It's true, watched it happen in my own yard.
Dogs that aren't quite fast enough to catch a jack rabbit but can run deer to their death are outclassed in both events (sprint and distance) by a fucking bird.
And we thought they were only masters of flight.
Kinda makes you wonder what a strange and mysterious world populated by dinosaurs was like for emerging mammals.
How did we ever make it this far?
WE are SUPER RATS!
Have you ever considered taking some classes, maybe at a community college? It's really very rewarding.
I fear it would get lost if it tried to leave the basement. Certainly the house without parental guidance.
Have you considered asking people for help with education? Nigel said something about community college. If you need me to translate more of her nonsense let me know. She has no arms you see. People did rig up a variety of prosthetic "things" lmno found at the gay bar to her and she just pokes a keyboard until a post occurs. You get used to translating it after a while but I doubt you speak "go fuck yourself."
Quote from: Junkenstein on July 06, 2016, 08:18:33 PM
I fear it would get lost if it tried to leave the basement. Certainly the house without parental guidance.
Have you considered asking people for help with education? Nigel said something about community college. If you need me to translate more of her nonsense let me know. She has no arms you see. People did rig up a variety of prosthetic "things" lmno found at the gay bar to her and she just pokes a keyboard until a post occurs. You get used to translating it after a while but I doubt you speak "go fuck yourself."
since you asked:
QuoteEmus can run at speeds of up to 50 km per hour. They also have the unusual ability of being able to do a quick 180-degree turn at almost top speed, a feat unmatched by other animals.
They can also scale a barbed wire fence at nearly full speed.
But I never would have guessed they could keep that dance going for 45 minutes until the dogs were too spent to maintain pursuit.
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Global warming scares the shit outta me!
I asked if you've considered getting assistance with your lack of education.
You really do need help with reading comprehension. Though it does explain the zerohedge obsession.
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 06, 2016, 06:29:15 PM
And we thought they were only masters of flight.
http://can-emus-fly.herokuapp.com/
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 07, 2016, 04:12:55 PM
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Jesus Christ, it's only by sheer luck that badgers aren't the size of blue whales; imagine the scale of their dens, undermining cities and incorporating our subways into their enormous subterranean underworlds. Why, if horses were the size of ants, wouldn't they be easy to lose? Imagine an eagle with the head of a tiger. Really puts humanity into perspective, doesn't it?
Imagine the size of this guy's yard. 45 minutes!?
Quote from: Pæs on July 08, 2016, 02:34:07 AM
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 07, 2016, 04:12:55 PM
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Jesus Christ, it's only by sheer luck that badgers aren't the size of blue whales; imagine the scale of their dens, undermining cities and incorporating our subways into their enormous subterranean underworlds. Why, if horses were the size of ants, wouldn't they be easy to lose? Imagine an eagle with the head of a tiger. Really puts humanity into perspective, doesn't it?
This might explain the cave systems under and around the mountain. Thank God I have a speargun, I am totally not mentally prepared for giant Goddamn badgers.
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 06, 2016, 06:29:15 PM
Kinda makes you wonder what a strange and mysterious world populated by dinosaurs was like for emerging mammals.
I'm gonna say banal, because for them it wasn't several million years removed from them.
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 08, 2016, 05:50:41 AM
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 06, 2016, 06:29:15 PM
Kinda makes you wonder what a strange and mysterious world populated by dinosaurs was like for emerging mammals.
I'm gonna say banal, because for them it wasn't several million years removed from them.
(https://global3.memecdn.com/rmx-apply-cold-water-to-burned-area_fb_1536281.jpg)
I get what the OP's saying though. But the impressiveness is largely an artifact of civilization. Apparently a human can keep up a brisk pace for a very long time if civilization hasn't made them fat. I read (take this with a grain of salt however as I can no longer recall the source. Also I've summarized this kind of badly.) somewhere that early human hunters relied a lot on the trick of just following an animal continually until it was too tired to keep outrunning them
Quote from: Pæs on July 08, 2016, 02:34:07 AM
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 07, 2016, 04:12:55 PM
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Jesus Christ, it's only by sheer luck that badgers aren't the size of blue whales; imagine the scale of their dens, undermining cities and incorporating our subways into their enormous subterranean underworlds. Why, if horses were the size of ants, wouldn't they be easy to lose? Imagine an eagle with the head of a tiger. Really puts humanity into perspective, doesn't it?
sheer luck or temperature? If you drop a rat and a snake into an aquarium the survival rate of each is largely a function of temperature.
Likewise the giganticism of cold blooded dinos may well be a function of temperature. And or course the recent dominance of warm blooded mammals is largely a function of temperature too.
I consider global warming an innocuous threat, far more upsides than downsides.
But among the unknowables is what impact 5 degrees may have on the proliferation and speed of insects. Or cold blooded birds. I kinda worry that even 5 degrees may tip the scale in favor of our cold blooded cousins. When I worry about GW anyway.
