Well, thanks for the late breaking news smartass. What are you going to surprise me with next? Perhaps Martha Stewart isn't the same thing as a rat, either?
If they really had a keen idea of where it was, why didn't they go kill a penguin then and set a trap? I mean it says ITFA they intended to catch him within 8 weeks. They must have seen all those old Energizer bunny commercials and realized at some point the transmitter was going to fail. After those 8 weeks...and during the next two...until the damn thing actually failed (big surprise) and they had to resort to cutting up penguins...these fools couldn't catch it even with a radio transmitter. THATS MY POINT buddy. I would have been out there with my radio triangulation unit or GPS or whatever the hell they used and a freakin BUTTERFLY NET and a SHOVEL and I would have found it, trapped it and fed it to my cat for dinner.
bull$%;+
cmon...they gave the poor mouse a freakin radio collar and they still couldn't find it for months??? What the hell??
At least this three-stooges pack of scientists isn't trying to do anything important like track blue whales, elephants, endangered species or anything else scientists can attach a radio transmitter too.
Just imagine if these guys were the ones monitoring Martha Stewarts jail jewlery...oh lordy
I doubt it possible to simply TOW a floating structure of this width...and he envisions it a couple of feet below the water.
I wouldn't want to meet the captain of the nuclear sub or icebreaker (or even tugboat for that matter) who just found out his new assignment...."taming hurricanes". ha ha what a reason to go postal.
Yeah a bird builds a nest. And moles dig holes and polar bears build igloos...but how much "control" does that show?? I say none, it shows the ability to manipulate the environment, sure...but for that matter microscopic organisms can change an entire planet. But thats not the point.
Ok, sure so you're chanting "beavers" at me. While I find the word beaver to be most humorous, I say they are not controlling, creating or constructing their environment so much as simply modifying pieces of it (like trees)...which had ALREADY naturally evolved there. No thanks to the beaver.
I stand by my original post about humans modifying their environment.
Take away the trees from beavers and what do they do? They sit around all day, or maybe they swim around in circles...confused as if they had needed to do something but had forgotten what it was.
Show me a beaver, that in an environment lacking trees, combines polymers to form a synthetic trunk...which is used to construct a dam and reroute the river through a bypass. And make the damn dam hydroelectric too, and have it provide power for lights used to grow real trees in an artificial environment with the intent of making the process of building dams in that location self-sustainable.
Then maybe I'll do more than chuckle when I read these eager beaver posts.
Creatures from Another world? The past? The present?
Why yes. Take a look over there. Its the horseshoe crab, one of natures "living fossils". Even if you don't have a saltwater reef aquarium, you may notices roaches in your friends apartment...perhaps a sign that he doesn't clean up well enough or perhaps a sign that life will persist.
Evolution occurs as long as it is beneficial, to the organism in question or to its general environment. The oceans haven't presented enough of a change from way back when for the horseshoe crab and many other species to modify its design. Similarly, cockroaches are pretty good at finding corners and crevices to hide in and scavange, thus they have not needed change their modus operandi or physical design.
Humans are in an entirely different environment. In fact it is said that we are the only species which controls and modifies their environment. As such, it is a natural conclusion that as long as the environment and conditions are variable, evolution will continue to progress...always looking for that perfect design for life that maximizes its ability to persist.
I had the wonderful experience of being an undergraduate in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, where a grant in adaptive optics was paving the way for ground-based telescopes.
By shining a laser straight where the telescope is pointed, aberrations and distortions from the atmosphere can be measured and exactly countered by the telescope, effectively cancelling atmospheric effects to a remarkable degree. Check out http://cfao.ucolick.org./
The main telescope was outside of San Jose, CA, which might seem a strange location for a telescope due to its proximity to a large city. But since all of the streetlamps in San Jose are sodium (whose spectral properties are well known and simple), those features can be subtracted from any measured spectra and in conjunction with adaptive optics, the telescope outside northern california's largest city produces world-class astronomy.
This telescope being built should be pretty neat.
