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"Magma may be one of the oddest possible combinations ever imagined. Coming together in 1969 through a concept developed by drummer/leader Christian Vander, Magma functioned as a blend of jazz (particularly Coltrane), rock, classical (particularly
German composer Carl Orff and sometimes Wagner), the group was active throughout the 1970's.""Magma may be one of the oddest possible combinations ever imagined. Coming... more
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"MANILA, Philippines – Authorities moved thousands of villagers from harm's way near the Philippines' most active volcano Tuesday after it oozed lava and shot plumes of ash, and said they probably will spend a bleak Christmas in an evacuation center.
State volcanologists raised the alert level on the cone-shaped, 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) Mayon volcano overnight to two steps below eruption after ash explosions and dark orange lava fragments glowing in the dark trickled down the mountain slope.
Nearly 50,000 people live in a five-mile (eight-kilometer) radius around the mountain, and authorities began moving thousands of them in case it erupts, Albay provincial Gov. Joey Salceda said.
The first of 20 vehicles, including army trucks, were sent to villages to take residents to schools and other temporary housing, provincial emergency management official Jukes Nunez said."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091215/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_volcano"MANILA, Philippines – Authorities moved thousands of villagers from... more
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A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could supply magma to three active volcanoes in the Cascade Mountains -- Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams -- according to a new study that's causing a stir among scientists.
The study, published Sunday in the magazine Nature Geoscience, concluded that the magma pool among the three mountains could be the "most widespread magma-bearing area of continental crust discovered so far."
Other scientists dismiss the existence of an underground vat of magma covering potentially hundreds of square miles as "farfetched" and "highly unlikely." Rather than magma heated to 1,300 to 1,400 degrees, some think it could be water.
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Want access to pretty much every video the Internet's buzzing about (plus the obscure stuff)? Then a new, spiffy aggregator called mag.ma might be your new favorite site!Want access to pretty much every video the Internet's buzzing about (plus the... more
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Are you a member of a band and wish you could turn one of your songs into a Rock Band song? Well, Harmonix has your big break waiting for you. They are introducing the Rock Band Network, a collection of tools to allow you to create your own tracks. These tools are not for amateurs however, they are for serious artists who want to get their content into Rock back and of course make some money. Read the full walkthrough after the break. To get your song into the upcoming Rock Band Network Store, there are 4 main steps you will needs to complete. The first and most important is creating the track. This is a very time-consuming process for first time users (estimated at 20-40 hours for the first song). Also, Harmonix has partnered with Reaper to create a Rock Band-compatible plug-in to allow users to create Rock Band tracks. This is the same type of software they use at Harmonix.
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New video aggregation service that makes YouTube look uglier than ever, and gives anyone interested in the popularity of videos from all over the web a nice snapshot and interface.New video aggregation service that makes YouTube look uglier than ever, and gives... more
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Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal energy field in Hawaii, a lucky break for geologists that could allow them to map the geological plumbing that created everything we know as land.
The unprecedented discovery could act as a "magma observatory," allowing scientists to test their theories about how processes transformed the molten rock below Earth's surface into the rocky crust that humans live on today.
"This is like Jurassic Park for magmatic systems," said Bruce Marsh, a geologist at Johns Hopkins University. "You can go to museums and see dinosaur skeletons. But if a paleontologist could see a dinosaur frolicking in the open countryside, it would be absolutely spellbinding. And this is what it is for me to see this thing in in its natural habitat."Drillers accidentally hit a pocket of molten rock underneath a working geothermal... more
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Wow! I find this amazing ... could this be an opportunity to exploit a new form of energy hitherto impossible to harness??Wow! I find this amazing ... could this be an opportunity to exploit a new form of... more
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