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Giant Ocean Vortex Discovered
Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "Dubbed a "death trap" by a team of scientists from The University of Western Australia Murdoch University, CSIRO and three American, French and Spanish research institutions, a 200km in diameter and 1000m deep ocean vortex has been discovered off the Rottnest Canyon. Visible from space, scientists claim is has the potential to affect the local climate and the climate further abroad, the vortex is acting as a "death trap" by sucking in fish larvae from closer to the shore."
I hear this is how Jupiter's Red Spot got started.....
Well, doesn't that just suck!
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Let see, lots of hot air and small fish going down the drain, yep that's it.
It's NOT a kilometer-deep whirlpool, sucking ships down to crash on the rocks below. It's just some circulating water.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
Holy Edgar Allen Poe, Batman!
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/26/
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Rottnest Island:
s pn=2.258667,5.152588&t=k&om=1
http://maps.google.com/?ll=-32.026706,115.438843&
These things happen a lot when you run a game with a vindictive Dungeon Master. You make one teeeny fat joke about his girlfriend and he throws down his cheetohs and dumps all of your characters in a giant ocean vortex. Jerk.
Mod up!
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Or does this idea sound fishy to anyone?
i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
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It was on Discovery or something, some show about a search for a particular fish around Australia??? I just remember this once scene where they found this vortex, went like this:
Marlin: Where? I don't see it.
Dory: There! I see it! I see it!
Marlin: You mean the swirling vortex of terror?
Crush: That's it, dude!
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I *knew* he was pushing that button for a reason!
I have a better idea - let's blame climate cycles that take eons between extremes instead of man-induced global warming that's spiked like a punks hairdoo in 100 years and is only going in one direction. That'll show those darn know-it-all PhDs.
Put a gun to its head.
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Fabulous troll, kimvette.
Nobody seems to be suggesting that anthropogenic climate change has led to this, despite your false statement above. Of course, it is known that anthropogenic climate change is affecting ocean currents around Europe already, but don't let that get in the way of your rand-induced libertarian/republican head-in-the-sand attitude.
Now, if you really want to know why your statement about "extreme climate cycles over eons" doesn't explain the changes we are seeing currently with climate change (you seem to be someone having trouble understanding the proof behind climate change and global warming), I suggest you go to realclimate.org. This is a site set up by professional climatologists and represents the current understanding and agreement of thousands of professional scientists in climatology and related fields.
Of course, you could just sneak little snarks against global warming into threads about phenomena that haven't been related to it, as you've just done. But I always like to suggest ways that people can correct their ignorance.
I guess the choice is yours.
This is a huge suck-job, which is actually doing something meaningful. If it were a RIAA product, it would be being advertized everywhere, as the "THE GREATEST ORGIASTIC SWINGING EXPERIENCE OF ALL TIME," and would be turn out to be just another hand-job, and ... bring your own hand.
Back to topic, a little Googling failed to turn up more detailed data, even at the research institution sponsoring the study, the University of Western Australia Murdoch University, see here. I did come across the images of something else of interest on Rottnest Island, the quokka, which is not only more dignified and intelligent than the typical RIAA-oid, but a lot cuter, too.
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and I can tell you that seeing as it's the 6/6/06 I fully support our new Cthulhu overload that I expect to rise up out of this thing :-) (Bound to do a better job of bringing Howard to heel than Beazley is doing).
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Holy Edgar Allen Poe, Batman!
*approaches podium*
And the award to the most ludicrous phrase adaptation goes to...
I absolutely despise it when we get quote like "you can see it from space", but then they don't give us any pictures. Why no pictures people?
Jeremy Logan's Website.
Al Gore says that the vortex is George W. Bush's fault.
LK
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How the fuck is a funny comment a troll?
Good way to throw away mod points. Go to K-mart and buy a sense of humor, mmmKay?
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Ah Clive, the modern Jules Verne. The new A.C. Clarke.
The bad guys in one of his forgettable books were using giant EM generators to... let's see... trigger a magnetic pole reversal to crush global corporations. One of the side effects of this testing was giant ocean vortexes, which smelled bad.
I think that about covers it, other than the whole "completely preposterous" part.
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Your post has just been sucked into the vortex.
"You're everywhere. You're omnivorous."
Is it just me or was that article some the the worst writing ever seen? It was painful to read...
Please, try not to sound so stupid...
Well, 1. it wasn't the slightest bit funny, 2. it made snide and inaccurate implications in order to attack a political position. That sounds like a troll to me. Unfortunately I have no mod points.
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maybe its like the bermuda triangle... actually i know that several theories in the last several may very well have demystified the triangle...
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ymmv
Someone just pulled the plug out of the drain, sorry to disappoint you. Maybe sometime in the next 1000 years.
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What's that in radians per second?
I guess today is a passable day to die.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
"It's warm, soft, moist air, with flying fish, it's a very different environment." What else would one expect for chissakes - this is a 'giant child's spinning top' we're talking about here, not some mambly-pambly bathtub vortex. Did you expect the fish to simply swim away? We're all doomed.
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You're just jealous because you didn't think of it first.
Although, I am grateful and appreciative of your subtlty in correcting my spelling of "maelstrom."
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Considering that most slashdotters are likely unable to run at 5kmph, let alone swim that fast, I think any mass panic is largely justified.
May the Maths Be with you!
5kmh is a slow walk. I think most slashdotters can maintain that speed in short bursts :)
However, in terms of energy (and inertia), 5 kmh could be huge when you're talking about millions/billions of liters of water, or if you're talking about little bitty creatures, like krill or fish larvae.
Still no cause for 'EVERYBODY PANIC'.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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That's why all the advances and innovation came from the unreasonable ones.
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"yhbt hand: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself." (your sig. my emphasis)
ybth:
You are adapting to an ideology that substiutes for culture, not the world. Adapting our technology to the world is what the current GW argument and related (but more serious) "peak oil" problem is all about. Reasonable people do not think armagedon is apon you and me in particular, the threat is to the civilizations of my kids & grandkids. Any objective audit of mankinds near term (20-200yrs) prospects will show a dramatic downturn in global population, the trick as the economists say is a "soft landing". Efforts to slow the rate of environmental change can only assist "our" long term prospects as we inevitably experiment with the only planet we have.
BTW: The quote in your sig is a "slogan" often used by pot smoking hippies in the environmental movement.
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And the end of the world will be today at 6:66h
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This must be where the island is! Oh wait... wrong forum sorry...
http://www.worldofwar.net/cartography/worldmap/ (Large map graphic if you want to see what I'm talking about.)
In between the continents is a large vortex called The Maelstrom. I call it the Swirling Vortex of Death and feign terror whenever my ship sails dangerously close to it while traveling between continents.
So what does this prove?
Absolutely nothing unless you take into account that Blizzard has 6.5 million people brainwashed (probably 6.6 million today), it's 6/6/06 and like others, I think Cthulu and his reign of chaos may not be far behind. It just struck me as one of those strange coincidences.
Actually I wanted to make fun at the "Holy Edgar Allan Poe" part, as if it was the equivalent of "St. Edgar Allan Poe". Considering the dark nature of Poe's works, that thought was nothing but hilarious.
A vortex in the sea on 6/6/06? This should be interesting.
That's why all the advances and innovation came from the unreasonable ones.
That is the end of the quote by George Bernard Shaw.
ymmv
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