At the very least, the moon causes tides, so all those types of life that depend on tidal pools would not exist without it and would probably become extinct if the moon moved away. But more imporantly, if Earth had no Moon, its axis of rotation would wander chaotically, rendering the emergence and survival of life more difficult (according to the European Space Agency)

On life after 40: I think rembar is right in that it must have some kind of evolutionary explanation. Socrates, for example, had rather little access to modern medicine, but still had to be actively killed in his late 70's to stop him "corrupting" the youth of Athens.

laaaaaaaaame. a 4x4 and a sports car with the same chassis? lol.

Peroxide, let's see that data on tidal power being viable.

xxovercastxx your right about the seats and the necks and the mass death.

What I dont get is you peoples lack of faith in solar and wind power, I hope both of you realize it is perfect ally viable to create hydrogen fuel cells from natural energy sources, our governments just havent put any effort into developing alternative energies because of OIL. Solar, wind, geothermal, wave and tidal are all viable if we do them right, and as a plus if we start no we might have enough oil to manufacture their structures with ease, not the case in the future.

Wikipedia had these tag lines :

Taglines

* If YOU Are Squeamish Stay Home!!!
* Cold green skin against soft warm flesh...a croak...a scream.
* ...a terrifying story of times to come when Nature strikes back!
* A tidal wave of slithering, slimy horror devouring, destroying all in its path!
* Millions of slimy bodies squirming everywhere! Millions of gaping mouths devouring... devouring... devouring...
* It's the day that Nature strikes back!
* Today the pond! Tomorrow the world!

And of course the movie poster:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Frogsfilmposter.jpg


And for the rest of the stub:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogs_%28film%29

Yes, the following can contribute to orbital decay.
Perturbations due to Non-spherical Earth (including tidal drag)
Third-Body Perturbations (moon, planets, etc.)
Perturbations from Atmospheric Drag
Perturbations from Solar Radiation (Intense solar activity causes our atmosphere to expand outward in addition to the effects of solar wind itself)

"The space shuttle and the ISS both orbit within the thermosphere. The thermosphere is about a million times less dense than the atmosphere at sea level, but that's enough to affect the orbits of these satellites."

http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/faqs.html
12). How long will orbital debris remain in Earth orbit?
The higher the altitude, the longer the orbital debris will typically remain in Earth orbit. Debris left in orbits below 600 km normally fall back to Earth within several years. At altitudes of 800 km, the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades. Above 1,000 km, orbital debris will normally continue circling the Earth for a century or more.

IIS altitude: roughly 350 km
Hubble altitude: roughly 600 km
"The ISS will sink a couple of kilometers per year in the future because of atmospheric drag - in its current configuration"

Over a thousand more pieces of junk just added:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6398513.stm

From George Carlin:

We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the fucking planet?

I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

We're going away. Pack your shit, folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

You wanna know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You wanna know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new pardigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic...asshole.

So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that's begun. Don't you think that's already started? I think, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat. Something to be dealt with. And the planet can defend itself in an organized, collective way, the way a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism. The planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet? How would you defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species? Let's see... Viruses. Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And, uh...viruses are tricky, always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along. And maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

Well, that's a poetic note. And it's a start. And I can dream, can't I? See I don't worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we're part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. The Big Electron...whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while.

A fascinating documentary studying the most un-explored/unknown areas of our world - the oceans. Dedicated to NickyP and his love of Marine Biology!

Part two: Seas Of Life
Part three: Open Ocean
Part four: Frozen Seas
Part five: Seasonal Seas
Part six: Coral Seas
Part seven: Tidal Seas
Part eight: Coasts

So tell me this fair sifters:
Is this really the diversion the thriving, socially dynamic, and progressive rest of the world should indulge, in light of the clusterfuck of political and spiritual turmoil, the unfortunates who find themselves modern-day Iranians are facing??

The very fact that there are thousands looking to imams and clerics for guidance and answers(forget hope),should circumvent any concerns for the few individuals who decide to stand out, for whatever the reason, be it psychotic indulgence or identity change.
Christ Howard and Allah's Bad Farts, the leader of this country, of the mentally and spiritually enslaved, is a lunatic, and the little uni-browed ragheads, are the answer kiosks of the middle ages for the masses of cattle....

Fuck! Is there not anyone sane???


"Look mom, a Tidal wave!"
"That's nice dear, I've been meaning to talk to you about boys' and girls' pee-pees, let's go sit near the shore!"

