OT: This is POWER !!

[sanjuro_ronin]

http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/28/most-powerful-things-business-power08_0128_powerful_slide_2.html?partner=canoe

[xcakid]

Well that is taking self defense to a whole new level

[sanjuro_ronin]

Especially the Hydrogen Bomb !!

Of course the hot pepper would probably be more dangerous in the long run !

[sanjuro_ronin]

Also:


Scientists uncover fossils of bus-sized snake
'Could easily eat something the size of a cow'
By MALCOLM RITTER - AP Science Writer



Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 feet or longer, reaching an estimated 1.27 tons. (AP/University of Florida)

NEW YORK (AP) — Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie “Anaconda.” Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world.

Fossils from northeastern Colombia reveal the biggest snake ever discovered: a behemoth that stretched 42 to 45 feet long, reaching more than 2,500 pounds.

“This thing weighs more than a bison and is longer than a city bus,” enthused snake expert Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who was familiar with the find.

“It could easily eat something the size of a cow. A human would just be toast immediately.”

“If it tried to enter my office to eat me, it would have a hard time squeezing through the door,” reckoned paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto Missisauga.

Actually, the beast probably munched on ancient relatives of crocodiles in its rainforest home some 58 million to 60 million years ago, he said.


Head is senior author of a report on the find in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

The discoverers of the snake named it Titanoboa cerrejonensis (“ty-TAN-o-BO-ah sare-ah-HONE-en-siss“). That means “titanic boa from Cerrejon,” the region where it was found.

While related to modern boa constrictors, it behaved more like an anaconda and spent almost all its time in the water, Head said. It could slither on land as well as swim.

Conrad, who wasn’t involved in the discovery, called the find “just unbelievable.... It mocks your preconceptions about how big a snake can get.”

Titanoboa breaks the record for snake length by about 11 feet, surpassing a creature that lived about 40 million years ago in Egypt, Head said. Among living snake species, the record holder is an individual python measured at about 30 feet long, which is some 12 to 15 feet shorter than typical Titanoboas, said study co-author Jonathan Bloch.

The beast was revealed in early 2007 at the University of Florida’s Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Bones collected at a huge open-pit coal mine in Colombia were being unpacked, said Bloch, the museum’s curator of vertebrate paleontology.

Graduate students unwrapping the fossils “realized they were looking at the bones of a snake. Not only a snake, but a really big snake.”

So they quickly consulted the skeleton of a 17-foot anaconda for comparison. A backbone from that creature is about the size of a silver dollar, Bloch said, while a backbone from Titanoboa is “the size of a large Florida grapefruit.”

So far the scientists have found about 180 fossils of backbone and ribs that came from about two dozen individual snakes, and now they hope to go back to Colombia to find parts of the skull, Bloch said.

Titanoboa’s size gives clues about its environment. A snake’s size is related to how warm its environment is. The fossils suggest equatorial temperatures in its day were significantly warmer than they are now, during a time when the world as a whole was warmer. So equatorial temperatures apparently rose along with the global levels, in contrast to the competing hypothesis that they would not go up much, Head noted.

“It’s a leap” to apply the conditions of the past to modern climate change, Head said. But given that, the finding still has “some potentially scary implications for what we’re doing to the climate today,” he said.

The finding suggest the equatorial regions will warm up along with the planet, he said.

“We won’t have giant snakes, however, because we are removing most of their habitats by development and deforestation” in equatorial regions, he said.





Ah... the schlong jokes are just around the corner !

[Reverend Tap]

The world's most powerful poison is Botox??

I knew getting it is a stupid idea, but that's profoundly distressing.

[sanjuro_ronin]

The world's most powerful poison is Botox??

I knew getting it is a stupid idea, but that's profoundly distressing.

Most Powerful Poison

Botulinum toxin

Lethal dose: .000001 milograms/kilograms
Source: Spores from the Clostridium Botulinum bacterium
Poison control: While the spores that cause the toxin are heat-resistant, the toxin itself can be eliminated by heat.
Medical use: Fights wrinkles and scars: Botox, Dysport and Myobloc. Also used as a biological warfare agent.
Just how powerful is it? One gram of Botulinum toxin could kill 1 million people.

