isn't a hoax. I just read it on MSN this morning. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/google-eavesdropping-tool-installed-on-computers-without-permission/ar-AAc1CpO Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer. First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that was capable of listening to users. It was designed to support Chrome’s new “OK, Google” hotword detection – which makes the computer respond when you talk to it – but was installed, and, some users have claimed, it is activated on computers without their permission. “Without consent, Google’s code had downloaded a black box of code that – according to itself – had turned on the microphone and was actively listening to your room,” said Rick Falkvinge, the Pirate party founder, in a blog post. “Which means that your computer had been stealth configured to send what was being said in your room to somebody else, to a private company in another country, without your consent or knowledge, an audio transmission triggered by … an unknown and unverifiable set of conditions.” The feature is installed by default as part of Google’s Chrome browser. But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be “black box”, not part of the open source audit process. “We don’t know and can’t know what this black box does,” said Falkvinge. Opt-in or opt-outGoogle responded to complaints via its developer boards. It said: “While we do download the hotword module on startup, we do not activate it unless you opt in to hotwording.” However, reports from developers indicate otherwise. After having identified Chromium as the culprit, developer Ofer Zelig said in a blog post: “While I was working I thought ‘I’m noticing that an LED goes on and off, on the corner of my eyesight [webcam]’. And after a few times when it just seemed weird, I sat to watch for it and saw it happening. Every few seconds or so.” Google also blamed the Linux distribution Debian for downloading the non-open source component with Chromium automatically, rather than Google Chrome. “The key here is that Chromium is not a Google product. We do not directly distribute it, or make any guarantees with respect to compliance with various open source policies,” Google developer mgiuca said. Falkvinge countered Google’s explanations saying: “The default install will still wiretap your room without your consent, unless you opt out, and more importantly, know that you need to opt out, which is nowhere a reasonable requirement.” He says a hardware switch to disable the microphone and camera built into most computers is needed. Voice search functions have become an accepted feature of modern smartphones, but their movement into the home through the smart TV, and now browser, have caused concerns over the possibility of being listened to within the home. While most services require a user to opt in, privacy advocates have questioned whether their use, which requires sending voice recordings over the internet to company servers for processing, risks unintentionally exposing private conversations held within the home.

Keep that talk up and we will revoke your XI membership, then you'll be nothing but a distant mammary.

Congratulations! Welcome to the real world. Now get off your ass and get to work.

In beer lingo they're called kegs.

They story may be fake, but the virus in the White House has fucked a lot of things up over the last few years.

A great talent lost RIP I love to fly but have no desire to own or regularly fly in a small private plane. While I have never personally known anybody that has died in the crash of a commercial flight, I've known quite a few that have died in private planes and nearly did myself. My dad flew for a while when I was a kid, and we once lost power and barely made it back to the runway. My dad gave it up that day and never piloted a plane again.

Congratulations to you both, and may you have many more years to come.

Nobody buys beer, we just rent it for a while.

It just goes to show you how something that's pretty good can become great with the right marketing. A small local brewery in my area has won the best beer in American for the 7th year in a row. Russian River Brewing Company makes very limited quantities once a year of their Pliney the Elder, and only sell it in a few places including thier own pub in Santa Rosa California. It's a double IPA and is far from my favorite, but people line up for many hours to get a couple cases when it goes on sale. I don't know if it's mass hysteria or just the fact that most people can't get it very easily, so they hype it up and go nuts when they finally get a bottle to drink. It's kind of like Coors beer when I was a kid growing up, nobody in the midwest could get it and everybody wanted it. When I finally moved to California and drank some, it was like piss water. So every time I drove back to Ohio to visit family I'd load up my camper with as much as I could carry and sell a $10 case of beer for $100, and usually they would in-turn sell it for even more. I think Apple uses the same marketing strategy. Here is the full story. http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/for-the-7th-year-the-best-beer-in-america-is/ar-AAbNI67

Watch it all, totally worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDb18wy1tXk

I was doing a little reading about this and the pilot did what's called a "zoom climb". Basically he increased his ground speed to much more than is required for take-off, then quickly converted that additional speed to altitude. As soon as the speed dropped to a certain point he leveled off with what I'm sure must have been some balls in stomach negative G's.

Is Denzel piloting the plane?

If you get one I would suggest getting the model that's inside of a bottle. Lifestraw is a cool concept, but if you're in an area with very limited water resources, then you will want to take some with you just in case there aren't any more streams or mud puddles for the next several hours of hiking. If you think about it, with the straw you take a few gulps and move on leaving the water source behind. This isn't bad if you're hiking along a river, but if you live or are hiking in a dry or desert area you'll die if you leave that little puddle. At least with the bottle version you can take some with you.

Here are my choices. I didn't download the files, just copied the links. http://sounds.stoutman.com/sounds/bitchass.wav http://www.thesoundarchive.com/play-wav-files.asp?sound=spsounds/Respct.wav http://www.thesoundarchive.com/play-wav-files.asp?sound=spsounds/mr-mackey-umkay.wav http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2015-05-31_8624371456817846/movie_stars/schwarzenegger/ugly.wav http://www.wavsource.com/snds_2015-05-31_8624371456817846/movies/terminator/t1_be_back.wav

I don't know, Kenny dies in South Park just about every week.

You just knew there would be a shitload of pissed off women when they killed off the best looking guy on the show. I've read two interviews where he says that he's not coming back next season, but who knows. The red witch is there with them and she could say the words or whatever the Hell those people do.

It looks like Rosie couldn't stand the fact that somebody else was getting all of the attention, so she took the plunge.