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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:08 am Post subject: Shocking Animal Facts |
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Shocking? Well, that's what the page is called, but ehh [shrugs].
Some of them are common knowledge, some of them are possibly spurious, but I think there's at least a few new ones for everyone (or most of us at any rate).
Maybe somebody could use this stuff for a kids class or something.
http://www.faizani.com/news/news_2003/shocking_animal_facts.html
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There is a sea squirt found in the seas near Japan that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature, it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So, waste not want not, it eats it.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
The cells that make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of a species of super-flea; they are bigger than cockroaches and can jump 20 feet (6 m). |
When you're finished with that, check out the rest of the website- it's uh, well, somewhat incongruent with interesting animal trivia... |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| some of them are possibly spurious, |
I wouldn't expect a cynic like you to believe or appreciate the wonders of the natural world.
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| Maybe somebody could use this stuff for a kids class or something |
The aim of knowledge of the amazing natural world is, to preserve it. All these other amazing lifeforms on earth are infinitely more useful and worthy, than simply a tool to make kids go "Ooh" and ah".
Still..anything that makes koreans aware of the existence of, and wonder of, the natural world is a step in the right direction.
If they ask "but can you eat it?" whack them immediately with the textbook. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| rapier wrote: |
| Bulsajo wrote: |
| some of them are possibly spurious |
I wouldn't expect a cynic like you to believe or appreciate the wonders of the natural world.
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So, how's the view from up there?
WTF do you know about my appreciation of the wonders of natural world, you pompous jackass?
Since you seem to have seized on the expression, here's an example of one which I find to be 'possibly spurious':
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| The cockroach's favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps. |
Which species?
Which glue?
Are all glues on all stamps the same, all around the world?
Do all species of cockroaches find all of them irresistable?
How do we know it's their 'favorite' food?
Wouldn't you have to test the glue on a wide variety stamps against all other possible cockroach food sources, using a wide variety of cockroach species as test subjects, in order to determine if they were really "The cockroaches favorite food"?
And since you are obviously much more of a naturalist/biologist/entomologist than me- by nature of your deeper appreciation of the wonders of the natural world- I expect you already know the answer to this.
I'm all ears. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| I wouldn't expect a cynic like you to believe or appreciate the wonders of the natural world. |
Rapier, try appreciating the human race before you go off on the importance of appreciating butterflies and ecosystems. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:21 am Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| I wouldn't expect a cynic like you to believe or appreciate the wonders of the natural world. |
Rapier, try appreciating the human race before you go off on the importance of appreciating butterflies and ecosystems. |
Homo sapiens = vermin.
Humans qualify in first place beyond all other species. lets see the criteria:
1)Dominant to the point of harming and exterminating other species relentlessly.
2) Toxic: poison everywhere they go with a dizzying array of air, water and land pollution.
3)left unchecked, will ravage and destroy its own environment beyond repair.
4) Multiply rapidly to the detriment of all else.
5)Destructive: irreversibly alters natural landscapes and ecosystems forever.
6)Able to live in almost any environment, travel with ease and exploit every kind of resource.
7) Threatens to destroy the only known inhabitable planet and everything on it.
8)has reached unsustainable plague proportions. |
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coldcrush
Joined: 02 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:25 am Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| I'm all ears. |
Wait, really? |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| rapier wrote: |
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| I wouldn't expect a cynic like you to believe or appreciate the wonders of the natural world. |
Rapier, try appreciating the human race before you go off on the importance of appreciating butterflies and ecosystems. |
Homo sapiens = vermin.
Humans qualify in first place beyond all other species. lets see the criteria:
1)Dominant to the point of harming and exterminating other species relentlessly.
2) Toxic: poison everywhere they go with a dizzying array of air, water and land pollution.
3)left unchecked, will ravage and destroy its own environment beyond repair.
4) Multiply rapidly to the detriment of all else.
5)Destructive: irreversibly alters natural landscapes and ecosystems forever.
6)Able to live in almost any environment, travel with ease and exploit every kind of resource.
7) Threatens to destroy the only known inhabitable planet and everything on it.
8)has reached unsustainable plague proportions. |
Yeah, you're right, you better kill yourself. |
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yemanja
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:47 am Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of a species of super-flea; they are bigger than *beep* and can jump 20 feet (6 m). |
Incase anyone was wondering, like I was...
The beeped word is the name of a much hated insect:
coxkroach
Actually first time I read it I thought the beep was a bad word:
first letter "s", last two letters "it".
It reads better that way |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Shocking Animal Facts |
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| coldcrush wrote: |
| Bulsajo wrote: |
| I'm all ears. |
Wait, really? |
Cheers, big ears! |
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sonofthedarkstranger
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| Rapier, your language is so emotionally charged. Everything you've said above is a value judgment. Far better to stick to facts, else you sound like an ideologue. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:56 am Post subject: |
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| sonofthedarkstranger wrote: |
| Rapier, your language is so emotionally charged. Everything you've said above is a value judgment. Far better to stick to facts, else you sound like an ideologue. |
But they are the facts. Every point I made is true:) |
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sonofthedarkstranger
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:06 am Post subject: |
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"Vermin." " Toxic." "Plague."
These are statements of opinion. They are value-laden.
They are not facts.
They may possibly be based on facts, but your statements above are not facts. They are highly opinionated interpretations of purported facts. You would never see such language used in a scientific journal. |
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rapier
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| sonofthedarkstranger wrote: |
| You would never see such language used in a scientific journal. |
Scientific journal be blowed. All our science still hasn't stopped us from wrecking the earth and its operating systems at a frightening rate, and heading to self destruction.
Arctic completely thawed by 2025.
Atmospheric temperature highest ever.
World population highest ever and climbing.
Industrial pollution at highest ever.
Species extinctions reach new high.
Global warming induced disasters accelerating.
CO2 levels rising at fastest rate in history.
Glaciers retreating at record rates.
-but lets just go and read a pleasant little scientific journal, printed and bound on rainforest- extracted paper. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Atmospheric temperature highest ever. |
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The 15th and 16th centuries would contest that statement.
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| CO2 levels rising at fastest rate in history. |
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The research done by the scientific community does not agree with your statement. |
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sonofthedarkstranger
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:33 am Post subject: |
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What you've listed here is at least more factual and more based on the science that, according to you, "blows" then your previous propaganda. I can work with these statements because they aren't made in the same shrill, hysterical tone as your previous ones. Actually, they no doubt were, but they are fair points at least.
And lest you wonder, I am concerned about the environment.
But saying that we are a toxic plague of vermin is not factual nor scientific. It's just your hatred leaking out. It's just feelings, nothing more. |
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