Relax, everyone, it's just the beta for Frogger 3.0.
~UP
-- Eat the Path.
OK, that's freaky
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dacarr
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· Score: 4, Informative
I'm not exactly the squeamish type, but that kinda made me a bit queasy. Please be warned - this appears to be an odd fusion of three frogs.
-- This sig no verb.
really freaky...
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advocate_one
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· Score: 4, Informative
watching on tv last night on the local section of the news...
It's not a hoax, there really are three heads and most of three bodies merged on that animal... but only two forelegs but I was unable to determine exactly how many rear legs there were... but then again frog's bums don't exactly appeal to me either...
-- Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I don't know, it's seems to be doing pretty well as it is... Don't assume it's a terrible existence just because it's different from the norm.
I'm sure that if you or I were thrown into an existence like that it might be unbearable, but things would become easier as we learned to cope, these frogs, as well as some humans, have never known another existence, therefore it isn't so unbearable to them.
-- 'And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few...'
it's still alive...
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runswithd6s
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· Score: 3, Insightful
If this isn't a hoax (it's not April 1st yet), it's quite amazing that the frog has lived as long as it has. That frog is lucky, I tell ya.
-- assert(expired(knowledge));/* core dump */
Mythological Typographical Error
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roberto0
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· Score: 5, Funny
Is this the frog that guards the gates of Hades? No, that's three-headed dog.
Maybe this is the guy who guards the gates of Froggy-Hell!!!
-- Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
Re:Mythological Typographical Error
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Mr+Beano
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· Score: 3, Funny
Kermberus!
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Re:Democracy meets Biology
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Cy+Guy
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· Score: 4, Funny
ALL HEADS:
You're a Knight of the Round Table? ROBIN:
I am. LEFT HEAD:
In that case, I shall have to kill you. MIDDLE HEAD:
Shall I? RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, I don't think so. MIDDLE HEAD:
Well, what do I think? LEFT HEAD:
I think kill him. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, let's be nice to him. LEFT HEAD:
Oh, shut up. ROBIN:
Perhaps I could-- LEFT HEAD:
And you. Oh, quick! Get the sword out. I want to cut his head off! RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, cut your own head off! MIDDLE HEAD:
Yes, do us all a favour! LEFT HEAD:
What? RIGHT HEAD:
Yapping on all the time. MIDDLE HEAD:
You're lucky. You're not next to him. LEFT HEAD:
What do you mean? MIDDLE HEAD:
You snore! LEFT HEAD:
Oh, I don't. Anyway, you've got bad breath. MIDDLE HEAD:
Well, it's only because you don't brush my teeth. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, stop bitching and let's go have tea. LEFT HEAD:
Oh, all right. All right. All right. We'll kill him first and then have tea and biscuits. MIDDLE HEAD:
Yes. RIGHT HEAD:
Oh, not biscuits. LEFT HEAD:
All right. All right, not biscuits, but let's kill him anyway. ALL HEADS:
Right! MIDDLE HEAD:
He buggered off. RIGHT HEAD:
So he has. He's scarpered.
Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Inexile2002
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Frogs are more sensitive to environmental pollutants and toxins because they're able to absorb many of them directly through their skin. They're developmentally simple animals so mutations show up more easily in their external morphology. Interestingly, since frogs eggs are separate cells and the membrane (which also absorbs toxins) would probably prevent three developmental frogs from sticking, this is one frog that has developed three frogs - not some sort of conjoined twin thing. (Although the difference there is a matter of degree, not kind.)
This is the most dramatic example of what I've seen yet but frog mutations are extremely common. Check out this, or this (warning more gross pics). Does anyone but me wonder why we tolerate this level of contamination in our environment? I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Hadean
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· Score: 4, Insightful
So when do we stop? When snakes start to grow heads at both ends? When deer start getting extra legs? Pollution is a cumulative thing - if there's enough now to cause mutations in frogs to this degree, pretty soon it WILL start affecting mammals such as ourselves (if it hasn't already).
