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Badly Drunk Boy

Oldtree wrote: »

How about songs?

Lemon Jelly did a tune in 2002 called "Space Walk" and used vocal samples from the first moon walk in 1969. It's a rather lovely little ditty and needless to say I have the album it's on. In fact I have all their albums, and a load of cd singles too.

I'm going a bit off-topic here, but Public Service Broadcasting have a space-race-themed album (The Race For Space) featuring the single 'Go!", which has samples from the mission control centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIo6qwJarI

sbsquarepants

Wibbs wrote: »

Or maybe it's based on diet? That because we're omnivores we rate lower? That would mean though that different human groups would rate at different levels. EG Eskimos eating a traditional diet are almost exclusively carnivores so they'd be higher than say Taoist monks.

That's it in a nutshell. If you think about it, we exist on a largely plant based diet supplemented with some other plant eating animals for good measure. We rarely, if ever, consume other carnivorous animals.

The eskimo is a great example as they rate much higher than average @ 4+ minimum.

ohnonotgmail

sbsquarepants wrote: »

That's it in a nutshell. If you think about it, we exist on a largely plant based diet supplemented with some other plant eating animals for good measure. We rarely, if ever, consume other carnivorous animals.

The eskimo is a great example as they rate much higher than average @ 4+ minimum.

But isnt that true for most carnivores?

sbsquarepants

sbsquarepants wrote: »

That's it in a nutshell. If you think about it, we exist on a largely plant based diet supplemented with some other plant eating animals for good measure. We rarely, if ever, consume other carnivorous animals.

The eskimo is a great example as they rate much higher than average @ 4+ minimum.

What if they eat whales that eat phytoplankton?

Kat1170

sbsquarepants wrote: »

Humans are actually closer to the bottom than we are to the top - the average human ranking around 2.2 to 2.4 according to most calculations.

:D:D:D

Kat1170

New Home wrote: »

Ah come on, there are plenty of cheeses that have a bite to them. Maybe they don't crawl off of your plate, but still...

Knex*

CruelCoin wrote: »

The "Burns on the tongue" bit gets me.

New Home wrote: »

Chillies and wasabi do that, too, though, don't they?

Pizza too, when you're hammered. And don't talk to me about the roof of your mouth the next morning.

Capt'n Midnight

CruelCoin wrote: »

On a level playing field with only what nature gave you, no tools, no weapons?

Pretty much everything.

Maybe that's why the ranking is so low?

Anywhere there's been sticks and stones or bones humans have had weapons. Tools came later so we've only had tools for the last two and a half million years or so.

We'd do far better if it wasn't a level playing field, because we can climb and swim.


If it has to be a level playing field we'd choose the early afternoon when the sun is at it's hottest because everything else is at risk of heat stroke and we could literally run them into the ground.


In the wild humans don't exist as solitary animals and I pity any predator that tries to take on a determined tribe of humans.

CruelCoin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

In the wild humans

What kind of next-gen David Atten type stuff are you watching?

New Home

Photochromic glass

Molecules of silver chloride or another silver halide are embedded in photochromatic lenses. They are transparent to visible light without a lot of ultraviolet light, which is normal for artificial lighting. In another kind, organic photochromic molecules, when exposed to uv rays like in direct sunlight, go through a chemical process that makes them to change shape and absorb a large amount of the visible light (making them dark). It’s mostly used in eyeglasses

retalivity

The worlds shortest scheduled flight is between westray and papa westray, in the Orkney islands in scotland. The daily flights have been rumming since 1967, and while the scheduled flight time is 2 minutes, the record is 53 seconds. The distance between the 2 airports is 2.7km, less than the length of a standard International runway.

The flight is subsidised, but still costs £17!

CruelCoin

The Hubble deep field experiment was essentially a reaaaaaly long exposure shot taken of a tiny patch of sky.

To give you a sense of scale, the Hubble focused on a patch of sky so small, that if you held a grain of sand on your fingertip and held it at arm's length, the sky it covered in the same size.

The image that came out of that tiny patch is stuffed with galaxies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field#/media/File:NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg

Wanderer78

CruelCoin wrote:

The Hubble deep field experiment was essentially a reaaaaaly long exposure shot taken of a tiny patch of sky.

This picture always astonishes me, thank you

Wossack

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

That is equally the greatest and saddest thing I have heard in ages.

CruelCoin

Wossack wrote: »

That poor rover!

