What have you learned today?

[Thaluikhain]

Ok, them fierce looking giant insects and arachnids and the like that used to be all over the world zillions of years before the dinosaurs? I used to think that they lived then because the oxygen content was higher, but scientists now believe that the reason they went extinct is due to competition from vertebrates.

So, next time a giant spider or scorpion is trying to be all scary, point and laugh, we beat them up ages ago.

 

[Chimpzy]

Today I learned that an anagram of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is "Sly Dicks: Sell Them Error".

Developed and published by Betashed, so what do you expect?

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

‘Canyon of fire’ solar storm to hit Earth today or tomorrow

The solar material was launched from a snapping solar filament

www.livescience.com

What’s amazing is a solar filament that’s about ten times as long as the circumference of the earth and about as deep as half the diameter of it is going to be “mild” when its CME reaches us.

In other space news -

James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 'Phantom Galaxy' picture looks like a wormhole

The telescope is 'new, different, and exciting' for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space images for a decade.

www.space.com

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

In other space news -

James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 'Phantom Galaxy' picture looks like a wormhole

The telescope is 'new, different, and exciting' for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space images for a decade.

www.space.com

"Phantom Galaxy" sounds like the origin of the bad guys in a poorly-translated '50s Japanese sci-fi flick.

 

[Dalisclock]

To further blow your mind, Chewbacca's vocalization is actually the sound of George Lucas' boner when he whacks it on a plie of money like a tuning fork.

I can't unread that, you know.

Thanks, Xprimentyl.

In other news, I learned that someone once tried to see what happens if you give monkeys access to a word processor(AKA the Monkeys with Typewriter metaphor), if wikipedia is to be believed. Apparently 6 monkeys created 5 pages of text, mostly consisting of the letter "S", the lead male hit the Keyboard with a Rock and the other monkeys presumably shit on it.

So exactly what I'd expect from a group of monkeys. I mean, isn't that what as science is for, to prove that monkeys will inevitably throw poop at something?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Oh, I like that the monkeys could see the results, so would press buttons to see stuff happen. Until they got bored, I guess.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Even though my dog doesn't know what kangaroos are she wants to chase them... Now excuse me while I pop my shoulder back into place.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Even though my dog doesn't know what kangaroos are she wants to chase them... Now excuse me while I pop my shoulder back into place.

Well, how's she supposed to know what they are without running up to them and sniffing their butts?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Well, how's she supposed to know what they are without running up to them and sniffing their butts?

Yeah, from the way she was acting I don't think butt sniffing was on her agenda... She goes *very* quiet when her prey drive is pinging.

 

[Gordon_4]

Yeah, from the way she was acting I don't think butt sniffing was on her agenda... She goes *very* quiet when her prey drive is pinging.

In so much as dogs are good at that, I'm not sure I'd call adult kangaroos 'prey'. More like, honoured adversary.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

In so much as dogs are good at that, I'm not sure I'd call adult kangaroos 'prey'. More like, honoured adversary.

She's part ridgeback and they're bred to fuck with things much bigger than them.

 

[Gordon_4]

She's part ridgeback and they're bred to fuck with things much bigger than them.

Wait, does that make her a pig dog? Like Major from Footrot Flats?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Wait, does that make her a pig dog? Like Major from Footrot Flats?

Kinda sorta... She's staffy X ridgeback which is pretty common for pigdogs.



That's what she looked like when she was just over 12 months old. She broadened out a bit at the shoulders since then.

Oh yeah, and she was the runt of her litter.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Oh yeah, and she was the runt of her litter.

My family once got a Husky who turned out to be pregnant. Couldn't keep her (she was an escape artist par excellence), but we kept the runt of her litter. He ended up growing to twice the size of our GSD, with ears so big that he literally couldn't get both of them pointing up at the same time. We liked to joke that his father was a Clydesdale.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Learn something new everyday

 

[Xprimentyl]

Learn something new everyday

Wait, that's a thing? I never knew there was such a distinction. Surly that makes the middle item superfluous.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

Wait, that's a thing? I never knew there was such a distinction. Surly that makes the middle item superfluous.

Multiple fish of the same kind vs multiple kinds of fishes

 

[Xprimentyl]

Multiple fish of the same kind vs multiple kinds of fishes

I got that much, just never knew there was a distinction. Always thought "fish" was a catchall, "fishes" being a present-tense verb.

 

[Chimpzy]

Today I learned rabies is actually really scary.

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

The secret space conference. That is all.