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kgb Fact of The Day: What Sea Has No Coast?

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Today’s kgb fact of the day: What sea has no coast?

The Sargasso Sea is a region in the North Atlantic Ocean which has no coast. It is surrounded by ocean currents and lies roughly between Cuba and The Azores.

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“Coast” is a very specific term and is only applied to that part of an island or continent that borders an ocean or its saltwater tributaries. A pelagic coast refers to a coast which fronts the open ocean, as opposed to a more sheltered coast in a gulf or bay. A shore on the other hand, can refer to parts of the land which adjoin any large body of water, including oceans (sea shore) and lakes (lake shore).

The “sea of tranquillity” is a lunar mare (Latin word for “sea”) that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on Earth’s moon. Galileo thought the dark featureless areas on the Moon were bodies of water, even though the Moon is essentially devoid of liquid water, and therefore this is a “sea” with no coastline. The term is still applied to the basalt-filled impact basins common on the face of the Moon visible from Earth.

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Sources used:

http://www.avendano.org/quiz/quiz.php?category=geography

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kgb Fact of the Day: What Is the Temperature in Space?

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Often, our Special Agents answer questions that are so intriguing that they are inclined to do further research. So here is our Agents choice for question of the day:

What temperature is it in space? Empty space itself cannot have a temperature as it is a vacuum (an absence of matter). An object (matter) that absorbs & emits radiation perfectly, at the Earth’s distance from Sun, will reach 7 degrees C.

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If an object is shielded from the Sun but exposed to interplanetary and interstellar radiation, it reaches about 5 Kelvin. If it were far from all stars and galaxies, it would come into equilibrium with the microwave background at about 2.7 Kelvin.

Space is the unlimited expanse in which everything is located. We can say Space or Outer Space is the seemingly empty places (vacuum) between planets and stars. Space is not really empty, but the material in space is so dilute that it is really hard to detect it.

Along with the conservation of matter and energy there is a universal, fundamental truth or principle of the conservation of Space; that Space cannot be created nor destroyed. Matter, energy and Space each have an essential and indispensable role in existence.

Matter and energy are conserved in Space and, in turn, space is in every way conserved as a place where matter and energy exist. Neither being created, destroyed, nor affected in any way by energy, motion and matter, space remains.

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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part4/section-14.html

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kgb in Panama City

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

It’s a sunshine day, everybody’s smiling.

Special Agent Damschroder here.
This morning Taylor and I drove thirty minutes to a storage unit to try to solve “The Case of the Missing 9,000 T-shirts” only to discover that they weren’t in that warehouse either. These T-shirts have been missing for over a week and no one seems to know where they have gone. A mystery indeed.

After our wild goose chase, we came to the beach here in Panama City to set up a second KGB booth on the beach. There is one in the MTV village this week and another one outside of the MTV village. The second set up features free flip cup and beer pong for all of the spring breakers. It’s always a hit!

After we set it up the second booth, we found out that we weren’t allowed to be that close to the village so we had to pack it up and move it even further down the beach.

Tonight we went out under cover to stage some fake vomit and falling down videos with the hope that they’ll go viral. I “threw up” oatmeal three times tonight. Here’s to hoping that some one thinks it’s real.

Only a couple more days left of the tour.

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kgb and MTV on Spring Break

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

On Sunday the kgb team were originally going to make their way to Tampa. However, MTV Spring Break-Panama-style has been rockin it since we arrived. It was too hard to walk away. All Stanky Legs were required to jive for one more week. Panama or bust, baby!

The kgb hut in the MTV village officially opened yesterday and we had an interesting assortment of Spring Breakers agree to answer three questions for the chance to win not $100, not $200, not even $500 but $542 dollars!!! Why $542 bucks? Text 542 542….you got it now don’t you? Winners are announced every day at 4pm on the MTV stage. And one inebriated college kid can go home a little bit less in debt than when they arrived.

So after a full day of kgb t-shirts flying off the stage out of the hands of agents and into the mosh pit of men and man killers, rockin the beach with bottle openers and the victory laps around town in the kgb squad cars we called what most know as the “day of rest” a true ALL NIGHTER. 

Agent Jamie–headin to bed.

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kgb Agents– Tuscaloosa to Panama City

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Oh I come from Alabamy with a banjo on my knee.

Well, not quite.

Special Agent Damschroder here. Today was a day of twists and turns. We began the day in Tuscaloosa, AL, packing up out squad cars to head south to Florida for Spring Break. As we put our keys in the ignitions, we got a call from the local television station saying that they’d like to do a story on us. Off we sped to the University of Alabama to meet with the news team. After a couple victory laps and an interview, we headed out for Panama City Beach, Fl. We’ll be in Panama City Beach for most of the week, so come say hello and get yourself a special KGB T-shirt!

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kgb On the Road

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Our resident videographer, Chris Bryan, has put together a great video showing our convoy on the march.  You can see that the Squad Cars really turn heads!

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