Looks like they also have the same refractive index as water since they're pretty much invisible when submerged.

I like what Sylvester said about not putting in the stuffing, and using a meat thermometer. Personally, I put the thermometer right in the breast meat, and pull it out somewhere between 161-165 F (72-74 C). And then let it rest. Just like a good steak, don't you dare cut into that juicy sucker until it has sat for at least 15-20 minutes or else all your moisture will just pour out all over your cutting board instead of being absorbed back into the meat.

BUT, the real secret, is to brine your turkey. Check out this recipe by food scientist Alton Brown: Good Eats Roast Turkey Recipe. There's a reason it has 3,750+ reviews and a 5-star rating. Only instead of a 5-Gallon bucket, I just use a brining bag and put it in the bottom drawer of the fridge. Do make sure it's fully submerged. A brine promotes osmosis, which lets your flavorful bath soak through the meat. It's SCIENCE!

The only reason I don't eat turkey more often is because it's just me and my lady here and a weeks worth of food comas would be counter-productive.

How to make a fish tank case mod.

As long as the Chinese restaurants in fortitude valley aren't submerged, then nothing has been lost.

I grew up in Brisbane. My mother still tells the story of when she sent my brother down to the shops during the '74 floods to get some food. He came back and said 'the shops aren't there anymore, mum'. They were completely submerged beyond the roof.

After those floods, they built the Wivenho Dam to prevent a flood of that kind ever happening again. A mate of mine in Chelmer lives next to the Brisbane River, which was supposed to be prevented from flooding by the dam, and he said this morning the river is 3 feet from breaking the banks.

Meanwhile, Toowoomba sits on an escarpment - basically, on top of a mountain - and it still flooded. We've seen nothing like it before.

I didn't have enough information when I initially commented on this video (because the video didn't provide it), and I jumped to conclusions - my bad!! In any event, it would definitely have been helpful if the video had indicated if the otter was a sea otter, river otter, or ...

Here's some fun and interesting information about otters from the World Famous San Diego Zoo web site:
Class: Mammalia (Mammals)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genera: 6
Species: 13
Length: largest—giant otter Pteronura brasiliensis, up to 7.8 feet (2.4 meters); smallest—Asian small-clawed otter Amblonyx cinereus, up to 3 feet (0.9 meters)
Weight: largest—sea otter Enhydra lutris, males up to 95 pounds (43 kilograms); smallest—Asian small-clawed otter, up to 11 pounds (5 kilograms)
Life span: 15 to 20 years
Gestation: from 2 months for smaller species to 5 months for sea otters
Number of young at birth: 1 to 5, usually 2
Size at birth: 4.5 ounces (128 grams) for smaller species to 5 pounds (2.3 kilograms) for sea otters
Age of maturity: 2 to 5 years
Conservation status: four species, including the sea otter, are endangered; three otter species are vulnerable.
Fun facts
• You can tell otter species apart by the shape and amount of fur on their noses.
• Unlike other marine mammals, sea otters do not have a layer of blubber to keep them warm; they rely on warm air trapped in their fur. Sea otters have the densest fur of any mammal, with about 100,000 hairs in a space about the size of a postage stamp!
• Most otter species capture prey with their mouths, but Asian small-clawed otters and sea otters have flexible fingers and grab with their hands.
• North American and European river otters have been known to share dens with beavers—but the beavers do all the building!

Mammals: Otter
Range: Africa, Asia, and parts of North America, Central America, and South America
Habitat: sea otters are found in the Pacific Ocean and along the coastline, but most otter species live in rivers, lakes, and marshes

Champion swimmers
Otters are the only serious swimmers in the weasel family. They spend most of their lives in the water, and they are made for it! Their sleek, streamlined bodies are perfect for diving and swimming. Otters also have long, slightly flattened tails that move sideways to propel them through the water while their back feet act like rudders to steer.

Almost all otters have webbed feet, some more webbed than others, and they can close off their ears and noses as they swim underwater. They can stay submerged for about five minutes, because their heart rate slows and they use less oxygen. They’re also good at floating on the water’s surface, because air trapped in their fur makes them more buoyant. Have you ever noticed that when an otter comes out of the water, its outer fur sticks together in wet spikes, while the underneath still seems dry? That’s because they have two layers of fur: a dense undercoat that traps air; and a topcoat of long, waterproof guard hairs. Keeping their fur in good condition is important, so otters spend a lot of time grooming. In fact, if their fur becomes matted with something like oil, it can damage their ability to hunt for food and stay warm.

Party animals
Otters are very energetic and playful. You might say they love to party! They are intelligent and curious, and they are usually busy hunting, investigating, or playing with something. They like to throw and bounce things, wrestle, twirl, and chase their tails. They also play games of "tag" and chase each other, both in the water and on the ground. River otters seem to like sliding down mud banks or in the snow—they’ll do it over and over again! Otters also make lots of different sounds, from whistles, growls, and screams to barks, chirps, and coos. All this activity is part of the otters’ courtship, social bonding, and communication, and since otter pups need practice, they tend to be even more playful than the adults.

Life as a pup
Most otters are born in a den, helpless and with their eyes closed. The mother takes care of them, often chasing the father away after their birth, although in some species the dad may come back after a couple of weeks to help raise them. The babies, called pups, open their eyes and start exploring the den at about one month, start swimming at two months, and stay with their mother and siblings until they are about one year old, when they head off on their own.

For sea otters in their ocean habitat it’s a little different—the pups are born with their eyes open, and they have a special coat of hair so they can float, even though they can’t swim yet. They are carried on their mother’s stomach until they are about two months old, when they start swimming and diving on their own.

