Topics Started by Caedes
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Fossil snake 'as long as a bus' found
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7868588.stm.
the discovery of fossilised remains belonging to the world's largest snake has been reported in nature journal.. titanoboa was 13m (42ft) long - about the length of a bus - and lived in the rainforest of north-east colombia 58-60 million years ago.. .
the snake was so wide it would have reached up to a person's hips, say researchers, who have estimated that it weighed more than a tonne.. according to the report this thing might have eaten crocodiles and alligators!.
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Interesting article on evolution
by Caedes inhttp://open2.net/sciencetechnologynature/worldaroundus/evolution_p.html.
a very interesting article on the history of evolutionary theory which has three leading scientists talking about the idea that evolution has stopped or slowed down in humans.. .
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Patrick McGoohan Dies aged 80
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm.
sad news, what a great actor.
best known for the cult tv series the prisoner..
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Another fossil link found
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7736786.stm.
the earliest turtles known to live in water have been discovered on a scottish island.. the 164 million-year-old reptile fossils were found on a beach in southern skye, off the uk's west coast.
the new species forms a missing link between ancient terrestrial turtles and their modern, aquatic descendants.
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Child witches in Africa
by Caedes ini watched (with a growing sense of anger and disgust) a program on tv last night (dispatches - http://www.channel4.com/news/dispatches/ ) on the problem of children being accused of witchcraft in the niger delta.
these kids (even babies) are usually tortured, beaten and denied food until they "confess" if they are lucky they may be just abandoned, unlucky ones are buried alive.
the parents can purchase an exorcism quoted as being roughly a years wages, this seemed to entail further abuse of the victims.
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Darwin's 200th Birthday
by Caedes ini might be a tad premature but darwin celebrates his 200th birthday in february 2009.. http://www.darwin200.org/.
i think a trip to the science museum, london is in order for the day..
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Priekestolen
by Caedes ini went on a business trip to norway and denmark recently and was fortunate enough to have a couple of days to look around the stavanger area.
an amazingly beautiful part of the world but priekestolen was an amazing sight, a plateau with a sheer 600metre drop to the fjord below.
it takes about two hours to walk up to it and you need to be reasonably fit and have a good head for heights.
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Explosive device went off in Exeter, Devon
by Caedes inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7416040.stm.
i dont know if anyone has posted this yet, mrs caedes and i were in exeter yesterday.
it looks like the only person injured was the mentally ill man who had planted the bombs.
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Hanging on the words of the WBTS.
by Caedes init seems that we haven't changed much, we are all as excited by the latest announcements as when we were sat in that kh.