Cool link if you're a geek like me...
 

Very cool!

nice
 

better buckle up your seatbelts.... :eek:

Nothing like watching global warming dismember the planet. Can anyone say "Waterworld"?

The breakup of iceshelves will not raise sea-level, becuase it is already floating in the water - makes no difference. But if an ice shelf breaks off and allows contenental ice to flow into the sea more easily, then it makes a big difference - this will raise sea level. Buy property at >150 ft asl.

I'm at about 2000'. If it becomes oceanfront property, that shouldn't hurt the value too much...

The most telling thing to me is the Texas-New Mexico border, where you can see the old coast line, and the old off shore islands, and come to the stark realization that in reference to those, Texas would be under about 200 ft of water. The pre-ice age prehistoric maps show the Gulf of Mexico covering the Great Plains, splitting America in half. What changed that? The Ice Age locked all that water up in the Ice Caps. Here's the news: It's coming back.

What, did you just watch "The Day After Tomorrow"?

How long away is that? Most of the ice in the world is in Antartica sitting on dry land, as is the case in Greenland and Northern Canada and Northern Siberia. If they start to melt, we are screwed. They are already detecting a massive acceleration in Greenland.

I meant the water, not the Ice Age. I don't see much sense in that movie's version. The release of methane gas currently trapped in Artic permafrost is going to send us all to greenhouse land. I read a good paper proposing that that is the cycle that sends us rapidly from Ice Age to Dinosaur City, a cylce we have artificially set in motion.

Nature has a way of getting rid of things that cause an imbalance to her system.

Speaking of imbalance, when enough ice melts the crust will shift on the molten inner core. The sudden shift will move the polar regions once again, check the positions of Death Valley and the Dead Sea and a couple others. :eek:

here is another... see the space station go over
 

There is a site (your tax dollars at work):

http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/index.html

You can check the sitings link and see when it is going overhead. The kids and I have see it dozens of times. Just after sunset is the best.

Also you can see the realtime tracker on where it is at any one time. We saw the station while walking our dog. Got home 20 mins later and looked to see where it was. It was over Africa already. My daughters thought that was way cool.

Chuck