 mluther
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
 823 Posts
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Friday, June 06, 2008 10:52:40 AM
evolution or warm waters creating an air current? |
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 citadel
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
477 Posts
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Friday, May 23, 2008 2:50:00 PM
lamesauce |
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 shinu
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
1251 Posts
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 7:15:43 PM
umm... pokemans? |
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 demone_paar
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
232 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 8:01:22 PM
frankpoole: the way i heard it was that maybe she was thinking what you said then read the teleprompter and noticed her mistake and corrected herself, thereby giving a purpose to the moment of silence between the words as i have previously noted in my comment above... |
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demone_paar
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
232 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:56:17 PM
anyone else notice...
"only hitting the surface occasionally...... with its tail when it began to lose altitude" just taking a breath for a moment or what? |
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 TKD_Master
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1747 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:40:21 PM
i didnt know fish could fly...i flushed my goldfish for not flying...lazy bass turd. |
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 concept
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
86 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:16:36 PM
wayyy too many puns on this topic... -____- |
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 ydoom
Male, 18-29, Europe
101 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:56:34 AM
NOFX, "kill all the white man!" ;) |
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ydoom
Male, 18-29, Europe
101 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:54:58 AM
I felt hungry :> |
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 NOFX14
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
1053 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:11:20 AM
what a suprise its in Japan |
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 tp1212
Male, 13-17, Europe
285 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:03:58 AM
today 20 cm above the water, tomorrow THE MOON! |
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 luckyaxolotl
Male, 18-29, Europe
188 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:43:52 AM
For all those people wondering why a fish might benefit from being able to fly - the all-knowing fount of user-generated lies that is wikipedia says that it enables them to escape predators.So just wait a billion years and BAM - a fish that can fly for 90 seconds! |
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 REBELComx
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
441 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:15:19 AM
Fishy Overlords? It's about time!
Thank Dagon! Ia Cthulhu! Wgah-nagl fhtagn! |
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 jetmark
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
1029 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:08:53 AM
he's the radical thrill seeker in his school.
unless it's a she. |
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 AGit
Male, 30-39, Europe
527 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:47:10 AM
Good job they had the "expert" to point out that 45 seconds may be the limit. After seeing it fly for 45 seconds, anybody that isn't an expert would have said that the limit is less ¬¬ |
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 WHOISIT12345
Male, 13-17, Western US
4605 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 6:44:44 AM
^^^^^^ yay :P fly fish fly!!!! |
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 calcal
Male, 18-29, Europe
77 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:54:09 AM
yay for evolution |
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frankpoole
Male, 18-29, Western US
22 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:25:43 AM
Those 'smart' reporters.... She says it only landed when it's tail hit the water and slowed it down, but if yoou've ever seen flying fish (Or just look at the video) you'l see it uses it's tail in the water to pick up more speed when it slows down, etc... Where's he going? He's probably going AWAY from something bigger and hungrier than him, LOL! They are cool to see flying in front of your boat though. Just sucks when they disappear below the bow and you hear a thump... |
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 badmamajama
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
30 Posts
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:00:53 AM
Am I the only one who noticed the stupid look on the reporters face when she says "for forty five seconds"? |
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 nrg70
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
107 Posts
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:26:43 PM
Was it just me or did this guy look like he was crankin ass over the water. He looked mad fast to me. |
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 Evanesia
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
307 Posts
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:43:48 PM
Wonder where he's going.Do they hold their breath or something? |
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 opiebreath
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
14283 Posts
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:30:21 PM
What is the world COMING to when my fish and my fowl are the SAAAAAME! |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
1451 Posts
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:35:09 PM
puddies:i) Evolution isn't only about helpful abilities. Species can still survive as long as a trait isn't too much of a hindrance. This one doesn't seem to be a hindrance at all, so it wouldn't cause the species to die out. ii) Maybe it helps them catch flying insects near to the surface, i.e. a food source other fish can't effectively use. iii) Maybe it confuses predators chasing them. Wholly aquatic predators would track prey in water and might not be able to deal with that prey leaving the water. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
1451 Posts
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:20:47 PM
Harrydick - it's a flying fish. Strictly speaking, they glide, but they are known as flying fish. Other fish can "fly" a bit, by swimming hard towards the surface, more like jumping than flying, but flying fish have an unusual sort of wing/fin arrangement that enables them to extend the jump a bit, depending on conditions. Not usually as much as this one, though. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
1451 Posts
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 9:14:51 PM
x13purplesta:
"Reverting to the stone age would kill most humans??? We wouldn't have to get the plagues back, just the simplicity. You think to much Angilion."That's better than not enough. There's no way the Earth can support close to 7 billion people with stone age technology. Stone age wouldn't include any farming, so hunting and gathering would be the ways to obtain food. That requires quite a bit of land per person and makes a lot more land uninhabitable. I was being generous in estimating only 80% of humanity would have to die. That many corpses, plus the total breakdown of all support services, would spread the usual diseases - typhoid, cholera, dysentry, etc. We'd then have some new ones - HIV, MRSA, drug-resistant TB, etc. Yersinia Pestis would spread, though probably not this far amongst the few remaining people, who would be unable to travel further than they could walk. We would have to have the plagues, because we couldn't stop them. |
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