The real reason for the New Orleans disaster.
This morning I was informed of the real reason for the storm. It seems that some biblical passage explains it. A coworker told me it was God's retribution for the US pressuring the Israelis to pull out of Gaza. As they increased the pressure and the pullout happened the storm formed and began moving in to show God's wrath.
This same person said that while maybe Pat Robertson shouldn't have to said our govt should kill Chavez out loud it probably wasn't a bad idea. :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing: :cussing:
I suggested maybe it was retribution for Robertson's statement, but no it was Gaza for sure.
I wanted to strangle him, but he was driving at the time. I told him off in a big way but he is so sure of his superiority and saved status that nothing phases him. He and his entire cult/church believe that shit.
Damn, I have to ride that shuttle with him for 2 more weeks.
Clever Whale Uses Fish to Catch Seagulls
Thu Sep 1, 8:44 PM ET NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario - An enterprising young killer whale at Marineland has figured out how to use fish as bait to catch seagulls — and shared his strategy with his fellow whales.
http://bc.us.yahoo.com/b?P=qdqtG86.I...%2fB%3d2899198
Michael Noonan, a professor of animal behavior at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y., made the discovery by accident while studying orca acoustics.
"One day I noticed one of the young whales appeared to have come up with a procedure for luring gulls down to the pool," the professor said. "I found it interesting so I noted it in my log."
First, the young whale spit regurgitated fish onto the surface of the water, then sank below the water and waited.
If a hungry gull landed on the water, the whale would surge up to the surface, sometimes catching a free meal of his own.
Noonan watched as the same whale set the same trap again and again.
Within a few months, the whale's younger half brother adopted the practice. Eventually the behavior spread and now five Marineland whales supplement their diet with fresh fowl, the scientist said.
"It looked liked one was watching while the other tried," Noonan said of the whale's initial behavior.
The capacity to come up with the gull-baiting strategy and then share the technique with others — known as cultural learning in the scientific world — was once believed to be one of those abilities that separated humans from other animals.
But biologists have since proven certain animals, including dolphins and chimps, do this.
"This is an example in which a new behavior spread through a population," Noonan said. "We had the opportunity to see a tradition form and spread in exactly the way that cultures do in humans."
He first shared his research earlier this month at the U.S. Animal Behavior Society Conference in Utah. Since then, he said, his phone hasn't stopped ringing.
