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[Ibby]

The Colossal Squid is actually shorter than the Giant Squid, but with a larger head. They're nearly the same size. That shark was 10 ft long. Wikipedia says that scientists agree that giant squids can get up to 45 feet or so, with a 7 or 8 foot mantle. The beak is less than half the width of the mantle, which you can see in photos, narrows greatly at the mouth area - so the maximum beak size couldnt be more than a foot around. That bite on the shark is at least two, if not three, feet across, i'd say, given that they say that shark is 10 feet long.

[Sundae]

Worry about those that don't bleed, Gun.
I have an implant.
I fly under your radar.

Which begs the question: which of us should be concerned about enemy penetration?

[GunMaster357]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Worry about those that don't bleed, Gun.
I have an implant.
I fly under your radar.

Which begs the question: which of us should be concerned about enemy penetration?

Touché

[Ibby]

http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had...-in-a-basement

Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago. Down in a basement in Rochester, NY, they had a nuclear reactor loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium—the same kind they use in atomic warheads.
But why did Kodak have a hidden nuclear reactor loaded with weapons-grade uranium? And how did they get permission to own it, let alone install it in a basement in the middle of a densely populated city?

Nobody really knows.

[BigV]

That's French, right?

[GunMaster357]

Originally Posted by BigV

That's French, right?

Right. It is used to recognize that another person scored a point. Comes from fencing.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by GunMaster357

Right. It is used to recognize that another person scored a point. Comes from fencing.

Thank you for the reply, I'm touched.

[glatt]

Why the hell would you want to climb Everest? I think it's mental illness.

This is what it looked like over the weekend. 300 people attempted the summit. Staring at the ass of the guy in front of you for a day as you suck down the oxygen bottles and hope you don't die while your guide drags you up the final leg of the mountain doesn't sound like fun to me.

This article says that those doing it are so disoriented from the lack of oxygen, they don't even remember the experience.

People die in huge numbers, and the bodies are so difficult to recover, they just leave them there. So as you are climbing, you are passing all these corpses. Four died over the weekend, and they are having trouble identifying them and understanding what happened, because the fellow (300!) climbers were all so groggy from oxygen starvation. Crazy.

[footfootfoot]

Touché

[DanaC]

Touché Turtle!

[infinite monkey]

This is more like WooHOOOOO news but I'll put it here.

Coffee drinking leads to longer life:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/health...html?hpt=hp_t2

Tomorrow coffee will rot your face off, but this is good news for today!

I'm waiting for the study that says beer makes you lose weight and cigarettes make you gorgeous.

[glatt]

I've been drinking more coffee lately, but I've been putting two sugars in it. I think the extra sugar negates the good aspects. Need to train myself to drink it unsweetened.

[infinite monkey]

Sweet. And. Low(down).

I don't drink coffee at home. I often go to breakfast on Saturday and will have coffee, but I never make it at home.

Sometimes thinking of the coffee at work is the only thing that keeps me going down the interstate. Even if it is way over-priced.

[classicman]

God's way of thinning the herd.

[Cyber Wolf]

Considering there's quite a bit of paperwork involved with climbing to Everest's summit, one would think one of the required forms/items to take with you would be some kind of ID tags or patches with at least your name and country of origin that go on your outermost clothing or gear. I'm not sure exactly how you only get 'rough' identifications of people in a team set-up.