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I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

IamMetaldave

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ohnonotgmail

is it wrong that i giggled a littled at the graph in Fouriers post?

Ipso

What about the throwing hot dogs method?
http://www.excelhero.com/blog/2014/11/calculate-pi-by-throwing-hotdogs.html

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ILoveYourVibes

New Home wrote: »

Don't **** wit de creb!

DEFTLEFTHAND

An African Lion Pride can consist at times of up to 20 individual families. They don't inbreed.

One dominant male leads the Pride.

If that male is killed from an attack from inside or outside the Pride the victor male will take his pick of the Lionesses and kill all her cubs, he will then start his own line.

They will not kill their own. His main goal is to die from natural causes and pass on the leadership to his strongest son.

dxhound2005

In the UK 90% of bees are solitary bees, rather than those which live in colonies or hives.

https://animalcorner.co.uk/animals/solitary-bees/

its_steve116

The heavy metal band Bring Me the Horizon take their name from a quote in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie in which Jack Sparrow says, "Now bring me the horizon."

Capt'n Midnight

Lions are less likely to die of natural causes than their prey because they kill each other.

Realt Dearg Sec

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Lions are less likely to die of natural causes than their prey because they kill each other.

This is going to sound like hair splitting but what qualifies as a natural cause? If it's in their nature to kill each other...isn't that a natural cause? What WOULDN'T be a natural cause?

Capt'n Midnight

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

This is going to sound like hair splitting but what qualifies as a natural cause? If it's in their nature to kill each other...isn't that a natural cause? What WOULDN'T be a natural cause?

Well the non-violent stuff like heart attacks , high cholesterol , cooties, male pattern baldness , Munchausen by proxy, you know all the things wild animals are prey to.

[Deleted User]

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

What WOULDN'T be a natural cause?

I'm no expert, but nuclear annihilation? Being run over by a London cabbie led astray by a rogue GPS? Attack by ninja? Catnip overdose?

Other lion-related facts; Sister lions stay together for life and their daughters continue the lifestyle but poor wee boy lions are ejected as soon as they hit that awkward juvenile stage where they think they're the boss of everyone and sent on their way to infiltrate a non related pride and keep the family DNA going. Life isn't all bad though, since they thereafter basically just run security and keep the pride safe from whatever predator wants to kill or eat the babies, while the ladies go out and get the dinner.

They are also not the kings of the jungle, but kings of the savannas as they live in open grasslands.

[Deleted User]

Goddamn it, the Capt'n beat me to it with the male pattern baldness.

New Home

And gout, you forgot gout.

BaZmO*

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

An African Lion Pride can consist at times of up to 20 individual families. They don't inbreed.

One dominant male leads the Pride.

If that male is killed from an attack from inside or outside the Pride the victor male will take his pick of the Lionesses and kill all her cubs, he will then start his own line.

They will not kill their own. His main goal is to die from natural causes and pass on the leadership to his strongest son.

I don’t think that bit is true. Male lions get ousted from the group once they hit maturity.

Chancer3001

dxhound2005 wrote: »

In the UK 90% of bees are solitary bees, rather than those which live in colonies or hives.

https://animalcorner.co.uk/animals/solitary-bees/

That's nuts. So where do they sleep? And they don't make honey ? And i assume they don't reproduce either?

sbsquarepants

Animal Psychologist Irene Pepperberg was studding the use of language in an African grey parrot. Whilst teaching him colours Alex the parrot caught sight of his reflection in a mirror and after studying it for a while asked "what colour?"

To this day it remains the only question ever asked by a non human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)

mzungu

Despite its name, only 45% of the London Underground is underground in tunnels, the rest is in the outer environs of London on the surface.

[Deleted User]

Shark attacks kill around 10 people worldwide a year, but humans kill somewhere between 20 and 90 million sharks a year.

Most of that number are killed because people in China and much of Asia consider Sharks Fin Soup a delicacy. The sharks are caught, their fins cut off and they're thrown back into the sea to bleed to death. The remaining kills are from accidental catches in commercial trawlers, culls organized to make swimming safer in tourist areas, and a small number are killed by those inexplicable people who need trophies to brag about and hang on their walls.

Most shark attacks are within 35 metres of shore and over 90% of victims are male - half of all victims are surfers. Florida is the shark attack capital of the world with 600 fatalities since 1959, in contrast to the 25 fatal alligator encounters (since 1973) in the same State.

As for Shark Week, sharks can't smell blood from a mile off as widely believed but they might smell it from a quarter mile off. Even so, menses isn't blood alone and the blood is mixed with endometrial cells and cervical mucus and other goodies, which might literally throw Jaws off the scent. The University of Florida confirms no discernible pattern of Shark Week shark attacks and since they research such matters, they should know. Less than 10% of attacks are female, so if you want to go surfing while also surfing Satans Waterfall you're probably safe. Though why risk it.*

Your chance of shark attack is very low - about 1 in 3.5 million over a lifetime. For the 8 - 12 people who die from shark attack yearly, nearly 40 million people will die of starvation.

*I'm helping my young nephews with a science project, they love sharks.

Ineedaname

Sharks are old.