For most otters, social groups are made up of a mother, her older offspring, and her newest pups; the males spend most of their time alone or with a few other males. During breeding time or where there’s lots of food, though, larger groups of otters may gather, especially among sea otters in kelp beds.

The seafood diet
Otter food may not all come from the ocean, but it is definitely fishy! River otters eat mostly fish, frogs, crayfish, crabs, and mollusks, with an occasional small mammal or bird. Sea otters eat many of the same things, but mostly sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, and clams, which they crack open against rocks they hold on their stomachs. Otters have long, sensitive whiskers that help them find prey, even in murky water. Some species, like the Asian small-clawed otter Amblonyx cinereus, also use their hands to probe into mud or under rocks to find a tasty meal that might be hiding there. River otters use lots of energy and digest their food very fast, so they eat several times a day. Sea otters need to eat 20 to 25 percent of their body weight each day. That’s a lot of abalone!
The otters at the San Diego Zoo are fed carnivore diet, carrots, and either squid or trout. They also get small amounts of "treats" for enrichment, like crayfish, worms, potatoes, or yams.

>> ^jimnms:

I don't mind spiders. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. I usually don't bother them either, but one time I found a black widow spider. For some reason I decided I wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet. I found an empty clear plastic jar in the garbage, poked a few small holes in it and used that to catch her. I needed to figure out a way to feed and water her. That night I was making dinner and I dropped a piece of frozen broccoli on the floor, and that gave me an idea. I set it outside on the front porch to attract bugs. I came back to it after I ate and there were bugs all over it. I took the jar outside, made the spider go up to the top, unscrewed the cap and set it on top of the now thawed and covered in bugs piece of broccoli. I slid it onto the top and closed it up. The spider went to town stringing them up, and I figured she'd be able to get water from the broccoli.
I set the jar in my bathroom so I could check on her every morning. The next day, for some weird reason she pulled the broccoli up into the middle of the jar and wrapped it up in a ball. A few days later, that ball was still there, and I couldn't figure out what she was doing with it. A few more days later, I went into the bathroom one morning to find the ball gone and thousands of little baby black widows all over the place. They were small enough to crawl out of the air hole I poked in the jar, but most of them were inside. I ran and grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed the outside of the jar, then filled the sink with water and submerged the jar in the water until it filled up and drowned them all.
I decided not to try to keep spiders as pets after that.


You should never keep black widow spiders as they pose a danger to humans. While you should't outright kill them unless they are in your common areas. Like a garage. I kill the black widows that make homes in there, but I leave the ones in the backyard alone. The ones in the back yard don't pose a danger because I have no outdoor pets or children who can be injured by the things.

They aren't there to prey on humans, but they are a natural danger to humans. It is a naturally selected fear response to be repulsed by spiders; especially when they multiply.

I don't mind spiders. They'll leave you alone if you don't bother them. I usually don't bother them either, but one time I found a black widow spider. For some reason I decided I wanted to catch it and keep it as a pet. I found an empty clear plastic jar in the garbage, poked a few small holes in it and used that to catch her. I needed to figure out a way to feed and water her. That night I was making dinner and I dropped a piece of frozen broccoli on the floor, and that gave me an idea. I set it outside on the front porch to attract bugs. I came back to it after I ate and there were bugs all over it. I took the jar outside, made the spider go up to the top, unscrewed the cap and set it on top of the now thawed and covered in bugs piece of broccoli. I slid it onto the top and closed it up. The spider went to town stringing them up, and I figured she'd be able to get water from the broccoli.

I set the jar in my bathroom so I could check on her every morning. The next day, for some weird reason she pulled the broccoli up into the middle of the jar and wrapped it up in a ball. A few days later, that ball was still there, and I couldn't figure out what she was doing with it. A few more days later, I went into the bathroom one morning to find the ball gone and thousands of little baby black widows all over the place. They were small enough to crawl out of the air hole I poked in the jar, but most of them were inside. I ran and grabbed a can of bug spray and sprayed the outside of the jar, then filled the sink with water and submerged the jar in the water until it filled up and drowned them all.

I decided not to try to keep spiders as pets after that.

There must be a less destructive way to test for silver. How about weighing it, then submerging it in water, then calculating the density? Like Archimedes did more than 2000 years ago.

>> ^joop:
The thing is compared to a surf board or bike, you can just get back on it then and there and try again. With this you have to drag it all the way back to the pier to start over. Have fun with that.
I can't imagine this working very well in anything but perfectly calm water as well.
i think i've seen videos of somebody starting it while submerged....hmm, maybe it was something else.

And he immediately drove it from the showroom through the plate glass window, sideswiped an ice cream truck, rambled onto some train tracks, then ended up submerged in a backyard pool.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mitch, hedberg, fish, rock, ahh fuck' to 'mitch, hedberg, fish, loud as shit, not want to submerge, rock, ahh fuck' - edited by calvados

Ive played with skinks that do something like that - not as big, and in very very fine sand. But I dont remember then being 100% submerged clearly with a signature ontop - they just sort of dissappeared, and then you saw them wriggle out of the dirt a little distance away...I think...

This was prolly 16 years ago.

>> ^quantumushroom:
It's still not powerful enough to run Vista.


Crysis too.

To my knowledge it's not toxic and only requires heat to reform regardless of it's form. I had a kit once that used a band of Nitinol wound like a spring. You would wind it around this wheel system such that one end could be submerged in cold water and the other could be submerged in hot. The thing would take off like a shot and spray water everywhere. Still, pretty neat.