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Pre-smartphone was a very different time.
I really wonder what the other people thought, that they just landed on the core of their body? I suppose they could defecate while in flight, but man that would be a drag.
Probably comes from the old tale that hummingbirds never stop flapping their wings or they die so why would they need feet?
Hummingbirds, the real Speed and Crank stars.
hummingbirds never stop flapping their wings or they die
Same with sharks
Wow, I never knew sharks had wings.
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Nor feet!
How can you be sure are you a sharkologist?
I had never heard that before, crazy
Is it a tale? It thought stopping would basically overclock the heart after too long. I saw one land the other day (possibly the first time I’ve ever seen that) and it kept flapping while hanging onto a twig.
Apparently as many dumbasses around back then as now.
There is a widespread idea that people from the past were dumb due to a lack of information, the age of smartphones and free access to information has made it clear that a lack of information was never the issue, we are just really fucking stupid animals.
I mean, yeah, but also we made machines to feed us interesting things and it turns out we really like to be mad for some reason (justified or otherwise) and we’ll share things to make others mad too. Throw in a profit motive, economic woes due to said profit motive, and it’s over.
Part of our animal nature is to be tribalistic, and we don’t often get a lot of that in our daily lives so that people find ways to feed that need. Tribalism involves violent intent about outgroups that don’t conform to our “tribe” (read: pack).
Again, stupid fucking animals.
This is the opposite outcome of one of my friends advisors. We went to the Roswell UFO museum as a lark. And one of the info panels said “this is potential alien metal panels, analyzed by a scientist, Dr. So and So” and we told the professor, who got really angry. “I said that I would look at what they had and it was all flattened pieces of beer cans, I told them not to associate me with this nonsense!”
So you’re saying he did analyze the metals, and that he couldn’t conclusively prove that they weren’t alien metal?
I imagine everyone in the bar silent while he’s on the phone, leaning forward, waiting to hear the answer.
I have to wonder how much money was made, and what happened to the poor fool who bet against this.
Oh wow, to be jump scared by the Destiel fanfic writer I’m obsessed with (the stories not the person lol) in the wild.
Northern Sparrow is an amazing writer and talks often about bird physiology in her fics!
Just goes to show this place is only one half step up from reddit.
This ancient repost keeps getting upvotes no matter how many times it comes up.
It may be ancient but has it stopped being good?
I read it several times every time because it’s good.
I’m just saying.
I have two trainees and when they come to me with complex questions they’ve clearly thought out and debated it makes me so happy.
