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  • ‘It Is Cruel’: Boulders Replace Homeless Encampment In Angelino Heights Cul-De-Sac

    08/08/2018 5:30:31 PM PDT · by jeannineinsd · 28 replies
    CBSLA ^ | 8/8/18 | CBSLA
    ANGELINO HEIGHTS (CBSLA) — A method of deterring homeless people from sleeping in a part of Los Angeles dealing with the crisis is drawing mixed reactions from neighbors. A homeless encampment once stood on a section of Custer Avenue in Angelino Heights near where the 101 and 110 freeways connect. The cul-de-sac right off Sunset Boulevard now has several large boulders strewn about the sidewalks and patches of dirt, ostensibly to prevent people from sleeping there. Joe Illeng used to be homeless and now has a home and a family. However, he told CBS2 News this in no way to...
  • Are the gods playing marbles on Mars?

    06/11/2013 7:21:19 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 38 replies
    New Scientist ^ | 6/11/13 | Victoria Jaggard
    (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) A rolling stone gathers no moss – but on Mars it can nevertheless cloak itself in mystery. This NASA image shows the track of a boulder that rolled across the Nili Fossae region of Mars. For now it is anyone's guess what set the rock in motion. This false-colour picture (click on it for higher resolution) was posted on 7 June to the Beautiful Mars Tumblr feed, a collection of high-resolution shots from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows dark, jagged tracks left in the soil by a lumpy boulder, probably...
  • Boulders slide down Telegraph Hill, crush car

    01/23/2012 12:43:13 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies
    SFGate.com ^ | 1/23/12 | Will Kane
    SAN FRANCISCO -- City officials have temporarily evacuated a condominium building at the base of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill after several boulders slid down the hill and crushed a parked car, authorities said. The boulders, apparently loosened by the weekend rain, slid down the hill near Lombard and Montgomery streets around 9:30 a.m., officials said. No one was hurt. The bottom floors of a multistory condo complex at 240 Lombard St. next to the hill has been evacuated while engineers from the city determine if any more boulders could fall, officials said.
  • The Strange Rubbing Boulders of the Atacama

    10/11/2011 3:03:04 PM PDT · by decimon · 22 replies
    Geological Society of America ^ | October 11, 2011 | Unknown
    Boulder, CO, USA – A geologist's sharp eyes and upset stomach has led to the discovery, and almost too-close encounter, with an otherworldly geological process operating in a remote corner of northern Chile's Atacama Desert. The sour stomach belonged to University of Arizona geologist Jay Quade. It forced him and his colleagues Peter Reiners and Kendra Murray to stop their truck at a lifeless expanse of boulders which they had passed before without noticing anything unusual. "I had just crawled underneath the truck to get out of the sun," Quade said. The others had hiked off to look around, as...
  • Boulder Police search for porta potty 'Peeping Tom'

    BOULDER, Colo. -- Boulder Police are looking for a man who was seen hiding inside a portable toilet during last Friday’s Hanuman Yoga Festival at Boulder High School. “A female patron of the festival walked into a portable toilet and told police she noticed that something was moving inside the tank when she lifted the lid,” said police spokeswoman Kim Kobel. Believing there was a person inside, the female left the portable toilet and asked a man who was standing nearby to go in and check. “The man told police that when he entered the toilet, he did see someone...
  • Darwin Was Wrong About Geology

    12/02/2009 7:13:55 PM PST · by GodGunsGuts · 148 replies · 2,561+ views
    CEH ^ | December 2, 2009
    Dec 2, 2009 — Field geologists have revisited a site Darwin visited on the voyage of the Beagle, and found that he incorrectly interpreted what he found.  A large field of erratic boulders in Tierra del Fuego that have become known as “Darwin’s Boulders” were deposited by a completely different process than he thought.  The modern team, publishing in the Geological Society of America’s December issue of the GSA Today,1 noted that “Darwin’s thinking was profoundly influenced by Lyell’s obsession with large-scale, slow, vertical movements of the crust, especially as manifested in his theory of submergence and ice rafting to...
  • Bizarre boulders litter Saturn moon's icy surface (Enceladus)

    07/19/2005 11:15:30 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 38 replies · 1,518+ views
    New Scientist ^ | 7/19/05 | Stuart Clark
    The Cassini spacecraft has coasted to its closest encounter yet - skimming just 175 kilometres above Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. But astronomers are at a loss to explain its observations. On 14 July, Cassini swooped in for an unprecedented close-up view of the wrinkled moon. Its Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) camera has since returned pictures of a boulder-strewn landscape that is currently beyond explanation. The "boulders" appear to range between 10 and 20 metres in diameter in the highest-resolution images, which can resolve features just 4 m across. “That’s a surface texture I have never seen anywhere else in the...
  • Sky-High Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-Central Washington

