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[runiq]

http://inhabitat.com/iceland-may-tap-liquid-magma-as-new-geothermal-energy-source/

Ah, Iceland... Thank you for being awesome.

Scientists in Iceland have been studying and utilizing the power of geothermal wells for years. In 2009 one such study hit a standstill when a group ran into magma halfway into their dig.

I had that fuzzy warm feeling of familiarity in my belly when I read that.

Also, quote of the day:

Now that is one great mistake!

[Knight of Fools]

Weird.  I thought that's how geothermal energy was harnessed in the first place.

But yeah, DF clone.  Dang Icelanders.

[AntiAntiMatter]

Totally awesome.

[Olith McHuman]

I just hope they don't build a magma cannon. Though that would be totaly awesome.

[AntiAntiMatter]

I just hope they don't build a magma cannon.

Why not?

[Knight of Fools]

It'd melt all the ice, of course, making Iceland a perfectly temperate, mild, comfortable place to live.  We wouldn't want that, now, because then they'd have to change their name, and Greenland is already taken.

[breadbocks]

Goddamn, north Europe is FILLED with dwarfy people.

[Ampersand]

It'd melt all the ice, of course, making Iceland a perfectly temperate, mild, comfortable place to live.  We wouldn't want that, now, because then they'd have to change their name, and Greenland is already taken.

I'm going to guess they changed the names a long time ago. But since Icelandic is incomprehensible unfrozen ears, no one noticed.

[Max White]

It was the year 2043. Dwarf fortress had consumed the world monopoly on games, as no other could compeat with it's depth. Countless man hours were spent playing the game not only for it's entertainment value, but as a primary teaching aid. It taught geology, biology, physics, chemistry and general scientific method. The world was a better place, because the only blood that ever needed to be spilt was that of a happy looking ☺. Over time, people started acting like the dwarfs. Citys were powered by magma, and slowly, in an attempt to move closer to the power source, we moved underground. Facial hair became a popular fashion trend, and alcohol sales went through the roof. All in all these changes were welcomed, and culture thrived in the diverse and accepting society. But there were... others.

Some thought what we were doing was wrong. They said living underground like that was not natural, and that we should be in the sun, with the plants, animals and trees... How we grew to hate those trees. Soon, the seperatists were cut off from the energy grid, and without power to work their tecnology, went back to more savage ways. They used wooden sticks as weapons, and made freinds with the animals by copying there ways. But worst of all, unwilling to consume there new comrades or beloved trees, they chose us as there food source.

Now we are locked in a stuggle, the civilised who dwell below the ground, and the ragged outsiders who love sticks more then there own lives.

[scriver]

What kind of dwarf consumes trees anyway?

[Taricus]

A dwarf who needs beds. and charcoal.

[scriver]

...So that's how they're able to create furniture without tools or equipment of any kind! They eat the tree and after several days being broken down and reshaped by the dwarven digestive system, they crap out the bed!
I guess this also explain the lack of feces - that's what holding the furniture together!
_{I really don't want to imagine how charcoal is made without fire, though...}

[Taricus]

Why do you think dwarves don't fart 

[Max White]

Why do you think dwarves don't fart 

I saw my own father get eaten by a guy that would smoke weed, were it not for that fact that he dosn't want to burn the plant, and you make fart jokes. 



 

[Neyvn]

It'd melt all the ice, of course, making Iceland a perfectly temperate, mild, comfortable place to live.  We wouldn't want that, now, because then they'd have to change their name, and Greenland is already taken.

Um.... Last I checked, Iceland is actually a warmish place while Greenland is normally covered in Ice and Snow... Look don't ask me, Europeans are weird...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland#Climate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland#Geography_and_climate