Where in Missouri?

The New Madrid fault.

We discussed this last year in the Seismology topic, as I recall. It actually changed the course of Mississippi River!

Why do dogs sometimes turn around several times before taking a nap? Domesticated dogs, being descendants of wild dogs, still retain some of a wild dog's instincts. Wild dogs typically live in the forest or in the brush, and often have to trample down grass and weeds to make a comforatable place to lie down. They do this by walking around and around in tight circles. It is speculated remnants of this instinct account for a domesticated dog's tendency to turn around a few times before taking a nap.

WHERE AND WHEN WAS THE FIRST RECORDED BASEBALL GAME? On June 19, 1846, at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, the New York Club beat the Knickerbockers, 23-1. On that date, another baseball tradition began: The New York Club pitcher, James Whyte Davis, was fines 6 cents for swearing at the umpire.

WHAT ARE THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST ELEVATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES? The highest elevation is Mount McKinley, Alaska, at 20,320 feet. The lowest is Death Valley, California, at 282 feet below sea level. The average elevation of the United States is 2,500 feet. IF THE FEMALE SIDE OF A FAMILY IS CALLED THE DISTAFF SIDE, WHAT IS THE MALE SIDE? The spear side. A distaff was a stick with a cleft end, used to hold the flax or wool from which a woman spun thread. The distaff was considered a woman's tool, while the spear was a man's. Both ways of describing genealogy are now rarely used.

Why do geese fly in a "V" formation? I know that answer because I talked with some geese one day - as they were chasing and hissing at me in my Dad's backyard. Seriously, who knows, but there are two theories as to why they do it. The first theory speculates the "V" formation allows each bird to take maximum advantage of disturbances in the air created by the flap of the bird in front. These disturbances are generated in an inverted "V" pattern very similar to the formation flown by the geese. The second theory speculates because the bird's eyes are located on the sides of their heads, the "V" formation provides each bird with the best simultaneous view of the flock leader and the direction of the group's flight. You can decide for yourself or make up your own theory.

Have you ever tried to ask the local geese? Are they called "Nene"?

Never asked the Nene, but I sneaked them an oatmeal cookie (very much disapproved by both me and the park service.) They do not fly far enough (do not migrate) to fly in a V, but they are always in pairs.

HOW MANY TYPES OF CLOUDS ARE THERE? There are 10: cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus, cumulonimbus. Each of these clouds has a different shape and internal structure. HOW FAST IS THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT? The plates (solid segments of the earth's crust and upper mantle) that consist mostly of continents move at an average speed of about 2 centimeters per year. Europe and North America are moving apart at about this speed. The plates that are mostly under the oceans move faster, at an average speed of about 10 centimeters per year. It has been 200 million years since the original supercontinent, Pangaea, broke up into the continents we know today.

IF THE MOON PASSES BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE SUN EVERY MONTH, WHY DOESN'T IT ECLIPSE THE SUN? The orbit of the moon around the earth is tilted at an angle of about 6 degrees from the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. As a result, the moon is usually above or below the line between the earth and the sun - except on certain predictable occasions.

Why are ships referred to as "she?" Many moons ago - that means a long time ago, new sailing ships were dedicated to a goddess who allegedly protected the ship. This goddess would allegedly guide the ship safely to its destination. An image of the goddess was typically carved on the ship's bow, and this carved image led to the ships being referred to as "she."

Why are stop signs red? While the color yellow is the most visible color in the color spectrum, the color red is the most exciting. The color red elevates the blood pressure, increases a person's pulse rate, and heightens the nervous system and tension. This makes the color red the most likely to attract human attention, which is what a person would want in a stop sign.

interesting!

I thought so, and could not think of anyplace else for these little bits of information...so they go here. Were we not talking about this just the other day, Wolfie??

Happy First Birthday, Geo My thoughts and thanks to the man to was so sure I could handle this conference when I was so sure I could not. With infinite patience he held my hand and corrected my errors as I made them. Geo would not have existed without him. I hope he is as happy with my efforts and results as I am. It has been quite a year! Thanks, also, to those who lurk and comment to me privately. I appreciate your thoughts and interest. To those who actually login and participate, my undying gratitude. Without you this would have been the most boring monologue in cyber space. Please continue to post - I will try to keep it interesting! MAHALO NUI LOA

Why did I put this on topic 1? It was the first thing I ever created all by myself here. What a feeling!

this is great!!!!!!! am so proud of you! *HUGS*

Thanks, Wolfie!!! *Big Warm and Fuzzy Hugs*

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY GEO! Thank you Marcia for all the work you do. Geo looks wonderful.