[David Jamieson]

what kills me is that Forbes can't get or won't get a web developer who knows flash or at least AJAX so the whole page doesn't have to refresh when you get a new pic.

That's pretty weak for a mag that's about riches and such. lol

[Oso]

what kills me is that Forbes can't get or won't get a web developer who knows flash or at least AJAX so the whole page doesn't have to refresh when you get a new pic.

That's pretty weak for a mag that's about riches and such. lol

lol, i notice the complete refresh but thanks for the details...

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

yes, but is it real ultimate power?

[Reverend Tap]

yes, but is it real ultimate power?

I didn't see frisbee seppuku mentioned as "most powerful form of suicide," so I'm guessing not.

[wetwonder]

This is the first I've heard about the prehistoric snake.
Very cool, thanks. Being that heavy, it would definitely need to live in the water to get that body around.

[Yum Cha]

what kills me is that Forbes can't get or won't get a web developer who knows flash or at least AJAX so the whole page doesn't have to refresh when you get a new pic.

That's pretty weak for a mag that's about riches and such. lol


And how did Forbes Mag get rich? Advertising!

Each page has a banner ad, small tile and a nice medium rectangle.

Each page is a full refresh, so 3 more ads, times what, 7x?

21 nice ad impressions, sold at 25-50 dollars per thousand (CPM).

The main story had even more, so by reading that story, you probably earned Forbes a total of a dollar plus.

11 people read this thread, perhaps not everybody visited, but you could say Sanjuro just helped out Forbes to the tune of at least ten bucks...maybe $20, Forbes is probably expensive to advertise in.

Flash would have just generated one page impression of 3 ads, not 21.

Cumbersome, slow, aggravating, but profitable.... Not unlike your common SUV.

[David Jamieson]

And how did Forbes Mag get rich? Advertising!

Each page has a banner ad, small tile and a nice medium rectangle.

Each page is a full refresh, so 3 more ads, times what, 7x?

21 nice ad impressions, sold at 25-50 dollars per thousand (CPM).

The main story had even more, so by reading that story, you probably earned Forbes a total of a dollar plus.

11 people read this thread, perhaps not everybody visited, but you could say Sanjuro just helped out Forbes to the tune of at least ten bucks...maybe $20, Forbes is probably expensive to advertise in.

Flash would have just generated one page impression of 3 ads, not 21.

Cumbersome, slow, aggravating, but profitable.... Not unlike your common SUV.

you don't use flash do you. lol

flash can be run vis a vis a back end running xml.
the page can rotate any banners via ajax and any flash can run off a main hub and can also be controlled by ajax.

the technology is considerably advanced and would not be cumbersome at all. in fact, you could load anything faster, cleaner and with more specific content.

my commentary was pointing out that they should move forward with the technology at hand and they could even improve their profits.

what they have is a clunky site that if they hang onto it will have them appear more and more misanthropic and less and less relevant as tehy don't turn and face the change. :-)

[Yum Cha]

you don't use flash do you. lol

flash can be run vis a vis a back end running xml.
the page can rotate any banners via ajax and any flash can run off a main hub and can also be controlled by ajax.

the technology is considerably advanced and would not be cumbersome at all. in fact, you could load anything faster, cleaner and with more specific content.

my commentary was pointing out that they should move forward with the technology at hand and they could even improve their profits.

what they have is a clunky site that if they hang onto it will have them appear more and more misanthropic and less and less relevant as tehy don't turn and face the change. :-)

Well, we agree the site sux I take your point about technology, but I reckon I'm right about the motivation $$$. Correct me if I'm wrong, Oh mighty flash geek from Canuckistan, isn't revenue is based on page impressions and share of voice, not number of ads served per page, at least currently. Its all about verification, you need to an audit trail. Or?

Ad server tags cannot be included within a flash app, so, in order to serve more ads on the ticket, you need to serve more pages. Theoretically, your statement is correct, but I believe, its simply not the way its done if you are selling your space on the open market.

(Can't you just hear the rest of the board saying STFU fukkin geeks!) lololol....

[Hardwork108]

http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/28/most-powerful-things-business-power08_0128_powerful_slide_2.html?partner=canoe

This a kind of power that the human race can do without.:mad: