Science!: Alligator Feeding Frenzy and More Squid Stuff
Inside: Fisherman stumbles upon an alligator feeding frenzy
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Science!: Alligator Feeding Frenzy and More Squid Stuff
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Those super powerful magnets would be fucking awesome.
Red Faction: Armaggedon's magnet gun here I come!
Red Faction: Armaggedon's magnet gun here I come!
Those graphene magnets sound awesome! I can't wait to see some of the fun stuff scientists come up with for them in the not-too-distant future.
Also, squids and octopi just get cooler and cooler as time goes on.
Also, squids and octopi just get cooler and cooler as time goes on.
Graphene, the new material for rail-gun prototypes? Interesting.
Also, squid are weird, and that makes me not want to go to the Baja.
Also, squid are weird, and that makes me not want to go to the Baja.
Rail guns, cool, I thought of new faster MagLev trains.FlameUnquenchable said:
Also, squids are evil, they eat Mobula and actually if you catch a squid all his buddies will destroy him for some strange reason.
If I ever go to Florida and meet an Alligator that has been harassed by you, I'll buy a hat, wear it and then I'd have to tip it in respect.manaman said:
Didn't anyone ever tell you alligators and mudcrabs are natural enemies.ColdStorage said:
All jokeing aside, we used to mess with gators often enough down in Texas, the rivers and lakes around the coast where infested with them, they where pretty much all small through, and very rare in the cities.
Looks like the mudcrabs roll for initiative!.manaman said:
Don't worry, I know the drill, I used to spend my summers in warthog land in rural France and they are blindingly aggressive things, very tasty and luckily no laws against "harassing" them.
I think you English speakers call them Warthogs anyway, they are big pigs with tusks, I don't mean the cars from Halo.
I'm a bit surprised they've used Kevlar to test a squid bite. It's better than a lot of things, but I was under the impression that its strength was stopping blunt things moving at high speed, and wasn't as good for something that pierces relatively slowly. Oh, well, I must be thinking of something else.
And to put Telsas into more perspective, the 1.5-to-3 Telsas of an MRI machine is enough to violently yank a piece of metal out of your hands from a yard away. Though I wonder if these innovations with graphene will allow us to do away with liquid-helium-doused superconducting MRI magnets and move over to something that works at room temperature. Would allow for more uptime since re-cooling a quenched superconductor magnet is a long and (I gather) expensive process. There's more concerns than just strength of field, though. Stability is also an issue.
Hmmm. It'll be interesting to see.
And to put Telsas into more perspective, the 1.5-to-3 Telsas of an MRI machine is enough to violently yank a piece of metal out of your hands from a yard away. Though I wonder if these innovations with graphene will allow us to do away with liquid-helium-doused superconducting MRI magnets and move over to something that works at room temperature. Would allow for more uptime since re-cooling a quenched superconductor magnet is a long and (I gather) expensive process. There's more concerns than just strength of field, though. Stability is also an issue.
Hmmm. It'll be interesting to see.
Boars, usually.ColdStorage said:
OT: Looks like I can almost finally get a hoverboard. At long. long last.
The boat that discovered the Northwest Passage found? Stan Rogers is singing in my head right now.
Yeah those things!, the minute I read that I thought "I'm an idiot!".LewsTherin said:
But yeah awful things, very aggressive, same goes for Squids if you catch one put it back into the water, watch all his friends come along and rip him apart.
We call them; wild boars, razorback, boars [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar], or something along those lines. warthogs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warthog] are specific species of pig in Africa. It's rare to run into boar in Texas, they are mostly in California and the South eastern US, but you can find populations of what where once domestic pig all over. Domestic pigs can dwarf wild pigs in size.ColdStorage said:
Give them to Mythbusters and we wont have to.Jaredin said:
We have Crocodiles in Australia, they're protected too. Thats of no comfort however when one of them decides to take a chunk out of your fishing boat.
What happened to the funny titles?
Was the shipwrecked ship (ung, weird) still above water? That looks like an archeologist's wet dream. It'd be awesome to find a two century old artifact of that size just forgotten on the banks.
I look forward to flying around in graphene electromagnetic fields. Pchooo.
Was the shipwrecked ship (ung, weird) still above water? That looks like an archeologist's wet dream. It'd be awesome to find a two century old artifact of that size just forgotten on the banks.
I look forward to flying around in graphene electromagnetic fields. Pchooo.