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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/14/2007 : 06:49:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by JEROME DA GNOME
The blackbird could fly as high as 15 miles.
Satellites can orbit as low as 124 miles.
The difference is only about eight times.
The need for a monster telescope does not seem true.
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Where exactly did you get this ridiculous idea? Birds flying at 79,200 feet altitude? Pul-lease.... 
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That's the Greater Rocket Crow, Fil. You herps may be knowledgeable in your little field, but you need to talk to a birder before shooting off your mouths about avians.
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My bad. I'd forgotten about the Rocket Crows and was thinking of a species of Griffin Vulture. Vultures, of course, can't generate their own oxygen from excess carrion in their crops like Rocket Crows commonly do, and so can't reach such altitudes without turning purple.
The Lesser Rocket Crow is also known as the Mile-or-More Bird. It flys a mile or more high, dives a mile or more deep, and when it opens it's beak and the wind whistles through it's ass, you can hear it for a mile or more.
Who sez us herps don't know nothin' 'bout birds? 
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| Edited by - filthy on 07/14/2007 06:51:44 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/14/2007 : 07:10:44 [Permalink]
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Fil expounded, trying to impress the rubes: | Vultures, of course, can't generate their own oxygen from excess carrion in their crops like Rocket Crows commonly do, and so can't reach such altitudes without turning purple. |
This just demonstrates your profound ignorance of the rare Purple Griffin Vulture.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/14/2007 : 08:45:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Fil expounded, trying to impress the rubes: | Vultures, of course, can't generate their own oxygen from excess carrion in their crops like Rocket Crows commonly do, and so can't reach such altitudes without turning purple. |
This just demonstrates your profound ignorance of the rare Purple Griffin Vulture.
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Aw contrary, old friend. I am well aware of the nearly extinct, Purple Griffin Vulture. Like Icarus, they simply fly too high and the sun melts their wings. Those that fly a bit lower are too often rendered into sub-orbital road-kill by airplanes.
Alas, I fear that this magnificent bird is at an evolutionary dead end.
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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
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/14/2007 : 08:56:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Fil expounded, trying to impress the rubes: | Vultures, of course, can't generate their own oxygen from excess carrion in their crops like Rocket Crows commonly do, and so can't reach such altitudes without turning purple. |
This just demonstrates your profound ignorance of the rare Purple Griffin Vulture.
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Aw contrary, old friend. I am well aware of the nearly extinct, Purple Griffin Vulture. Like Icarus, they simply fly too high and the sun melts their wings. Those that fly a bit lower are too often rendered into sub-orbital road-kill by airplanes.
Alas, I fear that this magnificent bird is at an evolutionary dead end.
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Now you're mistaking the Purple Griffin Vulture for the Purple Waxwing Griffin vulture, the kind of vulgar mistake one comes to expect from herps expounding far outside their minuscule area of expertise. The Purple Griffin vulture feeds almost entirely upon the corpses of defeathered and crashed Purple Waxwing Griffin vultures found on high mountaintops.
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/14/2007 09:00:33 |
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