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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/09/2005 : 14:15:57
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6940729/
God testing us again, no doubt.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 02/09/2005 : 15:40:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6940729/
God testing us again, no doubt.
That's very interesting. I knew that aborial ants often fell and recovered if a breeze didn't blow them too far away, but I've never heard of actual gliding.
Many non-gliding, aborial animals use falling as a defense. I've seen grey squirrels do it from quite a heigth, and the house geckos in Puerto Rico would sometimes, in the middle of the night of course, drop from the ceiling and hit the floor with a horrid splat, and scuttle off unhurt. And, I suspect, do it again as soon as we were almost back to sleep out of pure spite.
They spread out and take the impact over their entire body. It's pretty remarkable to observe.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2005 : 13:52:11 [Permalink]
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| I saw this on the BABB and it made me laugh as I pictured those guys up in that tree dropping those ants. Kids! |
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