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Comment Oceans need more ELECTRIFIED! man made stuff (Score 2, Interesting) 169

by scionite0 on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @12:39PM (#23014246) Attached to: Old Subway Cars As Artificial Reef

It seems that if you create a man made reef and then run low voltage electricity through it coral will grow 5-10 times faster.

When I honeymooned in Bali we went snorkeling around these structures. They seemed perfectly safe and the corals were amazing. The coral growth on the structures seemed far more prolific than that on the ocean bottom.

Submission + - Copyright Alliance Presses Presidential Candidates (arstechnica.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @08:15PM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Not satisfied with the current life plus seventy copyright terms and huge financial liabilities for infringement, the Copyright Alliance is pressuring presidential candidates for stronger copyright laws. In particular, they want the candidates to divert police resources to punish even non-commercial copyright infringement. After all, without copyright, what would become of the next Shakespeare, Michaelangelo, or da Vinci?"

Submission + - FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing

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theodp

on Friday October 26, 2007 @11:32PM

theodp writes: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters while real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. In the briefing, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency's response to this week's California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Almost makes one nostalgic for the good old days of Downtown-Michael-Brown."

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