Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Friday, May 23, 2014
Satellite monitoring of ocean waves
Monitoring Ocean Waves From Space, from Wired.
This is what doing all those Fourier Transforms can get you.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, May 11, 2014
EWE
In 1895 there were only 2 cars in the entire state of Ohio...and they got in a wreck with each other. #TrueStory
— Edwin Edwards (@EdwinWEdwards) May 10, 2014"@EdwinWEdwards: In 1895 there were only 2 cars in the entire state of Ohio...and they got in a wreck with each other." EWE saw it happen
— Noladishu (@Noladishu) May 10, 2014@Noladishu that's how I know it's true. Saw it with my own eyes!
— Edwin Edwards (@EdwinWEdwards) May 10, 2014@Noladishu that was back when the still let me practice law...made $7 dollars off that accident. That was BIG money in those days
— Edwin Edwards (@EdwinWEdwards) May 10, 2014God bless whoever taught Edwin Edwards how to use Twitter.
Dumbo Octopus
The Dumbo Octopus, captured by NOAA's Okeanos mission in the Gulf of Mexico. Towards the end, it also makes its arms into corkscrews. Why? We have absolutely no idea because, before a month ago, nobody had ever seen them do that. They also studied Asphalt Volcanoes and Chemosynthetic Bacteria feeding on seeps on the same mission.
Octopi are pretty smart. This one unscrews the lid of the jar from the inside to escape:
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Louisiana Oil Production
A couple charts I put together. Note that all numbers are "C+C" (crude + condensate). Also, today, oil closed at $100.28/barrel (WTI / NYMEX).
Fig.1- Land-based oil production in Louisiana (1945-2013). Source.
Cumulative Production: 12,060,534,213 Barrels
Value at today's price: $1,209,430,370,879.64
Fig.2- Coastal Oil Production (1956-2013). Source.
Cumulative Production: 1,583,567,654 Barrels
Value at today's price: $158,800,164,343.12
Fig.3- Gulf of Mexico (OCS / Federal Waters) Oil Production (1947-2013). Source.
Cumulative Production: 18,598,496,642
Value at today's price: $1,865,057,243,259.76
If anyone wants to go ahead and use these graphics, go right ahead. I'd love to see it spread out there.