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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:22 PM Original message |
Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. I say we burn down the observatory so this can never happen again. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. WTF are those assholes doing??? Disgusting and Criminal...Clams have Rights too |
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clydefrand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. Anyone want |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I bet it's a little chewy |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
4. How apropos -- man destroys and kills that which he does not understand. |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It's called fisheries biology |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 02:59 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. And I might add... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. And I might add... |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:07 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. ...:::droooooollllll:::... |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Let's not go all Bambi here. |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. They killed BAMBI-CLAM? |
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JanMichael (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-03-07 02:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
46. That's Clambi. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. Yep, Let's Hear It For Ruthless Efficiency |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-03-07 02:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
44. Off in a parallel universe, a group of ambulatory, digit possessing |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Apparently, it's not. |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Uh but the point is they DIDN'T know that when they killed it.. |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
40. And, thus, our little conversation has come full circle. Indeed, how apropos. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 05:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Maybe it had syphon cancer and wanted to die. |
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pscot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Actually, we'll kill pretty much anything that moves |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. Beats eating it and throwing the shell in the trash. nt |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. Did they jump up and down and wave their foam fingers in the air? |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. Later that night... |
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0rganism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. "The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things..." |
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book_worm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
18. well at 410 years old it had a good run. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
19. Actually, they killed it and then found it, so to speak. |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
22. I am sorry, but their research was just spoiled by killing the clam. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:20 AM Response to Reply #22 |
31. It sounds like it was a deep ocean animal |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-03-07 02:49 PM Response to Reply #31 |
45. Nope. 80 meters is within human diving limits - 8 atmospheres of pressure at that depth. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. It lived that long without universsal health care? |
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Basileus Basileon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
24. Headline should be, "Scientists kill clam, find it was oldest living animal." nt |
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Katherine Brengle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
26. Too typical. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
27. Pass the wasabi |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
28. Holy Mollusk. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 11:43 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Me either. 400 years and stupid scientists kill it. |
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Blashyrkh (816 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-30-07 11:58 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. You are refusing to acknowledge that the scientists did not know the age when they killed it. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #30 |
35. I realize they didn't know the age when they killed. It still sucks that the clam is dead |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:47 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. Some people won't understand |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:49 PM Response to Reply #29 |
42. Stupid scientists? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:29 AM Response to Original message |
32. Fox News sucks |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
33. Impossible, only OT people lived to be that old. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:37 AM Response to Original message |
34. Guess it shouldn't have clammed up and it was already used to waterboarding. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 07:57 AM Response to Original message |
36. Is a clam really an animal? |
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ret5hd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 08:04 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. uhhhh, yeah. it is. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 12:50 PM Response to Reply #36 |
43. No, it's a plant. |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
38. What a stupid headline and article....oh, it's Faux Noise. |
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Ino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-31-07 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
39. Boy kills bird he's never seen before... |
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Alexander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-03-07 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
47. The headline is misleading...should be the other way around. |
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