Hulleye Comes By!

did you know that was bart’s full name? well, if you didn’t go read up on wikipedia. anyway, the trailer for the simpsons movie is out. it’s not gonna be that great. actually at this point there’s very little reason to believe it’ll be any good at all. anyway, in sort of related news, alan moore will be showing up on the simpsons pretty soon.

A colossal reservoir of energy stored up under the Tibetan plateau has been discovered – and it can only be fully released by mega-earthquakes striking about every 1000 years, researchers have found.

The study suggests that earthquakes in the past 200 years in the central Himalaya, while catastrophic, are small in comparison to what the region has seen in the past - and will see again.

The energy builds up as the result of the collision between the Indian subcontinent and Asia, and the movement of the two continental plates was tracked using GPS technology.

The reservoir of energy is so large because of the nature of the two plates. They are both continental, and therefore made of relatively low density rocks. This means that, rather than one heavier, denser plate plunging deep under a lighter plate, as happens when dense oceanic crust plunges under a continental plate, they both strive to float near the surface of the planet. This generate a lot of friction, causing a huge amount of energy to be stored underneath Tibet

A hurricane-like storm, two-thirds the diameter of Earth, is raging at Saturn’s south pole, new images from Nasa’s Cassini space probe reveal. Measuring 5,000 miles (8,000km) across, the storm is the first hurricane ever detected on a planet other than Earth.