They're believed to have first appeared around 450 millions years ago. That's 200 million years before the first dinosaur and 50 million years before the first tree.

They've even survived all five of earths major extinction events.

New Home

And they made shark dentists redundant - no mean feat, that.

sbsquarepants

Ineedaname wrote: »

Sharks are old.

They're believed to have first appeared around 450 millions years ago. That's 200 million years before the first dinosaur and 50 million years before the first tree.

They've even survived all five of earths major extinction events.

They're also surprisingly resilient in a tornado....according to some documentary a while back:D

Chancer3001

the 3 main characters in Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia are Charlie, Mac and Dennis

Charlie is played by CHARLIE Day

Mac by Rob MACilheney

but Dennis is played by Glen Hewerthon who decided his character was too mental and psycho to share his actual name!

Similarly, Will Smith was told before filming Fresh Prince, that whatever his character was called, people would know him by that character name forever more....so his character in the show is called.... Will Smith.

Similar ideas are seen in Spin city with Mike (michael J Fox) and Charlie (Charlie Sheen) and again with Charlie Sheen playing Charlie in Two and a half men and with Tony Danze playing "Tony" in both Taxi and Who's the boss.

Edit - I forgot the American Office where 3 or 4 characters use the actors name - Angela, Oscar, Creed etc

New Home

GBX

In the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm 5 months beforehand because of strict quarantine rules in Australia.

md23040

Candie wrote: »

Shark attacks kill around 10 people worldwide a year......

Your chance of shark attack is very low - about 1 in 3.5 million over a lifetime.

*I'm helping my young nephews with a science project, they love sharks.

In the interests of accuracy and being utterly petulant on my part, based on the above limited information you supplied then this statistic is wrong and do not want your nephew to lose marks.

There are 7.7 billion on the planet and for your stat to be valid then humans would need to reach an age of 220 years old. If average age expectancy is 80 then your odds of getting eaten by a shark over a lifetime are 1 to 9.6 million.

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md23040 wrote: »

In the interests of accuracy and being utterly petulant on my part, based on the above limited information you supplied then this statistic is wrong and do not want your nephew to lose marks.

There are 7.7 billion on the planet and for your stat to be valid then humans would need to reach an age of 220 years old. If average age expectancy is 80 then your odds of getting eaten by a shark over a lifetime are 1 to 9.6 million.

Are you assuming all attacks result in death?

Wibbs

New Home wrote: »

Not quite. It was a big one, but certainly not the loudest sound ever heard on earth. Over it's billions of years there have been many much louder. The meteorite slamming into modern day Mexico that took out the dinosaurs would have been significantly louder.

But if we take historically, then there are other contenders. A big one would be the volcanic eruption that blew up the aegean island of Santorini, known as Thera back then during the Minoan civilisation(around 1500 BC). A larger bang than Krakatoa that blew the island apart and almost certainly informed the story of Atlantis*. It also caused a massive tsunami that hit the Greek mainland and heavily damaged the Minoan civilisation. Going further back into human prehistory around 60,000 BC there was also the Toba event, another volcanic eruption much larger again and not too far from Krakatoa, which led to "nuclear winter" conditions around the globe and reduced the human population, to the degree it caused a genetic bottleneck that was can see traces of today.

*Plato was clearly spinning an allegorical yarn, but he could certainly have been inspired by the Thera/Santorini and her destruction. He described the "Atlanteans" as a powerful seafaring race with cool technology, who were antagonists to the earliest proto Greeks, which would describe the Minoans. Atlantis he describes as a ring of land with a narrow entrance that led to an inward sea and docks for their great ships on a central island. Now he exaggerates the scales, but before it blew up Thera/Santorini fits that description. It was a ring of mountain with a small entrance into a safe harbour and a central island.

It also fits his description of a rapid cataclysmic end to Atlantis when Thera blew her top and billions of tonnes of water flooded into the volcanic cauldron. He also notes that the soil was made of three colours; black, red and yellow, which if you ever visit Santorini today you will see that in exposed ground.

Interestingly, like Pompeii there is a large chunk of buildings and artefacts under the volcanic ash of the event. They're are extremely sophisticated for the time. Paved streets, two storey houses with hot and cold running water and drainage. Far in advance of the nascent Greek mainlanders.

Unlike Pompeii, no bodies. It looks like the people got away in time warned by ominous rumblings and quakes. Or maybe they are there, still buried, huddled in a group waiting for rescue.

Capt'n Midnight

New Home

Wibbs wrote: »

Not quite. It was a big one, but certainly not the loudest sound ever heard on earth. Over it's billions of years there have been many much louder. The meteorite slamming into modern day Mexico that took out the dinosaurs would have been significantly louder.

D'you know, I was thinking about that one, too. But then I remembered, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?" (this was before the advent of humankind, IIRC, and the dinosaurs don't count, for the purposes of this post). :pac:

humberklog

New Home wrote: »

D'you know, I was thinking about that one, too. But then I remembered, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?" (this was before the advent of humankind, IIRC, and the dinosaurs don't count, for the purposes of this post). :pac:

It's why the dinosaurs went extinct...they couldn't put their hand over their ears.