I wonder how they will deal with gravitational aberrations. Plus scientists won't ever need to face the threat of government letting their instrument "deorbit" while still producing good data.
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Well, thanks for the late breaking news smartass. What are you going to surprise me with next? Perhaps Martha Stewart isn't the same thing as a rat, either? If they really had a keen idea of where it was, why didn't they go kill a penguin then and set a trap? I mean it says ITFA they intended to catch him within 8 weeks. They must have seen all those old Energizer bunny commercials and realized at some point the transmitter was going to fail. After those 8 weeks...and during the next two...until the damn thing actually failed (big surprise) and they had to resort to cutting up penguins...these fools couldn't catch it even with a radio transmitter. THATS MY POINT buddy. I would have been out there with my radio triangulation unit or GPS or whatever the hell they used and a freakin BUTTERFLY NET and a SHOVEL and I would have found it, trapped it and fed it to my cat for dinner.
bull$%;+ cmon...they gave the poor mouse a freakin radio collar and they still couldn't find it for months??? What the hell?? At least this three-stooges pack of scientists isn't trying to do anything important like track blue whales, elephants, endangered species or anything else scientists can attach a radio transmitter too. Just imagine if these guys were the ones monitoring Martha Stewarts jail jewlery...oh lordy
I doubt it possible to simply TOW a floating structure of this width...and he envisions it a couple of feet below the water.
I wouldn't want to meet the captain of the nuclear sub or icebreaker (or even tugboat for that matter) who just found out his new assignment...."taming hurricanes". ha ha what a reason to go postal.
Ok, sure so you're chanting "beavers" at me. While I find the word beaver to be most humorous, I say they are not controlling, creating or constructing their environment so much as simply modifying pieces of it (like trees)...which had ALREADY naturally evolved there. No thanks to the beaver.
I stand by my original post about humans modifying their environment.
Take away the trees from beavers and what do they do? They sit around all day, or maybe they swim around in circles...confused as if they had needed to do something but had forgotten what it was. Show me a beaver, that in an environment lacking trees, combines polymers to form a synthetic trunk...which is used to construct a dam and reroute the river through a bypass. And make the damn dam hydroelectric too, and have it provide power for lights used to grow real trees in an artificial environment with the intent of making the process of building dams in that location self-sustainable.
Then maybe I'll do more than chuckle when I read these eager beaver posts.
Why yes. Take a look over there. Its the horseshoe crab, one of natures "living fossils". Even if you don't have a saltwater reef aquarium, you may notices roaches in your friends apartment...perhaps a sign that he doesn't clean up well enough or perhaps a sign that life will persist.
Evolution occurs as long as it is beneficial, to the organism in question or to its general environment. The oceans haven't presented enough of a change from way back when for the horseshoe crab and many other species to modify its design. Similarly, cockroaches are pretty good at finding corners and crevices to hide in and scavange, thus they have not needed change their modus operandi or physical design.
Humans are in an entirely different environment. In fact it is said that we are the only species which controls and modifies their environment. As such, it is a natural conclusion that as long as the environment and conditions are variable, evolution will continue to progress...always looking for that perfect design for life that maximizes its ability to persist.
I had the wonderful experience of being an undergraduate in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, where a grant in adaptive optics was paving the way for ground-based telescopes. By shining a laser straight where the telescope is pointed, aberrations and distortions from the atmosphere can be measured and exactly countered by the telescope, effectively cancelling atmospheric effects to a remarkable degree. Check out http://cfao.ucolick.org./ The main telescope was outside of San Jose, CA, which might seem a strange location for a telescope due to its proximity to a large city. But since all of the streetlamps in San Jose are sodium (whose spectral properties are well known and simple), those features can be subtracted from any measured spectra and in conjunction with adaptive optics, the telescope outside northern california's largest city produces world-class astronomy. This telescope being built should be pretty neat. I wonder how they will deal with gravitational aberrations. Plus scientists won't ever need to face the threat of government letting their instrument "deorbit" while still producing good data.