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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: bad Chad on January 10, 2018, 08:09:16 PM
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Holy Bat Farts, it's hot down their!
Sadly, many bats, likely in the thousands have died from an extreme heat wave affecting parts of the "big Island".
I think we all can agree, extremes at either end of the thermometer suck!
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/10/576908629/australias-heat-wave-fries-bats-brains-hundreds-found-dead
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Australia's suburbs, died outside Sydney over the weekend as temperatures soared to 117 degrees F, the hottest it's been since 1939.
The Camden Advertiser reports as of Monday, 204 dead bats � mostly babies � whose brains had boiled had been collected in Campbelltown.
Ok.... How do you BOIL anything at 53 Celsius?
Heat related deaths makes sence, BOILING does not.
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Australia's suburbs, died outside Sydney over the weekend as temperatures soared to 117 degrees F, the hottest it's been since 1939.
The Camden Advertiser reports as of Monday, 204 dead bats � mostly babies � whose brains had boiled had been collected in Campbelltown.
Ok.... How do you BOIL anything at 53 Celsius?
Heat related deaths makes sence, BOILING does not.
Maybe the boiling point is lower in OZ land :)
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Australia's suburbs, died outside Sydney over the weekend as temperatures soared to 117 degrees F, the hottest it's been since 1939.
The Camden Advertiser reports as of Monday, 204 dead bats � mostly babies � whose brains had boiled had been collected in Campbelltown.
Ok.... How do you BOIL anything at 53 Celsius?
Heat related deaths makes sence, BOILING does not.
The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there.
What's next, bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?
Lannis
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Maybe they are right up there w/squirrel brains.
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Poor babies! :cry:
The hottest I've endured (unofficially) was 126 F. They shut down Sky Harbor International at 118 F so I think they intentionally under-report the temperature by placing the sensor high, over plantlife, well away from the tarmac, and in permanent shade.
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They aren't 'Poor Babies' they are disgusting rats with wings that carry the lyssa virus which is a sub form of rabies! There are far too many of them as their habitat has been greatly enlarged since European settlement. While a dose of lead poisoning would be more humane the fact a few of them died of heatstroke worries me not a jot!
Pete
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Pete, do you like bats?
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The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there.
What's next, bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?Lannis
Luv it Lannis :grin: :thumb:
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They aren't 'Poor Babies' they are disgusting rats with wings that carry the lyssa virus which is a sub form of rabies! There are far too many of them as their habitat has been greatly enlarged since European settlement. While a dose of lead poisoning would be more humane the fact a few of them died of heatstroke worries me not a jot!Pete
The D#$n things stink to high heaven. I don't know how people put up with them, what with having to keep their windows closed etc :cry:
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The D#$n things stink to high heaven. I don't know how people put up with them, what with having to keep their windows closed etc :cry:
Wait ... Australia is where half the flora and 3/4 of the fauna are capable of killing a man before you can say Bob's your uncle , and it's the way a bat smells that scares you :shocked:
Dusty
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Wait ... Australia is where half the flora and 3/4 of the fauna are capable of killing a man before you can say Bob's your uncle , and it's the way a bat smells that scares you :shocked:
Dusty
I always thought they smelled the regular way. What's scary about that?
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So here in us of a we have iquanas falling from trees!....just the Endtimes is all...
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/05/weather/iguana-cold-florida-bomb-cyclone-trnd/index.html
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The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there.
What's next, bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?
Lannis
Actually there are quite a few who can cook "down here". Are you one of those who think that the earth ends past Murica?
Thanks, Dave.
Email address/phone number/address supplied on request (by pm) to avoid being classed as a Troll.
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Actually there are quite a few who can cook "down here". Are you one of those who think that the earth ends past Murica?
Thanks, Dave.
Email address/phone number/address supplied on request (by pm) to avoid being classed as a Troll.
It's a JOKE! The news decided that bats were either being fried or boiled, and I responded with a Monty Python quote.
Damn, talk about a hair trigger .... !
And to be honest, if you've got data prepared to defend against Trolling charges, your conscience is probably telling you something ... :rolleyes:
Lannis
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bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!
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bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!
