coolest animal I've ever heard of
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That is what I meant about it being a heterotroph. It doesn't produce chlorophyl. It is like saying that because you have a cotten shirt and wheat in your stomach you must be a plant. Imagine the Job Interview... Editor: "So What Qualifications do you have?" Potential Journalist: "I have a First in Mediaeval History". E: "Do you know anything about science?" PJ: "No, I studied history!" E: "Good, You can be a Science Correspondent". PJ: "?" E: "I don't want you cluttering up space with cleverness, I just want a good story". PJ: "What's the salary and I can't do Wednesdays".
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Sounds about right. As a friend of mine put it a few years ago: "Journalism is about the only career field where you can graduate with honors from a top name school and only be able to get a $30/year job in a large city, with, barring a a very low odds event (becoming a superstar) minimal chances of raises above the level of inflation." Anyone with an actual science/engineering degree can get a much better paying job doing something else, and journalists who "sell out" to do PR/Advertising/etc can instantly catapult themselves into the middle class. As a result the industry is full of the stupid and the highly idealistic. The latter unfortunately lean towards philosophies that put feelings above facts and are nearly as worthless as the former.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Here is my favorite: Warning video content: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3433507052114896375#[^]
John
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No, it is not half plant. First of all it is a Gastropod Molusc, therefore kingdom Animalia. Second the cells may well contain chloroplasts, but that is not an indicator of being a plant, as Algae contain chloroplasts and are not in the in the kingdom Plantae, but in proposed as Bacteria. There is also the case that a sea slug is a protostome, (it does not invaginate to form an anus). Therefore it is an animal. It must also be noted that the creature in point is still a heterotroph, again making it animal. Sorry, what you have there is an unusual animal, not a plant by any scientific definition. (There are many other factors, I won't go on I promise, but they all point to it being a fully animal lifeform, not some strange admixture of two kingdoms).
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Dalek Dave wrote:
invaginate to form an anus
Dave, what you do in your own time is your private business, just please don't share it. ;)
Simon
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Dalek Dave wrote:
invaginate to form an anus
Dave, what you do in your own time is your private business, just please don't share it. ;)
Simon
Interesting word 'Vagina', in French it is Le Vagina, Masculine! This is because of it's Latin Root, Vaginus, meaning Sheath for a Sword. Go Figure.
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I'll play! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-nosed_Mole
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I'll play! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-nosed_Mole
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna[^]
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna[^]
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
Yer kiddin yeah?!
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Yer kiddin yeah?!
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Have you got a four-headed penis? No don't answer!
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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Clara Moskowitz wrote:
A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It's the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll.
I'm sorry, but when a science journalist uses the word 'critter' I worry for the future of civilisation. 'Creature', 'Animal', 'Member of the Kennedy Family' are all acceptible, but I think critter is just too dumb; even for CNN.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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Have you got a four-headed penis? No don't answer!
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
Never heard of that. Thanks.
John
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Have you got a four-headed penis? No don't answer!
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
One is enough! Fnar Fnar!
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Interesting word 'Vagina', in French it is Le Vagina, Masculine! This is because of it's Latin Root, Vaginus, meaning Sheath for a Sword. Go Figure.
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Just cover it often. :laugh:
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No, it is not half plant. First of all it is a Gastropod Molusc, therefore kingdom Animalia. Second the cells may well contain chloroplasts, but that is not an indicator of being a plant, as Algae contain chloroplasts and are not in the in the kingdom Plantae, but in proposed as Bacteria. There is also the case that a sea slug is a protostome, (it does not invaginate to form an anus). Therefore it is an animal. It must also be noted that the creature in point is still a heterotroph, again making it animal. Sorry, what you have there is an unusual animal, not a plant by any scientific definition. (There are many other factors, I won't go on I promise, but they all point to it being a fully animal lifeform, not some strange admixture of two kingdoms).
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But in school we used a much simpler approach ... IsPlant = (does it have cell walls)
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
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But in school we used a much simpler approach ... IsPlant = (does it have cell walls)
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Some Prokaryotes have cell walls, but they are not plants. Algae have cell walls, what about the simpler flagellates? Fungi? Archaea? Your definitions are out of date I'm afraid. Even a mammalian ovum has a psuedo cell wall, it is hardly a cucumber :)
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Here is my favorite: Warning video content: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3433507052114896375#[^]
John
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You do realize this proves the feasibility of acquiring (super)powers from completely different organisms, like Spiderman. I mean, this thing is basically a superhero among slugs - a superslug if you will - though Plantslug is a pretty terrible hero name...
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This just in: Research in providing the same source of nourishment for couch potatoes has caused a huge drop in Pringles stock prices.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No, it is not half plant. First of all it is a Gastropod Molusc, therefore kingdom Animalia. Second the cells may well contain chloroplasts, but that is not an indicator of being a plant, as Algae contain chloroplasts and are not in the in the kingdom Plantae, but in proposed as Bacteria. There is also the case that a sea slug is a protostome, (it does not invaginate to form an anus). Therefore it is an animal. It must also be noted that the creature in point is still a heterotroph, again making it animal. Sorry, what you have there is an unusual animal, not a plant by any scientific definition. (There are many other factors, I won't go on I promise, but they all point to it being a fully animal lifeform, not some strange admixture of two kingdoms).
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Dave, as Biologist and Naturalist, truly adds value to the Lounge for me ! thanks, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844