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The heaviest object was its four-tonne weather radar system. two massive cray supercomputers had to be installed before the building was completed and were supplemented in 2004 by an nec supercomputer that had six times the power of the crays.

But even that isn’t enough number crunching for the Met office. it took delivery last year of a giant IBM machine that occupies the space of two football pitches and has 30 times more computing power than its previous systems. already fully operational, the new supercomputer will achieve peak performance next year when it will do the work of 100,000 pcs, making 1,000 billion calculations every second.

John Hirst, Met Office chief executive, explained: “in a world where the effect of extreme weather events is becoming more severe and the potential impact of global warming is becoming ever more apparent, the Met office plays an increasingly vital role in researching and forecasting these events.”

Ironically, the power needed to run such massive computers also produces 12,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year. however, this is more than compensated for by its benefits.

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Rain is my sister pic.twitter.com/QshiWDnbwC — ANGEL ORIFICE (@aliendovecote) December 16, 2014

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Artist Nils Guadagnin, probably best known for his recreation of the iconic hoverboard from Back To The Future, works in the realm of the ephemeral. His work frequently strives to capture the fleeting in a lateral way that makes one consider time, force, and (in)permanence. http://www.nilsguadagnin.com/

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Hey there Mr Skull, I'm not scared of your cull Oxygen! Amen! Oxygen! Amen! Breathe in! Breathe in!

Swans, "Oxygen"

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Click through for Slate.com article on artist.

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Stalker rain indoor ruin

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Black Rain is sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME’s (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth.

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In pop music it is called Drone and in classical music Bordun. Both are heavy, sustained, dark tones throughout a piece of music, accompanying the melody. In everyday life when encountering these kinds of sounds created by technical apparati, we do not perceive them as music and feel uncomfortable and disrupted by them.

[...] Wind parks are especially suitable for such an artistic examination as they gain presence because of the current energy transition from fossile fuels to regenerative energy. Near wind park complexes one can measure sound levels of about 55 dB. The level of street noise is about 90 dB, the noise level of a normal conversation 50 dB. Looking at these numbers the noise pollution by wind park complexes is not very high normally. Still residents living near these complexes complain regularly about the noise.

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“Prius Repellent” is a perfect introduction to one of the Obama era’s great conservative subcultures: the men and women who “roll coal.” For as little as $500, anyone with a diesel truck and a dream can install a smoke stack and the equipment that lets a driver “trick the engine” into needing more fuel. The result is a burst of black smoke that doubles as a political or cultural statement—a protest against the EPA, a ritual shaming of hybrid “rice burners”

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"Cloud boy!"

The World's Worst Superheroes (w/ KingBach , Christian DelGrosso ) FX by Joe Murayama

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