enviromental stuff

[dazzer]

Global warming, no global warming, eat this dont eat this, so on and so fourth and now the savages have killed a creature that was minding his/her own business and was probably enjoying old age.

http://www.xpress4me.com/news/international/iceland/20003925.html

If only people like this stopped, firing rockets through the atmosphere, made sure all PCs in offices were turned off when finished with, the sames goes with all non essential electrical stuff, maybe stopped sunday trading (planet needs a breather) also stop taking planes and snowmobiles to the antartic.

semi-rant over :o

[jeffrey]

Global warming, no global warming, eat this dont eat this, so on and so fourth and now the savages have killed a creature that was minding his/her own business and was probably enjoying old age.

http://www.xpress4me.com/news/international/iceland/20003925.html

If only people like this stopped, firing rockets through the atmosphere, made sure all PCs in offices were turned off when finished with, the sames goes with all non essential electrical stuff, maybe stopped sunday trading (planet needs a breather) also stop taking planes and snowmobiles to the antartic.

semi-rant over :o
No, they didn't kill it. It was already dead.
This is another instance of AlGorean hype, redolent of the late John Laurie ("Doomed, ah tell ye, we're aal doomed!")

[dazzer]

No, they didn't kill it. It was already dead.
This is another instance of AlGorean hype, redolent of the late John Laurie ("Doomed, ah tell ye, we're aal doomed!")

They did kill it according to this,

The clam was alive when it was brought to the surface, but at that point, the researchers had no idea how old it was. Only after cutting through the shell and counting annual growth rings under a microscope did they date the mollusc to between 405 to 410 years old.

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/29/clam

I think were all still doomed though. :eek:

[jeffrey]

So they killed it. It's only an animal, though, and no humans were injured in the exercise.

[pcwilkins]

I just hope they didn't let it go to waste. Clams are very tasty --- or so I understand.

And it's hardly the end of the world that a clam died.

Peter

[jeffrey]

I just hope they didn't let it go to waste. Clams are very tasty --- or so I understand.

And it's hardly the end of the world that a clam died.

Peter
Must be an easement ("nec clam...") [this is a lawyers'/Latin joke]

[pcwilkins]

What I want to know is, do they cut open all the clams they find, or just the ones that "look old"? And what makes a clam look old anyway, do they ride those little electric scooters? or what?

And the calculated age is based on the assumption that the growth rings have always been annual --- this isn't always the case for trees, though I'm not so sure about clams.

Peter

[jeffrey]

What I want to know is, do they cut open all the clams they find, or just the ones that "look old"? And what makes a clam look old anyway, do they ride those little electric scooters? or what?

And the calculated age is based on the assumption that the growth rings have always been annual --- this isn't always the case for trees, though I'm not so sure about clams.

Peter
The number of rings shows the age- at least it does for Elizabeth Taylor.

[pcwilkins]

The number of rings shows the age- at least it does for Elizabeth Taylor.

Is she a clam?

[jeffrey]

Is she a clam?
She's a very good housekeeper. Every time she divorces, she keeps the house.

[dazzer]

The number of rings shows the age- at least it does for Elizabeth Taylor.


Richard Burton gave her a pearl necklace once :rolleyes:

[jeffrey]

Richard Burton gave her a pearl necklace once :rolleyes:
Better than a necklace from Winnie Mandela, though...