Coal toss

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Coal toss

podrock — 8/1/2008 1:42:32 AM (archived)

If I never showed you coal toss while on one of our field trips, I apologise for the glaring lack in my geologic instruction, but it appears you learned the technique anyway. We used to spend hours doing that, picture a dozen or so geologists tossing a hot coal around a campfire....

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A liquid methane and ethane lake on Titan !! - Raoul - 7/30/2008 6:30:46 PM
- Fingers... - nick hoffman - 7/31/2008 4:31:37 PM
  - An insulated, hermetically-sealed spacesuit would be nice. - Jacob - 7/31/2008 9:12:41 PM
    - re: Canoe - nick hoffman - 8/1/2008 3:18:24 AM
      - LOL! (n/t) - Jacob - 8/1/2008 3:32:10 PM
  - "it's a little irresponsible and clearly unscientific to forget to note that you would suffer immediate skin burns and very rapid deep frostbite from immersing human flesh in a cryogenic liquid." - a… - ARRELL - 7/31/2008 5:35:19 PM
    - Coal toss - podrock - 8/1/2008 1:42:32 AM
    - Arrell, Daredevil of Science! - McFly - 7/31/2008 6:57:29 PM
      - Actually.... - ARRELL - 8/1/2008 1:09:43 AM
        
        too late to stop now. what's the story? (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 8/1/2008 4:42:46 AM
        
        I tried to find where I posted it before .... - ARRELL - 8/1/2008 8:49:23 PM
      - ROTFLMAO!!!! - Jacob - 7/31/2008 9:15:50 PM
    - Important postcript for impressionable minds.... - ARRELL - 7/31/2008 5:56:53 PM
- re: methane to ethane - Andrew - 7/31/2008 3:07:41 PM
  - Let's GO SURFIN' NOW!!!!!! - carl - 7/31/2008 4:15:15 PM
- re: A liquid methane and ethane lake on Titan !! - lance - 7/31/2008 7:09:59 AM
  - Liquiid confirmation, yes, but you can exclude a fishing expedition. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob - 7/31/2008 1:47:32 PM
    - Evidence for active methane weather in the observed spin rate drift of Titan - Socrates II - 7/31/2008 11:46:07 PM

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