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ScienceSeagull
May 17, 2021

Figure 1 Smart birds.
Mooses can swim which is pretty cool! They might get eaten by orcas though.

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Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
meese

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



ScienceSeagull posted:

Mooses can swim which is pretty cool! They might get eaten by orcas though.

tbh i think most quadropeds are better natural swimmers than humans

humans need to learn that poo poo, but even an adult cat who hates water and has never been in it can swim

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
yeah dog paddling is a much more natural movement than human swimming, they have 4 limbs providing power and it's a lot closer to how they move on land

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
I'm guessing it has a lot to do with balance. For humans most of learning to swim is about keeping your legs from sinking. Quadruped body distribution makes it easier to float with their head out of the water.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



yea keeping your head up is awkward when you dont have a long neck that bends that way by itself

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

of course babies have a swimming reflex

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Tunicate posted:

of course babies have a swimming reflex

yea they have the reflex but they cant really swim or float very well

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
Babies love sucking down all that water.

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Tunicate posted:

of course babies have a swimming reflex

ever see those videos of ladies giving birth in pools? people do it. or they did it. i don't know if it's still a thing

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



prefect posted:

ever see those videos of ladies giving birth in pools? people do it. or they did it. i don't know if it's still a thing

it is still. and probably its good for some, but mostly for posture reasons according to my mom. a bed is a pretty bad angle to shoot out a baby, you could stand up & let gravity do most of the work, and someone to catch the baby. that way theres less poop water everywhere (although some poop is good for the baby)

but yea newborns know not to breathe underwater for a couple weeks/months but the reflex goes away unless its maintained.

George
Nov 27, 2004

No love for your made-up things.
One problem is how much work parents have to put into getting babies to drink things. Then you get them in the pool and tell them to blow it away. Like make up your mind!

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



George posted:

One problem is how much work parents have to put into getting babies to drink things. Then you get them in the pool and tell them to blow it away. Like make up your mind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnwJPViexgg&t=54s

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



In 2008, the couple separated;[44] Duchovny received treatment for sex addiction from August to October.[45][46][47]

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
In the Return of the Jedi arcade game released in 1984, the song plays when the player makes the high score list.

The song appears in an episode of the sitcom Spaced; the producers could not acquire the rights to use the original recording, so Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg performed and recorded their own version.[3]

In the movie Vision Quest the song makes an uncredited appearance during one of Louden's matches, being played by a school band.

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

Looking at the stamps, Theo started dreaming about Jerusalem, a place he thought of as his ancestral home.[citation needed]



Throughout history the Jewish people have dug underneath bedrock.

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

An armpit fart can be achieved by raising an arm up, cupping the hand of the other arm over the armpit so the thumb is parallel with the Anterior Axillary Line, with the remaining fingers wrapped across the Posterior Axillary Line so that bending the arm back down pushes the remaining air out against the skin through a slight opening in the hand. The exact effort needed to create the noise can depend on the physique of both the hand and the armpit, the positioning of the hand, as well as the speed at which the arm is bent.

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004

The MGM art directors added this bit of authenticity because the actual New York Central Railroad operated several lines from Grand Central Terminal in New York City during the 20th century until 1969.

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

Progressive JPEG posted:

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is a routing protocol for Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It uses a link state routing (LSR) algorithm and falls into the group of interior gateway protocols (IGPs), operating within a single autonomous system (AS).

OSPF gathers link state information from available routers and constructs a topology map of the network. The topology is presented as a routing table to the internet layer for routing packets by their destination IP address.

...

OSPF is an interior gateway protocol (IGP) for routing Internet Protocol (IP) packets within a single routing domain, such as an autonomous system. It gathers link state information from available routers and constructs a topology map of the network. The topology is presented as a routing table to the internet layer which routes packets based solely on their destination IP address.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



In 2001, The Sun, a British tabloid reported that Queen Elizabeth II had a rubber duck in her bathroom that wore an inflatable crown. The duck was spotted by a workman who was repainting her bathroom.[7]

hexwren
Feb 27, 2008

quote:

In American English, the word is usually italicized, while it is usually unitalicized in British English.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord
Several fictional review quotes attributed to "David Manning" were used in the promotion of medieval action/drama A Knight's Tale (describing Heath Ledger as "this year's hottest new star!") and Rob Schneider's comedy The Animal ("Another winner!"),[1] the latter of which generally received poor reviews by real critics.

Crescent Wrench
Sep 30, 2005

The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination.
Grimey Drawer

Improbable Lobster posted:

Several fictional review quotes attributed to "David Manning" were used in the promotion of medieval action/drama A Knight's Tale (describing Heath Ledger as "this year's hottest new star!") and Rob Schneider's comedy The Animal ("Another winner!"),[1] the latter of which generally received poor reviews by real critics.

