Krebs' Free form/Chaos Thread

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Yes and it's the fact that these people have to choose between certain death and certain injury is heart wrenching. It's also one of Chittagong's largest industries.
There's also a massive business in India where people (in squalid conditions) buy scrap electronic items and melt the metal in it to sell it. I think that there is mercury in the cct boards amongst other toxic things in the smoke which they inhale as this cannot be done in the open because it is not legal.
Illegal iron ore mining in Bellary in Karnataka has reduced the fertility of the soil and rice and other crops have nowhere near the yield they once had.
Once the subcontinent's problems are highlighted though, it is unfortunately nearly never-ending.
 
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It was quite a sight this morning off the deck

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Red Tide off California Coast Creates Blue Glow
It’s best seen at night. In the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, masses of algae have bloomed to form what’s known as a red tide.

By and large, it is not considered a good thing. The algae are sometimes toxic. They can poison fish or starve them of oxygen.

But then why are people gathering to look, and why are some biologists impressed by it? Because it’s blue.

Peter Franks, a biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the particular organism causing it, Lingulodinium polyedrum, was his “favorite dinoflagellate.”

Why so? “Because it’s intensely bioluminescent,” he wrote on the blog Deep-Sea News. “When jostled, each organism will give off a flash of blue light created by a chemical reaction within the cell. When billions and billions of cells are jostled — say, by a breaking wave — you get a seriously spectacular flash of light.”
 
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Midnightfright said:
Krebs were do u get all these excellent pictures? Your like a funny pics messiah.

secret: I made that drawing and the one before it:eek:
The rest of the pics I have several websites that I visit regularly. Then there is stumbleupon.