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How The Dinosaurs Actually Died

newtboy says...

“Witnesses”? 😂 I have some questions for them.

There’s actually more evidence the asteroid wasn’t the major dinosaur killer…the KT boundary layer, created by the asteroid dust and charcoal from global fires is NOT full of dinosaur bones. If one event killed 75% of species and 95% of all biomass, that geological layer would be absolutely full of fossils, but it’s not…it’s nearly empty, but the layers preceding it show a steady decline in animal populations long before the final death blow.

Yellowstone, the American super volcano, is overdue for a similarly disastrous eruption.
Our grasp of volcanology is far too tenuous to claim we would have a million years of warning before a similar major eruption. We might get no warning at all. Surprise eruptions aren’t abnormal even with all our monitoring…and the strength of eruptions is almost always a surprise.

The acidification of the ocean that preceded the other climate-caused extinction events is occurring today. Once diatoms and plankton can no longer create their exoskeletons the ocean food web dissolves, then the land food web dissolves, then clouds of hydrogen gas start erupting from the deep ocean when bacteria consume the billions of tons of dead ocean life, further poisoning the oceans and atmosphere. Yes, that will likely take hundreds or even thousands of years to play out, but the food webs are already falling apart from other pressures before the plankton even fails. Interesting unprecedented times are ahead.

Mordhaus (Member Profile)

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The Garden Masterpiece Grown From Rescued Plants

When Plants Attack: A Time-Lapse

eric3579 says...

For a Venus Flytrap

The process continues until all that's left of the insect is its hard exoskeleton. (Unlike humans and other vertebrates, who have an internal rigid skeleton made out of calcified bone tissue, insects and arachnids use a more flexible, external exoskeleton to both protect and form the framework for their bodies.) Once the nutrients are depleted from the acidic bath, the plant reabsorbs the digestive fluid. This serves as a signal to reopen the trap, and the remains of the insect are usually either washed away in the rain or blown away by the wind.
See more @ http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/venus-flytrap4.htm

Also before and after video http://youtu.be/pFGoZMld_Gs

lucky760 said:

Lovely sound effects.

I want to see what happens after a plant's finished digesting its victim. Does it dissolve the entire thing or does it drop a carcass when it reopens?

Enquiring minds want to know!

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Possible New Species of Spider Builds Decoys of Itself

unbsd says...

How about "Golem Spider" because it makes a Golem. Golems are endemic to D&D folklore and secular literature as well as Jewish folklore. Golems are made of mud and debris and they are animated by a magician. It seems a fitting metaphor.

Perhaps there's a similar creature in indigenous amazon folklore to the Golem and if so, I submit that as an alternate name too.

I'd like to know how many webs had 8 legged constructs and if that's the sole instance, I'd go with your fungus theory. I figure you scientifically ruled out it was the exoskeleton of a dead spider.

Why do you call it a 'he'? Did you sex it? Do only females of this species create webs?

GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER GOLEM SPIDER.

Here's a naming suggestion: Google/Image Search each of the proposed spider names come up and see what kinds of associations (other than to what presently seems to be called 'the decoy spider') already exist.

The Spider Who Couldn't Hide

MonkeySpank says...

ORLY?
I was talking about endoskeletons, I should have been more specific. Obviously, they have an exoskeleton like all arachnids and decapods. Spiders have a no way to push their limbs outward through muscle-skeleton action as they lack the equivalent of a triceps. But if it makes you happy to feel smarter... trolololo lololo lololo...

Drachen_Jager said:

What on Earth are you talking about? If you're trolling, good job, ya got me.

Spiders have muscles, and a skeleton. Actually I kind of hope you're trolling... it would scare me to think people here are that uneducated.

The Spider Who Couldn't Hide

HiroEX says...

What MonkeySpank said is actually partially correct. I think when someone refers to skeleton they usually are referring to an endoskeleton. Spiders do have exoskeletons, and they do have muscles, but as MonkeySpank said they also use a form of hydraulics to straighten their legs, and muscles to bend their legs (They lack extensor muscles). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumo_(spider)

Drachen_Jager said:

What on Earth are you talking about? If you're trolling, good job, ya got me.

Spiders have muscles, and a skeleton. Actually I kind of hope you're trolling... it would scare me to think people here are that uneducated.

Little Girl Gets 3D Printed Exoskeleton Arms: "Magic Arms"

hpqp says...

>> ^Sniper007:

>> ^TheSluiceGate:
Science > Prayer.
Where are you Shinyblurry??
(Great sift man. Would promote if I could!)

Yeah, because robot arms are way better than real arms.


That's what God thinks too. That's why He gives members of his beloved creation arthrogryposis, polio, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other such amusements. To show how much He loves us.

Little Girl Gets 3D Printed Exoskeleton Arms: "Magic Arms"

Little Girl Gets 3D Printed Exoskeleton Arms: "Magic Arms"

Little Girl Gets 3D Printed Exoskeleton Arms: "Magic Arms"

Payback says...

>> ^speechless:

>> ^TheSluiceGate:
Science > Prayer.
Where are you Shinyblurry??
(Great sift man. Would promote if I could!)

Why even bring that into it? FFS can't there just be a beautiful, heart wrenching video with a positive outcome? Wtf? Maybe you should look at yourself and ask why you need to bring hate and religion into a sift that has nothing to do with either.


...maybe because he's gun-shy from all the times SB has done exactly that.

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Little Girl Gets 3D Printed Exoskeleton Arms: "Magic Arms"



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