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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
We can get back to happy human anihilation if you’d prefer…
well yes that was what I was thinking! Can I post a completely irrelevant but funny column for the bibliophiles?
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Geoff: that opening shot, yeah! And the woman later on who's assembling switches for heaters, her fingers moving so fast they're almost a blur.
Chris: China makes so much of our stuff, and recycles it, too. It's important we in the West know where it comes from, and what the costs really are, both in working conditions and degradation of the environment.
Oh how cheerful this thread has become!
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Oh, no. How awful.
I have a new appreciation of the unbelievable scale of Chinese industry/mining/resource recovery after seeing the movie Manufactured Landscapes.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Yeah keas totally rule ;-) I for one welcome our new flappy squawky overlords.
Seals, wow, if you've ever seen a dead one you'll know how creepily human their hand-bones are!
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
Whales (including dolphins, which are a subgroup of the whale family) are descended from land-dwelling mammals. Inside their flippers are the same bones we have in our hands. The body undulations that propel them through the water are analogous to a horse's canter, not the side-to-side movements of fish.
The relationship of brain size to body size to intelligence is somewhat complicated, but we humans seem to be way outside the norm.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Chris Waugh,
when nature no longer finds us useful we’ll be discarded, just like countless other species before us? Our survival as a species depends on that understanding and acceptance of those facts.
I do wonder if our big-brained existence will be one of nature's failed experiments. Our ability to learn and adapt and reason and invent gets us into trouble as often as it gets us out of it. We solve some problems and create even bigger ones for ourselves and for the planet. It'd be nice if we were smart as well as clever.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I'm reminded of one of Barry Crump's (supposedly true) anecdotes about living in a rented shack in Queensland that came with a pet boa constrictor. To avoid alarming his guests who might come upon her unexpectedly, he put a sign by the front path saying, "The snake is tame". He says the sign reduced the number of visitors from very few to none at all.
I can imagine a pet leopard might reduce the number of door-to-door sales calls one received.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Amazing leopard, Sofie! And he looks so tame. What country was this in?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The Christchurch Art Gallery will not reopen until the middle of next year (2013), the gallery's director says.
Oh, crap. I thought that building was impervious.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to merc,
I hope everybody is getting the same information
Oh I distinctly remember being warned after September 4th, 2010, to expect an aftershock of about one magnitude less than the big quake. We were dreading it, but remember no one died in the September quake. It was scary and upsetting and did a bit of damage, but we didn’t expect a magnitude-6 aftershock to be as bad. We weren’t to know it would happen virtually under the city and be so shallow. The Darfield quake was centred 40km away.