For Fred Pete & Hubs & Teddy, I wish you all peace ~ma.
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm sorry, Fred. Thinking of you and Hubs and Teddy.
Frank! Insent.
It's funny, but not enough to post twice.
Nora, I'm not seeing anything, but sometimes hotmail is slow. If you didn't send it to the hotmail one (see profile addy) that means you're probably still using my old gis.net, which is dead and gone.
Yeah, I just resent, 'cause I did send to gis one first. But it should be there now.
Got it and backflung.
Best headline of the day?
Giant, heat-loving penguins roamed Peru
Giant prehistoric penguins? In Peru? It sounds more like something out of Hollywood than science, but a researcher from North Carolina State University along with U.S., Peruvian and Argentine collaborators has shown that two heretofore undiscovered penguin species reached equatorial regions tens of millions of years earlier than expected and during a period when the earth was much warmer than it is now.
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The first of the new species, Icadyptes salasi, stood 5 feet tall and lived about 36 million years ago. The second new species, Perudyptes devriesi, lived about 42 million years ago, was approximately the same size as a living King Penguin (2 ½ to 3 feet tall) and represents a very early part of penguin evolutionary history. Both of these species lived on the southern coast of Peru.
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The new penguin specimens are among the most complete yet discovered that show us what early penguins looked like. Both new species had long narrow pointed beaks – now believed to be an ancestral beak shape for all penguins. Perudyptes devriesi has a slightly longer beak than seen in some living penguins but the giant Icadyptes salasi exhibits a grossly elongated beak with features not known in any extinct or living species. This species’ beak is sharply pointed, almost spear-like in appearance, and its neck is robustly built with strong muscle attachment sites. Icadyptes salasi is among the largest species of penguin yet described.
Allyson, that's terribly cool, and real.
Fred--much calm to you and your Hubs right now.
I woke up an hour after my alarm went off, and I have the feeling that my brain is going to be in the wrong time zone for the rest of the day.