dxhound2005 wrote: » You could have been even more shameless and stolen it from previous posts on the subject here.
mzungu wrote: » In other shark news, a recent study of 18 Greenland sharks found that they were at least 272 years old. This makes the Greenland shark the longest-living vertebrate known to science.
gozunda wrote: » Big Tooth The largest shark lived between 23.8 and 5.3 million years ago.
secondrowgal wrote: » Shamelessly stolen from the Dumb Facebook thread (YES - who knew there was actual information in there!!) Sinister comes from the Latin 'left or on the left side' and supposedly being left handed is a negative in many cultures. Dexter is the opposite meaning 'right or on the right side' and the words associated with it, dexterity and dexterous are all about having skill and ability.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » Sharks are carnivorous. But nearly 2/3rds of the diet of Bonnethead sharks is seagrass.
seagull wrote: » Along the same lines, you have the usage of gauche meaning clumsy, taken directly from the French for left
MikeyTaylor wrote: There's a nurse shark in Birmingham Aquarium called Florence who is almost entirely vegetarian.
blastman wrote: » Sean Connery was once stopped for speeding by a policeman named James Bond
dball wrote: » Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle,
BaZmO* wrote: » Is that the fact? Or is ther more to come. The comma would suggest there is. The suspense is killing me!
Kat1170 wrote: » Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat, and may also include abstention from by-products of animals, so doesn't really pertain to animals who are in fact herbivores. Most breeds of Piranha, despite their reputation are herbivores.
The majority of the planet's 50,000 or so vertebrate species are vegetarian. But among the minority of carnivorous species are some of the best known creatures on the planet. Should these serial killers be permitted to prey on other sentient beings indefinitely?
It's crucial that at some point the animal-rights movement moves beyond farm, laboratory, and companion animals. The scale of brutality in nature is too vast to ignore, and humans have an obligation to exercise their cosmically rare position as both intelligent and empathetic creatures to reduce suffering in the wild as much as they can.
Ipso wrote: Now he’s under pressure.
gozunda wrote: » A similar situation to those who ascribe human morality to animals- describing wild carnivores with an epithet of 'serial killer' :rolleyes: The general idea being that wild predators should be eradicated ... See:https://foundational-research.org/the-importance-of-wild-animal-suffering/https://www.hedweb.com/abolitionist-project/reprogramming-predators.html
mzungu wrote: » 2013 was the first year since 1987 to have different numbers
Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: » Or even four different numbers.
mzungu wrote: » Research suggests that Voyager 1 has left our solar system behind.
mzungu wrote: » Research suggests that Voyager 1 has left our solar system behind. This would make it the first man made object to do so. There is still a bit more left to go on the journey as it will not run out of propellant energy until 2025 by which point it will be much further into interstellar space.
Fourier wrote: » The ratio is often named the golden ratio and is around 1.618.
Fourier wrote: » Just as pi often pops up if there is a circle present somewhere (often its not obvious immediately where in the situation the circle is), the golden ratio often pops up in places where a certain kind of ellipse shows up (again it is not always obvious there is an ellipse involved).
Fourier wrote: » However its frequency is often over stated
