wow wow wow.


Message board is kind of a mess for how intense this very real video is.


and @solecist, I was up close during the Loma Prieta quake... things can get very serious out there at the drop of a hat (I really only mention that because this video reminded me of some of the night-time after shocks).

Follow the radioactive cloud via the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI): link (high load)

Take a look at screencaps made over the last couple of hours, Ibaraki prefecture, south of Fukushima: 1:00, 1:20, 4:30, 4:40, 4:50. The wind turns and Ibaraki prefecture goes from ~40 nGy/h up to 5000 nGy/h -- and that's ~160km from Fukushima I NPP, so it's most likely the cloud passing by.

If you convert it 1:1 into nSv/h just to get a rough picture, it's 5 μSv/h. Average annual dose over here is 2 mSv. That's 400 hours at 5 μSv/h for your annual dose, a little less than 17 days.

Now, it only peaked around 5000 nGy/h and dropped again after the cloud moved on, so it's basically negligable in the short term. But that's 160km from the most likely source of the radiation. Some readings from up close would be interesting. They ought to be considerably higher, don't they?

Unfortunatly, all the entries for Fukushima are marked as "under servey" (sic). Last I heard was about 680 μSv/h recorded at some monitoring posts northwest of the power station: annual dose in three hours, how wonderful for the poor sobs trying to prevent the defecation from hitting the oscillation.

@BoneRemake I can make up a plausible backstory...

Someone out icefishing lost their truck through thin ice, where one side gave more than the other or the truck just rolled descending into the lake. Somebody took a log skidder and attached it to the back of the truck, and they pulled the truck up close to the shore (grinding down the roof of the cab). They were then like, 'hey, we should have flipped this thing upright while it was still in water,... maybe we can still flip it now... vertically.... using the log skidder.' And, holy fuuuhhh!

Every child born into this family is another case of child abuse!
These people are about as low on the intelligence levels as man can go - I don't wish bad things on anyone, but this man's will not be missed on his final day when he gets to meet his god up close and finds out he's been sent to the basement!

Edit: thanks for posting but I can't up-vote his bigotry!
Cheers!

>> ^dag:

A matter of subjective aesthetic taste then. I find crooked teeth kind of hot for some reason - I think it's because in the land of orthodontics, perfect choppers are the norm. Imperfection suggests a different, non-suburban kind of childhood - makes them interesting to me.>> ^mxxcon:
>> ^dag:
The fact that you would single out someone's dental work when critiquing a song says that you and I are probably not on the same music planet. >> ^mxxcon:
>> ^dag:
Great video. Great song.
i hope that was sarcasm, otherwise i strongly disagree.
very basic rocknroll tune, very simle song, nothing interesting about that imagery. and she needs her teeth fixed.


well, when they show her singing face up close, i can't help but notice the jagged mess that is in her mouth.


yes, some kind busted up teeth can look cute, kinda like in japan. but not the current example.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

A matter of subjective aesthetic taste then. I find crooked teeth kind of hot for some reason - I think it's because in the land of orthodontics, perfect choppers are the norm. Imperfection suggests a different, non-suburban kind of childhood - makes them interesting to me.>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^dag:
The fact that you would single out someone's dental work when critiquing a song says that you and I are probably not on the same music planet. >> ^mxxcon:
>> ^dag:
Great video. Great song.
i hope that was sarcasm, otherwise i strongly disagree.
very basic rocknroll tune, very simle song, nothing interesting about that imagery. and she needs her teeth fixed.


well, when they show her singing face up close, i can't help but notice the jagged mess that is in her mouth.

>> ^dag:

The fact that you would single out someone's dental work when critiquing a song says that you and I are probably not on the same music planet. >> ^mxxcon:
>> ^dag:
Great video. Great song.
i hope that was sarcasm, otherwise i strongly disagree.
very basic rocknroll tune, very simle song, nothing interesting about that imagery. and she needs her teeth fixed.


well, when they show her singing face up close, i can't help but notice the jagged mess that is in her mouth.

>> ^conan:

useless without explanation. could also be a moby music video.


Well, being a biology professor let me try and help you out...

0:13 - 0:22 - mitochondria

0:23 - 0:29 shows glucose (long blue string) with associated phosphates floating in the cytoplasm. I believe those are phosphates (?) coming off as it enters the mitochondrion. Though there should only be 1 phosphate, so this may be incorrect.

0:30 - 0:32 show the extramembranous proteins on the exterior of the mitochondrion.