I never understood why people just don't care about this type of thing, even though there's horrible proof right in their faces.
It's like a friend driving his Hummer down the smog-filled street (and not capable of seeing the tops of the skyscrapers) but telling me that pollution is just a big scare by all the environmentalists and that there's nothing wrong - HE'S HEALTHY. Although I'm not Green either (like the grandparent post), I can't understand the reasoning. What will it take to change their minds?
Whoa./rant off.
Re:Canaries in the coal mine baby!
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Hadean
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· Score: 3, Informative
Yes, the environment is indeed self-purifying, I never said it wasn't, but just not fast enough to account for the amount of toxins that released. Actually, I should have been more specific - there are two kinds of toxins, some cumulative, some not.
A simple Google search came up with a ton of pages supporting this, like this one should that shows the accumulation of toxins in marine biology ("Non-cumulative toxins do not increase in concentration in the body, even if the organism is chronically exposed to the toxin. Conversely, cumulative toxins, tend to increase in concentration, and are often associated with a specific tissue, e.g., cadmium tends to increase over time in the digestive gland of blue crabs."). this link, this link and this one also talk about the cumulative nature of pollution. etc.etc.
So where are your links?
I agree that a single mutated frog isn't PROOF that pollution is involved, that mutations will occur to surrounding mammals, whatever, BUT it should at least make you stop and think for a second, asks questions, etc., instead of just shrug and ignore it completely - which is what I was getting at.
Sadly, you're just as bad as those environmentalists you attack... ignoring everybody else.
sensationalism... bleh...
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Free_Meson
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· Score: 5, Insightful
The creature - which has six legs - has stunned BBC wildlife experts who warned it could be an early warning of environmental problems.
When there are a few hundred documented cases of this it's time to be alarmed. Here, it looks like a few eggs failed to adequately separate. I doubt the frogs even have the same DNA. The fact that their pond was 2-3 Kelvin warmer than it would have been 50 years ago has nothing to do with this freak occurance.
The real question is
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doconnor
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· Score: 3, Interesting
What did it look like when it was a tadpole?
Green in a nutshell
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ghostlibrary
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· Score: 4, Interesting
>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit. Beware, due to pollution and toxins, you might mutate into a Green, oh no!
Myself, I'm not a libertarian, I just want less government. I'm not a republican, I just want lower taxes. I'm not a democrat, I just want a lower debt. And I'm not an anarchist, I just post to slashdot occassionally:)
-- A.
Frog Just Doing What Comes Naturally
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cmjensen
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· Score: 3, Informative
That's not a mutant frog. That's frog porn.
Doesn't anybody remember this
hoax which turned out to be pretty much the same thing? Here is a good discussion of the issue
Re:Partially discredited
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Inexile2002
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Can you supply some references? Because who it's been discredited by and who paid for the studies (assuming you're siting studies) matters in these things. Frankly, I don't buy it. There are frog mutations all over (not just in England or MN) and dramatic increases in them that coincide with the rise of toxins in the environment. I'm going to go dig up the article I read about it and post a link in a bit. Got to get back to work now though.
Well, you've hit a strange subject that touches nether regions of the psyche there. To me, Siamese twins aren't nearly as "disgusting" as this creature, though one lower body with two torsos might come close. There's something about nature's mistakes when they happen at this level of sophistication -- between plant and mammal -- that hit me right in the creepy zone. As soon as I clicked the tab on the BBC story I clicked away before I could really grasp what this abomination looks like. There's a chthonic, nauseating, freakazation about it I don't want to sleep on. Yikes.
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Did they name it Blinky?
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....so this is what happens when a pig and a frog do the nasty?
...you can hear them say "Bud-," "-weis-," "-er.'
Yoda of Borg am I! Assimilated shall you be! Futile resistance is, hmm?