On August 3, 2005, Sony made an out-of-court settlement and agreed to refund $5 each to dissatisfied customers who saw Hollow Man, The Animal, The Patriot, A Knight's Tale, or Vertical Limit in American theaters as a result of Manning's reviews.

Jabberlock
Nov 29, 2014



Crescent Wrench posted:

On August 3, 2005, Sony made an out-of-court settlement and agreed to refund $5 each to dissatisfied customers who saw Hollow Man, The Animal, The Patriot, A Knight's Tale, or Vertical Limit in American theaters as a result of Manning's reviews.

I watched a Knight's Tale on VHS dozens of times, I should get $5 from every viewing (even tho I obviously loved it(I was like 10))

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



It is an open question whether the holiday is a time to honor pigs by "giving them a break" or to appreciate their offerings (spare ribs, bacon and ham).[7]

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
A beached whale carcass should not be consumed.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

What is the Matrix 🌐? We just don't know 😎.


Buglord

haveblue posted:

A beached whale carcass should not be consumed.

now they tell me :mad:

VictualSquid
Feb 29, 2012

Gently enveloping the target with indiscriminate love.

quote:

So fressen die Wattwürmer der Nordsee einmal im Jahr den gesamten Sand des Wattes oberhalb von 20 cm Tiefe. Dazu trägt der Umstand bei, dass die Tiere in einer Dichte von durchschnittlich 40 Exemplaren pro Quadratmeter vorkommen.[1] Ein einzelner Wattwurm filtert dabei 25 kg Sand jährlich.

The north sea sandworm eats the whole sand in the Watt once per year to a depth of 20cm. Each single worm eats around 25kg per year.

Wormpoop, laying on a thick layer of wormpoop:

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



More than I wanted to know about the diet of worms

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

haveblue posted:

A beached whale carcass should not be consumed.

try to stop me!

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Eromanga Provisional School opened on 5 July 1897 but closed in 1908. In 1910 it reopened as Eromanga State School but closed again on 28 February 1911. The school reopened on 23 October 1917 but closed again. It reopened in 1919 until it closed on 22 March 1936. It reopened on 28 May 1956 and closed again on 11 December 1981. It reopened 29 January 1990.[8][9]

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
tbf there is no citation on the beached whale thing so it could be wrong

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

Antivehicular posted:

Eromanga Provisional School opened on 5 July 1897 but closed in 1908. In 1910 it reopened as Eromanga State School but closed again on 28 February 1911. The school reopened on 23 October 1917 but closed again. It reopened in 1919 until it closed on 22 March 1936. It reopened on 28 May 1956 and closed again on 11 December 1981. It reopened 29 January 1990.[8][9]

I didn't know something could be that provisional

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he is supposed to have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to the daughter of his jailer Asterius, who was no longer blind, signing as "Your Valentine."[35] The expression "From your Valentine" was later adopted by modern Valentine letters.[36] This legend has been published by both American Greetings and The History Channel.[37]

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Captain Hygiene posted:

More than I wanted to know about the diet of worms

Powered Descent
Jul 13, 2008

We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

In the context of computer programming, to "violently hit something," such as a computer keyboard, could be considered a hyperbolic image of some frustration.

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

While in junior high school, he met some of the Specs' other band members, who were all college students, at a music store (Correction: he did not meet the other members at a music store but was invited to a band practice by David Snider, who was an acquaintance).[1][2] The band had previously been called Spectrum and had been covering Top 40 songs.[2] As the Specs, they started performing more new wave and 1960s music (Correction: these were songs The Specs were covering as Spectrum, prior to Mr. Sweet being invited to join the band)

This version of the paragraph has been the same for 12 years.

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
According to songwriter Allee Willis, he initially just thought that the 21st was a number picked out of the air by Maurice White for sounding the best in the song. In 2018, however, White’s widow revealed that the 21st of September was meant to be the the due date of her and White’s son.

:3:

Scarodactyl
Oct 22, 2015


Samuel Pepys referred to the dance in his diary as "The Jig of the Ship" and Captain Cook, who took a piper on at least one voyage, is noted to have ordered his men to dance the hornpipe in order to keep them in good health.[5] The dance on-ship became less common when fiddlers ceased to be included in ships' crew members.

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Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Scarodactyl posted:

Samuel Pepys referred to the dance in his diary as "The Jig of the Ship" and Captain Cook, who took a piper on at least one voyage, is noted to have ordered his men to dance the hornpipe in order to keep them in good health.[5] The dance on-ship became less common when fiddlers ceased to be included in ships' crew members.

ive been meaning to read pepys diaries at some point, they seem to have been super candid

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