Random PICTURE of the day thread *KEEP IT WORK SAFE*

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[03trubluGT]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/wa.../#.UUzb7TeK2t8





Two NASA satellite photos from the agency’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) project show how the Qadisiyah Reservoir in Iraq is shrinking. The reservoir, along the Euphrates River, and in the “cradle of civilization” — where irrigated agriculture emerged nearly 8,000 years ago — lost 117 million acre feet of water (enough water to cover 117 million football fields a foot deep) between 2003 and 2009, according to researchers.

This was due, in part, to aggressive groundwater pumping for agriculture. As in most watersheds, aquifers in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley are connected through the water table to surface waters. The United Nations has devoted this years’ World Water Day to discussion of cooperation, instead of conflict and potential water wars. There are few places where the line between the two is more fragile. The Tigris and the Euphrates originate as snowmelt in the highlands of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, before running hundreds of miles to the Persian Gulf.

Countries in the basin, including Syria, are scrambling to secure limited resources, as populations grow and climates dry out. Despite a series of attempts at international water management agreements in the region over the course of almost 70 years, Turkey maintains the upper hand, continuing to build massive upstream dams that threaten to withhold precious supplies from downstream neighbors.

Even though it says 2013, I guess the Google Maps image must be from 2003 because it looks pretty full to me.

[MattB]

Fav color on a lx for me. Dark blue and silver two tone gt is what I really want again. I never see them anymore

I have an emerald green/silver 91 GT, and even 10 years ago they were tough to find! Probably about the same as Regatta Blue or whatever the dark blue was. I believe STROKD's 'vert is factory blue/silver. When I was in highschool, a friend's Mom had a dark blue w/dark blue top LX 5.0 vert w/chrome ponies. I thought that car was stunning at the time(mid-90's). Never seen that color combo again. The car was a 91-93, and this was in 94-95, so it had to be factory.

[Frank]

I could dig that if it had different wheels.

[Pooter]

[SNEAKY]

[Pooter]

[Pooter]

[Pooter]

Creepy ad, 1979 Pakistan airlines...

[idrivea4banger]

[talisman]

[crapstang]

tacos

I thought I was about to go to sleep.






















I need some tacos.

[idrivea4banger]

I thought I was about to go to sleep.






















I need some tacos.

They were good!

[YALE]

They were good!

I will give you $5 for some tacos, if you'll deliver them.

[idrivea4banger]

I will give you $5 for some tacos, if you'll deliver them.

You low balling sasquatch!