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It's possible - volcanoes which haven't previously been identified from tephra signatures in the stratigraphic record. I'll have a dig in the literature at work and see if anyone has commented/investigated further on that one experimental study.

In response to your comment, sustained volcanic climate change has nothing to do with rock and ash, but is instead to do with the amount of sulphate aerosols blasted into the stratosphere - the idea is that a sufficient amount of aerosol reflects inbound solar radiation, causing sustained cooling. W...

Thought it was good, but the ending felt a bit rushed and seemed to contradict what they'd said ten minute previously. I've felt that this one and the last one could have done with being 15 minutes longer to let them pace out the ending properly - not quite enough for a 2 parter, but too much for 45...

To quote someone from the News Quiz, it's like he's got a room full of london cabbies writing his policies for him.

At the risk of no-content posting, he is called 'Darth Herobrine' - 'herobrine' being the phrase that Minecraft folks and developers troll each other by claiming has been inserted into the game or can be found.

Amidst all this, MP Helen Goodman actually tried to live on a similar level. Transcript of her speech to the House of Commons below. Link I was so shocked when I read what my constituents wrote to me about the implications for them of the bedroom tax, and about how little they would have left to liv...

I thought the way he announced it was incredibly creative. The man's got talent, that much is certain. I for one can't wait for his grand return. Don't get me wrong, I love Demo Reel and I wanted to see more, but I missed the Critic at the same time. And I am glad he is back not because the fans wa...

At the risk of shedding any ideas of a lone doctor murdering his way through american tourists, some information on the process of Euthanasia in Belgium, a ten second google returns the information below. From Smets et al. (2009) Legal Euthanasia in Belgium. Characteristics of All Reported Euthanasi...

Just an FYI for anyone who gives a shit - I saw it in 2D 24 FPS yesterday, after initially seeing it in 3D 48. Most of my issues with the film disappeared - the colour palette seemed more normal, the CGI scenes lost a lot of their 'fakeness', even the cavern scenes became a bit more dark and atmosph...

Haven't they already explicitly stated he's a completely new character named John Harrison? There has been contradictory information from various sources involved in the film, like Karl Urban saying it was Gary Mitchell and one of the writers giving a list of who would NOT be in the film (which inc...

The reason I put in the spoiler tags was basically so that people who hadn't seen it yet were protected, and then that people who hadn't read the book were protected. There have been a couple of people in the thread who hadn't read the book, so it seemed a bit unfair to spoil elements of the next tw...

Yeh, that would have been good. It wasn't as if there was a light source anywhere - Gandalf had his staff in FotR to cast light, but Bilbo on his own and away from goblins should be in the dark. I think they make a thing in the book about the fact that all Bilbo could see of Gollum was his eyes comi...

Yeh, this was my issue. I can see why, because they need to have some immediate personal stakes during any climactic battles that might happen to show up in the third film and they may be responding to criticisms about Sauron being a villain lacking in presence other than as a giant lighthouse at th...

Was just chatting about it with folks, and we're feeling like it generally lacked atmosphere. It had atmosphere in the opening scenes dwarves turning up and in the riddles. But the cave encounters just felt like flashes and bangs without substance - I always imagined the cave fights to be claustroph...

I think it was in 48 fps, but the cinema was german-signed, so I'm not 100% sure. Would have preferred to have had it in the same cinematic filming style as the previous 3 tbh - felt like it took away more than it added.

So just got back in from the Hobbit - and the prognosis is pretty mixed. First of all, the 3D elephant in the room. I'm not going to pretend to be educated on what aspects of the film were filmed with what, but I did not enjoy the 3D and overall quality of the film. That's not to say it was bad qual...

I played a lot of II, III, IV and V, but I think after V, I can't go back to the others and still enjoy it. I downloaded SMAC because of all the good things I'd heard about it, but just couldn't really get settled back into the stack'o'doom style of play after the 1 unit per tile thing. I had a lot ...

Yes. The fact that the show took time to sit down and dela with the logistics and minutia of surviving gave a lot of people hope that it wouldn't be a silly copout show. I disagree on the abortion thing though. Whether or not there are better methods is irrelevant just as it is irrelevant to a cons...

The thing my g/f was digging, anthropologist that she is, were the episodes that were exploring the logistics and how people were dealing with it in what was essentially a new society - finding food, water; dealing with jobs, castes, religion; unions, elections, democracy etc. She found them refresh...

I think mid S3 for me as well, the transition from 'oh ho! is it something mysterious or just coincidence' and the amount of bullshit thrown at you to get you to accept the final five and all the random plot shit that came with that was too sharp. During the rewatch with my gf, who was non-scifi and...

In terms of what to write and how to write, that's really down to your data, whether you can use it to tell a cohesive story, and your reading of the existing literature with respect to structure and content. You should find a paper which did something similar for guidance, but only you can decide w...

Really? I thought 'You know my name' was quite good as a Bond theme. This sounds good to me, but I tend to find the better bond themes are the ones that not only get the elements of the Bond main theme worked in, but also the trumpets/brass section. This is half way there but I don't think it (the m...

That's an interesting find, it's a shame we didn't find that during writing as it's definitely worth mentioning. I'm not too sure I can answer your question to the extent that you would like. There haven't been that many studies which really set out to resolve the contributing effects of different v...

Thanks for the compliment! To be honest, I'm not sure if there is any sense on the timescale for cementation. Someone did an experiment in our lab with some ash coated in secondary minerals - they weren't looking at cementation per se, but they were passing water through an ash covered soil. They fo...