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 08, 2016, 06:09:20 PM
Quote from: Pæs on July 08, 2016, 02:34:07 AM
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 07, 2016, 04:12:55 PM
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Jesus Christ, it's only by sheer luck that badgers aren't the size of blue whales; imagine the scale of their dens, undermining cities and incorporating our subways into their enormous subterranean underworlds. Why, if horses were the size of ants, wouldn't they be easy to lose? Imagine an eagle with the head of a tiger. Really puts humanity into perspective, doesn't it?
sheer luck or temperature? If you drop a rat and a snake into an aquarium the survival rate of each is largely a function of temperature.
Likewise the giganticism of cold blooded dinos may well be a function of temperature. And or course the recent dominance of warm blooded mammals is largely a function of temperature too.
I consider global warming an innocuous threat, far more upsides than downsides.
But among the unknowables is what impact 5 degrees may have on the proliferation and speed of insects. Or cold blooded birds. I kinda worry that even 5 degrees may tip the scale in favor of our cold blooded cousins. When I worry about GW anyway.
This is fantastic.
But your status as a troll is still amateur...
(https://storage.googleapis.com/vidsums/49219e10-c310-4f6f-82a1-576f062ba53d_text.gif)
Finally, the missing component of Hollow Earth theory: giant badgers. Possibly giant lava badgers.
Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on July 08, 2016, 01:29:56 PM
I get what the OP's saying though. But the impressiveness is largely an artifact of civilization. Apparently a human can keep up a brisk pace for a very long time if civilization hasn't made them fat. I read (take this with a grain of salt however as I can no longer recall the source. Also I've summarized this kind of badly.) somewhere that early human hunters relied a lot on the trick of just following an animal continually until it was too tired to keep outrunning them
yeah, we are endurance predators, our stamina is actually kind of terrifying.
Quote from: Pæs on July 08, 2016, 02:34:07 AM
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 07, 2016, 04:12:55 PM
It's just a damned good thing for us that insects aren't as big as emus, and that very few birds are. We wouldn't stand a chance in hell in the Cretaceous period.
Jesus Christ, it's only by sheer luck that badgers aren't the size of blue whales; imagine the scale of their dens, undermining cities and incorporating our subways into their enormous subterranean underworlds. Why, if horses were the size of ants, wouldn't they be easy to lose? Imagine an eagle with the head of a tiger. Really puts humanity into perspective, doesn't it?
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: AIbrdwthulrdy on July 08, 2016, 06:09:20 PM
But among the unknowables is what impact 5 degrees may have on the proliferation and speed of insects. Or cold blooded birds. I kinda worry that even 5 degrees may tip the scale in favor of our cold blooded cousins. When I worry about GW anyway.
Allll those cold-blooded birds flying around outside. SO many of them. Cold-blooded birds.
Zerohedge-san here gotta be trolling.
:lulz:
Holy shit, I missed that. What the actual fuck.
:lulz: Well played, bro. Well played.
This is one of my favorite species of cold-blooded birds:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Common_Collared_Lizard.jpg)
The only cold-blooded birds we really have around here, though, are these guys:
(http://www.coniferousforest.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Western-Fence-Lizard.jpg)
Those cold-blooded birds are so frickin' pretty!
Here's one that we have:
(https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.Mc1852ea08814484bfdb71932fe296350o0%26pid%3D15.1&f=1)
no one has posted a picture of Roger yet?
For shame
I love this kind of cold-blooded birds:
(http://www.chameleonis.com/wp-content/themes/Chameleonis/images/img-doing-business.png)
It's so happy!
Check out THIS cold-blooded bird!
(http://www.liveanimalslist.com/reptiles/images/lizards.jpg)
Quote from: Freeky on July 09, 2016, 08:02:27 PM
It's so happy!
Check out THIS cold-blooded bird!
(http://www.liveanimalslist.com/reptiles/images/lizards.jpg)
That is a very pretty bird! Do you guys remember when I had that asshole cold blooded bird, Merciful?
(https://tokodummycoldbloodedstore.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/img-20121101-03711.jpg)
That had to have been before I joined, because I don't remember you ever having a bird, but it's gorgeous.
I saw the most adorable cold-blooded bird picture:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Meiintas/Lizard%20Friend.jpg)
Quote from: Freeky on July 10, 2016, 01:27:53 AM
That had to have been before I joined, because I don't remember you ever having a bird, but it's gorgeous.
I saw the most adorable cold-blooded bird picture:
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y153/Meiintas/Lizard%20Friend.jpg)
Awwww that is probably the cutest cold-blooded bird ever!
"Nomnomnomnomnoms I has hungry belleh!"
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(http://principiadiscordia.com/forum/NewAvatars/avatar_6293_1468093492.png)
Is preening tail feathers?