    11/05/2003 6:29:54 AM PST · by blam · 36 replies · 633+ views
    Science Daily ^ | 11-4-2003 | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Date: 2003-11-04 Sky-high Icebergs Carried Boulders From The Rockies To In South-central Washington Seattle -- Geologists have uncovered a scene in the Pasco Basin west of the Columbia River in Washington state that shows how boulders piggybacked icebergs from what is now Montana and came to rest at elevations as high as 1,200 feet. Although glacial deposits of rocks and boulders are common, especially in the upper Midwest, "There probably isn't anyplace else in the world where there are so many rocks that rafted in on icebergs," said Bruce Bjornstad, a geologist at the Department...
  • Unexplained tree-top boulders found in forest (URBs)

    10/25/2003 10:36:15 PM PDT · by SteveH · 116 replies · 2,682+ views
    Brown County Democrat ^ | 10/22/2003 | Judy Hess
    Unexplained tree-top boulders found in forest By Judy Hess Staff writer JHess@bcdemocrat.com Something unnatural is going on in Yellowwood State Forest. The mystery began a few years ago when a turkey hunter, scouting in a remote area of the 23,000-acre forest, discovered a large boulder in the top of an 80-foot-tall chestnut oak tree. What he saw wedged among its branches was a boulder about 4 feet wide and a foot thick. The boulder was eventually dubbed Gobbler's Rock after the turkey hunter. It sits high on a south-facing slope overlooking a ravine near Tulip Tree Road in western Brown...
  • Boulders worry Hawaii Kai residents

    11/30/2002 8:00:31 PM PST · by Vidalia · 221+ views
    Honolulu Bulletin ^ | Saturday, November 30, 2002 | Leila Fujimori
    After a couple of massive boulders smashed into her Hawaii Kai condominium complex Thanksgiving night, Misao Higa could not sleep at her home. "It was still raining and we didn't feel safe," Higa said. "I have a 4-month-old baby, and his bedroom is on this (the hillside) side. We checked everything in the house, and we left." But while they stayed somewhere else Thursday, they are back in the Lalea townhouse complex now, and they and others who live there remain concerned about the possibility of boulders crashing down again. The boulders, one about 4 feet by 6 feet and...
  • Homestead fears boulders

    08/24/2002 2:53:23 PM PDT · by Vidalia · 5 replies · 194+ views
    Honolulu Advertiser ^ | Saturday, August 24, 2002 | Karen Blakeman
    <p>When Mona Arthur stepped outside to tend to her plants about a month ago and discovered that a 350-pound rock had rolled down the hill and lodged against the fence behind her house in Kalawahine Valley, she didn't give it a lot of thought.</p>
  • Another deadly boulder hovers

    08/21/2002 8:26:52 PM PDT · by Vidalia · 11 replies · 221+ views
    Honolulu Star Bulletin ^ | Wednesday, August 21, 2002 | Gregg K. Kakesako
    About 30 Nuuanu residents have been warned that another large boulder -- like the one that killed a 26-year-old woman in her sleep nearly two weeks ago -- could tumble down on their homes. At the request of attorney Steven Hisaka, who represents a retired Pacific Heights couple who own the land where the boulder is located, Oahu Civil Defense Agency staffers and volunteers canvassed homes yesterday on Henry Street. The workers passed out flyers warning of another large boulder that, if dislodged, could tumble onto the people and homes below. On Aug. 9, a five-ton boulder rolled down the...
  • Boulders strewn about on Route 101 in Candia

    06/15/2002 7:55:54 PM PDT · by Bowana · 10 replies · 348+ views
    Manchester Union Leader ^ | 6/15/2002 | JASON SCHREIBER
    Boulders strewn about on Route 101 in Candia By JASON SCHREIBER Union Leader Correspondent CANDIA — Police are looking for the culprits who dropped large boulders onto Route 101 early yesterday morning, creating potentially deadly obstacles for motorists. No one was seriously hurt, but a Candia woman damaged her car when she struck one of the large rocks while traveling west on Route 101, Candia Police Chief Michael McGillen said. Susan Spenard, 34, of 107 Kayla Drive, hit the rock shortly before Exit 3. She continued traveling for a short distance and eventually stopped at Exit 3 where she was...