• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    the end of man may very well be embedded in one of those 2800 one-meter long popsicles.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    12 days ago

    Hey, I’ve seen this one.

    A prehistoric virus is gonna infect someone with coldness until a plucky US-Marshall-turned-sherrif saves the day with his science-mined friends and colleagues.

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    11 days ago

    How do you pull out a 2.8 km core? Surely it gets cut into chunks on the way out?

    Edit: yeah, they cut it into 1 meter lengths as it comes out. so this will be 280 pieces.

    Each meter of ice can contain as many as 13,000 years of climate data, said Julien Westhoff, chief scientist