Archive for May, 2012
We’re sorry but the apocalypse has been cancelled…
We’re sorry but the apocalypse has been cancelled due to mass misunderstanding of ancient messages:
Ancient Mayan workshop for astronomers discovered
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
This undated image made available by National Geographic shows four long numbers on the north wall of a ruined house related to the Maya calendar and computations about the moon, sun and possibly Venus and Mars; the dates stretch some 7,000 years into the future.
Archaeologists have found a small room in Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago.
The walls reveal the oldest known astronomical tables from the Maya. Scientists already knew they must have been keeping such records at that time, but until now the oldest known examples dated from about 600 years later….
Read the complete article here.
ShareDinosaur Flatulence May Have Been The Death of Them…
Here’s the amazing line from this article: “huge plant-eating dinosaurs called sauropods pumped more methane into the atmosphere than all of today’s natural and industrial sources of methane combined.”
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Dinosaur Flatulence Might Have Warmed Prehistoric Climate
Photo: Reuters
Dinosaurs might have contributed to their own demise by passing large amounts of heat-trapping methane gas into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering a lethal warming of the planet some 150 million years ago.
That is the theory being proposed by researchers in Britain, whose new study suggests that huge plant-eating dinosaurs called sauropods pumped more methane into the atmosphere than all of today’s natural and industrial sources of methane combined. Sauropods had methane-producing microbes in their bodies that aided digestion by fermenting chewed plant material.
The researchers say they did not set out to investigate dinosaur flatulence. They say the idea arose while they were studying sauropod ecology and wondered whether the reptiles could have emitted enough methane gas to warm Earth’s climate during the Mesozoic period…”
Read more here.
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