it is in sooo many “here ya go, old bags” lotions
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derek guy is a treasure
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That the FAA thing is happening right after this letter being sent is indeed ominous:
ETA: now I’m hearing the FAA closure is already over. So many questions.
If an entire crew became incapacitated at 30,000ft after ingesting deadly drugs the consequences don’t bear thinking about.
You don’t want to get high when you’re that high.
This is the type of crime where you really need to imprison them + throw away the key.
Subaru’s Warranty Expires In 10 Miles. So He Blows It Up On Purpose: ‘All Fun Till They Pull Up Vehicle Control History’
“…and the Record of Behavior.”
£5,000 per hour roaming charges.
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Well, at least they saved money on the accommodation.
Close call for me between this thread and Happy Thoughts. (Not all that WTF, but not that Happy either. Interesting enough to post somewhere.)
That blurb really needs a quote from Jeff Goldblum.
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“Ice-Age Park” doesn’t sound that great off the tongue.
Pleistocene Park is pleasantly alliterative.
They aren’t remotely close to dire wolves. They’re a marketing gimmick by a biotech startup that lets the wealthy and powerful stop worrying about endangered species under the assumption they can just be brought back later.
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Agree that in this case, they aren’t dire wolves at all. They just edited the grey wolf genome a little to try to make dire wolf like characteristics.
They are working on some more genuine de-extinctions. They supposedly have the entire Tasmanian tiger genome. They reportedly plan to have a woolly mammoth by 2028
Maybe they can make a live-action version of the animated movie Ice Age.
please god, no. Let’s not spoil the wonderful memory I have of “the weirdetht herd I have ever theen”.
Speaking of Ice Age and similar, YIL (yesterday) something that I hadn’t known, and I was woefully wrong about my general timeline. This based on a question from the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions (or maybe a related tournament) that we had recorded and just watched yesterday.
When did the last wooly mammoths become extinct, on Wrangel Island?
Ans: Only about 4000 years ago, though they disappeared from mainland Siberia and North America about 10,000 years ago. (all those per Wikipedia, and the 4000ish from Jeopardy). I would have guessed much earlier due to general ignorance of geologic timelines. Meanwhile in fact checking for this post, here’s an apparently legitimate link that says they survived in the Yukon until around 5000 years ago Woolly mammoths and humans coexisted in North America much longer than experts thought | Live Science [/spoiler]
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