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Did You Know?????? |
pinky |
Nov 25 2007, 10:37 PM
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Did You Know...
That ...If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) That ...The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. (O.M.G.!) A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death. (Creepy.) The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field. (And landing in the nearest Hospital) The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of the ocean?) Butterflies taste with their feet. (Something I always wanted to know.) The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. (Hmmmmmm........in a woman maybe, can;t stop talking they can't) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?) Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. (OK, so that would be a good thing, but why would they want to anyway?) A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. (I know some people like that.) Starfish have no brains. (I know some people like that too.) Polar bears are left-handed. (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.) (through email) "The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart." Far, very far, into the world of the farthest beyond My hope carries me and places me On the sweetest lap of the unknown. There i behold my self-form In the Dance-Delight of the Absolute Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born Every morn and every Night Some are born to sweet Delight Some are born to Endless night |
HarshBhatt |
Mar 1 2008, 07:58 AM
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Thanks for sharing pinky
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simplefable |
Mar 1 2008, 08:28 AM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 8613 Joined: 3-August 07 From: ANDHRA PRADESH Member No.: 20340 |
Pinky..missed out this laugh before. Early in the morning..you gave me a tonic of unlimited laughter..The comments are so apt..and thought provoking.. Thanks..
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley "Waqt ne kiya...Kya haseen sitm...Tum rahe na tum..Hum rahe na hum.." geetadutt noorjehan shamshadbegum Anmol Fankaar |
sbiswas2005 |
Mar 1 2008, 09:31 AM
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Dedicated Member Group: Members Posts: 1270 Joined: 3-March 06 From: Kolkata Member No.: 5023 |
Fantastic upload...Thanx for sharing Pinky. Subir "Us din khuda ne bhi jashn manaya hoga, jis din foorsat se tumko banaya hoga Aakhon se uske bhi nikle honge aansu, jab tumko yahan bhejke khud ko akela paya hoga" |
pinky |
Mar 1 2008, 11:50 AM
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Thanks for sharing pinky Most welcome Harsh.. Pinky..missed out this laugh before. Early in the morning..you gave me a tonic of unlimited laughter..The comments are so apt..and thought provoking.. Thanks.. Most welcome venkat..i got it through the e-mail , just added the smilies Fantastic upload...Thanx for sharing Pinky. Subir Most welcome Subir "The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart." Far, very far, into the world of the farthest beyond My hope carries me and places me On the sweetest lap of the unknown. There i behold my self-form In the Dance-Delight of the Absolute Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born Every morn and every Night Some are born to sweet Delight Some are born to Endless night |
bawlachintu |
Mar 4 2008, 03:52 PM
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A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) Whole cat glows now. Ask Koreans............. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200.../13/514602.aspx Here is the best singer of universe "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -George Bernard Shaw ." |
pinky |
Mar 4 2008, 06:10 PM
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A cat's urine glows under a black light. (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?) Whole cat glows now. Ask Koreans............. http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/200.../13/514602.aspx Thanks a lot bc i copied the report here... The cats appear normal in visible light, at left, but their skin glows red under ultraviolet light, at right... CLONED CATS THAT GLOW?! South Korean scientists say they have cloned cats whose genes have been altered so that they glow in the dark - taking advantage of a technological twist that could someday be used to make more dramatic genetic changes in all sorts of creatures. A research team at Gyeongsang National University, headed by Kong Il-Keun, produced several kitty clones in January and February, the government-managed Korea.net news service reported Wednesday. This week the scientists showed off the cats, which now weigh about 7 pounds (3 to 3.5 kilograms) and glow a dull red under ultraviolet light. "The ability to manipulate the fluorescent protein and use this to clone cats opens new horizons for artificially creating animals with human illnesses linked to genetic causes," the Ministry of Science and Technology said in Wednesday's report. The procedure for cloning a cat has been around for six years, and Kong himself first performed that particular feat back in 2004. What's noteworthy about the newly reported twist - other than that glow-in-the-dark kitties are really cool - is that scientists fiddled with the donor cat's genetic code, then passed those changes on to the clones. Here's what the researchers say they did: They took skin cells from Turkish Angora female cats and used a virus to insert the genetic instructions for making red fluorescent protein. Then they put the gene-altered nuclei into eggs for cloning. The cloned embryos were implanted back into the donor cats, which effectively became the surrogate mothers for their own clones. Four kittens were born by Caesarian section, but one of them died during the procedure, according to the Korea Times. The fact that the kittens' skin cells glowed under ultraviolet light served as evidence that they were really gene-altered clones. Assuming that the results are confirmed, Kong's cats would join mice and pigs in the glow-in-the-dark clone menagerie. The implication is that if you can pass along the easy-to-recognize coding for fluorescent markers through cloning, you could eventually pass along more complex genetic coding. Theoretically, you could add in the coding for an endangered species, producing cloned hybrids to boost the gene pool for Sumatran tigers, Iberian lynxes and the like. You might even stick in the coding to give other creatures human diseases, so that they can be studied without raising the level of ethical concern that comes with human experimentation. (I realize that there's a different set of ethical concerns about such trangenic experiments, however.) Most provocatively, animal clones might be genetically altered to produce human body parts. Does that sound like a way-out science-fiction plot? Well, it's already happening, and sparking an unsettling debate. This week's report doesn't mean that glow-in-the-dark pets will be waiting under the Christmas tree anytime soon. There are a few caveats surrounding these cats: # This research came to light through press releases rather than peer-reviewed articles, and many of the details still have to be published and replicated. It doesn't help that South Korea was ground zero for the biggest scientific scandal in cloning just a couple of years ago. You'll want to wait for confirmation before you put too much stock in Kong's glowing reports. # Even if the results are confirmed, they represent just one more small step in the long march of genetic progress. Those cool fluorescent proteins merely serve as a guide for more substantive genetic modifications. # Even if glow-in-the-dark cats become routine in the laboratory, that doesn't mean they'll hit it off as housepets. Glow-in-the-dark fish have been offered commercially for several years - but they're still illegal in California and many countries, due to concerns about genetically modified organisms. What's more, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to produce just one run-of-the-mill, non-glowing cat clone - a price tag so hefty that it's not commercially viable. To my mind, the best place to look for a cute little ball of glowing fur is your local pet adoption center - plus an outlet that sells glow-in-the-dark cat collars. What do you think? "The best and the most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart." Far, very far, into the world of the farthest beyond My hope carries me and places me On the sweetest lap of the unknown. There i behold my self-form In the Dance-Delight of the Absolute Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born Every morn and every Night Some are born to sweet Delight Some are born to Endless night |
parag_sankla |
Mar 5 2008, 01:34 AM
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Too good stuff Pinky. Thanks for sharing..and what is this thread doing in the "Education World" forum....LOL
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