Thanks Cheryl - you helped too! Many thanks for continuing to find it interesting. It has been the most rewarding thing I have ever done outside of raising an incredible son. In this case the birthing pains lasted longer with Geo, but it was entirely worth it!

Happy First Birthday Geo!! Time flies, eh? Congratulations, Marcia! Thanks for creating such an interesting conference!

Wow!!! Thanks Ginny! I consider that high praise, indeed. I know you know about these things and can evaluate what I am doing. Humble gratitude to you! Other than David, Geo has given me the greatest sense of satisfaction. The first 6 months were the hardest. I had to block and tackle some of the posters in the early days...and there are still some who think Geo is forbiddingly intellectual. Riiiiiiight!!! Oh well...

Hey, I shoulda thrown a baby luau like they do here... Virtual Victuals could do the catering. Or the local cyber cafe, Bytes and Bites... Probably just as well I didn't. Poi in the keyboard is something you don't want to contemplate!

Poi in the keyboard? Ech!! :-) Bad enough when people spill coffee on keyboards! (And there's a few crumbs in my keyboard at work, I'm sure...) I've learned a lot by reading Geo, as well as having a lot of laughs. I was always into astronomy and cosmology, but I have a lot to learn about geology. I didn't know anything about volcanos before I met you and David. (And as far as web pages, I only know basic HTML...you've seen my web page!) Anyway, there's always something new to learn...that's what makes life interesting!!

Got that right, Ginny! Hope you are watching the Tall Ships Parade in Boston today as I am (The History Channel is carrying it alive) - hoow glorious the day and how magestic the ships! I have a spill guard vinyl cover on my keys to keep them clean inbetween. It is very easy to become accustomed to, and saves s lot of grief! But poi? Yeesh!

3/4 of the Earth's surface is water....and only 1/4 is land.... The Good Lord's intentions were very clear. A man's time should be divided accordingly. 3/4 for fishing 1/4 for work

What color exactly is poi? Heck, what exactly is poi?

Poi is a leaden greyish purple translucent glutinous starchy substance obtained by cooking the taro root - a corm - then pounding it into a pasty consistency adding water and straining out the fibrous masses as you go. Eventually a uniform consistency is obtained and kept......more next posting

kept twor three days unrefrigerated as it gets more tart and fruity and totally delicious. Fresh is almost tasteless. Anyone hungry?

no, grossed out, yes. sounds really gross, marcia, i'm sorry. what do you do with it once you pound the pulp out of it?

you strain it through cheese cloth and put it in something like a bowl and gradually thin it with water

wolfie - it is soo good when it is ripe and tangy with little white mold on it which you beat into the mix and eat with Laulau and lomilomi salmon! So Ono! (I think it is an acquired taste.)

Cheryl was so grossed out she did not even post a comment. That'll teach you to ask about Hawaiian delicacies. How about raw crab or sea urchin???

It does sound rather like an acquired taste, but I'd probably try it, as long as it doesn't look like ocra. It certainly wouldn't be the strangest thing I've ever tried!! I draw the line at raw fish or meat, though.

Raw fish is wonderful.....funny you should ask... I'm with you on the okra.

Ginny, when you next visit (iki will be here in October!) I will make sure you get the best tasting poi available and let you report back on the state of the staple.

I think I've recovered. Actually, the mold isn't all that gross when you think about it. I eat cheese, which is basically milk which has gone bad. People pay a lot of money for cheeses such as Roquefort and Stilton, which are full of mold. Does the poi start to ferment, which is what gives it the fruity quality? Anyway, I thought an Hawaiian delicacy was Spam. The thought of raw sea urchin is gross, however. Raw sea urchin is for sea otters. Once at a Japanese restaurant I got a whiff of someone else's sea urchin soup. In a word, disgusting. It smelled as though it should have been in the tampon box in the ladies' room. I'm sorry, but that is the most apt desription for the smell.

Yes......gotcha on the sea urchin..do not indulge in any bottom feeders raw. Penecillin is mold, also. It is pure white mold which gives poi its fruity flavor. Ever think of wine? Noble Rot, they call it.

Noble Rot. Yes, the great sweet wines of Sauternes and the Rhine owe their characteristics and longevity to it. Penecillin is also found in the famous ewe's milk cheese Roquefort.

I wonder if wine and cheese parties are ever gonna be the same for our readers

Maybe not. Then again, people who read the Geo conference are tough. They can take it.

Rough, tough creampuffs!

