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COW BACKPACKS

mooving on to another member of the animal kingdom...

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https://www.physorg.com/news135003243.html

In an attempt to understand the extent of cow flatulence on global warming, scientists in Argentina are strapping plastic bags to the backs of cows to capture their emissions.

Argentina has more than 55 million cows, making it a leading producer of beef. In the study, the scientists were surprised to discover that a standard 550-kg cow produces between 800 to 1,000 liters of emissions, including methane, each day.
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Can you imagine seeing a herd of these cows grazing in the pasture - - they look like they should be floating away....

these are much more stylish, I can even see a cow taking this one back to school...
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this in in England, definitely shows the English restraint as compared to the Argentinian exuberance!
 
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I almost posted this as its own thread, but then decided it probably wasn't interesting enough to warrant it. Still kinda fun, though. It's a survey that was conducted to test the religious knowledge of Americans. Not surprisingly, we're pretty terrible.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_rel_religious_literacy_poll

Fun things to note:

-Atheists and agnostics apparently know the most about religion on average. Not surprising to me at all.

-Catholics apparently know the least (my mother is Catholic, I must remember to rub this in her face the next time I phone her)

-On questions about Christianity, Mormons scored the highest.

Anyway, being that religion is my field of study, I always find stuff like this entertaining.
 
AtheistPreacher said:
I almost posted this as its own thread, but then decided it probably wasn't interesting enough to warrant it. Still kinda fun, though. It's a survey that was conducted to test the religious knowledge of Americans. Not surprisingly, we're pretty terrible.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_rel_religious_literacy_poll

Fun things to note:

-Atheists and agnostics apparently know the most about religion on average. Not surprising to me at all.

-Catholics apparently know the least (my mother is Catholic, I must remember to rub this in her face the next time I phone her)

-On questions about Christianity, Mormons scored the highest.

Anyway, being that religion is my field of study, I always find stuff like this entertaining.
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I just took that quiz and got...
You answered 15 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 100%.
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haha It says I scored better than 99% of the public. You know there's a serious problem when even I, Archie Moses, out score anyone in the public let alone 99% of them.

Thanks for posting.

+1
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWIkJfAYK8

One of the craziest stunts I've ever seen. The guy seriously misses hitting the side of the cliff by a few feet.
 
Seriously, this is a pretty interesting link, you might even call it useful. You can use it to find out the weather just about anywhere in the world, plus you can use it to find out sunrise and sunset times for anywhere on any date.

https://www.timeanddate.com/
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=80

I thought this was kind of cool, for instance I learned that:
Days in Quito, Ecuador (near the equator) seem to be always just over 12 hours long
Days in Mexico City range from 13-1/4 hours in June to just under 11 hours in December
Days in Chicago range from 15-1/4 hours in June to just over 9 hours in December
Days in Edmonton range from just over 17 hours in June to about 7-1/2 hours in December.

Anyhow, if you're planning a trip somewhere, it might come in handy.
 
ok, the above post is/was serious...

as is this one, albeit in a much less erudite fashion
(unless you're perhaps one of the Jesuits who's been studying this issue for the past 15 years...)

THE VATICAN DECLARES THAT HOMER AND BART ARE CATHOLIC

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101019/od_nm/us_simpsons

...The newspaper cited a study by a Jesuit priest of a 2005 episode of the show called "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star". That study concludes that "The Simpsons" is "among the few TV programs for kids in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are recurrent themes."

The Simpsons pray before meals, and "in its own way, believes in the beyond," the newspaper quoted the Jesuit study as saying.

It's the second time the animated U.S. TV series, which is broadcast in 90 countries, has been praised by the Vatican.

But executive producer Al Jean told Entertainment Weekly on Monday he was in "shock and awe" at the latest assertion, adding that the Simpsons attend the "Presbylutheran" First Church of Springfield.

"We've pretty clearly shown that Homer is not Catholic," Jean said. "I really don't think he could go without eating meat on Fridays -- for even an hour."
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if perhaps nothing else, this should prove that Catholics have at least as much diversity in their beliefs as any other religion!

Link to another discussion elsewhere on Jazzfanz
 
SOURCE

More Americans Now Believe Humans Evolved Without God
According to a new Gallup poll, the number of Americans who believe humans evolved without the involvement of a higher power has risen.

Reports Raw Story:

ince 1982, the number of Americans believing that humans evolved over millions of years increased by seven percentage points.
The current figure - 16 percent - has trended upwards since 2000.

At the same time, the number of our fellow countrymen who believe God guided the process of human evolution has not changed (38%), and the number of those who reject human evolution full stop, believing that God created humans in present form, has only declined 4 percentage points (to 40%). "These views have been generally stable over the last 28 years....[T]hese shifts have not been large, and the basic structure of beliefs about human beings' origins is generally the same as it was in the early 1980s," according to the report.

Unsurprisingly, there's a strong partisan element to these beliefs:

More Republicans (52 percent) than Democrats (34 percent) and Independents (34 percent) tend to hold a creationist view, the report noted. More Democrats (40 percent) and Independents (39 percent) than Republicans (36 percent) hold an evolutionist view.

"Americans' attitudes about almost anything can and often do have political consequences," the report said. "Views on the origins of humans are no exception. Debates and clashes over which explanations for human origins should be included in school textbooks have persisted for decades."

By Lauren Kelley | Sourced from AlterNet
Posted at December 20, 2010, 11:06 am
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