prelude to valentine
It really has nothing to do with it…
I’m not sure what to file this story under, but it’s pretty… um…
World’s Longest Fingernails Broken in Crash
(Jalopnik via Reading Eagle News)
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Some random image I found on the internets… Also reminds me of the Louis Black “I wouldn’t have gone to college if it weren’t for that horse”
Afternoon Observation
So in reading some news, apparently a rare, giant manta ray was born at a Japanese aquarium. This is also supposedly the only instance of a manta ray ever breeding in captivity. According to the Reuters article republished on CNN:
“My heart was heavy at first because I thought it had been still-born, but we were so relieved when she finally started swimming around,” the aquarium’s manta ray breeder, Minoru Toda, said in a telephone interview.
So let me get this straight. Never once has one bred in captivity, yet there are still professional specialists that concentrate on the breeding of a species with no track record of reproducing in captivity?
Makes me want to become a unicorn breeder. It’d probably pay better and have less expectations of success.
Too Weird
So I ran into an image online with a link…
At first I thought it was a joke, but I’m not so sure…
Sure, I hate cucumber anything… But that’s beside the thought that this is so very stupid.
Maybe this is to cucumber what grape soda is to grapes – they don’t actually taste alike.
Click on the image for a translation of the press release.
If you let it sit for awhile in the right conditions, does it become Pepsi – ICE PICKLE?
I just verped… thrice… this is so wrong…
Drink a lot… Cut yourself… Cry a little… And um…
So there seems to be a new type of battery that should solve a bunch of energy problems if implemented in proper ways. I haven’t been able to trace this to it’s source, but it’s funny and intriguing enough to mention.
Apparently some scientists in Asia successfully created a battery where one of the main active ingredients is urine.
… a piece of paper in a solution of copper chloride and sandwiched it between strips of magnesium and copper. This sandwich was then laminated between two sheets of transparent plastic. When a drop of urine is added to the paper through a slit in the plastic, a chemical reaction takes place that produces electricity.
This battery produced 1.5 volts of elecriticy (the same as a AA battery) for 90 minutes. Imagine a day when your house if powered by your normal evening and morning urinations… Or when your electric car gets you around thanks to your drinking habit…
The kicker, it works equally as good with blood, semen and tears. Those are some dedicated scientists.