Wow!! Is that good or not??? Yup, Geologist know how to get down and dirty when necessary...and how to remain ladies at all times (or most all time, anyway)

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE SAHARA DESERT IS COVERED BY SAND? About 20 percent - the rest is comprised of barren rocks, rocky plateaus and gravel-covered plains. WHAT IS THE LOWEST BODY OF WATER ON THE EARTH? The Dead Sea. At its lowest point, it's 1,315 feet below sea level.

I love the phrase "rough, tough creampuffs". Did you know it is impossible to get sunburn at the level of the Dead Sea? It is. It has something to do with the density of the athmosphere, I think.

I heard something about the Chandler Wobble today. It seems that as the Earth rotates, it also wobbles on its axis. If you could insert a large rod into the North Pole, you'd notice the rod making a circle of 20 miles in diameter. The Chandler Wobble was first noticed in 1891 and since then no one is quite sure why the Earth does this. There is now a new theory claiming the wobble is due to the displacement of vast amounts of water traveling through the world's oceans, such as currents and tides. It seems large amounts of seawater are being pounded into the Earth's crust, which in turn causes the Earth to wobble as it rotates.

I love the phrase "rough, tough creampuffs". Did you know it is impossible to get sunburn at the level of the Dead Sea? It is. It has something to do with the density of the athmosphere, I think.

Hmmmmmm.....interesting theory!

Greetings from where the rocks are other than igneous

Are you in California now? Say hello to the sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. If they answer -- run like hell.

Yes, I am midst the alien flora and fauna of the State of California - which is an altered state in all meanings of the word... Hoping the rocks don't talk to me, and I promise to run for cover if they do.

California is reputed to be an alternate reality. They rocks haven't started speaking yet, have they?

Funny you should ask. I have a sack of volcanic rocks from Long Valley Caldera whihc speak volumes (but you gotta buy the book to understand it.) Great whopping hunks of Obsidian and other volcanic origin as well as a great piece of Granite from the current peaks of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The people, however, as still very far out and seem to be on another planet. Definitely "Beam me up, Scotty" time here!

From Frank in Pennsylvania There has been some weird news in PA lately. In one of the towns that used to be a coal-mining community a hole opened in the middle of a downtown street. Its surface dimensions were about the size of a car, but the bottom didn't show. They dumped 300 tons of rock down the hole, but the rocks all disappeared! Last I heard, they were drilling exploratory holes all around the area to try to find out what is (and isn't) down there. Of course they assume that there was some sort of settling or cave-in of an old mine under the town.

I've heard of bottomless pits.

Read a book once where rocks were swallowed up in a bottomless pit. I mean literally swallowed - sounds like something the same here! How strange.

are there any in the US?

My Mom used to live in a renovated old house over a coal mine. Despite the renovation work the kitchen floor slanted, if you spilled anything you'd have to run to catch it. Mom has since moved. As far as I know, the house is still standing in one piece. Still, the thought of something that deep under the town is frigtening.

There are reports (Art Bell, if you believe his stuff)of bottomless pits in Oregon.

All you geophiles out there, please note that my AOL IM login name is now changed to Kilauea83A. Please add me to your list just in case you need to get in touch with me. When I transferred the information to this new big computer I managed to forget the old login password. Alas, I had to change it.

Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it is darker and absorbs mroe heat. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. Signals on your telphone travel 100,000 miles per second. An elephant is not afraid of a mouse.

that peanuts thing could explain spontaneous human combustion!

The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging. The bat is the only mammal that can fly. Sharks are the only fish that can blink both eyes.

*lol* Wolfie, what peanuts do to my son is unmentionable and objectionable in asocial setting. Pass the Beano!

Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake entirely in the USA. Nepal is the only country in the world which does not have a rectangular flag - it has two triangular pennants, one on top of the other. The great horned owl is the only animal that will eat a skunk. The kiwi is the only bird that has nostrils at the end of its bill.

WHAT IS A QUASAR? It is another name for a quasi-stellar object. It looks like a star but emits as much radiation as an entire galaxy, with a volume far smaller than that of our Milky Way galaxy. No one knows what quasar is; recent evidence suggests it might be a galaxy with a big black hole at the center. WHAT MAKES LAVA LAMPS WORK? The colored stuff is an oil-based mixture that gets more liquidy as the water around it warms up; it moves because of convection currents. Oil and water do not mix, but the homogenize, which is why you should never shake a lava lamp. Lava lites were invented by Craven Walker in England and presented in 1965. They were marketed in America by Adolf Wertheimer.

Lava lites were invented by Craven Walker in England and presented in 1965. Posted presumably to commemorate the death of Edward Craven Walker last week aged 82.

