Sciencey Stuff

[heelmanwilm]

So this is cool

I already knew about this underwater coral structure thats shaped like a bowl at top and this certain kind of fish lives there. the sea turtles actually line up and wait their turn to rest in the bowl and have the fish clean them of parasites and barnacles and stuff. Somehow the word gets out lol.
And now this.
This lady diver in the Bahamas started noticing sharks with fish hooks in their mouths and fish line usually trailing behind. So she started helping by pulling the hooks out. She’s never been bitten and now sharks with hooks are actually congregating where she does this and swim right up to her seeking help it seems.

 

[pooponduke]

So this is cool

I already knew about this underwater coral structure thats shaped like a bowl at top and this certain kind of fish lives there. the sea turtles actually line up and wait their turn to rest in the bowl and have the fish clean them of parasites and barnacles and stuff. Somehow the word gets out lol.
And now this.
This lady diver in the Bahamas started noticing sharks with fish hooks in their mouths and fish line usually trailing behind. So she started helping by pulling the hooks out. She’s never been bitten and now sharks with hooks are actually congregating where she does this and swim right up to her seeking help it seems.

That is amazing. Someone's got to have video of it you'd think. Also, she must have balls the size of watermelons to do that in the first place.

 

[bluetoe]

I'd love to see a light show like this...

 

[heelmanwilm]

Mumbai India has 20 million people and is home to over 50 leopards making it the most leopard dense place on the planet. They roam the backstreets at night in plain sight and eat over a 1000 dogs a year.

 

[heelmanwilm]

In lopburi Thailand, protected by religious stupidity, a 700 strong macaque gang lives on the grounds of a temple downtown. They roam the city 24/7 knowing how to negotiate crosswalks and use the streetlights. They eat so much trash and “offerings” that the older ones inevitably become overweight and die of cancer and heart disease.

 

[heelmanwilm]

Can you tell I go to sleep watching nature documentaries? I find them calming and relaxing.

 

[tarheel0910]

Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Turns Out to Be Worth Over $1 Million

A value missed even by jewel thieves!

www.sciencealert.com

 

[bluetoe]

Can you tell I go to sleep watching nature documentaries? I find them calming and relaxing.

 

[pooponduke]

 

[bluetoe]

another snippet for @heelmanwilm to help him get to sleep...

 

[bluetoe]

seriously?

 

[randman1]

So Birx just said the public has trust with public authorities and that:

1. Covid shots were not designed to prevent infection.
2. Should not have been given to young people.
3. Should have only been given to the most vulnerable, not the population at large.

She basically laments that's because they lied the public doesn't trust them.

No remorse it seems for lying in itself, for destroying people's lives, their businesses, and in many cases, their health and causing a needless uproar.

 

[gteeitup]

So Birx just said the public has trust with public authorities and that:

1. Covid shots were not designed to prevent infection.
2. Should not have been given to young people.
3. Should have only been given to the most vulnerable, not the population at large.

She basically laments that's because they lied the public doesn't trust them.

No remorse it seems for lying in itself, for destroying people's lives, their businesses, and in many cases, their health and causing a needless uproar.

i was under the assumption the entire time it was to lessen the impact of the virus…that goes for everyone, more importantly the most vulnerable.

you can still get the flu even if you get the flu shot…the shingles vaccine isn’t even 90% effective.

 

[bluetoe]

i was under the assumption the entire time it was to lessen the impact of the virus…that goes for everyone, more importantly the most vulnerable.

you can still get the flu even if you get the flu shot…the shingles vaccine isn’t even 90% effective.

I am under the impression that it has been up to us individually whether to get a flu shot in order to 'lessen the impact' on ourselves, again individually. And as you indicate, the flu remains a contagion, shot or no shot. But I was also under the impression that the main argument from the pro-vaccine folks was that my lessening my own impact from Covid more importantly served to prevent you from having an impact of your own to deal with at all...in other words, if we all got the shots, we would stop the spread. So, should we or should we not demand we all get flu shots, and should we or should we not have all gotten the Covid vaccine?

Before you answer, keep in mind that the overall effect of the Covid virus has been debunked as being almost a death sentence.

I kept trying to get a handle on whether casual exposure to the bug would facilitate a suitable enough immune response to serve as a sort of self-vaccination, but in that environment of nonsense, it was impossible to get any sensible sort of answer. As a matter of fact, I still haven't gotten a good answer.