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Started by Tiplodocus, 28 January, 2008, 09:03:08 PM

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JayzusB.Christ

Quote from: shaolin_monkey on 14 May, 2013, 11:53:04 PM
Quote from: JOE SOAP on 14 May, 2013, 03:16:46 PM
Quote from: johnnystress on 14 May, 2013, 03:02:15 PM
I'm guessing it was one of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFW3-hxWPZE


Watch the full documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-vjutwJyY4

I couldn't watch all of that. It made me feel a bit vertiginous, something that isn't usually a problem for me!

Judas wept.  Me, I feel dizzy sometimes just thinking of heights.
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

ThryllSeekyr


TordelBack

Humans are truly amazing creatures. I give you the Landfill Harmonic, a tragedy that it has to exist, a triumph that it does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=UJrSUHK9Luw

ThryllSeekyr


Spikes


The Doctor Alt 8

Of course your problem there is FINDING THE EARHOLE ON A SHARK!


Hearing and balance:

Whether sharks actually hear in the same sense that we do is unclear. The ears of sharks are completely internal. They are embedded within the chondrocranium (frontal skull). What looks like ear openings behind the eyes of sharks and rays are actually spiracles which primarily aid in respiration.

As in the inner ears of higher vertebrates the ears of sharks are responsible for balance and equilibrium. The inner ear of sharks consists of a series of ducts and sacs collectively known as the membranous labyrinth. These cavities are filled with endolymph which in sharks is mainly sea water that enters through the endolymphatic ducts. Around the membranous labyrinth is another series of fluid filled canals known as the cartilaginous labyrinth that are supplied through the perilymphatic ducts. The cartilaginous labyrinth protects and supports the more sensitive membranous labyrinth within. The sacculus is a large inner chamber into which the endolymphatic ducts lead. Within this is an area called the lagena that has been shown to receive sound waves in some fishes. Lining the walls of the sacculus are patches of sensory epithelium covered with sand grains and calcareous deposits known as otoliths. As the shark banks  the endolymph fluid and  otoliths lag behind slightly. Their swaying registers on nearby sensory hair cells that send signals to the brain resulting in sensations of imbalance that the shark then corrects. Imagine the importance of good balance in an environment where there are sometimes no visual cues at all to tell you which way is up.

At one time scientists thought that sharks may be able to hear with their entire bodies using their lateral line systems. This idea has since been discredited but the principle remains a reasonable one. Sound waves are after all little more than vibrations that fall within an animals auditory range. And, considering the importance of hearing it would make sense that such a successful group of animals as elasmobranchs would make use of it in one way or another.   


The Doctor Alt 8



ThryllSeekyr

Not sure If I had linked this one earlier.

Muh - Matterhorn Project

BTW, I can now apply titles to links. I learnt how on another forum. It's easy. As you can see above.

TordelBack

#2048
Quite simply my favourite thing ever:  Existential Star Wars.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q-uQWNd540I#at=72

"Nothingness, I embrace you!"

JOE SOAP


JOE SOAP


ThryllSeekyr


Frank


It's okay, she gets up and walks it off and the car only suffers superficial damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0MM8Knp9o


TordelBack

#2053
Quote from: sauchie on 03 July, 2013, 02:06:09 PM

It's okay, she gets up and walks it off and the car only suffers superficial damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0MM8Knp9o

Man, 2025 is a weird place.  One is moved to ponder why the AI driving the car didn't take note of the other cows back up the road and slow the drokk down.  But then I suppose our entertainment would be curtailed.  Asimov's Minus-First Law: a robot shall not reduce, or by inaction allowed to be reduced, the short term entertainment value of any situation, even where this interferes with the Zeroth, First, Second and Third Laws.

JOE SOAP

Quote from: sauchie on 03 July, 2013, 02:06:09 PM

It's okay, she gets up and walks it off and the car only suffers superficial damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0MM8Knp9o


Man proves his supremacy over animals yet again with automotive, bovine cock-block.