Re: The Youtube video thread!
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:21 am
If I remember to take my vitamins.Captain Seafort wrote:Mikey's young and energetic enough for a zimmerframe?
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Re: The Youtube video thread!
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 6:50 am
OK, found some video of the Grandmaster of my son's TKD dojang. This guy is 110% legit; he founded his own style, known when he taught in Germany as Sung Woo Do Kwan and known here as Kum Sung Korean Martial Arts, plus being a recognized Master in geomdo, TKD, hapkido, wing chun, and myriad Korean, Malaysian, Chinese, and Japanese traditional weapons.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:05 am
Hippo charge on Chobe river.
The late Steve Irwin said his scariest moment ever was when he had to cross a hippo filled river. Not the time a Komodo dragon chased him up a tree, or the times he rode a gator/croc.
The late Steve Irwin said his scariest moment ever was when he had to cross a hippo filled river. Not the time a Komodo dragon chased him up a tree, or the times he rode a gator/croc.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:44 pm
I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:33 pm
Surely, that's the Mosquito?Mikey wrote:I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 3:22 pm
Indeed, I failed to refine my information. The hippopotamus is variously (properly) described as Africa's most deadly "large" animal or most dangerous vertebrate, and is responsible for the most fatalities through direct action; the mosquito is responsible through more fatalities thorugh the spread of malaria, dengue, et. al.IanKennedy wrote:Surely, that's the Mosquito?Mikey wrote:I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:00 pm
You could argue that the mosquito is not dangerous at all. It is the malaria, etc that is dangerous. The hippo itself is dangerous.Mikey wrote:Indeed, I failed to refine my information. The hippopotamus is variously (properly) described as Africa's most deadly "large" animal or most dangerous vertebrate, and is responsible for the most fatalities through direct action; the mosquito is responsible through more fatalities thorugh the spread of malaria, dengue, et. al.IanKennedy wrote:Surely, that's the Mosquito?Mikey wrote:I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:29 pm
Whereas the most dangerous thing in America is, apparently, the bus :
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:37 pm
And THIS why I look both ways and don't wander out into traffic.Graham Kennedy wrote:Whereas the most dangerous thing in America is, apparently, the bus :
Re: The Youtube video thread!
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:06 pm
This Argument About Whether the Moon Is a Planet or a Star Will Make You Rethink Everything
Out of this world
A segment on the home-shopping network was recently selling some science that we aren’t buying.
QVC host Shawn Killinger and designer Isaac Mizrahi were debating whether the Moon is a planet or a star. Here is a snippet of that conversation:
Killinger: “Isn’t the moon a star?”
Mizrahi : “No, the Moon is a planet, darling.”
Killinger: “Don’t look at me like that! The sun is a star!”
Mizrahi: “I don’t know what the Sun is.”
The Moon, the Earth’s only natural satellite, is neither, by the way.
Maybe the next segment will be selling science textbooks.
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:10 pm
Yes, that's been making all the interweb rounds. However, we should bear something in mind before we get all riled up about it: this wasn't a conversation held on Cosmos or in an astronomy lecture... it was between a host and a fshion designer on a home shopping channel. What exactly were we expecting?
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:11 pm
Personally I would expect - or at least, hope - that an average person would know the difference between a star, a planet and a moon. It's not like that's high level stuff, after all - it's the equivalent of knowing enough biology to know what a mammal is, or enough geography to know where Africa is on a map.
But I am an eternal optimist.
But I am an eternal optimist.