a car showroom where the car is made right in front of you….
Worse than Southwest
In the past…
passengers can, and have, been sucked out of a plane.
The Door To Hell
In 1971, a group of geologists working in a tiny Turkmenistan village called Derweze, accidentally stumbled across a subterranean cavern after the ground in which they were drilling for natural gas collapsed. Unsure what gases were escaping from within and concerned that it was in fact toxic, the geologists made the decision to set the gas alight, as burning gas is safer and more environmentally friendly than allowing it to be released into the atmosphere.
Little did they know that setting the gas alight would lead to the crater of natural gas to continue burning strong some 35 years later. To this day, the Darvaza (“the gate” in Turkmen language) has shown no sign of burning out. It is unknown how many metric tonnes of natural gas has been burned over the past three decades, nor is it known how many decades more it will continue to burn. The prediction is at least another 100 years.
An impressive 60 metres in diameter and more than 20 metres deep, the locals of Derweze call it the Door To Hell. By nighttime, the Darvaza’s glow can be seen from a long distance, giving the image of being a literal door to Hell. Moths, spiders and insects are drawn in the thousands to the Darvaza’s mesmerising glow. The heat produced by the burning gas is so intense that one cannot stand near the edge of the Door to Hell for more than a few seconds.
(via dancing-in-quicksand)
(via Grand Canyon National Park - National Geographic)
Such a great nature photo. Makes me wanna go there…
Pretty gross
So it turns out automatic faucets have all these parts where bacteria can hide and get all comfortable.
Researchers took apart four of the electronic faucets, and swab culture tests showed Legionella and other bacteria on all of the main valves. “All of those different pieces, when we took them apart, grew Legionella,” Snydor says. “Manual faucets don’t have these parts.”
Also, one reason hospitals and other facilities switched to electronic faucets is that they conserve water, “but decreased water flow may increase the chance that bacteria grows, because you’re not flushing them through.”
If a cancer doctor avoids airport scanners, then…
So this cancer doctor says of airport scanners :
“I’m a doctor at M.D. Anderson, and I don’t want radiation if I can avoid it,”
It’s pretty unasailable logic…so the cost is you have to wait a bit more and it takes a bit of extra effort and is generally a pain to do so …. Next flight I will try…
We will see what my tolerance for groping is like…
Las Vegas Sign Changed to reflect pop culture via @charliesheen
My friend caught her 4 year old son and his friend “playing airport security” today.
The Tragedy of Nepal 2011
Nepal, as a travel destination, is nothing short of raved about. “The Himalayan Mountains are majestic and the people are the nicest in the world!” was a common travel tidbit I heard. What I found was a developing nation with deep problems becoming worse by the month with tourism hastening the poisoning of the well. The pollution is the worst I have ever seen. Air, land, sound and water, nothing is spared the careless trash. The people are wonderful and also skillful about exploiting the tourist scene.
(Via Kottke)
(via the-feature)
New software designed to make airport security scanners less intrusive will debut at the Las Vegas airport Tuesday.
Instead of sending a revealing image to be examined in a private security booth, new software will project a non-gender-specific silhouette on a small screen attached to the scanning booth.
If the passenger is carrying any contraband items a red box will appear on the screen. Otherwise it will flash a green okay.
Uummannaq, Greenland
haha, pretty funny the lengths people will go to in order to get airline miles.
One person tweeted they’d flown “BOS-SFO-SEA-NRT-BKK-TPE-SIN-KCH” (Boston-San Francisco-Seattle-Tokyo-Bangkok-Taipei-Singapore-Kuching, Malaysia) rather than “BOS-LAX-SIN-KCH” (Boston-Los Angeles-Singapore-Kuching). Another reported they’d traveled SFO-LAX-SFO-HNL-GUM-MNL (San Francisco—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Honolulu-Agana, Guam-Manila, Philippines) rather than SFO-MNL (San Francisco-Manila). Both these trips seem barking mad to normal people, but perfectly reasonable to the frequent flier fan.
Portlandia - Dream of the 90s (via dogsdoneit)
hahaha, important information about Portland, Or.
Thanks to Brian for this gem :)
The national radiation safety standard sets a dose per screening limit…a full-body x-ray security system must deliver less than the dose a person receives during 4 minutes of airline flight.
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The reason that the dosages are quoted in equivalent times spent in flight is that at higher altitudes we are exposed to greater amounts of extra-planetary and extra-galactic radiation, both from the sun and from cosmic rays. The atmosphere absorbs a lot of the very small wavelength electromagnetic radiation, like x-rays. And, in one of the miracles that permits live to exist on Earth, the ionosphere catches most of the charged particles that would otherwise be headed for us.
What full body scanner radiation means to you - National Science & Society | Examiner.com
for some reason, I thought full body scanners were way more harmful than that…but that’s not bad…Still I have to wonder whether it’s worth to receive a larger dose all at once/so fast….
this article semi-rebuts
Because the radiation beam from the scanners concentrates on your skin, researchers believe the dose may be up to 20 times higher than is being estimated.
about five percent of the population — one person in 20 — is especially sensitive to radiation. These people have gene mutations that make them less able to repair X-ray damage to their DNA. Two examples are the BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 mutations associated with breast and ovarian cancer, but scientists believe many more such defects are unknown. I don’t know if I’m one of those five percent. I don’t know if you’re one of those five percent,” Brenner says, “and we don’t really have a quick and easy test to find those individuals.”
The amount of background radiation a person is exposed to in a normal day is the equivalent of 85 screenings in a TSA scanner,
you will avoid virtually all of the radiation when you fly at night.
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