Rift Valley

Rift Valley SimpCSourceURL: https://refind.com/links/141565788?via=refind RefindWe are restless even in death. Entombed in stone, our most distant ancestors still travel along Earth’s subterranean passageways. One of them, a man in his 20s, began his journey around 230,000 years ago after collapsing into marshland on the lush edge of a river delta feeding a vast lake in East Africa’s Rift Valley. He became the earth in which he lay as nutrients leached from his body and his bone minerali...

A science-fictional idea for a geo-scale, lacework power plant (Interconnected)

Interconnected A blog by Matt Webb About Archive Subscribe for $0 Email Feed (What is a feed?) Unoffice Hours Book a call (What is this?) Follow me on Twitter @genmon @intrcnnctd A science-fictional idea for a geo-scale, lacework power plant20.48, Tuesday 24 Jan 2023 Link to this postThe temperature difference across the U.K. yesterday (600 miles) goes from 11C in Scotland to -8C in the south east of England – a gap of 19C (34F). Which seems like a lot? Anyway I was wondering, if you could so...

thermobaric weapon (thing) by The Custodian - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 thermobaric weapon (thing) See all of thermobaric weapon, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by The Custodian Wed Nov 12 2008 at 21:33:44 A thermobaric weapon is a weapon which utilizes the heat (thermos) and pressure (baros) from an explosion to cause a long-duration shockwave which, in turn, damages the target. This is in contrast to high-explosive weapons which produce very sharp but very short-duration overpressure waves...

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