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The view from space: and underwater: and classically:

Link post: access the images and thread (for discussion and commentary) in the Chat section. Special appeal to Arizona residents to examine the Grand Canyon image to see if they can identify a strange feature noted there! Geology Pictures of the Week, Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2004: Southwest U.S. Geology from Space

Two GREAT views of the Grand Canyon and Bandelier NM and environment. Arizonans, I'd like you to check the larger version of the Arizona image and see if you can identify a particular weird feature. (See below the image for my question.) Click on each image to see the larger version. Grand Canyon in Snow (Larger version is 2.1 MB.) In the larger version, to the west of the lower Grand Canyon and southeast of Lake Mohave and a small mountain range, there's a flat light-brown patch. Does anyone know what that is, or is it an image artifact? Bandelier...

(click picture for full-size version; go to link above for some really great ones, but I couldn't grab them because the site uses frames) This picture is actually from this page: Grimsvotn eruption November 2nd 2004

Link post: any discussion posts should be posted in the thread linked below. This post is to alert readers who might possibly be interested to the post in the FR 'chat' section. You can skip the thread and go directly to the site by clicking on the article link above. Geology Picture of the Week, March 21-27, 2004: Superb Yellowstone site (with geyser videos).

An Open Letter from the USENIX Association Regarding SCO's Position on Open Source Software The SCO Group, Inc. (SCO), has recently sued IBM and Novell and launched broad attacks on the legality of and the economic justification for so-called open source licensing, including the free licensing of Linux (see SCO's open letter to Congress). As an organization dedicated to advancing the skills and contributions of computer researchers and developers, the USENIX Association is compelled to address and refute the position SCO has taken regarding open source software. USENIX is sending this letter (PDF) to Congress. SCO letter link http://www.osaia.org/letters/sco_hill.pdf Usenix...

Link post, to alert interested readers to the post in the FR "chat" section, where comments should be posted (i.e., click the link, and if you want to comment, comment there): Geology Picture of the Week, February 15-22, 2004

Two pictures from one of my favorite Web sites (continuing an unintended Pacific Northwest theme). The first shows a reconstruction of approximately Mount Mazama would have looked like had it not been for the immense eruption that formed Crater Lake. The second is one of the few I've ever seen that shows the clarity of the lake's water. The linked Web site takes you to the Stromboli On-Line Crater Lake "virtual tour" site.

Scientists CloselyMonitoring YellowstoneProLiberty.com12-23-3   Recent eruptions, 200 degree ground temperatures, bulging magma and 84 degree water temperatures prompt heightened srutiny of park's geothermal activity...  BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park happens to be on top of one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Geologists claim the Yellowstone Park area has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago making the next one long overdue. This next eruption could be 2,500 times the size of the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. Volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under...

ELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — The rolling pine forests, snowcapped mountains and crisp fall evenings here tend to make people forget the fact that the park sits atop a huge simmering underground volcano. But new geologic events have served up reminders.In a few days in July, acidic ground water dissolved parts of the unpaved trails in the Norris Geyser Basin, and the ground temperature of the trails shot up to 200 degrees from the usual maximum of 80. Park officials closed nearly half of the basin's trails, and they remain shut. On Aug. 21, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake shook the...

Outside and in-house legal counsel advised the SCO Group to send a warning letter about Linux use to the CEOs of 1,350 companies Monday, SCO CEO Darl McBride says. In a letter dated May 12, SCO Group, which holds the license to the original AT&T Unix operating system, warned commercial users of the open-source Linux operating system that "Linux infringes on our Unix intellectual property and other rights." McBride also said in the letter that "legal liability that may arise from the Linux development process may also rest with the end user." In an interview Thursday, McBride said the company,...