INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

In the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs can't produce vitamin C themselves.

Originally Posted by tactcom7

In the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs can't produce vitamin C themselves.

So you're claiming I couldn't live on a diet of guinea pigs alone? Hmm, one for Morgan Spurlock me thinks.

In Peru they commonly eat guinea pigs with potatoes or chips:

Originally Posted by monkey

In Peru they commonly eat guinea pigs with potatoes or chips:

In Equador they sell them on sticks like toffee apples. That's one of the main reasons why I've not been back.

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=9U8CZAKSsNA

[andrewsmith]

scary animation of toxic land

If you like big bangs, there's a great book - 100 suns

[punyXpress]

Excuse the Adolf-ism, but today is Groundhog Day.
So was yesterday, and again tomorrow.
WTF is going on ?

Originally Posted by monkey

In Peru they commonly eat guinea pigs with potatoes or chips:

If they're it's testicles at the bottom of the plate, it's better off dead. How did it WALK?

[punyXpress]

100 years ago, Capt Lawrence Oates went for a walk, saying "
'I am just going outside and may be some time.'