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Geofish blog is correct: I’ve never thought much about the fractured rock and instability deep below us. Here’s a quick primer on the megathrust faults in the basement geology of Ontario. If I understand correctly, megathrusts initially produce mountain ranges.
Go and read the original post if you’re interested in public safety issues such as the correct placement of power plants.
The 2007 Tour de France has started.
The British cycling team used scanned models and computational fluid dynamics to analyze the air flow around a moving cyclist.
Techie humor: Monorail cat technical diagram. Every engineering project needs clear requirements and specifications, including good diagrams if necessary.
A satellite taking pictures for Google Earth’s image bank snapped a photograph of a secret Chinese sub moored alongside a pier at the Xiaopingdao Submarine Base south of the city of Dalian.
This is a sub that can drop ballistic missiles on North America.
S E E Quine, over at Introspection of a Struggling Mad Scientist, has a written a long article about the interaction between science and skepticism; and why scientists tend to like both.
