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Florida Beachgoers Oblivious of Large Hammerhead Shark
On the US East Coast, and some other areas, that's actually being done nearly in the way you describe (but the inclusion of a local beach alarm is a great idea). Great Whites are quite frequent over there, and there are a lot of marine biologists who tag them for monitoring, mostly for migrating, preservation and research, but warn local authorities whenever one drifts into pedestrian-laden areas.
We need to start a program where we fit all sharks with a beacon of some kind and whenever they wander into swimming areas they are picked up by sensors and then a sound system on the beach starts playing the Jaws theme. That will get everyone out of the water in a jiffy.
Evolution's shortcoming is Intelligent Design's Downfall
If it were done as a single nerve in a direct route, it would be subject to damage from a jerking head motion. This way, the slack (and bundling) adds protection to individual nerves. And again, it works just fine, in ALL mammals.
Let's coin a new term. How about 'stress relief'?
Another point. The heart is functional before it descends into an expanding chest cavity, taking ancillary nerves along for the ride.
And lastly, the evidence points to incremental phenotypic alterations along with some jumps here and there. The first is indicative of environmental adaptations, with possible genetic manipulations [ID] on occasion.
In fact, we ourselves are on the cusp of being able to alter phenotypic outcomes, by PCR, electrophoresis, and subsequent spicing to alter structures and codes. For our progress at this point, search 'genetic engineering'.
While not proof of prior gene altering to alter phenotypes, it is at least evidence that it can be done, while at this juncture, no substantiating evidence exists for random mutations, HGT, and genetic drift to radically alter body plans. Just for minor quantitative adaptive alterations [pigmentation, bone density, fur and hair content, metabolism rates, and yes, cephalic index, essentially brain size increases].
IOW, the evidence clearly points to both microevolution, a likely 'designed-in' function to aid in survival, as well as ID for radical re-designs, possibly by multiple intelligentsia over vast time. Google MDT for more on that possibility.
Kevin Ward Jr. hit and killed by Tony Stewart
Here's a counter theory by another racer:
"I haven't seen how Stewart handled the car preimpact. That said, those vehicles require speed for what little grip they have, as it's largely generated by the roof fin, and they don't really steer so much as surf. If you watch the cornering style it's a full on drift. That makes twitch steering pretty ineffective - you steer from the back which requires heavy throttle.
You don't see Stewart's approach ( at least on the vid I've seen ), and the fishtail post impact I would attribute to the impact itself. His approach does not seem consistent with trying to spray the other driver with dirt ; that would have to be a at a high angle relatively speaking and he seemed to come in straight.
It's possible that Stewart intended to kill, but I really think it's highly unlikely. When you're racing you have a lot to deal with, and whilst under a yellow flag undertaking is typically verboten and in theory you should be slowing down, but in reality you are always looking to get the drop as soon as the yellows disappear. To that end you're scanning the track looking for disabled vehicles.
You're not scanning for drivers standing in the middle of the track - the assumption would be that the driver stays safely secured in the car, or they hop the barrier. If that can't happen for some reason, it's the job of race control to red flag the race.
My personal theory, based on incomplete footage - I'd like to see in car footage from Stewart ideally - is that Stewart just didn't see him in time to make any effective attempt to miss. It's a night race, and Stewart would have been concentrating on the disabled vehicle to his right. There's not much about Ward's outfit that would attract attention - from Stewart's perspective, black helmet, black racesuit, against a dark dirt background. These vehicles don't use headlights, so there's nothing to offset the glare of the spotlights.
In a perfect world Stewart would have seen and avoided, but ultimately Ward put himself in a fucking stupid position and paid the price. I'm not surprised to see lack of remorse on Stewart's part ; Ward shouldn't have been there, plain and simple.
Anyhow, that's my thinking on this - I don't know or follow anyone in that type of series, so I'm claiming to be bias free here. Racers know that motorsport is dangerous, so you do what you can to mitigate risk, not increase it by orders of magnitude.
Edit : Looking at it a few more times, it's also possible that Stewart was trying to rotate the car around Ward - throttling up and steering right would have pushed the back away from Ward, which might have made the outcome different. I still say it's a Darwin."
Ship Collision On The Rhine - Sideways, Upside Down...
