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Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV
Whiteox writes about an Australian researcher named Renata Pronk, who has discovered that octopuses prefer HDTV. She recruited 32 gloomy octopuses from the waters of Chowder Bay. Previously, researchers have reported little success when showing video to octopuses. Miss Pronk's insight was that the octopus eye is so refined that it might see standard PAL video, at 25 fps, as a series of stills. She tried HDTV (50 fps) and her subjects reacted to the videos of a crab, another octopus, or a swinging bottle on the end of a string. A further discovery is that octopuses show no trait of individual personalities, even though they exhibit a high level of intelligence. It would certainly be possible to quibble about the definition of "personality" employed, and whether Miss Pronk had successfully measured it.
Isn't government interference in everyday life a wonderful thing?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
what the fuck is this?
Q: What do you get when you cross an Octupus and a Mexican?
A: I don't know, but it sure can pick a lot of broccoli!
An eight row tomato picker.
Liar
Or we could just selectively breed humans for a shorter lifespan.
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Please turn in your geek card and get the fuck out. Thanks.