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Religions > Atheism |
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"Gregory Gadow" |
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28 Mar 2005 04:03:11 PM |
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OT: Bipedal Octipi? |
Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists
report
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 24 March 2005
BERKELEY – Two species of tropical octopus have learned a neat trick to
avoid predators — they lift up six of their arms and walk backward on
the other two.
This first report of bipedal behavior in octopuses, written by
University of California, Berkeley, researchers, will be published in
the March 25 issue of Science.
When walking, these octopuses use the outer halves of their two back
arms like tank treads, alternately laying down a sucker edge and rolling
it along the ground. In Indonesia, for example, the coconut octopus
looks like a coconut tiptoeing along the ocean bottom, six of its arms
wrapped tightly around its body.
The full article, with QuickTime video, available at
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml
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Gregory Gadow
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http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"[T]hose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;
and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."
-- Pres. George W. Bush, Hypocrite, his inauguration speech, 2005
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| User: "Meteorite Debris" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Bipedal Octipi? |
29 Mar 2005 06:24:43 AM |
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:03:11 -0800 the ET form known as Gregory
Gadow<techbear@serv.net> sent a radio signal across the vast expanse
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Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists
report
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 24 March 2005
BERKELEY – Two species of tropical octopus have learned a neat trick to
avoid predators — they lift up six of their arms and walk backward on
the other two.
This first report of bipedal behavior in octopuses, written by
University of California, Berkeley, researchers, will be published in
the March 25 issue of Science.
When walking, these octopuses use the outer halves of their two back
arms like tank treads, alternately laying down a sucker edge and rolling
it along the ground. In Indonesia, for example, the coconut octopus
looks like a coconut tiptoeing along the ocean bottom, six of its arms
wrapped tightly around its body.
The full article, with QuickTime video, available at
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/24_octopus.shtml
I've been watching a what-if nature series set in the future called
"The Future is Wild". 200 million years into the future octopi come
out onto the land and start swinging through the trees to fill the
niche left by primates and start to become more intelligent. Other
ideas are snails 30 cms high that move by hoping around on one foot,
flish who are fish that took to air and a giant tortoise weighing 100
tonns.
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Chief EAC prophet
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were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
-Mencken
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