The Isolated Blurt Thread XXXIII: N. 12° 38.1' W. 61° 21.4'

[GimpyIntellect]

Why can't I figure out how to embed a tweet?

This is becoming very emasculating.

 

[yossi]

Where are you trying to embed it?

 

[JohnnySavage]

Where are you trying to embed it?

That's rather personal

 

[Lancecastor]

Yossi embedded my tweet right after I facebooked that ass.

 

[GimpyIntellect]

Where are you trying to embed it?

Here.

Literotica.

The most wonderful site on the web.

 

[yossi]

That's rather personal

Is your tweet the whole 140 characters or does it fall short?

Yossi embedded my tweet right after I facebooked that ass.

It feels good to have a tweet all up in MySpace.

 

[yossi]

Here.

Literotica.

The most wonderful site on the web.

You'd have to take a screenshot of it to embed it here.

 

[GimpyIntellect]

You'd have to take a screenshot of it to embed it here.

Seriously?

I was wondering why it didn't work.

I've spent the last 17 hours googling and youtubing it, yossi.

What an anti-climatic result. Thanks anyway.

 

[Bookishleigh]

"A lonely night, baby girl, I loved you on a lonely night
It was the only time and if I led you on then I apologize."
- The Weeknd, A Lonely Night

 

[Hard_Rom]

"A lonely night, baby girl, I loved you on a lonely night
It was the only time and if I led you on then I apologize."
- The Weeknd, A Lonely Night

I bet he says that to all the girls.

 

[deehere]

Yeah, you end up with Sharpie on your Adam's apple.

Ba-dum-tish!

 

[pointless]

i'm fairly certain i got less than three hours sleep last night. why? i have no idea. still sucks. also, i want to murder my neighbors. i don't know what the fuck is wrong with their car that makes it sound like loud intermittent beeping when they start it up but they need to fix that shit. it's fucking maddening.

especially when you're already pissed off because you haven't slept for shit.

on the plus side at least i know what the fuck has been waking me up with a start at six in the morning for the last week.

 

[pointless]

and i prefer this weekend

 

[Bookishleigh]

I bet he says that to all the girls.

Maybe it's my line....

Actually the song just makes me want to go dancing.

 

[trysail]

http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/89000/89063/thames_oli_2015181.jpg


http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/89000/89063/thanet_oli_2015181.jpg

For at least the past decade, satellites have spotted white dots cropping up in the North Sea. If viewed from Earth’s surface, you would see that these dots are actually wind turbines—huge arrays of towers rising from the sea and topped with electricity-generating rotors. But they’re doing more than harvesting the wind. They appear to also be giving rise to sediment plumes.

Some of the North Sea’s most expansive arrays are visible in these images, acquired on Jun 30, 2015, with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. When these images were acquired, there were 84 offshore wind farms in Europe (including some under construction). The North Sea accounts for the most offshore wind capacity—69 percent—in European seas, followed by the Irish Sea and Baltic Sea.

The turbines were built to take advantage of high winds blowing over the North Sea’s surface. The London Array, visible in the first detailed image, spans 100 square kilometers (40 square miles). The wind farm, which first became operational in 2013, sits on two natural sandbanks in water as deep as 25 meters (80 feet). The site was chosen because of its proximity to onshore electric power infrastructure and because it is beyond the main shipping lanes through the area.

Other significant wind farms, Thanet and the northern half of Greater Gabbard, are shown in the second and third detailed images. Thanet spans 35 square kilometers (14 square miles) and sits in water measuring 20 to 25 meters deep; the entirety of Greater Gabbard spans 147 square kilometers (57 square miles) and sits in water 24 to 34 meters deep.

But the environment below the water’s surface can also feel the presence of the turbines. The detailed views reveal light-brown plumes of suspended sediments extending from each tower. In a 2014 paper, researchers analyzed satellite imagery and found that the wakes (and plumes) can measure anywhere from 30 to 150 meters wide and up to several kilometers long.

“The fact that the wakes are browner than the surrounding waters shows that they contain more suspended sediments,” said Quinten Vanhellemont, a researcher at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and lead author of the 2014 paper. “This shows that the installation of the wind turbines not only modifies the wind field above the sea surface (which is expected as they are extracting wind energy), but that they also modify the currents and sediment transport in the water.”

Vanhellemont explained that the wakes are generated by the tidal current moving around the foundation of the turbine. The direction and curvature in the wakes are related to the general direction of the current. For example, the image of the London Array was acquired during flood tide, so the wakes follow the northward current. But the tide in this area reverses every six hours, Vanhellemont said, “so the wakes are quite dynamic over the day.”

It’s not yet clear how these changes in sediment transport could affect the relatively shallow underwater environment, which is known to be an important fish nursery.

-NASA
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[Aglaopheme]

Leftover Reuben for breakfast? I don't see why not.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I normally eschew food that comes in a cardboard box; but I'm becoming addicted to the fake eggs that come in a little milk carton. Quick, easy and tasty. Just like me.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I thought you were going to slam my leftovers for a second there. Can they be that much quicker than cracking eggs?

 

[JohnnySavage]

I thought you were going to slam my leftovers for a second there. Can they be that much quicker than cracking eggs?

In my mind they are. Just open and pour in the pan. Eggs you have to crack into a bowl, then wisk, then pour. It's pretty time intensive and makes dirty dishes.

 

[JohnnySavage]

My oldest buddy has this awful girlfriend. He's always had poor judgment when it comes to women, but this one is REALLY annoying.

We go out drinking - she's there
We go golfing - she's there.

FFS we could go piss in the woods and she'd be there.

For the past year, I don't think I've ever seen him without her shadowing the poor man.

And she's REALLY annoying. E.g., I tell him what a cocksucker he is and she gets all nasty with me about calling him names.

I don't know what he sees in her, but I'm about to put an ad on Craigslist for a new buddy.

 

[Aglaopheme]

In my mind they are. Just open and pour in the pan. Eggs you have to crack into a bowl, then wisk, then pour. It's pretty time intensive and makes dirty dishes.

I'm more of an over easy kinda gal. Even if I wanted scrambled, I still don't think I could do egg substitutes.

Now I have a mashup of the Sex Pistols and The Who in my head.

 

[HarryHill]

nuttins faster than a frozen bean burrito

 

[Hard_Rom]

I normally eschew food that comes in a cardboard box; but I'm becoming addicted to the fake eggs that come in a little milk carton. Quick, easy and tasty. Just like me.

Egg Beaters is an acceptable product. Docs only allow me two whole eggs a week. Microwaves up as scrambled in seconds. Got a recipe for mayonnaise somewhere and I use egg replacement stuff. Taste great!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[yossi]

Egg scramblers? Microwaves? Jesus Christ, people. Breakfast is supposed to be a pleasant experience.