Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Geology / August 2007

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/esf-kte081007.php
Earth's surface is a very active place; its plates are forever jiggling
around, rearranging themselves into new configurations. Continents collide
and mountains arise, oceans slide beneath continents and volcanoes ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070806112323.htm
Science Daily - Alexander Kaiser, Ph.D., of Midwestern University's
Department of Physiology, Division of Basic Sciences, was the lead author
in a recent study to help determine why insects, once dramatically larger

Big Bertha Thing spider  
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/spider.html

It is held that the great Copernicus feared the wrath of the Church in
using his reasons to promote the axial and orbital motion of the Earth
however this perception is untrue and Copernicus feared that lazy
minds capable only of memorisation would not handle the information

I can't sleep tonight, but I feel fine.  I quit taking all of the diet
pills last week.  Today I drank a little too much coffee, and I'm not
speeding on it, but just aint getting groggy.  I had a vision, that in
the future our problems will be irrelevant.  We are upset with new

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/steno.html
In this very indoctrinated era it is a pleasant task to read through
the reasoning of a different era where fossils provided the link
between geological and biological evolution.It as though none of it

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000630.html
Will the geolgoy of the moon be the next "hot" course for university geology
departments?
" . . . . .  Besides the helium, a mining process would produce water and

I hate the title, because that is apparently not what the report actually
says. Gotta love those science reporters, eh?
George
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20042244/

Big Bertha Thing gyro
Cosmic Ray Series
Possible Real World System Constructs
http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/gyro.html

My local newspaper, (not the most august of journals, admittedly)
rounded up these facts from NOAA:
10 hottest days in St. Louis Missouri:
1.    July 14, 1954, 115 Degrees

....IPCC Assessment Forecasts"
The very latest scientific evidence is comprehensively
reviewed, leaving very little doubt that this long-running
debate over human caused global warming is over.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/
By Sharon Begley
Newsweek
Aug. 13, 2007 issue - Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's

I am wondering if anyone would be able to give me any info on how to
polish river rocks/basalt.  I know basalt is a softer stone, and I
think that is what these are, but I am not sure.  I would like to have
them nice and smooth.  I have also heard of people painting them with

Wait.  Don't EEers say that there is no evidence of ocean floors older than
250 million years?
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Discovery_Provides_Key_Evidence_Of_Life_Beginn
ings_999.html
by Staff Writers

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