Drybones wrote:
They should wipe her nose in it to get her properly trained.
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“Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
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it be cool if they find the culprit...like a three pound egg with Widmanstatten lines.
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uncle meat wrote:
...and in other news
Breaking news:
The Chicago Police Dept has replaced
all sirens with the National Anthem to
force suspects to stop running and take a knee.
"Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
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BIG NEWS! Published just this week in Current Biology, DNA proof that Dryococelus australis (aka the Lord Howe Island stick insect) is not extinct.
cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31098-9
This giant insect was thought to have gone extinct in 1920 after a infestation of rats from a shipwreck on Lord Howe Island eradicated the insect from it's endemic home on the idyllic South Pacific island between New Zealand and Australia. For over 80 years it was on the list of extinct species until in 2001 scientists found a population on Ball's Pyriamid (the world's tallest sea stack) located 14 miles off the coast of the island. This 1844 foot rock jutting out of the sea is so steep it was thought that no significant terrestrial plant or animal life could be supported. However the scientists found 24 specimens living under a single shrub about 330 feet up the rock. Two breeding pairs were captured for a breeding program. This weeks publication reports that DNA testing showed the captive insects from Ball's Stack are less than 1% divergent from the museum species from Lord Howe Island, confirming that they are the same species and not a new species. Climbing of Ball's Stack is prohibited but there are hiking trails on the island. However no camping is allowed and the few hotels run by the 380 residents are very expensive, so bring lots of cash. Also just announced is approval to begin a rat eradication program so the insect can be reintroduced to the island. Start packing.
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odd man out wrote:
BIG NEWS! Published just this week in Current Biology, DNA proof that Dryococelus australis (aka the Lord Howe Island stick insect) is not extinct.
cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31098-9
This giant insect was thought to have gone extinct in 1920 after a infestation of rats from a shipwreck on Lord Howe Island eradicated the insect from it's endemic home on the idyllic South Pacific island between New Zealand and Australia. For over 80 years it was on the list of extinct species until in 2001 scientists found a population on Ball's Pyriamid (the world's tallest sea stack) located 14 miles off the coast of the island. This 1844 foot rock jutting out of the sea is so steep it was thought that no significant terrestrial plant or animal life could be supported. However the scientists found 24 specimens living under a single shrub about 330 feet up the rock. Two breeding pairs were captured for a breeding program. This weeks publication reports that DNA testing showed the captive insects from Ball's Stack are less than 1% divergent from the museum species from Lord Howe Island, confirming that they are the same species and not a new species. Climbing of Ball's Stack is prohibited but there are hiking trails on the island. However no camping is allowed and the few hotels run by the 380 tourists are very expensive, so bring lots of cash. Also just announced is approval to begin a rat eradication program so the insect can be reintroduced to the island. Start packing.
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If they made it to the sea stack and thrived, isn't it possible they made it off the main island to somewhere else?
Remember, everyone thought the coelacanth had been extinct for...oh...65 million freaking years until the 1930's...
However, it is cool to find the little buggers anywhere. The rat story is one of the classics about foreign invasive species causing havoc in paradise... -
except it's 370 miles to the closest land (Australia) and further to an island where the bugs might have a chance to survive. It's not like they can swim. That these remote islands get populated in first place is amazing.
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And in other news...let’s see what the POTUS is up to.
mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldT…mp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Hmm, another war on drugs...I wish him well. So they are gonna pull Fentanyl off the market, good, I know a kid that died from taking it, but it prolly won’t change folks/kids from taking drugs. And not to be political about it, but the new approach starts with education of our young, I didn’t realize that was a new approach, but again I wish the administration well.The post was edited 2 times, last by Socks ().
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Astro wrote:
Sometimes it is hard to protect people from themselves.
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ScareBear wrote:
Fentanyl is a blessing to those in the final stages of cancer. Taking it off the market harms the innocent. No bueno.
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And in other news, South Korean runs wrong way and defects to to North Korea.
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This is very cool. Of the 750,000 asteroids that have been observed, this is the first one to have come in from interstellar space. Plus it is the first to have such an elongated shape. From its trajectory, it must have been hurtling all by itself through interstellar space for hundreds of millions of years. For decades, scientists have speculated that there should be debris ejected from forming solar systems hurtling through space but this is the first evidence that there really is. After a close encounter with the sun, it is now on a trajectory to leave the solar system for hundreds millions more lonely years.
doi:10.1038/nature25020
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Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
tfes.org/
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max.patch wrote:
Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
tfes.org/
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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jimmyjam wrote:
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!
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LIhikers wrote:
I'm hoping that everyone has something to be thankful for this year and that you find a way to celebrate the day.
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SarcasmTheElf wrote:
LIhikers wrote:
I'm hoping that everyone has something to be thankful for this year and that you find a way to celebrate the day.
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Great T-Day in these parts. Started with a sunrise mountain walk, startled a flock of wild turkeys, a herd of deer and spied fresh mountain lion tracks.
Enjoyed T-Day dinner with friends. She not only made a tasty standing rib roast, but also shared stories about her great grandparents crossing the plains via wagon in the 1850s. She made a delicious cranberry cobbler and shared the recipe.
Lest we forget.....
SSgt Ray Rangel - USAF
SrA Elizabeth Loncki - USAF
PFC Adam Harris - USA
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Astro wrote:
max.patch wrote:
Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
tfes.org/
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odd man out wrote:
Astro wrote:
max.patch wrote:
Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
https://www.tfes.org/
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chief wrote:
odd man out wrote:
Astro wrote:
max.patch wrote:
Jake Ace wrote:
and in other news, who knew the earth was really flat...the flat earth society o’coarse, even Shaq has joined the cause, so it must be twrue.
https://www.tfes.org/
While they may say those things, doesn't necessarily make it true.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Astro I couldn’t find where you mention exchange students, but were you an exchange student as well. Great program, my wife’s family did that, and my sister in-law went to France, she’s since visited her adoptive family several times over the years, and vacationed there, very neat.
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Jake Ace wrote:
Astro I couldn’t find where you mention exchange students, but were you an exchange student as well. Great program, my wife’s family did that, and my sister in-law went to France, she’s since visited her adoptive family several times over the years, and vacationed there, very neat.
Jake Ace wrote:
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
Richard Ewell, CSA General -
Went to the ABC store to get some holiday cheer and they have a heck of a sale on Evan Williams. Buy two 750 ml (14.95 ea)and get $10 off or buy one1500 ml (24.94) and$10 off. I went for the 1500 ml honey. So I got a half gallon for $14.95. mail in rebate.
We'll be playing cards tonight so if I post anything after say 10pm, let me go ahead and apologize for it now."Dazed and Confused"
Recycle, re-use, re-purpose
Plant a tree
Take a kid hiking
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Jake Ace wrote:
Astro I couldn’t find where you mention exchange students, but were you an exchange student as well. Great program, my wife’s family did that, and my sister in-law went to France, she’s since visited her adoptive family several times over the years, and vacationed there, very neat.
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jimmyjam wrote:
We'll be playing cards tonight so if I post anything after say 10pm, let me go ahead and apologize for it now.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them. -
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Very grafic!
Japan's 400-Year-Old Bear Hunt Is Sacred—and Controversial - National Geographic apple.news/AZLckp38bRxasFbEvgPOz7Q
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