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But the Health Protection Agency said the ash did not pose a significant risk to public health because of its high altitude.

Brian Flynn, assistant head of operations of its central flow management unit, told the BBC: "As it moves toward the Netherlands and Belgium it will dissipate and lose intensity, like any weather phenomenon. But we don't know what the extent of it will be."

I think that perhaps you misunderstood, their website says quite the opposite.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8621407.stm

if it's in the upper atmosphere the sky isn't exactly going to turn black

It doesn't say it won't fall. It just says it'll dissipate. How is the cloud going to dissipate? Is the ash just going to magically vanish? It'l lose energy, and as it does the atmosphere will no longer be able to carry the ash. Not all of it will fall though, some of it will still be in the atmosphere in a few millenia.

That's laughable. Regardless of which part of the atmosphere the ash is in, the blocking of the sunlight would still cause the sky to turn black. But there probably isn't enough ash for that, so the world isn't going to end..yet.

I work for the Research Councils. We're sending a plane up to check it out

I'm wearing a facemask.



Just in case.

You'd be unlucky for it to still be going on by Wednesday.

There was also a couple on the news going to a wedding in the US, but it was her ex husbands. She was going with her current husbund. Weird.

I saw that - thought it really odd too!  Her new husband was going to be best man to her ex husband and was vice versa when she got married! 

You'd be unlucky for it to still be going on by Wednesday.

Anybody heard any good conspiracy theories yet?

What's the difference between Sheryl Cole and an Icelandic volcano?

The Icelandic volcano is still blowing ash.

De-de-le-dum Tsch 8)

I actually think it says something about Society that I have not seen one single solitary report about how this has affected Iceland itself or how the people are coping there. It's all about Gary Lineker getting back from Tenerife and almost missing Match of the Day and John Cleese getting a taxi from Norway to Belgium and so on ::)

I actually think it says something about Society that I have not seen one single solitary report about how this has affected Iceland itself or how the people are coping there. It's all about Gary Lineker getting back from Tenerife and almost missing Match of the Day and John Cleese getting a taxi from Norway to Belgium and so on ::)

To be far though, those Icelandic fuckers owe us billions and are refusing to cough up.

What about the fucking cod?

Cod that fucks? Interesting.

Well, yeah, it's how fish procreate.

Most fishes are egg-layers, but many bear living young. Live-bearing fishes may be ovoviviparous, in which the eggs essentially simply hatch within the female, or viviparous, in which the unborn young are supplied nourishment through the mother's tissues. In some ovoviviparous fishes the embryo develops in the egg while the egg is still within its follicular covering within the ovary, and ovulation (or release of the egg) and birth occur at the same time. In other ovoviviparous forms the eggs are released from the protective follicles into the cavity of the hollow ovary, where development continues. In some viviparous fishes the walls of the egg follicle are in intimate contact with the embryo, supplying it with nourishment. In the viviparous sharks, a part of the oviduct, or egg channel, is developed into a uterus, where the modified yolk sacs of the young are closely joined to pockets within the uterus.

In live-bearing fishes and in some egg-layers, fertilization occurs internally, and methods have been evolved for introducing the sperm into the female's body. In sharks the pelvic fins of the male are modified into intromittent organs called myxoptergia, and in the male topminnows the anal fin is modified into a similar-functioning intromittent organ called the gonopodium.

At least three modes of reproduction--heterosexual, hermaphroditic, and parthenogenetic--are found in fishes. In the most common form, heterosexual reproduction, there are separate male and female parents, but even here there is considerable variation. In some live-bearing fishes, the female is able to store sperm for up to 8 or even 10 months, and this sperm is used to fertilize new batches of eggs as they develop. In some cases, a female may carry sperm from several males at once.

In hermaphroditic reproduction, a single fish is both male and female, produces both eggs and sperm (either at the same time or at different times), and mates with other similar hermaphroditic fishes. External self-fertilization occurs in one hermaphroditic fish, which sheds egg and sperm simultaneously. In another, internal self-fertilization may occur. In certain fishes there is a time sequence of hermaphroditism, young fishes reversing their sex as they grow older.

In parthenogenetic reproduction, unfertilized eggs develop into embryos. This is known to exist in at least one fish species, Poecilia formosa, of the Amazon River; however, even though development proceeds without fertilization in some of these females, mating with a male is still required to stimulate egg development.

Parental care also shows great diversity. Some fishes, like the Atlantic herring, form huge schools of males and females and freely shed their eggs and sperm (milt), and then abandon the eggs. Other fishes build nests and care for both the eggs and newly hatched young. Others have evolved methods of carrying the eggs with them, commonly in their mouths, but also in gill cavities or in special pouches on the body.

Sort of. I didn't know it was so interesting.

I've always liked the word viviparous....but ovoviviparous, is new and sexy. I wonder what it means?

Parthenogenetic sounds positively Athenian.

I've always liked the word viviparous....but ovoviviparous, is new and sexy. I wonder what it means?

 Cod Wars with Iceland....very 1970's retro  :)

Some impressive cock-waving occurring here.

My next plan if it starts is:

Thursday - Chicago to Washington DC / Washington DC to Amsterdam (In Friday am). Amsterdam to Teeside and then train home.

i hope youre whoring it up young man

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