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Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl
The wilderness is encroaching over abandoned towns in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. One of the elderly residents who refused to evacuate the contaminated area says packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. Scientist are divided as to whether or not the animals are flourishing in the highly radioactive environment: "Robert J. Baker of Texas Tech University says the mice and other rodents he has studied at Chernobyl since the early 1990s have shown remarkable tolerance for elevated radiation levels. But Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina, a biologist who studies barn swallows at Chernobyl, says that while wild animals have settled in the area, they have struggled to build new populations."
It's hard to attract females when you have 2 beaks, 3 hooves and only 1 eye.
I for on am welcomming our're new three-headed frog overloads!
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Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage. ... Then we have... Others say animals may be filtering into the zone, but they appear to suffer malformations and other ills.. Inference: She saw what she thought was a pack of wolves when in fact it was a three headed wolf.
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Finally a town I can look normal in!
If movies have taught me anything it's that this is the start of the downfall of man.
In a few years we'll be herded into wooden pens by mounted apes and then experimented on.
Oh the folly of it all!!!
Any photos of giant insects or ninja turtles? At least maybe a cross between a spider and a man?
Damn. Radiation in real life is BORING.
I swear I read about this a few years ago too. I had hoped this time around that we were talking about animals with superpowers.
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
In [certain parts of] Soviet Russia, eyes mutate before animals!!!!!
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Percy: "Only this morning in the courtyard I saw a horse with two heads, and two bodies"
Blackadder: "Could it have been...two horses perhaps?"
There are already bacteria living in active zones of nuclear reactors. Animals with fast reproductive cycle will likely adapt first, both because of faster evolution - especially in the face of accelerated mutations - and because they don't have to survive as long to produce offsprings. It's only a matter of decades before we catch 5 eared rabbits with ECC in their DNA in addition to RAID1 that we currently have.
Truth is, even with a sufficient number of a-bombs accross the world, we'll have a very hard time wijping all of humanity and wild life. Life's a tough mother f*cker, hard to destroy.
I'll take that bet, sir.
Noooo, God reached down his noodly appendage and made them healthy!
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You thought I was going to say something else, didn't you?
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Mysterious coal deposits underneath compost piles, a crazy naked couple running around with the animals, and some doddering old man writing frantically into a journal.
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
Us Stalkers have known this for quite some time. Just be sure to throw some nuts and bolts around in front of you!
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
ahh. You must be part of the white house.
Just like we overcame being children of the baby boomers. Neat.
Boars are stomping her corn cobs? Better toughen up lady, any day Monsanto will sue for infringing their holy patents on mutant crops. It's Greenpeace who really confuse me though, they're always on about biodiversity, then we get lots of new lifeforms in Chernobyls valley of the muties and they're cribbing more than ever. No pleasing some people.
Thus the joke about the cockroach being the next master of earth in case the A,H and other 1 letter bomb start to fall ?
The F-bomb?
The enemies of Democracy are
What are you.. a Bond villain? If you're going to start making statements like that, then you'll note that when the world actually had only a billion people, people were saying it should have less than 100 million.
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Most of the problems of the world can be traced to the fact that we have 6 billion humans instead of 1 billion humans. If there were only a billion of us, the world would be an abundant paradise.
Are you volunteering to get off?
"Anything! Anything with a pulse! Or NOT! Pulse OPTIONAL!"
-Dressed to Kill
"You're arguing for a universe with fewer waffles in it," I said. "I'm prepared to call that cowardice."
As another poster commented, without fresh DNA coming into the area, the local wildlife would not be as successful. Destroy all the ecosystems of the entire world, add a little nuclear winter and we will have created the worst extinction event the world has ever seen.
I think, however, that this epic tragedy will be offset from all the people who'll gain superpowers as a result.
A smug cloud has been spotted over Europe, apparently impeding their ability to keep their G8 promises to Bono.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.