This is a really interesting podcast on this very subject, actually talks about that shrimp too.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
http://www.radiolab.org/story/211119-colors/
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12-05-2017 03:40 PM #361PERSEVERE
Verb: pə:ːsɪ'ˈvɪə/
To not give up.
To go the distance.
To stop at nothing.
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12-05-2017 10:28 PM #362This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-05-2017 10:59 PM #363
There's a theory that it was only recently that we became able to distinguish blue from green. In fact, many languages with diverse roots had only one word for the 2 colours.
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-...earch-suggests
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13-05-2017 07:23 AM #364
Our eyes were originally designed to see underwater. Since leaving the oceans they've adjusted but are nowhere near as good as they once were.
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14-05-2017 12:27 AM #365
The water we drink is the same water that the dinosaurs drank. It's almost certain that when you have a drink of water it's passed through the body of a dinosaur or a similarly prehistoric being. Basically we're all drinking dinosaur piss.
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14-05-2017 08:18 AM #366This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-05-2017 08:31 AM #367This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-05-2017 02:03 PM #368
Great story in the times today.
If the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs had impacted 30 seconds earlier or later then it's likely that we wouldn't be here and the dinosaurs would still rule the earth today!
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14-05-2017 04:42 PM #369This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
How did they come to that conclusion?
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14-05-2017 05:07 PM #370
Armed CP Police officers dressed in suits on protection duty wear something on their person to indicate they are carrying a firearm to other officers.
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14-05-2017 06:04 PM #371This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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14-05-2017 06:23 PM #372This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-05-2017 12:53 PM #374This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Where it landed, the Yucatan Peninsula is a narrow strip of land. 30 seconds before or after then it would have more then likely landed in one of the surrounding oceans which would have caused a lot less damage. With the dinosaurs still alive and kicking mammals and humans would never have had the opportunity to evolve.
There is a programme about it on BBC 2 tonight.
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15-05-2017 02:21 PM #376This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-05-2017 05:26 PM #377This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Interesting, cheers mate
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15-05-2017 06:08 PM #378This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-05-2017 07:57 PM #379
The 'Spanish flu' outbreak of 1918 killed between 50-100M people, about 3-6% of the the population of the world at the time. For comparison a total of about 17M servicemen and civilians were killed in WWI.
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15-05-2017 08:15 PM #380This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-05-2017 08:49 AM #381
There is a street in Morningside with a wild west town theme area to it, looks very realistic if not very run down.
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16-05-2017 08:58 AM #382This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
http://www.dalryburnsclub.org.uk/stamps/stamps.html
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16-05-2017 09:42 AM #383This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-05-2017 09:55 AM #384
On the subject of diseases. Orphaned children were used to transport the smallpox vaccine around the world. There was no refrigeration at the time, so they injected the vaccine into children and sent them on boats to places like South America.
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16-05-2017 06:52 PM #385This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I wrote an essay about the 1918 outbreak as part of a course on post WWI society and some of the reasons put forward for the death toll were really interesting. One of the more recent was that people were actually dying from aspirin poisoning rather than the flu itself. The theory was based on the fact the US Army surgeon general recommended an exceptionally high dose to treat the illness. Bayers patent on aspirin also expired at the time and a host of drug companies rushed to try and make money by marketing aspirin as a 'cure'.
The likely truth is the war itself was the driving factor behind the death rate. Wartime censorship stopped early reporting of the illness so people weren't aware or prepared. The war also totally flipped peoples natural behaviours to flu which allowed the far deadlier 2nd strain to gain a foothold. Normally really ill people stay at home whilst those with a more serious illness go on with their life. During the war soldiers who were more severely sick packed onto trains and travelled to overcrowded field hospitals and heavier population centres to seek treatment. Those with the milder illness had to stay where they were.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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21-05-2017 09:36 PM #387
If you look in the mirror you can't see your eyes move. This is because your brain makes you temporarily blind as you move your eyes around. It happens so quickly we don't notice it, but we spend around 2% of our lives blind.
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22-05-2017 03:49 PM #388
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The blue planet globe is the only picture of earth from space. The size of the continents changes every decade or so.
Go figure.
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22-05-2017 04:24 PM #389
Your driving licence has a code to indicate you should be wearing eye sight correction (glasses or lenses) if you declared it when applying for licence. If stopped and not wearing your glasses/lenses you can be prosecuted.
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22-05-2017 06:38 PM #390
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