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- TheBobbyx, on 10/11/2007, -21/+294"The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on."
Umm......how? - aussieNickuss, on 10/11/2007, -8/+203That article was such a waste of time!! And by "waste of time", I mean, "it was so damn interesting, that I couldn't dare bookmark it and read it at another time". Bloody good read!
- Zopperoni, on 10/11/2007, -2/+150Now all we need is a big piece of Mentos.
- Haroshia, on 11/14/2007, -1/+124We require more vespine gas.
- idugcoal, on 10/11/2007, -15/+133@Bobby: How? Sexily. I mean, I don't care who it is or what kinda shape their bike is in: if they're tying an antelope to the bike, they're lookin' good.
- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+119I wrote to the team working on this project a few years ago - asking if it was possible to put a turbine on the top of the pipe and use the pressure to generate electricity. That electricity could then be sold to help cover the costs of the project.
Not sure if it was viable though. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -12/+113Wow....
Earths anus. - Shootfast, on 10/11/2007, -3/+96That was a very informative and interesting article
- crazyman, on 10/11/2007, -8/+91I vote Zombies.
- utcursch, on 10/11/2007, -4/+83http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnic_eruption
- dan4prez, on 10/11/2007, -3/+71"The man threw down his bicycle and ran all the way back to Wum"
?? - clayts, on 10/11/2007, -1/+67Just shows you - pay attention to local myths when buying real estate
- oktobr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+64FTA: "[some people passed out] for as long as 36 hours before waking up to discover that everyone around them was dead."
I hope those who were buried were confirmed dead by a medic. - LogicBomB, on 10/11/2007, -2/+63That was one of the most satisfying reads I've had in a long time. Thanks for posting this :)
- Flashman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+61On another engineering note, this is why geosequestration (underground burying) of greenhouse emissions is a bad idea: one screwup and everybody living nearby dies.
- frozenelf, on 10/11/2007, -7/+65Reavers.
- captnkurt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+51CO2-saturated lakes are Mother Nature's "Silent But Deadlies".
- kevincannon, on 10/11/2007, -2/+49Bobby - Antelopes aren't that big. Some would be the same size as a mid-sized dog. Also, people there would often tie thing to their bikes, so may have bike-racks or other platforms that would make it easier to attach to.
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -5/+51"'The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on.' Umm......how?"
Soldier #2: Wait a minute! Supposing two bicycles carried it together?
Soldier #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.
Soldier #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper! - Flashman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+41Damn straight, especially if your house is built on an Indian graveyard.
- lobrien006, on 10/11/2007, -5/+39that was a great article. It got me thinking about dinosaurs and their extinction. There were many more active volcano's back then, I wounder if the build up of suffocating CO2 might have played a larger role than our current theories such as comets.
thanks for linking this.... - isntreal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35There need to be more articles like this posted on digg.
- the6thReplicant, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32Try this
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43093.asp
as the strangest disaster of the 20th century "The Great Molasses Flood of 1919" :)
I remembered this from my Book of Lists collection - echo2501, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
- benramadan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25Did you get a response? It's a pretty good idea, there's no way that generator turbine friction would be enough to stop the CO2 escaping, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
- trajomoreno, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26It was the Pax...goram Cameroon gov't was fixin' to make them villagers all peaceable-like.
But where are the other 10%...? - DigitalOmnivore, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26Africa wins again.
- SuckItUp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24Finally! A good article on Digg that is not about how evil Bush and Co. are. I learned something, thanks.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Uncle John's Bathroom Reader is the *****.
- derekbez, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24@ethergnat
Guess they would have to be African bicycles tho? - eggo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Charge $18 a bottle, call it L'Cameron, and I guarantee you will sell out. "Naturally Carbonated by Volcanic Activity. " And a picture of an antelope on the bottle, yuppies will eat that up.
- geekchic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18"Did you get a response?"
Fraid not.
I am a habitual letter writter though and even if just a few trigger something thinking about something, I am a happy chappie. - sunshinemonster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Or a place where dead people are just lying around everywhere... and lakes explode,
- Stiverton, on 10/11/2007, -5/+22Imagine you're a kid playing around, and you decide to throw a big rock in the lake, two minutes later and you blew the entire thing up.
- sublimethinker, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17I believe someone said this yesterday in response to the eye-eating bacteria article: yet another reason why I will never go to Africa.
- echo2501, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Yes, a 25.5" diameter tube.
- vikingcoder, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Let's put that number into perspective.
700 million cubic feet of CO2 is produced by burning coal to produce 120 million KWH of electricity.
That is 0.006% of the US coal-produced electricity.
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22.4 liters of gas = 1 mole (i.e. one atomic molar weight) (1)
CO2 molar weight = 44 grams (2)
700 million cubic feet = 1.98 * 10^10 liters (3)
1.98 * 10^10 liters / 22.4 liters/mole * 44 grams/mole = ~43,000 tons CO2
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205 lbs CO2 / million BTU from bituminous coal (4)
1 kWh = 3413 BTU => 1 million BTU = 293 kWh
2858 kWh from bituminous coal = 1 ton CO2
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US electricity production: 3,979,000,000,000 kWh (5)
% produced from coal: 49.7 (6)
1) http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae650.cfm
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
3) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=convert+700+million+cubic+ft+to+liters&btnG=Search
4) http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/coefficients.html
5) http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_ele_pro-energy-electricity-production
6) http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epa/epa_sum.html - falstaff, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16Proof of Xenu.
Obviously. - the6thReplicant, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15yeah..bad scientists..I can't make up my find from all of the evidence in peer reviewed journals but I can make up my mind from one rare event.
- madaznboi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16The article above was reprinted with permission from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Wonderful World of Odd.
From the length of the article, by the time you're done on the crapper, there may be enough CO2 build-up to take you out too! - Homunculiheaded, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13so remember, next time your ancestors name a place "the bad x" because at one time it killed everyone around it, don't build a settlement at place X.
- cubicrystal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Remember Bhopal - http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1256766.htm
- artvandal, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Not all of us watch Discovery Channel 24/7, *****. I wish you people would grow up.
- an0nymous, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12Very very interesting. I still say the strangest disaster of all time is the Boston Molasses Tragedy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_molasses_disaster
a 15 foot wave of molasses?I mean, that's pretty strange. - greebowarrior, on 10/11/2007, -10/+22sounds a lot like they put the Paxilon Hydrochlorate in the air processors
- Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13@idonthack (#6808912)
I'm thinking Cameroon isn't known for the availability of underarm deodorant. They could have been smelly to begin with. - phuzzy3d, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14I watched the documentary on this a few months back, it was very well done. It was on one those intellectual stations (e.g. THC, Discovery, or Science Channel) I can't recall exactly. Totally fascinating to put it bluntly!
- glxyjones, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Seriously, aren't they familiar with youtube and the coke/mentos experiments? Just drop a couple thousand mentos down that tube and that'll take care of their problem real quick.
- Jimmyinnz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Surely this has potential to be the world's largest naturally carbonated spring water bottling plant?
Eau de Cameroon, bottled at source. - rudy23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10first thought that came to my mind.
I remmeber coming to digg in its infance and seeing interesting articles like this all the time. -
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