Must have been quite something...... jealous without doubt!!prcscct wrote:I was lucky enough to see them many times in the past, from 35,000 feet. I used to take the Pan Am night flight from San Francisco to London often back in the 80's. It flew the Northern route and if you sat on the left side of the plane you could enjoy the show for more than an hour. Spectacular indeed!pharvey wrote:Another post on the Northern Lights...... sorry, it's a favorite
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Amazing Nature
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A few amazing pics received by email.......
Lightning
Great Grey Owl
Aogashima volcanic Island
Glasswing Butterfly
Lightning
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^ Amazing, makes me want to give up photography... humbling... 
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Some very bad Amazing Nature. 
Video and photos at link. Pete
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dea ... 21117.html
Video and photos at link. Pete http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dea ... 21117.html
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The power of Mother Nature....... very unforgiving at times.prcscct wrote:Some very bad Amazing Nature.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/dea ... 21117.html
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Could have been posted in "Motoring" or "On The Road" I guess....... Road Rage African style - bloody VW drivers!!
IMHO - better in Amazing Nature!!
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I've seen that happen to an Africa bus driven by a pissed up Zimbabwean on the mountain road at Kariba lake
The elephants come down from the hills to the lake at sundown and any sensible driver stops and switches the engine off and keeps still. Pissed up Africans don't bother and often have the choice to ditch it and run or risk tumbling down the mountainside. Especially if their young are about
The elephants come down from the hills to the lake at sundown and any sensible driver stops and switches the engine off and keeps still. Pissed up Africans don't bother and often have the choice to ditch it and run or risk tumbling down the mountainside. Especially if their young are about
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Quick Nature Quiz......
1) What is this
2) What is very special about these creatures?
3) What is this
4) There are three different special things about these .... what are they?
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2) What is very special about these creatures?
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4) There are three different special things about these .... what are they?
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1. A snakesandman67 wrote:1) What is this
2) What is very special about these creatures?
2. They have no legs
This is the way
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Ok.... no takers, so here are the answers
1) its a Boa Constrictor
2) The Boa Constrictor is the only creature whose common english name and latin species names are identical. The latin species name for a boa constrictor is...Boa Constrictor.
3) That is a Brazil Nut fulll of the seeds we call Brazil Nuts. The big coconut style thing they grow in is the actual nut.
4) Three special things about Brazil Nuts:
a) They only grow in the wild, one of the few species of plant to do so. They are a part of a very small closed loop ecosystem involvng a brazil nut tree, a type of orchid, and a type of insect that polinates the tree. Attempts to farm them fail and the trees die. Saffron, which s also part of a small closed loop ecosystem, was like this till someone worked out how to atrficially pollinate the plant.
b) They are the only species of nut whose toxins that trigger allergic reactions can be passed from person to person through seminal exchange during sex as well as via saliva. So if your partner is allergic to nuts dont eat Brazils and have a podge.
c) Other than the leftover sushi at the Fukishima Reactor Staff Canteen they are the worlds most radioactive food. Brazil nuts contain Radium, and are 1000 times more radioactive than any other type of foodstuff. They are so radioactive that workers in reactor plants are banned from carryng them into work as they set off radiation detectors and trigger alarms.
Bonus ball....the worlds biggest producer of Brazil nuts is NOT Brazil....its Ecuador.
1) its a Boa Constrictor
2) The Boa Constrictor is the only creature whose common english name and latin species names are identical. The latin species name for a boa constrictor is...Boa Constrictor.
3) That is a Brazil Nut fulll of the seeds we call Brazil Nuts. The big coconut style thing they grow in is the actual nut.
4) Three special things about Brazil Nuts:
a) They only grow in the wild, one of the few species of plant to do so. They are a part of a very small closed loop ecosystem involvng a brazil nut tree, a type of orchid, and a type of insect that polinates the tree. Attempts to farm them fail and the trees die. Saffron, which s also part of a small closed loop ecosystem, was like this till someone worked out how to atrficially pollinate the plant.
b) They are the only species of nut whose toxins that trigger allergic reactions can be passed from person to person through seminal exchange during sex as well as via saliva. So if your partner is allergic to nuts dont eat Brazils and have a podge.
c) Other than the leftover sushi at the Fukishima Reactor Staff Canteen they are the worlds most radioactive food. Brazil nuts contain Radium, and are 1000 times more radioactive than any other type of foodstuff. They are so radioactive that workers in reactor plants are banned from carryng them into work as they set off radiation detectors and trigger alarms.
Bonus ball....the worlds biggest producer of Brazil nuts is NOT Brazil....its Ecuador.
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sandman67 wrote:.............So if your partner is allergic to nuts dont eat Brazils and have a podge.......
Love it
Since Brazil nuts fall like rain into the Amazon, they are the favourite food of the Pacu (related to the Piranha). Pacu can munch through them like a steak hammer on butter
You can check them out at the Lodge
.............Pacu that is 
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Another little known fact about Brazil Nuts. Growing up in the south, they were called something else.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... ger%20toes
I never heard the name Brazil nut until I was an adult.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... ger%20toes
I never heard the name Brazil nut until I was an adult.
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Some more great snaps.....
A Double Rainbow....
Ant Bridge...
Sage Grouse....
Thistledown.....
A Double Rainbow....
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I watch that fishing show River Monsters a lot and though I think they do overplay the "extreme" angle a lot its a great show and fascinating stuff. They did a show on the Pacu recently and it seems that they can develop a taste for human flesh as well as nuts. The funny bit is that their favorite bit of the anatomy seems to be the scrotum....the host did avoid saying with a wry smile (as I would have) that they have just migrated diet from one type of nuts to another tho. Scarily human like teeth they have as well.
wonder what they taste like......looks like there would be good eating on one of the big ones.
I watch that fishing show River Monsters a lot and though I think they do overplay the "extreme" angle a lot its a great show and fascinating stuff. They did a show on the Pacu recently and it seems that they can develop a taste for human flesh as well as nuts. The funny bit is that their favorite bit of the anatomy seems to be the scrotum....the host did avoid saying with a wry smile (as I would have) that they have just migrated diet from one type of nuts to another tho. Scarily human like teeth they have as well.
wonder what they taste like......looks like there would be good eating on one of the big ones.
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