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girlcrazy_4 10-16-2004 06:16 PM

Just got back from Pavillion lake in cache creek. Did U know Pavillion lake is the ONLY lake in the world to have the same living microbies as mars? lol...

Yea here is the article...


Scientists at Simon Fraser University have discovered a unique life form growing in a British Columbia lake that has attracted a real-life X-Files investigative team from NASA.

The discovery may help NASA identify life on Mars and elsewhere in space. A paper by NASA and SFU scientists will be the cover story in Nature, one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals.
Five years ago Harry Bohm and Bernard Laval from the SFU underwater research lab went to survey Pavilion Lake, near Cache Creek.

There they found coral-like growths up to three meters long. Radioactive dating put the growths at about 11,000 years old, meaning they had begun to form shortly after glaciers receded from the area.
Bohm sent samples to NASA's Ames Research Lab in California, a world centre for research on the origin of life in the universe.

At NASA the delicate cone-shaped calcite structures piqued the curiosity of Chris McKay and Sherry Cady, a real-life Mulder and Scully team who travel the globe in search of extra-terrestrial life.

Cady and McKay visited Pavillion Lake and took more samples. The end result: a scientific paper co-authored by Bird, Laval, Cady, McKay, Bohm and several other researchers.

Cady claims the so-called microbialites may be a modern analog for a class of life-forms known as Epiphyton and Girvanella that appeared in great abundance in early Cambrian time 540 million years ago -- a time when most life first appeared on Earth.

Such discoveries are important as more and more robotic devices land on Mars to search for life. They help NASA exobiologists know what to look for on Mars or Europa (a moon of Jupiter), and other places in the solar system that may have once supported life.

For John Bird, who heads SFU's underwater lab, the lake is attractive for other reasons. "My own research is in underwater sensors and imaging," says Bird.

"We've developed a 3D sonar and Pavilion Lake is a great place to test it because there are interesting things to see and many questions that remain to be answered."

Questions such as: Why do the microbialites grow in that particular lake when similar B.C. lakes have none? How do they grow? Do the microbes form the feathery calcium aggregates?

Or does the rock crystallize first, thereby promoting the organic life? The SFU researchers hope these questions will attract further funding for more research.

There is also a move to have the lake become an environmentally protected zone.

http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/2000/Oct5/bird.html


anyways I ripped shit up in the hills with a budy. Almost got the 250 stuck in a mud pit, haha... A buddy crashed the 125 and now she's leaking fuel :(.... yea random thoughts for a random thread! lol

fourtirefire 10-16-2004 07:54 PM

hmm spent my saturday counting inventory at work on very few hours of sleep!

the extra 100 bucks will be nice though.

jamie 10-16-2004 08:03 PM

OT: id recommend everyone DL the she wants to move video by NERD

its getting old now, yet.. never gets old.. if ya nawmean
me-->:relations<--girl dancing

i think she's from that group with the 'scandelous' song
anyways.. HOT

SmokeyTheBandit 10-16-2004 08:13 PM

girl crazy.. i knew about that to.. nasa had some submarine there

i was out there a few months ago at a buddy's cabin.. really nice out there!

SL Importz 10-16-2004 08:47 PM

download eric prydz - call on me video, uhh yeah

girlcrazy_4 10-16-2004 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBandit
girl crazy.. i knew about that to.. nasa had some submarine there

i was out there a few months ago at a buddy's cabin.. really nice out there!


Right on. If U ever go to the grounds of all the owned property's, Our property is lot number #24 if U wanna come on by. Its got about 8 trailers on it and we're there every long weekend. You should see the water level... it is about 50feet from the original shorline now :( SO SAD:@

edit: If u happen to come up this winter, let me know. We'll have a couple quads and a sled on the lake to have some fun with;)

bluebomber85 10-17-2004 11:31 AM

wow. TL1000's are uber fast.

SmokeyTheBandit 10-17-2004 12:14 PM

speaking of TL's.. i saw kawi 636 put down more HP than a TL 1000 at sportbike west

jamie 10-17-2004 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SL Importz
download eric prydz - call on me video, uhh yeah
delicious

HyperREV 10-17-2004 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KeloLuda
wow. TL1000's are uber fast.
did u get to ride one?

i wanted a tl1000r soooo bad before i got out of bikes...

HyperREV 10-17-2004 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBandit
speaking of TL's.. i saw kawi 636 put down more HP than a TL 1000 at sportbike west
and prolly like 20ft/lbs less torque :p

SmokeyTheBandit 10-17-2004 02:08 PM

yeah they make more tq.. its weird, seeing them on the track.. they really dont seem to be that great of a bike

mind you i've never ridden a twin other than a motard.. id like to rip a tl or especially a rc51

bluebomber85 10-17-2004 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by HyperREV
did u get to ride one?
I only wish I got to ride it, my cousins friend who lives in vancouver rode one down here.

girlcrazy_4 10-17-2004 05:31 PM

Think I blew up the clutch in the 125,

proshoraca 10-17-2004 11:05 PM

the people at the insurance building thought i was crazy insuring my bike 2 days ago haha, crazy people.

down_hill_dog 10-17-2004 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KeloLuda
wow. TL1000's are uber fast.
Theyre such a good sounding bike too, very easy to work on aswell being fuel injected.

SmokeyTheBandit 10-17-2004 11:31 PM

last year i road untill near the end of december.. i road in 'some' snow.. its fine as long as you got the proper gear to keep warm.. and obviously no fun rides unless you got studded tires

ThunderKat 10-18-2004 01:08 PM

hahaha i just found out a girl i graded with in SA does porn for this site called Dirty Old Bastard...LOL...sickest shit ever!!!

Gunn 10-18-2004 01:30 PM

hahaha! serious?? thats hilarious... was it someone i've met before?

HyperREV 10-18-2004 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBandit
last year i road untill near the end of december.. i road in 'some' snow.. its fine as long as you got the proper gear to keep warm.. and obviously no fun rides unless you got studded tires
you road eh?

heh :p

bigs_Teg 10-18-2004 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ThunderKat
hahaha i just found out a girl i graded with in SA does porn for this site called Dirty Old Bastard...LOL...sickest shit ever!!!
PUUUUUWWWWWWWAAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHHA

we were talking about that all day at work. She's a co-workers ex. too. He thinks its the funniest shit ever. Holy her life is gonna be ruined in Salmon Arm. EVERYONE is gonna know, and its NOTHING to be pround of. FAkin SOOO GROSS

good GOD







and its called "the dirty old man".....

pfffffffthahahah

RRxtar 10-18-2004 04:15 PM

details? pics? phone number?

88 5.0cobra 10-18-2004 04:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBandit
yeah they make more tq.. its weird, seeing them on the track.. they really dont seem to be that great of a bike

mind you i've never ridden a twin other than a motard.. id like to rip a tl or especially a rc51

We have an Aprilia RSV 1000 mille at work, looks and sounds like an rc51 but the suspension is worth almost as much as a whole rc51:D

Vdub97 10-18-2004 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ThunderKat
hahaha i just found out a girl i graded with in SA does porn for this site called Dirty Old Bastard...LOL...sickest shit ever!!!
hahah toss up a link.. see if I recognize her that is funny shit

Mattster 10-18-2004 05:42 PM

Doesn't surprise me with Salmon Arm people lol j/k. I don't regret moving away from there hehe.


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