So you don't get your Sunday suit dirty rubbing up against the vehicle.
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@peter4jc said:
Is that what's left after it molted?
@peter4jc said:
Is that what's left after it molted?
Yessir. You can find them all over just a couple of feet up on trees. They come out of the ground like this and them molt into noisy aggravating sonsabitches
During a study at Harvard in 1957, Dr. Curt Richter placed rats in a pool of water to test how long they could tread water.
On average they'd give up, sink and drown after 15 minutes.
But right before they gave up due to exhaustion,
the researchers would pluck them out,
dry them off,
let them rest for a few minutes and put them back in for a second round.
In this second try, how long do you think they lasted?
Remember, they had just swam until failure only a few short minutes ago...
How long do you think?
Another 15 minutes?
10 minutes?
5 minutes?
NO!
60 HOURS!
That's not an error.
That's right!
60 HOURS of swimming which is 2.5 DAYS!
The conclusion drawn was that since the rats BELIEVED that they would eventually be rescued, they could push their bodies way past what they previously thought impossible.
I will leave you with this thought:
If an Unstoppable Belief can cause exhausted rats to swim for that long, what could a Belief in yourself and your Capabilities Do for You?
Remember What you’re capable of.
Remember Why you’re here.
Keep swimming and
Never Ever Quit.
I found what I thought was a molt under my carport when I was heading to the lounge, with big wings, laying on its back. I wanted to pick it up and get a pic for @Jrflickster but when I reached out to it, it started wiggling its legs. Sorry, Jim, no photo. It did, however, elicit a very satisfying 'pop' when I backed over it.
I had to laugh, but, it was born in Tennessee, not California.
Whole new set of jokes may begin now.
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A woman, paralyzed and unable to speak...They put a thing w/ 253 electrodes in her brain, the part that controls tongue/lips/cheeks/etc when we speak, attached the a permanent port, and wired that to a computer, then trained the computer to recognize those signals and match them to words she was saying to herself in her mind, and then created the AI and an avatar. The avatar was made to move the same muscles we use in speech, and they used sound clips of the woman's voice before her being paralyzed, so now she can talk to people. They want to make it wireless in the future.
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I don’t understand it actually. If they took that long aśs extension off that doesn’t seem to serve any purpose they wouldn’t need it.
So you don't get your Sunday suit dirty rubbing up against the vehicle.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
@Jrflickster
Is that what's left after it molted?
Don't touch that
Yessir. You can find them all over just a couple of feet up on trees. They come out of the ground like this and them molt into noisy aggravating sonsabitches
Would you rather I use a fork?😋
Here's an interesting explanation of the molt;
https://youtu.be/QfeEZl0VGs0
During a study at Harvard in 1957, Dr. Curt Richter placed rats in a pool of water to test how long they could tread water.
On average they'd give up, sink and drown after 15 minutes.
But right before they gave up due to exhaustion,
the researchers would pluck them out,
dry them off,
let them rest for a few minutes and put them back in for a second round.
In this second try, how long do you think they lasted?
Remember, they had just swam until failure only a few short minutes ago...
How long do you think?
Another 15 minutes?
10 minutes?
5 minutes?
NO!
60 HOURS!
That's not an error.
That's right!
60 HOURS of swimming which is 2.5 DAYS!
The conclusion drawn was that since the rats BELIEVED that they would eventually be rescued, they could push their bodies way past what they previously thought impossible.
I will leave you with this thought:
If an Unstoppable Belief can cause exhausted rats to swim for that long, what could a Belief in yourself and your Capabilities Do for You?
Remember What you’re capable of.
Remember Why you’re here.
Keep swimming and
Never Ever Quit.
I found what I thought was a molt under my carport when I was heading to the lounge, with big wings, laying on its back. I wanted to pick it up and get a pic for @Jrflickster but when I reached out to it, it started wiggling its legs. Sorry, Jim, no photo. It did, however, elicit a very satisfying 'pop' when I backed over it.
Nice work @peter4jc
We were building the roof to our front porch and this little guy decided to molt on one of the trusses.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
the researchers would pluck them out,
dry them off,
let them rest for a few minutes and put them back in for a second round.
Why the hell would they dry them off if they would just throw them back in the tank... Something fishy here.
So they would feel loved.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
I believe it was a California zoo that just welcomed this rare unspotted giraffe 🦒.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
What can they get right in CA?
I had to laugh, but, it was born in Tennessee, not California.
Whole new set of jokes may begin now.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
HA! Neener neener neener 😂
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A woman, paralyzed and unable to speak...They put a thing w/ 253 electrodes in her brain, the part that controls tongue/lips/cheeks/etc when we speak, attached the a permanent port, and wired that to a computer, then trained the computer to recognize those signals and match them to words she was saying to herself in her mind, and then created the AI and an avatar. The avatar was made to move the same muscles we use in speech, and they used sound clips of the woman's voice before her being paralyzed, so now she can talk to people. They want to make it wireless in the future.
https://medscape.com/viewarticle/artificial-intelligencegives-paralyzed-womanher-voice-back-2023a1000joi?ecd=wnl_sci_tech_230830_MSCPEDIT_etid5799377&uac=341813FG&impID=5799377
I can see a time when they will be doing brain surgery on troublesome folks to aid interrogation.
No more waterboarding to get someone to talk, eh?
@Jrflickster any idea what this is on my hand??
Your doom!
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Some variety of mantis?
I imagine it has to be, but I can’t say for sure. I’ve seen more new to me varieties of insects this year than I can ever recall.
This is awesome!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/driver-adult-bull-passenger-seat-143032092.html
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I see it was a Ford, but it wasn't a Taurus... too bad.
Gross