Ticks aren't important , except to an Oxpecker :laugh:
Dusty
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Ticks aren't important , except to an Oxpecker :laugh:
Dusty
I don't know ox's that well :rolleyes:
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I don't know ox's that well :rolleyes:
:laugh:
Dusty
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bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!
Assignment for the next Rainy Day:
Defend the thesis "The Use and Importance of Houseflies" in 250 words or less .... :laugh:
Lannis
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Ticks aren't important , except to an Oxpecker :laugh:
Dusty
I tried oxpecker once... but that was on another forum
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bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!
Quite true! Except that the particular bats in question in the Australian heat are Flying Foxes or megachiroptera. They eat fruit and flowers, not insects except for the casual collateral ingestion while munching fruit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabat)
Now for some Guzzi content, there is a Guzzi Falcone owner in Perth who helps to rehabilitate injured and orphaned Fruit Bats in his home.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
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The original NPR headline said "Fried", I don't think anyone knows how to cook down there.
What's next, bats brains au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top ... ?
The appetizer is a trough of baked beans garnished with a couple dead dogs.
Lannis
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My sister vacationed in Palau where her husband tried the Fruit Bat Soup.
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Mass extinctions speed the natural selection process and evolution. Evolution is wrongly thought to be slow.
Environmental cataclysms and geographic separation can separate species.
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Mass extinctions speed the natural selection process and evolution. Evolution is wrongly thought to be slow.
That's not the only thing that evolution is wrongly thought to be, long as we're on the subject ... !! :lipsrsealed:
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Lannis, Since I don't get your meaning and you're afraid of causing a shitstorm, feel free to PM me.
Although, I must admit that I do enjoy it when you tweak Dusty. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
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bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!
And mosquitoes.
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hmm, if there were no bats, would there still be batchit crazy people? something to ponder on a cold, cold, winter night.
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bats actually are very useful in controlling insects. almost everything in nature is useful and important......exce pt ticks!
Ya but, some of the insects that live down under would probably make lunch out of the bats. :boozing:
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I had to laugh at the expert quote
They basically boil," Ryan explained. "It affects their brain — their brain just fries and they become incoherent."
Are you Aussies talking to the bats now?
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I had to laugh at the expert quote
They basically boil," Ryan explained. "It affects their brain — their brain just fries and they become incoherent."
Are you Aussies talking to the bats now?
Roy, you stole my quote there, Aussie bats are quite intelligent it seems ;-p
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There is one that lives in the huge cypress pine out the back of our place that can recite large tracts of Chaucer. Usually it's Canterbury Tales but it said it was going to diversify. Then it shat on Jude's Mazda......
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There is one that lives in the huge cypress pine out the back of our place that can recite large tracts of Chaucer. Usually it's Canterbury Tales but it said it was going to diversify. Then it shat on Jude's Mazda......
Lol, there you go then, who says bats have no taste .
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Assignment for the next Rainy Day:
Defend the thesis "The Use and Importance of Houseflies" in 250 words or less .... :laugh:
Lannis
Flys come from maggots, and without flys/maggots we would have giant piles of shit and dead things slowly rotting instead of quickly being cleaned up by the maggots.
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There is one that lives in the huge cypress pine out the back of our place that can recite large tracts of Chaucer. Usually it's Canterbury Tales but it said it was going to diversify. Then it shat on Jude's Mazda......
Yeah , but can he spell like Chaucer ?
Dusty
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Yeah , but can he spell like Chaucer ?
Dusty
Bat talk or Chaucer? I can't understand either one. Neither are from a language that I can understand.
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Australia's Heat Wave Fries Bats' Brains, Hundreds Found Dead
Maybe those hundreds of dead would still be alive if they hadn't eaten the fried bat brains
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Jim, I'm going to head down to Pontiac, just so I can knock you up side the head for that! :grin:
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Put chains on your wheels, it snowed me in again last night.
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Poor babies! :cry:
The hottest I've endured (unofficially) was 126 F. They shut down Sky Harbor International at 118 F so I think they intentionally under-report the temperature by placing the sensor high, over plantlife, well away from the tarmac, and in permanent shade.
Umm thats actually the standard for temperature measurement for the acquisition of meteorological data, as a side note whats left of a tropical cyclone got here yesterday, we've had three times the average for January in a day the average for January? 16.7 mm.