0:37 we enter the mitochondrion.

0:38 - 0:47 we float through the mitochondrion. Notice the green double-helixed DNA at the left and bottom of the screen. This is mitochondrial DNA. I believe those other colored things floating around are later molecules from the Krebs Cycle - they could be miscellaneous intermediary molecules such as oxaloacetate and citrate.

0:48 - 0:54 we see the cristae (inner foldings) of the mitochondrion with the transmembranous proteins along it. The small molecules floating around are ADP and ATP.

0:55 - 0:59 we see NADH and FADH2 floating to a transmembranous protein (purple) and becoming oxidized, losing their electron. The green/blue colored sea on the bottom of the screen is the membrane (phospholipids).

1:00 - 1:01 we flip to the opposite side of the membrane, to the outer membranous space. The tentacle-looking things is part of the membrane, the phospholipid bilayer.

1:02 - 1:07 I'm not entirely sure which part this is...if I had to guess I'd say it was an electron carrier.. perhaps ferredoxin transporting electrons from protein to protein in the electron transfer chain, which is why it glows (electron-rich) as it moves from protein to protein.

1:07 - 1:10 we see millions of protons flowing DOWN through the transmembranous proteins, into the outer membranous space (bottom) from the matrix (top). This creates a hypertonic concentration of protons in the outer membranous space.

1:10 - 1:14 we see ATP synthase, the main energy-producing enzyme that rotates on the cristae (part of the electron transport chain). This enzyme has a stationary portion and a rotating portion (purple and part of the brown at the top). When protons flow back into the matrix from the intermembranous space, ATP synthase rotates, creating energy. You can see the dull yellow-colored (energy-low) ADP getting transformed (being phosphorylated) into the bright white-colored (energy-high) ATP.

1:15 - 1:21 we see the phoshporylation of ATP up close. A phosphate is added to ADP to produce ATP. This is done by ATP synthase via the energy produced by the movement of protons.

1:22 - 1:29 just an overview of the whole phosphorylation process. You can see the energy-rich ATPs moving into the outer-membranous space through pores in the membrane.

1:30 - 1:32 shows a close-up of this ATP movement, to the outer-membranous space, and eventually out of the mitochondrion to be used by the cell for energy.

Even when you know how a magic trick works you can still marvel at the skill required to pull it off.

I like up close street magic way better than Ziegfried and Roy-style stage productions as well.

I've seen it up close--not fun.

Not so entertaining up close huh Mr Spaniard.

no i'm with berti on this one. it's kind of bullshit. it's a pretty thought, but silly and immature.

i have some up close intimate personal in depth experience with the bipolar disorder, i assure you the problem isn't the "rest of the world is crazy" or that "i'm special! they won't recognize i'm special!" what a juvenile thought and an absolute cop out.

When I watched this vid with my other half before I read the comments I was singing praises about the dog. Yes he was hyperactive but never once did I think he was dangerous.

He seemed to understand boundaries (rather than like my friend's dog who would actually crawl all over visitors claws stratching all the way). Never once did he hurt that child and when he got up close he showed very gentle affection by licking.

Good dog indeed!

I think they were relatively normal people, they just completely detached themselves from what they were actually doing. Like Stalin said, 1 million killed is a statistic. I doubt Hitler could have killed a man up close and personal, like his soldiers did.

In essence it's a psychopathic trait, to completely lose remorse or empathy, though it's likely a mild form of it, since he doesn't not do the killing himself. For a person, there's a tremendous difference between pressing a button and killing people or stabbing them, for instance. Just giving the orders, is different from actually doing it.

>> ^Truckchase:

The most interesting (and scary) thing re: WW2 history to me is that mass genocide can be conducted by normal people. It's very easy to label these guys "monsters" because that detaches them from reality. It's really crazy to wrap one's head around the fact that this really happened, and was conducted by relatively normal people.
I have a hard time integrating this fact into the future I want to see for humanity; how can a race of species
so guilty of violence against itself unify enough to solve some of the very serious problems we're facing right now. (including, sadly enough, first-world institutionalized racism... thanks Arizona)
We'll have to stay sharp and be vocal to help prevent these sorts of things from happening again.

^Yeah, I was going to say that I don't know all the background information on this fox, and I can understand whatever concerns there are about whether or not the fox is a domesticated one, and what its living arrangements are and whatnot, but I posted this because it is a very cute and up-close video of a fox, first and foremost. It is a side of a fox that most people have never seen, including myself. Glad most are enjoying it for what it is.