Science!

[taniwharugby]

@booboo yeah well if I cant use my FX82 I aint buying it!

Fake calculations!

[jegga]

Aug 4  /  Science

Fossils of a new species of giant parrot found in New Zealand

The flightless 'squawkzilla' stood three feet tall and was twice the weight of the kakapo, the heaviest parrot alive today.

[taniwharugby]

@jegga Polly want a cracker...nope, Polly wants the whole box!

[jegga]

Bec Crew

Why 76 Beavers Were Forced to Skydive into the Idaho Wilderness in 1948

Some time in the late 1940s, a very patient, elderly beaver called Geronimo was put in a box, flown to an altitude of between 150 and 200 metres, and tossed out the side of an aeroplane.

[jegga]

[jegga]

[Machpants]

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/297059-scientists-are-using-ai-to-recreate-the-rules-of-long-lost-board-games

[Stockcar86]

Biology's resolution revolution

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49359137

[jegga]

salmon cannon

Aug 12, 2019  /  Animals

The Salmon Cannon Is Hot Now, but It's Been Here for Years

The viral salmon cannon video, explained.

[Chris B.]

The World Air Quality Index project

World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index

How polluted is the air today? Check out the real-time air pollution map, for more than 80 countries.

Real time global air quality map.

I hope the measuring station in Faisalabad (currently showing 516) is malfunctioning!

[Nevorian]

@Chris-B that's cool. Whats going on at the Blenheim Bowling club - barbeque breakfast?

[Snowy]

@Chris-B said in Science!:

The World Air Quality Index project

World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index

How polluted is the air today? Check out the real-time air pollution map, for more than 80 countries.

Real time global air quality map.

I hope the measuring station in Faisalabad (currently showing 516) is malfunctioning!

Probably not. Hot dry plains with an industrial city.

Best not to go bowling in Blenheim today either.

[booboo]

@Nevorian said in Science!:

@Chris-B that's cool. Whats going on at the Blenheim Bowling club - barbeque breakfast?

All the old bugger puffing on ciggies?

[dogmeat]

@Chris-B Far as I can see the most dangerous place to be right now is the US Embassy in Dushanbee Tajikistan (644)

Makes sense

[Snowy]

@dogmeat Wow. 644, I have no idea what that means really, but wow.

If anybody has kids at the Nanzhai primary school you should probably take them home.

Excellent afternoon for bowling in Blenheim with an 8.

[Nevorian]

yes the Blenheim boys and girls have moved on to Wainuiomata BC

[Chris B.]

599 in Bangkok. 582 in Indonesia.

The latter, at least, is probably forest fires - the friend who pointed me to this map works in KL and they had a reading of 380 a few days ago - he said you could taste the air.

[Chris B.]

What goes on in Winton - they've been registering 80 odd every time I've looked?

Quite a high reading in Willis Street - Nick must have fired up the laptop!

[Stockcar86]

I never thought that this is what the equinox really is

[Snowy]

@Nevorian said in Science!:

yes the Blenheim boys and girls have moved on to Wainuiomata BC

Who would have thought that bowling in the centre of NZ was so hazardous?

I am also kind of hooked on that site - that bakery in Winton isn't a good place to get a pie today either.