'80s question #2

What five movies make you think of the '80s? My list:

1) The Breakfast Club
2) Tron
3) The Big Chill
4) Purple Rain
5) Footloose

ROAD TRIP!

(I may have posted this once before- but if any LJ link post deserved a repeat...) Via queencallipygos: You know what Civil War reenactments need? Velociraptors. No, really. (Pictures here.)

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Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed videotape of the seafloor gusher using a technique called particle image velocimetry. A computer program simply tracks particles and calculates how fast they are moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 barrels a day — much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day. The method is accurate to a degree of plus or minus 20 percent.

According to Dr. Jeff Masters, who estimates a spill rate of 95,000 barrels a day: “One footnote to consider when comparing the Deepwater Horizon blowout to the disastrous March 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez spill: the amount of oil spilled in that disaster is usually quoted as 11 million gallons (260,000 barrels.) However, this is the number given by Exxon Mobil, and independent assessments by the State of Alaska came up with a much higher figure--24 to 36 million gallons, with state investigators stressing that the lower number was very unlikely. I'd be inclined to believe Exxon grossly understated the actual severity of the spill, much like BP is attempting to do with the Deepwater Horizon blowout. Steven Wereley, an associate professor at Purdue University, used a computer analysis (particle image velocimetry) to arrive at a rate of 95,000 barrels (4 million gallons) per day since the April 20 blowout, nearly 20 times greater than the 5,000 barrel a day estimate BP and government scientists have been citing. If he is correct, and the State of Alaska's figures on the Exxon Valdez disaster are correct, the Deepwater Horizon blowout so far has spilled five times the oil Exxon Valdez did.”

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An excellent article on Hayao Miyazaki (because there can never be too many articles on him).

From the department of WTF...

Err, remember that guy who hacked up two people with a sword (actually, a machete)? Turns out he played Barack Obama in a porn movie.





...that’s it; I dare this story to get weirder.