Thanks for that update, Mark. I had no idea, and if they were not still so expensive for a night light, I would have added to his bank account long ago! We Have a real Lava Lamp here but it is atop a mountain and gets out of control from time to time. Better where it is, I think! How is cricket season going??

Fine, thank you. About a month left. Keep posting your unusual facts, Marcia. Always well worth a read.

Thanks, Mark. I still smile when I think of the Saga of the Cricket Ball... Did you get snowed on? Imagine snow in England (4-6") in August...!!!

More trivial stuff to make your day: Your brain is aproximately 80% water. Your feet perspire approximately one-half of a pint of water per day. Here in Houston my feet perspire a whole pint, but that's more information than you wanted to know beside it being damned hot here in Houston. William Moulton Marston was the creator of Wonder Woman. He also invented the polygraph. Flamingos can only eat when their heads are upside down. Abraham Lincoln died in a bed slept in by his assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Chinese celebrate their birthdays only once every ten years.

Wow, I must really be out of the loop. Are you in Houston, Marcia? If you are, the place has a rotten climate, doesn't it? Okay, that's my opinion.

Nope, still in Hilo, Hawaii with my Volcano, Kilauea. Honey, when you wander out of the loop I wil personally pull you back in... Will you do the same for me? I do wander sometimes!

Oh, I am pseting those comments from someone else. My personal feet do not do that...

A toad has no teeth. There are more chickens than people in the world. Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons. Eli Whitney made more money as a gun manufacturer than he did form the cotton gin. The roller coaster was invented in the 17th century in Russia.

From the Trivia guy: There are more sweat glands on the soles of your feet than on any other part of your body, which is kinda why I mentioned sweaty feet earlier in this week's trivia. Speaking of feet, did you know African elephants stay on their feet for 35 to 40 years? According to Goodyear, who allegedly spent 10 years researching this, a person's right shoe will wear out faster than your left shoe. An average person takes 18,000 steps per day. In your average lifetime, you will walk the equivalent of three times around the world. I'm tired just thinking about it. George Washington had a size 13 foot. Robert E. Lee had a size 4.5 foot.

Marcia, you are a wealth of wonderful knowlege. I will pull you back in the loop it you wander out of it, as well. I think I read somewhere that there are 3 sheep for every person in New Zealand. Which brings up a story concerning my aunt's and uncle's vacation to New Zealand several years ago. They were sitting in the hotel's bar, having just started up a conversation with another American. This man had just returned from climbing the highest point in New Zealand. He said when he got up there, he found another climber, an Australian, who said to him, "Did you come up here to get away from the sheep, too? The little woolly bastards are everywhere." It sounds like a comedy sketch line, but my aunt and uncle swear this is what the American climber told them.

That is Hilarious!!! Thanks for sharing! I heard the sheep outnumbered us 10 to one in New Zealand.

They've been breeding furiously it would seem.

It is about the only thing to do in that beautiful country other than browse the ground. Feeling a little sheepish? Visit New Zealand!

You might consider sending that slogan to the New Zealand tourist board.

Too funny! I wonder how their sense of humor is these days about those sheep. I have heard curious things about human - sheep relations. Perhaps it is best to keep a safe distance from the subject considering this Island occupies a place in the same ocean that EnZed does...

Very true.

A hummingbird can not stand on its feet as they are not strong enough to hold them up on a flat surface. Your feet swell during the day and can become 10 percent bigger at the end of the day than they were when you woke up this morning. City Ordinance #352 in Pacific Grove, California (USA) makes it illegal, actually a misdemeanor, to kill or threaten to kill a butterfly. The most popular name for a male cat is Tiger. The state flower of Alaska is a forget-me-not.

HOW MANY TIMES DOES THE AVERAGE HUMAN HEART BEAT? About 100,000 -to pump 5 quarts of blood every minute. WHAT GEM SERVED AS CLEOPATRA'S SIGNET? The amethyst. She believed it had magical powers.

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ooh nasty! Did you see/hear it Marcia?

Only on my public utilities Scanner radio. We did not know about it till the fire rescue units were involved. Had I been monitoring the bands as I usually do, I wold have heard the entire thing. As far as I know, at this hour they still have not recovered the missing person.

Mt. Etna is erupting. Watch it happen: http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gerhard/cam_etna.html

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Bollide in daytime picked up by weather satellites:

That truly belongs in geo 24 so I will post it there later when I post the entire story of that particular image.

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on Earth." --Will Rogers

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." --John Ciardi "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me." --Woody Allen "In the hands of a teenager, a seat belt buckle is a lethal weapon." --National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Official on why there are no seatbelts on public school buses "Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening....The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role." --U.S. Commissioner of Education William Harris, 1889 "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." --Mark Twain

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