
Isn’t Harrison Ford still the man ?

Isn’t Harrison Ford still the man ?
From slashdot.org
“According to a CNet article, an incredible one in three people aged 16 to 24 in the UK would not give up their mobile phone for a million pounds. ‘The phone-centric survey, called Mobile Life, was carried out across the UK and questioned 1,256 people aged 16 to 64 on a variety of topics … So young people really like having a mobile phone and we all love buying gadgets. But before you dismiss this research as stating the bleeding obvious, think about this — if someone had told you even ten years ago that people would be taking out second mortgages to buy flat screen TVs, would you have believed it?’ Is this just the result of deliberately skewed marketing dressed up as research, or is this another indication of western culture’s obsession with communication and technology? How much is too much tech?”

From bbc.co.uk
Scientists in Chile are investigating the sudden disappearance of a glacial lake in the south of the country.
But last month they found a huge dry crater and several stranded chunks of ice that used to float on the water.В One theory is that an earthquake opened up a fissure in the ground, allowing the lake’s water to drain through.
“In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,” Juan Jose Romero from Chile’s National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said.В “We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.”
A glacier specialist, Andres Rivera, told Chilean newspaper La Tercera that the lake’s disappearance seemed to be part of the continual reforming of the landscape.