While we're doing a space feels thread: Pluto

CruelCoin

If we were to pick any animal on earth to ranch with for meat production on mars, the best choice would be mice.

When you look at cost to launch, breeding rates, inputs vs calorific outputs, mice are the clear favourites for a source of meat protein.

Source - Nasa scientist guest on Degrasse Tysons podcast

Miley Byrne

jmayo wrote: »

Yet another sport given to the world by the Scots.

Just on the curling topic


Every curling stone used in competition comes from the small island of Ailsa Craig off Scotland. Kays of Scotland have exclusive rights to mine the granite on Ailsa Craig and these stones are the ones used in Competition.

VW 1

CruelCoin wrote: »

If we were to pick any animal on earth to ranch with for meat production on mars, the best choice would be mice.

When you look at cost to launch, breeding rates, inputs vs calorific outputs, mice are the clear favourites for a source of meat protein.

Source - Nasa scientist guest on Degrasse Tysons podcast

Is taste a consideration!?

And out of curiosity, why mice over rats?

mr chips

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"If we were to pick any animal on earth to ranch with for meat production on mars, the best choice would be mice.
When you look at cost to launch, breeding rates, inputs vs calorific outputs, mice are the clear favourites for a source of meat protein."

Not locusts, no?

CruelCoin

VW 1 wrote: »

Is taste a consideration!?

And out of curiosity, why mice over rats?

mr chips wrote: »

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"If we were to pick any animal on earth to ranch with for meat production on mars, the best choice would be mice.
When you look at cost to launch, breeding rates, inputs vs calorific outputs, mice are the clear favourites for a source of meat protein."

Not locusts, no?

No idea lads, just repeating the word of the Nasa dude.

CruelCoin

Miley Byrne wrote: »

Just on the curling topic


Every curling stone used in competition comes from the small island of Ailsa Craig off Scotland. Kays of Scotland have exclusive rights to mine the granite on Ailsa Craig and these stones are the ones used in Competition.

Proper curling ice is dotted with tiny hills. A special machine comes later and pares down the crest of those hills.

The resultant ice has a lower friction level than perfectly flat ice, and thus helps the rocks move further

pleas advice

Mice are merely the protrusion into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who, unbeknownst to the human race, are the most intelligent species on the planet Earth. They spent a lot of their time in laboratories running complex experiments on humans.

Ipso

And at night they plan to take over the world.

mr chips

pleas advice wrote: »

Mice are merely the protrusion into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who, unbeknownst to the human race, are the most intelligent species on the planet Earth. They spent a lot of their time in laboratories running complex experiments on humans.

Don't panic!

Capt'n Midnight

CruelCoin wrote: »

If we were to pick any animal on earth to ranch with for meat production on mars, the best choice would be mice.

When you look at cost to launch, breeding rates, inputs vs calorific outputs, mice are the clear favourites for a source of meat protein.

Source - Nasa scientist guest on Degrasse Tysons podcast

Fish would beat mice hands down. Being cold blooded means less wasted energy. It sounds like the hydrogen economy - where does the energy come from ? In this case the question is what would the mice eat ?

As for rats , there's the whole vitamin thing.



Plants would way more efficient.
You can also grow single cell protein using methane as a foodstock.

The problem is that with plants you have to eat or at least recycle the roots too. Same with mice, you would need 100% recycling.

Oldtree

pleas advice wrote: »

Mice are merely the protrusion into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who, unbeknownst to the human race, are the most intelligent species on the planet Earth. They spent a lot of their time in laboratories running complex experiments on humans.

Ipso wrote: »

And at night they plan to take over the world.

You are of course referring to "Pinkey and the Brain" a Steven Spielberg cartoon from 1995.

Buford T. Justice XIX

CruelCoin wrote: »

If we were to pick any animal on earth to ranch with for meat production on mars, the best choice would be mice.

When you look at cost to launch, breeding rates, inputs vs calorific outputs, mice are the clear favourites for a source of meat protein.

Source - Nasa scientist guest on Degrasse Tysons podcast

I don't think he has thought that whole scenario through...

Quazzie

Professor Moriarty

pleas advice wrote: »

Mice are merely the protrusion into our dimension of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who, unbeknownst to the human race, are the most intelligent species on the planet Earth. They spent a lot of their time in laboratories running complex experiments on humans.

I had some pet mice when I was young. They weren't very good at staying alive.

Duckworth_Luas

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

I had some pet mice when I was young. They weren't very good at staying alive.

Saturday mice fever?