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Huge Reservoir Discovered Beneath Asia 273

Posted by samzenpus from the city-of-R'lyeh dept.
anthemaniac writes "Seismic observations reveal a huge reservoir of water in Earth's mantle beneath Asia. It's actually rock saturated with water, but it's an ocean's worth of water ... as much as is in the whole Arctic Ocean. How did it get there? A slab of water-laden crust sank, and the water evaporated out when it was heated, and then it was trapped, the thinking goes. The discovery fits neatly with the region's heavy seismic activity and fits neatly with the idea that the planet's moving crustal plates are lubricated with water."
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Submission + - Sweet and Sour Network: $10 Wok == $20,000 DIsh

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The New Zealand Herald reports: "Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago's newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down."
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Submission + - Using Safari can slow your system down?

Submitted by sandoz
sandoz writes: While how fast a browser can render a web page is certainly an important weapon in the browser war arguments, the difference is usually a matter of seconds at the most. To my mind, a more important measure of speed is how a browser affects the overall speed of your SYSTEM. Macenstein has any interesting article about how running Safari seems to slow down unrelated programs. You can read the article here

Comment Re:Good god! Myth Destroyed! (Score 1) 251

by naomiimoan (#15596498) Attached to: Summer Camps Join Fray Against MySpace
Here are some things you can do with your daughter - things I did with my dad when I was young. I remember these times a whole lot better than getting shipped off:
* Play baseball, with invisible players on the other bases
* Play basketball, climbing up on Dad's shoulders to slam dunk
* Make stuff in the work room - my household fixing skills are much better than my fiance's because of this.
* Put together puzzles
* Make crafts
* Coding - yes, this was BASIC and all we did was multicolored varieties of filling the screen with "Hello, world" - but it was fun
* Board games - there's a reason they rhyme with bored
* Read books together

If you're running out of things to do with your daughter, just imagine what you would have done with a son, and do it anyway.

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