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You must try this-it's amazing and takes only seconds.



It will boggle your mind.



And you will keep trying at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can't.



1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.



2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.



Your foot will change direction.



Does it??

scary

You have too much time on your hands MP :D

Try making the six in reverse order, i.e. starting where you normally finish and working backward. In other words, instead of starting at the top of the 6, start at the point where the 'belly' curls back in on itself, and draw down and back up again. Does that make sense?
Much easier to do it this way.

You guys have a serious problem...

Bunch of nutters... ;) :D

K.

Oh yes I have, and oh no, I can't fool my right foot either :eusa_liar:

Loss of soil carbon 'will speed global warming'

Tim Radford, science editor
Thursday September 8, 2005
The Guardian


England's soils have been losing carbon at the rate of four million tonnes a year for the past 25 years - losses which will accelerate global warming and which have already offset all the cuts in Britain's industrial carbon emissions between 1990 and 2002, scientists warn today.
The research dashes hopes that more carbon dioxide emissions might mean more vegetation growth and therefore more carbon removed from the atmosphere.

The unexpected loss of carbon from the soils - consistently, everywhere in England and Wales and therefore probably everywhere in the temperate world - means more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which means even more global warming, and yet more carbon lost from the soil.

"All the consequences of global warming will occur more rapidly. That's the scary thing: the amount of time we have got to do something about it is smaller than we thought," Guy Kirk, of Cranfield University, told the British Association Festival of Science, in Dublin.

He and colleagues sampled the top 15cm (6in) of soil at almost 6,000 fixed points in England and Wales between 1978 and 2003, to measure the changes in living and decaying matter locked in pastures, croplands, forests, bogs, scrubland and heaths.

Their findings, published in Nature today, show that carbon was being lost from the soil at an average of 0.6% a year: the richer the soils, the higher the rate of loss. When the figures were extrapolated to include all of the UK, the annual loss was 13m tonnes.

There was no single factor other than global warming that could explain such changes in non-agricultural soils, they said. "These losses completely offset the past technological achievements in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, putting the UK's success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a different light," said Detlef Schulze and Annette Freibauer, of the Max Planck Institute, in Nature.

In the past 25 years the average temperature has increased by half a degree centigrade and the growing season of the northern hemisphere has been extended by almost 11 days. Warmer soils will have encouraged greater microbial activity so more rapid decay of organic matter in the soil, leading to greater discharges of gases.

For more than two decades, climate scientists have tried to calculate the planet's annual carbon flow. Some of the carbon is absorbed by the oceans, to be trapped as limestone; some is locked in soil as peat or stored in woodland. The latest research implies that in a warmer world much of this "lost" carbon will find its way back into the atmosphere more quickly.

The study confirms the value of long-term research: the national soil inventory was established in 1978 as a network of fixed points at intervals of three miles, and the scientists used went on using the same techniques to measure the changes in soil carbon over more than 20 years.

Three-quarters of the planet's soil carbon is trapped in the temperate zones, they note. Professor Kirk said: "It had been reckoned that the CO2 fertilisation effect was somehow offsetting about 25% of the direct human induced carbon dioxide emissions. It was reckoned that the soil temperature emission effect would catch up in maybe 10 to 50 years' time. We are showing that it seems to be happening rather faster than that."

No worry. :faga1:
Keep as cool as you can.

Okay, as long as we're being COMPLETELY irrelevant... Another "did you know" bit of useless trivia...

Most of you probably remember the single most famous photograph from the Vietam war, that of a young girl running naked down the street to escape a napalm strike on her village.

Well, her name is Kim Phuc Phan Thi and she lives in... Ajax. Ontario.

read all about it

Hmmmm. . . im going to have to browse through this thread everytime my local has a pub quiz. :eusa_liar:

Over Pasanens Head schreef:You have too much time on your hands MP :D

Yup, the park's closed now except week-ends..... ;)

No it doesn't work for me either - my foot hurts now though

For those who enjoy an English breakfast, with a twist..

http://www.thomasscott.net/iron/



A slip of the tongue is worth two in the bush:

* On a bottle of single-malt whiskey, "I have
a twelve year old upstairs and I am ready
to party."

* A mum on selecting corn on the cob from a
supermarket "I always peel back the skin
to see how fresh they are."

I'm constantly surprised by the number of "before they were famous" type pictures that turn up of famous footballers.

Just picked up some old Ajax programmes from Ebay and leafing through Ajax-Go Ahead Eagles from '93-'94 there's a picture of one big eared kid in his Ajax shirt as mascot for the Ajax - Volendam game.....yes, the future Mr Plug himself Johnny Heitinga.

In the same picture Danny Blind seems to be getting in front of van der Sar, with his hands in the air practising his goalkeeping skills - a talent lost or have I had one too many?!

I can't find a "Champions League 2005/2006" thread so I'll post it here :

Karel Poborsky has been lent to a 2nd Division club due to problems with Sparta's head coach

Good news for us I guess.

Just a random remark (like you care) :

I just realized I haven't checked www.ajax.nl for like 6 months. So I just checked ten minutes ago, and it always sucks.

With Ajax USA and these boards nothing interesting there for me....

No links in the the signatures says the mods, doesn't make the Limecat more pleased.

:D :xyxthumbs:

And no pictures too dammit! :furious3: ;)

I've been watching all the episodes of 'Lost' the last few days, and man that show is great! I've never been this fascinated with a TV-show before. So many details, never boring for a second. Can't wait to see the next episode.

Anyone else following the gang on the island?

I have to put my hands up to watching Lost. Yes it is good for an American Series.

Separated at birth:

Dirk Kuijt:


and Ralph Macchio's enemy from The Karate Kid:



You decide...

LOST. Sounds eerily like my drive across Canada last month.Good show..for American tv.

I need to share this:

After six months of total fucking agony and disbelief.....I got a job!!!!!!!!

I am soooooo happy that you can't believe it.

if anyone would be remotly interested, here it is: www.northstream.se

Have a great weekend!

Time for someone to buy: :bier: :bier: :bier: :bier: :bier: :bier:

Congrats!

Per schreef:I need to share this:

After six months of total fucking agony and disbelief.....I got a job!!!!!!!!

I am soooooo happy that you can't believe it.

if anyone would be remotly interested, here it is: www.northstream.se

Have a great weekend!

Almost synchro mate !! I got mine a week ago :)

Congratulations Per :xyxthumbs: . I did look at the link. "To the White Paper Archive" - It sounds like a line from Batman :D

Congrats bro... and enjoy :xyxthumbs: