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[WhitewaterWoman]

Gator vs house cat

 

[Cryptid]

It has been less than 100 years since Penicillin was discovered, and less than 80 years since it became commercially available.

 

[Cryptid]

Q: "What do you call a man who swims with crocodiles?"
A: "Chum."

 

[Shevek]

It has been less than 100 years since Penicillin was discovered, and less than 80 years since it became commercially available.

That twenty year gap, when penicillin was so rare that it was recycled from urine, was because of drug companies trying to figure out how to produce it in quantity on their own. In WW II, the government forced them to pool their research, and it got easy. For-profit companies should not be allowed anywhere near health care.

 

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Wow! Now that is scary!

Too scary for anyone to try here, that's a fairly old clip from Costa Rica. There's quite a few films about him, the crocodile's name was Pocho and he died of old age a few years back.

 

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[WhitewaterWoman]

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This reminds me:

We got in to a camp site in the afternoon and was I so tired. I got the camp set up but my foster daughter still had plenty of energy. I told her to pick up little stones and make a line starting here and go to there. This kept her happily busy for a long time. There was no need or purpose to this stone line, but she was happy and proud of it.

 

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[Kisa the tea]

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rub...rs-after-it-lost-a-river-race-400-miles-away/

 

[Forest Cat]

I wonder what this tastes like?

https://www.mountvernon.org/about/n...lization-at-george-washington-s-mount-vernon/

 

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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rub...rs-after-it-lost-a-river-race-400-miles-away/

True story - in 1992 a container ship lost a container overboard during rough weather. The container split open as it tumbled from the stack, and 28,800 rubber ducks escaped in to the ocean.

Scientists started tracking them because it gave us a lot of valuable information about ocean currents, and even today there's still thousands of them floating around out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill

 

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A sign of changing times. Even just a few years ago our government wouldn't have bothered to warn us about these sorts of things. Timing is fortunate and if there's any disruptions to services most of us won't care because it'll be during the night, but it could be a bit different for people on the other side of the globe.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05...4-geomagnetic-storm-to-impact-earth/103833576