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Small Bird Astounds Scientists With 11,200km Flight
Zeb writes "Scientists are marveling over a small female bar-tailed godwit somewhere in New Zealand who has a world record for non-stop flying — an epic 11,200 kilometers. A major international study into the birds has been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B and it offers an explanation as to why the godwits fly so far from Alaska to New Zealand in a single bound. The birds flew non-stop for up to and covered more than 11,200km. The flight path shows the birds did not feed en route and would be unlikely to sleep." The linked Wikipedia entry claims an even longer trip record, of 11,570 kilometers.
Some people actually find the metric system more convenient and intuitive. The fact that you feel the need to convert to and declare the mileage shows that you probably neither work in physics nor live outside the US, so I don't see why you feel the need to look down on others who don't have that useless conversion memorized.
My preferred name is frazz, but someone keeps taking it. If you see him, tell him I said hi.
Ahh, political correctness gone mad. You must be a city dweller right? Born in a city, raised in a city and will die in a city. Problem is that none of you like it when somebody stands out. Now, you all like to say the reason for it is the greater good of the human race. But really, you're all squabbling for the scraps and if somebody stands out from the mediocre, you jump in and pull them down. When your friends go home from some party, you and whoever you live with start bitching about somebody that had something to say, right? We need stereotypes. You claim it as a manifestation of hate, but it is not. It is how we calm ourselves that jobs we don't want to do, nor the ones we don't want to know about, are being done. If you take personal offense to a joke, state that you don't like it. Don't try and point out the doom of humanity and it's relationship to an abstraction. Don't be such a pussy.
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