Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@taniwharugby poor thing, it just wants to get out!
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@bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby poor thing, it just wants to get out!
Yeah, it's trying to put the brakes on, knowing it's being taken fucking miles away from it's home, all to the delightful soundtrack of a lawnmower engine.
When we did a couple of wee excursions into the Amazon - sure, the guide would find one, get it out of the tree, terrify it, let us all ooh-and-aah over it, take photos, blah blah blah - but then he'd at least have the courtesy to put it back in the tree it wanted to be in, as high as possible.
Not abduct the poor fluffybunny. -
if it didn't want to be caught it should have run faster
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@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
if it didn't want to be caught it should have run faster
aaaaaand we're back to talking about whales
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You snooze you lose
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Chamoli disaster: 'It hit the valley floor like 15 atomic bombs' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57446224
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@crucial holy shit. Nature is beyond metal!! Incredible what the ice:rock mix turned into and how fast and far it traveled.
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@paekakboyz said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@crucial holy shit. Nature is beyond metal!! Incredible what the ice:rock mix turned into and how fast and far it traveled.
I know. That's what made me post it. Beyond imagination that the energy from the rockfall could almost instantly melt that amount of ice and create a runaway wet concrete river.
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@taniwharugby Bit late to this thread, but I spit my coffee when he got to the wings.
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
its pretty impressive the amount of exploring Maori/Polynesians did!
I thought this was interesting but it seems a bit doubtful as it's one "myth" submitted to a somewhat dodgy European recorder. Sent it to my mate (who has a PhD in Maori Migration) and he thought it was hookum.
But agree with your comment on the amount of exploring Polynesians did considering how far they went throughout the Pacific.
I might see if I can find the actual paper to have a read though.
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@nepia you are probably right, I mean the prep required to do that (clothing/food etc) would have been significant, and Polynesians arent that fond of cold are they
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia you are probably right, I mean the prep required to do that (clothing/food etc) would have been significant, and Polynesians arent that fond of cold are they
This one definitely isn't ... Sydney is getting too cold for me, I'm still hunting for the elusive job of 9 months in Sydney and 3 months in Cairns!
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@nepia said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
But agree with your comment on the amount of exploring Polynesians did considering how far they went throughout the Pacific.
Didn't the Polynesians navigate by the stars? Think I read that decades ago in Vikings of the Pacific.
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@victor-meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nepia said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
But agree with your comment on the amount of exploring Polynesians did considering how far they went throughout the Pacific.
Didn't the Polynesians navigate by the stars? Think I read that decades ago in Vikings of the Pacific.
Yep, stars, and Island hopping - following bird migrations etc, supplemented with oral tradition as I think they knew where to sail to get the best push when travelling from the Eastern pacific.
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