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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!
sdb
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.
Rottnest Island:
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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.
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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!
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.
It's Charybdis!
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The Leeuwin Current is a permanent feature of Western Australia's waters and reaches it's peak in the autumn and winter (so it is at its peak now).
From the linked article "The Leeuwin Current rarely flows around the eastern side of Rottnest, but it frequently bathes the western and southwestern sides, influencing the flora and fauna there. Sea temperatures in those regions in winter are several degrees higher than against the mainland coast."
In other news:
Scientists in nearby Perth are sudying a 20m wide plug shaped object that was dragged up from the ocean floor by local fishermen.
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