<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Myth Busters - No Firearm Penetrates 14-inches of Water : RSS 2.0</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><webMaster>plime.com</webMaster><copyright>2008, plime.com.</copyright><lastBuildDate></lastBuildDate><pubDate></pubDate><generator>Plime/1</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><image><title>Myth Busters - No Firearm Penetrates 14-inches of Water : RSS 2.0</title><url>http://www.plime.com/images/logo.gif</url><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link></image><item><title><![CDATA[Myth Busters - No Firearm Penetrates 14-inches of Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[It has been proven that no firearm can penetrate 14 inches of water, not even the magnum .50 cal sniper rifle with steel-jacketed bullets, so this means that if you want to be safe from any bullet just stay under 14 inches of water in a river or lake.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61910/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61910/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Bottled Water - Where Does That Water Come From?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The economic value of &quot;special water&quot; was first cultivated in Europe during the late 1700s when people began visiting natural springs to drink the water or bathe in it.   Then in 1767, Jackson's spa in Boston began bottling their water.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18275/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18275/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[9 Great Reasons to Drink Water, and How to Form the Water Habit]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it's not a habit that many people form.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26399/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26399/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The teenage girl who is allergic to WATER]]></title><description><![CDATA[Teenager Ashleigh Morris can't go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower after a stressful day's work - she's allergic to water. Even sweating brings the 19-year-old out in a painful rash. Ashleigh, from Melbourne, Australia, is allergic to water of any temperature, a condition she's lived with since she was 14.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52340/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/52340/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[5 Really Weird Things About Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water, good ol' H2O, seems like a pretty simple substance to you and me. But in reality, water - the foundation of life and most common of liquid - is really weird and scientists actually don't completely understand how water works.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73577/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/73577/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation-There's Something in the Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[V Water - there's something in the water . A wicked animation advertisement for water.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32390/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/32390/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Anti-Bottled-Water Bottled Water Company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tap&#8217;dNY is honest-to-goodness New York City tap water. It doesn&#8217;t come from French springs, Arctic glaciers, tropical islands, or Alpine peaks. It&#8217;s NYC tap water, just like Mom used to serve.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/74655/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/74655/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Discovered in Moon Samples]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water has been found conclusively for the first time inside ancient moon samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. The discovery may force scientists to rethink the lunar past and future, although uncertainty remains about how much water exists and whether future explorers could extract it.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68243/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68243/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Do You Really Need 8 Glasses Of Water Per Day?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We have all been bombarded with orders to drink more water every day or we could become dehydrated and if we don&#8217;t, oh no please help us, something terrible is going to happen, like we&#8217;re going to shrivel up and die.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19389/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19389/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Time I Lost Control of My Bowels On the Water Slide]]></title><description><![CDATA[(hilarious craigslist entry)<br/>Our local water park is opening this weekend, so I'm posting in honor of this small town's most exciting annual event.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19095/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19095/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[For once Justice wins in compensation case over fly in water bottle. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Martin Mustapha found a dead fly in a water dispenser bottle in 2001 and brought a $300,000 suit against the suppliers.  At appeal, Mustapha, who never drank any of the water, didn't get the result he was after.  Not by a long chalk.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62827/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62827/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Weird water: Discovery challenges long-held beliefs about water's special properties]]></title><description><![CDATA[Scientists have long marveled over counter-intuitive properties that set water apart from other solids and liquids commonly found in nature. That is why Pablo Debenedetti and collaborators were surprised to find a highly simplified model molecule that behaves in much the same way as water, a discovery that upends long-held beliefs about what makes water so special.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48855/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48855/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Extracting water from thin air]]></title><description><![CDATA[It costs $30 per gallon to get water to U.S. soldiers in arid areas, so having a water extraction plant would be a big help. A small company has figured out how to extract water from the air, even at humidity levels as low as 14%, for 30 cents per gallon. DARPA is very interested.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/2426/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/2426/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Bridge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a Google satellite image from near Magdeburg, Germany. It shows a water bridge crossing the Elbe River. Actually, it is a canal crossing the river on a bridge. Here's a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/waterbridge.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ground-level photo</a>.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30639/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30639/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[If  Water Runs Downhill Than Why Do Rivers Meander?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Water runs downhill&#8212;we all know that. As a rule, it follows the path of steepest descent, seeking out the shortest and fastest route from top to bottom. So how can we make sense of meandering rivers, which wiggle-waggle down the valley, prolonging their journey to the sea and greatly lengthening their course? Why doesn't the flowing water&#8212;acting under the tug of gravity&#8212;just carve out a shortcut across all those loops?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3217/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/3217/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[New Japanese bottled water tastes great, looks even better!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hyotan Kara Mizu is a new brand of Japanese mineral water that sets itself apart through its appealing packaging. The reuseable bottles come in 20 different designs and the curvaceous, organic shape is meant to resemble a gourd - the traditional Japanese canteen.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40716/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40716/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Countering an Approaching Water Crisis]]></title><description><![CDATA[As growing demand for clean water stretches even the resources of the world's largest industrialized nations, scientists and engineers are turning to new technology and novel ideas to find solutions.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56124/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56124/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Straw that Doubles as Emergency Water Filter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Contains a special membrane that cleans 99.999999% of contaminates. Cleans 500 liters of water before going bad. <br/><br/>I almost want to get one, go to a local stream, scoop a glass, and take a sip.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52698/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/52698/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Discovered to Flow Like Molasses]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Taoist poet Lao Tse famously wrote that water exemplifies the highest good, benefiting all and flowing easily without effort. While this makes for a lovely metaphor, there's more to H20 than is dreamt of in Lao Tse's philosophies. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found that, at the molecular level, water exhibits viscous, even solid-like properties.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/20106/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/20106/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Fountain Rips Woman&#8217;s Vagina ]]></title><description><![CDATA[19-year-old college student was struck by a powerful burst of water that threw her into the air. The intense water pressure tore her vagina and damaged her intestines w/ photos. Ummm, ouch.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62369/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62369/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Water Sphere Experiments from the International Space Station]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a QuickTime video record of 3 experiments with water in zero gravity.  The most exciting of which is AlkaSeltzer tablets introduced to a floating glob of water.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5354/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5354/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>