Relax, everyone, it's just the beta for Frogger 3.0.
~UP
Eat the Path.
I'm not exactly the squeamish type, but that kinda made me a bit queasy. Please be warned - this appears to be an odd fusion of three frogs.
This sig no verb.
It's not a hoax, there really are three heads and most of three bodies merged on that animal... but only two forelegs but I was unable to determine exactly how many rear legs there were... but then again frog's bums don't exactly appeal to me either...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I don't know, it's seems to be doing pretty well as it is... Don't assume it's a terrible existence just because it's different from the norm.
I'm sure that if you or I were thrown into an existence like that it might be unbearable, but things would become easier as we learned to cope, these frogs, as well as some humans, have never known another existence, therefore it isn't so unbearable to them.
'And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo Every day you meet quite a few...'
If this isn't a hoax (it's not April 1st yet), it's quite amazing that the frog has lived as long as it has. That frog is lucky, I tell ya.
assert(expired(knowledge));
Is this the frog that guards the gates of Hades? No, that's three-headed dog.
Maybe this is the guy who guards the gates of Froggy-Hell!!!
Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
Obligatory Holy Grail quote:
Work for Change & GET PAID!
Obviously we're very close to the entry of Amphibian Hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus.
Be on the lookout for a Newt called Heracles!
My father is a blogger.
Frogs are more sensitive to environmental pollutants and toxins because they're able to absorb many of them directly through their skin. They're developmentally simple animals so mutations show up more easily in their external morphology. Interestingly, since frogs eggs are separate cells and the membrane (which also absorbs toxins) would probably prevent three developmental frogs from sticking, this is one frog that has developed three frogs - not some sort of conjoined twin thing. (Although the difference there is a matter of degree, not kind.)
This is the most dramatic example of what I've seen yet but frog mutations are extremely common. Check out this, or this (warning more gross pics). Does anyone but me wonder why we tolerate this level of contamination in our environment? I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
When there are a few hundred documented cases of this it's time to be alarmed. Here, it looks like a few eggs failed to adequately separate. I doubt the frogs even have the same DNA. The fact that their pond was 2-3 Kelvin warmer than it would have been 50 years ago has nothing to do with this freak occurance.
What did it look like when it was a tadpole?
>I'm not a Green but I do object to being poisoned for some companies bottom line.
:)
Err, I think you summarized the entire Green platform with that last bit. Beware, due to pollution and toxins, you might mutate into a Green, oh no!
Myself, I'm not a libertarian, I just want less government. I'm not a republican, I just want lower taxes. I'm not a democrat, I just want a lower debt. And I'm not an anarchist, I just post to slashdot occassionally
A.
Doesn't anybody remember this hoax which turned out to be pretty much the same thing? Here is a good discussion of the issue
Can you supply some references? Because who it's been discredited by and who paid for the studies (assuming you're siting studies) matters in these things. Frankly, I don't buy it. There are frog mutations all over (not just in England or MN) and dramatic increases in them that coincide with the rise of toxins in the environment. I'm going to go dig up the article I read about it and post a link in a bit. Got to get back to work now though.
curious happening. hardly stuff that matters though.
;)
What do you mean? It does matter! If anything, it's damn cool-looking. Mutants are neat.
Think of it as a biological memory leak.
I bet Steve Balmer is jealous: 3 big mouths and good legs for jumping around.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
This is truly freaky!
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They Are Vermin Feeding On Each Other's Feces.
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Well, you've hit a strange subject that touches nether regions of the psyche there. To me, Siamese twins aren't nearly as "disgusting" as this creature, though one lower body with two torsos might come close. There's something about nature's mistakes when they happen at this level of sophistication -- between plant and mammal -- that hit me right in the creepy zone. As soon as I clicked the tab on the BBC story I clicked away before I could really grasp what this abomination looks like. There's a chthonic, nauseating, freakazation about it I don't want to sleep on. Yikes.