I must say, I find it odd that they claim the barge "hit" the other boats when the barge is obviously stationary (until the ferry hits it) and the ferry is the one drifting sideways into it and other boats.
The future of ghost-riding?
I'm not sure if I like this feature or not, sure, it keeps you between the lines, but it also encourages you to be a little less focused on the road while driving.
At hose speeds, it only takes a millisecond for someone to drift into your lane, or an animal on the road, or maybe, you see it, but because the car was driving itself, you had your hands full and can't grab the wheel fast enough to make the steering correction.
Dog with a hindbrake
No dog, you need to start turning first, then hit the E-brake or you'll never start the drift.
Not Everyone Knows How To Ride Well Mustang
This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by NetRunner.
Not Everyone Knows How To Ride Well Mustang
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Mustand-Drifting-Fails
Not Everyone Knows How To Ride Well Mustang
This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by eric3579. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.
Irish are the niggers of Europe? Reginald D Hunter
JSing and Chaos made the two small leaps here that points to the interpreter as the responsible party to context. Meaning can be elusive to folks who have problems with critical thinking and with regard to 'racism' (the definition and intensity of this label range from arbitrary to anally-exacting considering the range of interpretation) there is no clear, consensual handbook...In the 00's, the word 'nigger' being so flagrantly abused and praised as it has become a filler-word in hip-hop and rap culture as well as a safe-haven for haters who love to toss the convenient label 'racist' around like skee-ball tickets, when they simply refuse to fucking think, or dislike someone, or are simply cunts, etc.
True racism exists but not on the scale imagined by the weak-minded and overly sensitive who both recoil from the very notion of certain words even existing (wouldn't the world be such a wonderful place if the word nigger did not exist and the world could all hold hands and blow soap bubbles and kiss puppy dogs?? Pretentious, American, WHITE PEOPLE have so abused both the concept and history of racism that the waters of it's essence have become murky. Chumps use the label 'racism' as if it were ranch dressing to refer to all manner of perceived evils of the world when their little cruise-liner of self-delusion drifts ever-so-slightly off course.
"Not Now, Not Ever!" (Gillard Misogyny Speech)
Im not too young to remember old bobbo, but its been a very long time since weve had someone in the office that enunciates like someone who would own a fish and chip shop and throw pickled onions at you if you upset her....if you catch my drift.
You're clearly too young to remember Bob Hawke. Or it's just 'female bogan' that offends you.
Here's Bob being a yobbo at a cricket match (avec beer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5mBShX9fdU
Subaru WRX STI Versus a Stick Bomb
learned 2 things today -
1) RC cars can drift
2) How to make a stick bomb.
Honest Trailers - Gravity
(some spoilers here, although not really anything that wasn't in the video)
I thought it was quite good. Not great, but quite good.
That being said, the one thing that I was sure that an "honest trailers" spoof/take on it would include was left out: I lost count of how many times the last propulsive jet before they ran out of thrust in whatever system/mechanism they were using was just enough to get them into "precarious grab, slip and bump off into another precarious grab".
Gorgeous George jets around as carefree as can be -- fetching bolts, unhitched and drifting Sandra ... even the corpse of "man down in the first 5 minutes". He or others talk about how he is going for the record longest spacewalk many times. But then, when they really need it, "oh, sorry, I've just got enough juice left for one more burn".
Same thing repeats for the Soyuz, the Wall-E extinguisher, and conceptually in many other instances.
That is the aspect of the flick that stood out the most for me as begging for a good send-up.
Food Channel Contest Time (Food Talk Post)
Don't have to be able to cook or bake there pardner, all ya needs't throw a cookie recipe out there that you've never baked but have tasted once er twice maybe....can't be all that too hard, eh? Once'll do-We'll do all the bakin' needed then, EX-strippers n' FE-male bartendresses' will decide yer fate...ON Camera!?
Kind of a win-win-win if yer prone to catchin' some drift...
HINT: You can even submit the NAME of a cookie recipe of some friend of yer granny's that you herd-tell of that she made that you tasted once at a funeral...We can improvise as long as there's some kinna documentation
Russian Truckers - Expertise, experience, and luck
The funny thing is, it's not just some random Russian folk song, the lyrics are literally about drifting trucks.
I swear this music is from an anime theme-song.