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A '''Video-Enhanced Grave Marker''' ('''VEGM''') is a Western-style [[headstone|tombstone]] equipped with [[weatherproof]]ed [[video]] playback that can be initiated by [[remote control]].

The VEGM, invented by Robert Barrows of [[San Mateo, California]], would allow its owner to record messages to be played to any visitor to the site with a [[remote control]].<ref name=wsj>{{cite news|url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB111283344036700294|title=Having a Say in Your Epitaph: The Challenge of High-Tech Tombstones|work=[[Wall Street Journal]]|date=7 April 2005|accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref> The stones would be equipped with weatherproofed video playback and recording devices plus [[computer storage]] and a [[computer monitor|monitor]] placed within a weather-proofed, hollowed-out headstone. {{As of|2005|alt=As of May 2005}}, Barrows estimated that the costs of the VEGMs might start at about [[United States dollar|USD$]]8000 to $10,000.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

{{US patent|7089495}} was issued on The Video Enhanced Gravemarker on August 8, 2006. Barrows commented soon after its invention: "I envision being able to walk through a cemetery using a remote control, clicking on graves and what all the people buried there have to say. They can say all the things they didn't have the opportunity or guts to say when they were alive."<ref name=wsj/>

To prevent [[noise pollution]], the audio can also be transmitted to [[wireless headset]]s, made available by the cemetery's office.

==References==
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[[Category:Burial monuments and structures]]

Hypercane

2008-06-22T17:56:23Z

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A '''hypercane''' is a hypothetical class of [[tropical cyclone]] that could form if ocean temperatures reached around 50° [[Celsius]] (122° [[Fahrenheit]])—15° higher than the warmest ocean temperature ever recorded<ref>[http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/temp.html&edu=high Temperature of Ocean Water, Windows to the Universe]</ref>—which could in turn be caused by a large [[asteroid]] or [[comet]] impact, a large [[volcano|volcanic]] or [[supervolcano|supervolcanic]] eruption, or very extensive [[global warming]].<ref>[http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30308 The Dawn of the Hypercane?]</ref> There is some speculation that some [[dinosaur]]s might have been killed off by a series of hypercanes, resulting from an asteroid or comet crashing into [[Earth]].<ref>[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519632.600-did-storms-land-the-dinosaurs-in-hot-water.html Did storms land the dinosaurs in hot water?]</ref> The term was originally coined by atmospheric scientist [[Kerry Emanuel]] in 1994, at [[MIT]]. .<ref name="MIT">[http://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/holem/holem.html Limits on Hurricane Intensity]</ref><ref>[http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1995/95JD01368.shtml Hypercanes: A Possible Link to Global Extinction Senarios]</ref>

==Physical description==
Hypercanes would have wind speeds of over 800 kilometers per hour (500-600+ miles per hour; 130 [[m/s]]), and would also have a central pressure of less than 700 [[hectopascal]]s, giving them an enormous lifespan.<ref name="MIT" /> The extreme conditions needed to create such a storm could conceivably produce a system up to the size of [[North America]], creating storm surges of {{ft to m|60}} and an eye nearly {{mi to km|200}} across. The waters could remain hot enough for weeks, allowing more hypercanes to be formed. A hypercane's clouds would reach 20 miles into the [[stratosphere]]. A hypercane would also damage the earth's [[ozone]].<ref name="MIT" />

==Hypercanes are essentially fiction==
The [[anime]] ''[[Tactical Roar]]'' uses a hypercane in the [[Pacific Ocean]] as a pretext to showcase naval battles, which are the series' focus. This is relevant because it is probably the only occurrence of a hypercane at any time, in any place, in any form in the entire history of the earth, whether in fiction or reality. Hypercanes exist in same manner that a garden gnome or a snipe exist and should be treated accordingly. Hypercanes like to feed on maple syrup, sleep on feather beds and prefer to be petted around the eyewall.

==See also==
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* [[Tropical cyclone]]
* [[Global warming]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=295766&action=detail Mega Disasters, Season 3: Hypercane]

[[Category:Tropical cyclone meteorology]]

{{weather-stub}}

Hypercane

2008-06-22T17:48:00Z

204.65.230.107:

A '''hypercane''' is a hypothetical class of [[tropical cyclone]] that could form if ocean temperatures reached around 50° [[Celsius]] (122° [[Fahrenheit]])—15° higher than the warmest ocean temperature ever recorded<ref>[http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/temp.html&edu=high Temperature of Ocean Water, Windows to the Universe]</ref>—which could in turn be caused by a large [[asteroid]] or [[comet]] impact, a large [[volcano|volcanic]] or [[supervolcano|supervolcanic]] eruption, or very extensive [[global warming]].<ref>[http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30308 The Dawn of the Hypercane?]</ref> There is some speculation that some [[dinosaur]]s might have been killed off by a series of hypercanes, resulting from an asteroid or comet crashing into [[Earth]].<ref>[http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519632.600-did-storms-land-the-dinosaurs-in-hot-water.html Did storms land the dinosaurs in hot water?]</ref> The term was originally coined by atmospheric scientist [[Kerry Emanuel]] in 1994, at [[MIT]]. .<ref name="MIT">[http://wind.mit.edu/~emanuel/holem/holem.html Limits on Hurricane Intensity]</ref><ref>[http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/1995/95JD01368.shtml Hypercanes: A Possible Link to Global Extinction Senarios]</ref> It also the commonly accepted term for the explosive, flatulent menthane expulsion that frequently emmanates from Al Gore's pants

==Physical description==
Hypercanes would have wind speeds of over 800 kilometers per hour (500-600+ miles per hour; 130 [[m/s]]), and would also have a central pressure of less than 700 [[hectopascal]]s, giving them an enormous lifespan.<ref name="MIT" /> The extreme conditions needed to create such a storm could conceivably produce a system up to the size of [[North America]], creating storm surges of {{ft to m|60}} and an eye nearly {{mi to km|200}} across. The waters could remain hot enough for weeks, allowing more hypercanes to be formed. A hypercane's clouds would reach 20 miles into the [[stratosphere]]. A hypercane would also damage the earth's [[ozone]].<ref name="MIT" />

==Hypercanes in fiction==
The [[anime]] ''[[Tactical Roar]]'' uses a fictional hypercane in the [[Pacific Ocean]] as a pretext to showcase naval battles, which are the series' focus.

==See also==
{{tcportal}}
* [[Tropical cyclone]]
* [[Global warming]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=295766&action=detail Mega Disasters, Season 3: Hypercane]

[[Category:Tropical cyclone meteorology]]

{{weather-stub}}