Non-IT News Thread
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The USS Stockdale has set sail for the first time. As part of the USA's "Green Fleet" movement to make the Navy more green and look at alternative fuel options, this destroyer is powered by waste beef fat.
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@mlnews said:
The park encourages the public to catch and send in spiders so it can use them to produce anti-venom.
The park encourages people to attempt to catch deadly venemous spiders.
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Yeah that's a big mental. Encouraging people to send them in if caught is one thing. But encouraging people to go out looking for them seems a little reckless.
"Hey kids, guess what we are going to do this weekend... we are going spider hunting!"
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah that's a big mental. Encouraging people to send them in if caught is one thing. But encouraging people to go out looking for them seems a little reckless.
"Hey kids, guess what we are going to do this weekend... we are going spider hunting!"
My wife grew up on a Texas 1 parcel ranch. She raised money as a young teenager by catching rattle snakes for the Rattle Snake Roundup. Train them right, have the anti-venom readily available, and maybe. Don't know that I'd actively encourage doing that tho.
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Lots of rattlesnakes where I grew up in NY, too. But we didn't catch them, we ran away,
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah that's a big mental. Encouraging people to send them in if caught is one thing. But encouraging people to go out looking for them seems a little reckless.
"Hey kids, guess what we are going to do this weekend... we are going spider hunting!"
My wife grew up on a Texas 1 parcel ranch. She raised money as a young teenager by catching rattle snakes for the Rattle Snake Roundup. Train them right, have the anti-venom readily available, and maybe. Don't know that I'd actively encourage doing that tho.
Was it the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater per chance?
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah that's a big mental. Encouraging people to send them in if caught is one thing. But encouraging people to go out looking for them seems a little reckless.
"Hey kids, guess what we are going to do this weekend... we are going spider hunting!"
My wife grew up on a Texas 1 parcel ranch. She raised money as a young teenager by catching rattle snakes for the Rattle Snake Roundup. Train them right, have the anti-venom readily available, and maybe. Don't know that I'd actively encourage doing that tho.
Was it the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater per chance?
I'm not positive, but I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the one in Sweetwater.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Lots of rattlesnakes where I grew up in NY, too. But we didn't catch them, we ran away,
@scottalanmiller said:
Lots of rattlesnakes where I grew up in NY, too. But we didn't catch them, we ran away,
My parents had a wood pile for our wood stove when I was a kid. We had a diamond back and a couple others. We got the shotgun, not a container.
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@johnhooks said:
The park encourages people to attempt to catch deadly venemous spiders.
Not seeing a problem here. There are safe methods of doing so.
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@nadnerB said:
@johnhooks said:
The park encourages people to attempt to catch deadly venemous spiders.
Not seeing a problem here. There are safe methods of doing so.
Figures an Australian would say that. They also catch sharks to cull the population.
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I'm a qualified snake catcher too.
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BBC Reports that the UK is beginning to warn pregnant women from traveling to the Americas, outside of Chile and Canada. Official travel warnings are by country, but the WHO has reported that all of the Americas are seeing outbreaks of Zika except for those two countries, thus far.
Zika is dangerous fever that has spread from Uganda and slowly made its was east since 1946. The movement was slow and infection rates were low until last year when it hit Brazil and it is suddenly an epidemic in the new world. The disease is bad enough for normal people, but in pregnant women it causes a high risk of severe birth defects.
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A new Beatrix Potter book being published after more then 100 years!
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@mlnews said:
BBC Reports that the UK is beginning to warn pregnant women from traveling to the Americas, outside of Chile and Canada. Official travel warnings are by country, but the WHO has reported that all of the Americas are seeing outbreaks of Zika except for those two countries, thus far.
Zika is dangerous fever that has spread from Uganda and slowly made its was east since 1946. The movement was slow and infection rates were low until last year when it hit Brazil and it is suddenly an epidemic in the new world. The disease is bad enough for normal people, but in pregnant women it causes a high risk of severe birth defects.
I saw an article about Zika the other day and thought about your recent stay in Nicaragua and the fogging you dealt with.
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Yup, those mosquito-bourne diseases are terrible. Although zika was not yet one that they were dealing with there.
I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yup, those mosquito-bourne diseases are terrible. Although zika was not yet one that they were dealing with there.
I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.
You mean like the gov't just coming to your house and pumping in toxic smoke?
I have a bird, that would have killed her!
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@scottalanmiller said:
I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.
As in texas has as less equipment than in central america?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yup, those mosquito-bourne diseases are terrible. Although zika was not yet one that they were dealing with there.
I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.
You mean like the gov't just coming to your house and pumping in toxic smoke?
I have a bird, that would have killed her!
They have birds there too, but you would move the bird when they do it.
But yes, Texas doesn't have the legal means of doing what needs to be done in a mosquito epidemic.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I think that you will find that the US is going to be where it is really bad once it gets there because areas like Texas are so poorly equipped to deal with wide spread mosquito issues like Central America is.
As in texas has as less equipment than in central america?
Equipment, access, safety or ability. Even if they had equipment, access and ability, it would be unsafe to approach homes in Texas as a health worker as Texas is very pro "shoot people on your property". The things that you need to do to keep everyone safe if that really happens, Texas just isn't legally or socially prepared to handle.