Yep, the survey says, As good as Walmart makes it for a segment of the pajama wearers, the people who really lose out, are the many hundreds of thousands of workers, mostly Chinese,who toil away to give us our Plastique! Our diapers, Our Hot wheels, Our make-up, Our Christmas decor.....yadda yadda...butterfly wings here, Tidal Waves there....cause and effect...take the sensible side of knowing how to help you and yours....Steal what you can back from WalMart, most of the bubbles have no cameras-Take a battery operated degausser with ya to the DVD/CD area, and start in t'stuffin' that special jacket....

Some of these things seem rather important, the moons gravity is the reason there are tidal waves. There are many species of animal who only follow the moon cycle. Where did you read that moon drifting bit Benjee?

I won't take PETA's advice either, especially if it includes going vegetarian! If there is a God, then he put pigs on this earth so I could have bacon.

Seriously though, while I have no more love for animal rights terrorists than the next bloke, my point was that this video isn't about PETA, it's about KFC. If more people were made aware of what goes into fast food, fewer people would buy it (and there does seem to have been a tidal change in attitudes towards fast food in the last few years). I don't think it's inconsistent to upvote this particular video and still think PETA are a bunch of dangerous cretins.

I for one will probably avoid KFC the next time I stop at a motorway service station, just because of the images in this video. (Whereas in the past I would have avoided KFC just because it's rank

YouTube comments:

The story of the Earth of 4.6 billion years.

Meteorite Collision simulation.

"When the meteorite collides with the earth"

"Explanation"

What happens when meteorite collide with each other? We tried to find the answers: Simulation Experiment. We presumed that the collision happened with the earth in order for lucid distance and location. The diameter of the meteorite is slightly bigger than the breadth of Honshu Japan. The collision point is located at the 3,000km south from Japan in the ocean. The velocity of the meteorite is 70,000km/h. But the meteorite is bigger than we can imagine, so that it appears much slower. In the impact at the same time as colliding. The earth's crust of 10km in thickness where ground in the earth is composed is wholly peeled off. This is called,"Earth's crust tidal wave". There is 1km width of the rock, and it flies to the sky it by the impact. The impact surges to the Japanese Islands and,as a result, the Japanese Islands are crushed. The splinter of the crushed rock easily exceeds the height of 1000Km. After exceeding the atmosphere it reaches space. Afterwards, the splinter of the rock falls again in surface of the earth. The edge of Crater completed by the collision of the meteorite is 7000m in height. It looks like a huge mountain range. The diameter of Crater has 4000Km. Crater is big to swallow a part from Guam to a Chinese continent. But,it was only an introductory chapter of the tragedy that would start in the future.....

The leading part with the accident is seen in Crater when seeing from space immediately after the collision of the meteorite. Seeming as shine to scorching color, and huge mass. The mass of the rock of which this turned into the gas and the name are said, "Rock Vapor". The amount of the rock that becomes a gas is about 100000000000000kt. "Rock Vapor" extends in all directions on the earth after it swells up like the dome. "Rock Vapor" generated by the meteorite's having been dropped to the sea located in the south of Japan will arrive at Himalayas in three hours. In "Rock Vapor", the velocity of the wind is 300 meters. It becomes the hot wind of a terrific high temperature of 4000℃ in temperature and burns Himalayas. In the world covered with "Rock Vapor", even a thick snow that piles in the coldest place named Himalayas is instantaneously melted. There is no time to make the river and the snow is evaporated instantaneously. "Rock Vapor" will reach Amazon that lies to the other side of the collision of the meteorite in a day. Tropical forests of Amazon cause the autogenous ignition for the hot wind by "Rock Vapor" and the region is burnt up. Tropical forests of Amazon turn into sea of flames in less than no time. Surface of the earth from the collision on the first. It is covered with "Rock Vapor" and it turns into a scorching star. "Rock Vapor" wraps the earth for one year or more, and burns everything up at the terrific high temperature. It is the same as making the sun innumerable near the earth. On the other hand, the accident happens also in the sea. The sea began to bubble violently. The sea boils by the heat of "Rock Vapor". Tremendous heat of the "Rock Vapor" reduces the sea level at the speed of 5cm a minute. The naked sea bed is relentlessly exposed to the intense heat and melted down like lava. The sea of 4000m in average depth has disappeared one month after the collision of the meteorite. At this point, the earth becomes a star where the living thing cannot live. Thus, the earth turned into the star of the death.