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Did you know that two guys once flew a Cessna for 64 days, without landing? They
apparently refuelled from a moving pickup truck
with a hose. Did you also know of the monks from Mt. Hiei, Japan who run 900 marathons in 6 years? To qualify, they do 30 km. a day for 100 consecutive
days. I did not know these things when I woke up on Friday, but
Now I Know.
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posted by Cobalt
on Sep 19, 2011 -
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...and there was just rope everywhere--it went around the whales mouth, around the whale's head, across her eye, over her back wrapped around the pectoral fins, all the way down to its tail. I thought there was no hope, there was no chance, we're looking at a dead whale, the whale just doesn't know it yet--but I knew that I had to try. ...It was a very surreal moment looking down and seeing the 20 crab traps and buoys just disappear into the abyss... And just like that, the whale was gone. ...I'm spinning around, where'd she go, where'd she go ? ...Now here's where the story takes a pretty startling turn. ...Next thing I know there's this fifty ton whale coming right at me...
From about 4:00 to 14:30 in nearly 23 minutes of the segment,
Animal Blessings--in
mp3 here, all 20 megs of it. Or you can try the podcast at
RadioLab: Animal Minds. Either way, you are in for a most truly awesome anecdote. And listen to the whole program to have some back and forth science dropped on you in regards to what we think we know about what and how animals think.
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posted by y2karl
on May 26, 2010 -
69 comments
So this new
critter, the
Symbion pandora, has such a bizarre life cycle and is just so bloody weird -unlike anything we had come across before- that its
discovery in 1995 lead to the creation of a whole new phylum in the Animal Kingdom. Meet the little
monsters.
If your weird-o-meter is humming, keep reading
Zoologger, a new column in NewScientist magazine that writes about about weird animals from around the globe. Selective abortion in pipefish, single-cell giants that enslave bacteria, amphibious cats, you name it.
posted by Cobalt
on Apr 28, 2010 -
38 comments
"Shock and Awe" is the concept behind the Pentagon's planned, "Hiroshima like" attack on Baghdad. "Carpet bombing" was the concept's name in the old days, and was responsible for 125,000 civilian deaths in Dresden. Precision carpet bombing - condonable strategy?
posted by RichLyon
on Jan 27, 2003 -
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