World's largest live underwater observatory project launched in Canada Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
"At a time when our understanding of the oceans is clearly becoming more essential than ever, Neptune Canada will play a leadership role in advancing our knowledge of the oceans in ways not previously possible," Dr. David Turpin, UVic president, said in a statement.
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World's Largest Fish Tank Holds Four Whale Sharks Posted: 1 year ago by punthe
If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the "Kuroshio Sea," otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium.
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Largest ever survey of very distant galaxy clusters completed Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the Red-sequence Cluster Survey, "SpARCS" detects galaxy clusters using deep ground-based optical observations from the CTIO 4m and CFHT 3.6m telescopes, combined with Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations.
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'Dinosaur City': World's largest fossil site unearthed in China Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Scientists claim to have uncovered the world's largest haul of dinosaur fossils in China.
They recovered some 7,600 fossils from a 980ft-long pit near Zhucheng city in the eastern province of Shandong in a dig lasting seven months.
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Iran weaves world's largest carpet Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Iranian artist Ali Khaliqi has designed the world's largest, hand-woven carpet.
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Canada 'Officially' A Homosexual Country! Posted: 1 year ago by funkfrost
Canada’s largest anti-gay lobby group, has declared that Canada is “now officially a homosexual country.”
and all it took was a 25 year old aboriginal painting that isn't even about homosexuality. The painting
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The Millennium Seed Bank Project Posted: 8 months ago by bingo
The Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) is the largest ex situ conservation project ever conceived. Its partners will have banked seed from 10% of the world's wild plant species by the end of the decade. These will not be just any plants, but will include the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man...
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Scientists identify world's largest leatherback turtle population Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
An international team of scientists has identified a nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, West Africa as the world's largest.
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Beyond Bird Watching: World’s 5 Largest Telescopes Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Perhaps you own a pair of bird watching binoculars to study all types of winged friends and get a better understanding of how they function everyday. Or maybe you have a telescope set up in your bedroom or on your back porch to get up close and personal with stars in galaxies far away. While these tools provide amazing views to what’s happening around us, imagine having the power of some of the world’s largest telescopes to probe even deeper.
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Canada Bows To P.C. And Fears Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Canada out of political correctness and a fear of being blown up, will allow women or at least people who claim to be women vote while in disguise. Normally, "Every person who comes out to exercise their vote must be clearly identified." Most Canadians will still have to do so. Muslim Women will be given special treatment.
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World's Largest Shrew Discovered Posted: 2 years ago by MandolinOrange
The previously unknown, squirrel-size species is the world's largest known elephant shrew and the only new species from the group to be discovered in more than a century.
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Largest Baseball Bat In The World Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
Without a doubt, this is the world's largest baseball bat, which can be found at the Louisville Slugger Museum, 800 West Main Street, Louisville, KY. It's 120 feet tall and said to be modeled after Babe Ruth's bat.
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In Canada, Milk Comes in Bags Posted: 2 years ago by 2longdogs
This is a site dedicated to milk bags. Canadian milk bags to be more precise. (Dairy milk - not to be confused with breast milk which also come in bags.) Canada is not the only place to have milk bags (You can check that out in the misc. section). However, this site will mainly consist of them, which makes sense since I live in Canada. So don’t go thinking I’m a milk bag racist.
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Man infects pigs in Canada Posted: 7 months ago by makuus
Swine flu has passed from a humans to pigs for the first time in Canada. Apparently eating pork is still fine so us baconphiles are alright...for now
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World's Largest HDTV Debuts At CES 2008 Posted: 2 years ago by punthe
With a viewing area that measures 11 feet by 6 1/4 feet and 8.84 million pixels of resolution, the TV (which has no model number and no date for being commercialized) is regularly thronged by crowds of slack-jawed onlookers, unable to comprehend the thing.
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Two of the largest UFOs ever seen have been observed Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
'I've Never Seen Anything Like It'
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World's largest prehistoric brewery unearthed in Ireland Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
Researchers found evidence of microbreweries across Ireland, which predates the 1759 foundation of the Guinness brewery by several thousand years.
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World's Largest Popcorn Ball Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Those fun loving people in Sac City are at it again. Forty-four volunteers and five staff members of Noble Popcorn Farms built a popcorn ball that weighed 3,100 pounds.
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World's leading protector of the oceans? President Bush Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
The environmental legacy of the Bush administration is a matter of some dispute but by designating three more marine monuments in the Pacific today, George W. Bush has entered the annals of history as the protector of 335,000 square miles of ocean.
*damn, I hate to read good things about this president*
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