Hey Crow Emily great man-scan for the door insulation. #itsNotInMirrorRoom

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Hey Crow Emily great man-scan for the door insulation. #itsNotInMirrorRoom

Discovery of upper atmosphere bacteria that affect weather

Research: Discovery of upper atmosphere bacteria that affect weather - National Paeleontology | Examiner.com

Whether the microorganisms routinely inhabit this portion of the atmosphere – perhaps living on carbon compounds also found there – or whether they were simply lofted there from the Earth’s surface is not yet known.

Cool. Live and mutate a 1000 generations at 6 km altitude, coalesce into a raindrop, fall to the survive. Cause a plague.

via the American Meteorological Society

P&A Curling Night 26Jan13 on Flickr.

So after 25 years of watching the Tournament of Hearts Mr & Mrs Crow got to rock the house ourselves. The happy expression on our faces are due in large part to the efforts of the organizer of the event, @pbambry, who wisely put us on different teams that didn’t play each other!

Sorry Fbook followers of the Purple Crow Lidar

Those who Know the Crow are well aware of the high regard he has for Facebook (not). In fact he spends as little time dealing with it as possible and encourages the entire world to get an app.net account and stop having our social media-ing serving advertisers (find me on app.net @bobsica). Anyhoo and how, it turns out sometime in late October Fbook changed something with posting to pages, so only posts through purplecrowlidar.tumblr.com were making it to Fbook and not via selective tweets. So it goes. Below is a taste of some of what you missed by not following @purplecrowlidar on twitter.
Of particular note is the sad news I got yesterday about “austerity” (the newest swear word in the language) mercilessly striking the American Geophysical Union.
The Crow
ps I’m dumping all PCL tweets to Fbook now, if it gets to be TMI I’ll try to resolve this somehow.

“Detector box, you’re awesome”

• Robin: “Detector box, you’re awesome”
• Box: “Ahhh Robin, come on you did all the aligning, I just recorded the photons”

Congratulations to Crow @Robin_Wing for successfully defending his MSc thesis!