We had one of these in our salt-water fish-tank growing up. It is exactly as described. We had some rock that we had gotten in the ocean and it came along for the ride. The one we had was MUCH smaller and never bothered the other fish because once my father saw it, he started feeding it on a stick exactly like the lady is showing.

At night, we would hear this loud clacking coming from the tank, it was the mantis shrimp burrowing through the rock to make his home larger...

Taser that guys ass.. while he is standing in a salt water kiddie pool.

She was no danger to the cop what-so-ever. That bastard should lose his job and his pension.

Unbelievable... Fish on a whole don't seem to have the ability for this kind of bonding, but that said, growing up, my father had a salt-water fish tank and definitely had a few larger fish (a remora and a puffer fish) who certainly recognized my father (or his hand) as opposed to other members of the family and would allow him to handle them in the tank... it always amazed me.

Not quite as dramatic as this, but it was still amazing to see the puffer fish allow my father to pick him up out of the water and not blow up in to a ball. He would happily swim into my father's hand and wouldn't freak out when taken briefly out of the tank... almost like he was curious.

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Well now that I see that you've raided my PQ, I guess the only thing I need to to know is what public restroom you want to meet at?

Fag.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Every time I ask him, it sounds like he's gargling salt water. He must have a sore throat.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Ask Blankfist.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Only closet homosexuals call people gay. So you're gay. Oh shit, that makes me gay. Damnit. All right, where's the nearest gloryhole?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're gay.

Some excuses never die.

Fag.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Every time I ask him, it sounds like he's gargling salt water. He must have a sore throat.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Ask Blankfist.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Only closet homosexuals call people gay. So you're gay. Oh shit, that makes me gay. Damnit. All right, where's the nearest gloryhole?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're gay.

Every time I ask him, it sounds like he's gargling salt water. He must have a sore throat.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Ask Blankfist.

In reply to this comment by thinker247:
Only closet homosexuals call people gay. So you're gay. Oh shit, that makes me gay. Damnit. All right, where's the nearest gloryhole?

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You're gay.

Sure you ar.... wait... this is from Rottenseed? Pft. You're not worth your weight in salt water.



In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I was once a random kitten...am I not worth my weight in whiskers?

In reply to this comment by MarineGunrock:
Yeah, that's just where you put it down. No random kitten is worth $3,000.

lame, put it it salt water and you can have a eggsin (raisin + egg)

You know what would go great with Guiliani for President? A well grounded metal basin filled with salt water and a 12,000 volt anal electrode. That guy is potentially the least charismatic person on Earth.

Salt water freezes at a colder temperature than ice. When you add salt to ice at or just below 0 C (32F), the ice melts. The ice cubes need to be below the freezing point of salt water (which most freezers are set to do anyway), so they provide the extra cold. The liquid water can now drop from 0C to < 0C (-3C at least) and liquid water sucks heat from cans better than solid ice. In short, you made the ice more efficient. :-)
A side note, some old hand-crank ice cream makers used to recommend using a "chilling brine" to freeze your ice cream. Now adays, they use those super-cool materials that can stay cold longer.

"it's an electric car that is powered by a process utilizing salinated water."

Actually, it's not, it's a car that's powered from Hydrogen, it has a hydrogen tank on board, not a salt water tank. Jeremy and James were discussing where you can GET hydrogen, but it's not like people will have Hydrogen extraction plants in their back yards for personal use, they will still go to a Fuel Station to get their Hydrogen... problem is that Hydrogen is kinda unstable, much moreso than petrol, so dangerous to deal with.

Otherwise, cool, cool car.

Chaucer i'd like to try and answer your posts. The best i can.

#2 i don't know right now but I'll try to find an answer.

#3 Just because something heats up doesn't mean it expands just means there's more energy in the system that's all.

#4 The fact that the earth was covered in salt water isn't guess work, and the blue-green algae is still around today. Oxygen is one of its natural byproducts. More Oxygen is put into the atmosphere by these same algae today than all of the forests in the world combine. It also has a cousin usually referred to as the red tide. It kills all of the fish in the area because it consumes all of the oxygen and gets rid of it into the air and not back into the water.

#5 If mass is gained then gravity must all so increase. They are bound together by the law's of physics. F=mg (force=mass*gravity) That fact alone destroys this idea so completely. We know what the mass of the earth and the moon are and can build models to show there effects on each other. And every year the moon drifts 30cm away from us. That's not much but in 5 million years we will no longer have a moon. If this idea was correct the moon should be getting closer each year because of the expansion and the increase in gravity over time. So for this to be true no mass is gained but the moon should still be getting closer to us because of the expansion but its not. The Apollo missions put mirrors on the moon and ground based lasers get shot at them then the time to return is calculated and every year its drifts 30cm away from us. So wave good bye while you still can.

Another point i just thought of is the fact that the core of the earth is active and produces and electromagnetic field around the earth that blocks the suns radiation as best it can. if the core or the earth were increasing in size wouldn't that field also increase at a constant rate as apposed to the one we have now that fluctuates and has switched direction at least 3 times now. We can tell it has changed poles because of molten iron deposits from volcano's millions of years ago have there own magnetic fields backwards and some with very little fields at all.

Its an interesting idea but nothing more. It was fun to think about counter arguments to it.

I think this makes a little more sense than the plate drifting notion. If all the land mass was connected together the earth would wobble wildly and we wouldnt be here today. I read an article about building huge structures (like super sized buildings) a while back that talked about putting that much mass (weight) on one area of the earth and how it might cause the earth to wobble more. I'll see if I cant find that article again. It would have been in a Popular Science/Mechanics.

Tracon, here are some possible answers to your statements:

2) Scientist have found that the earth would have been covered by x amount of water in the atmosphere. It was like the ozone but far thicker. i dont remember the exact amount since it has been a while since I have read this. But this water isnt there now and they dont know (at the time) where it went to. This could explain it.

3) I dont think he meant expansion due to dust but probably more along the lines of the core expanding as it heated up.

4) The whole evolution thing is just guesswork. It could have been fresh water as much as it could have been salt water.

5) I fail to see how gravity fits into this picture.

1. Where else were the Upper Tectonic plates going to meet up the moon? Of course they fit together.

2. Where the fuck did all that water come from? And this doesn't explain the fact that it is salty with only a small percentage being of the not salty variety.

3. The earth has tons of space dust land on it every year. Something like 15 tons that's not nearly enough to do any real "expansion" of any significance for something the size of a planet.

4. The earth was covered in water for a great deal of time and it was the first single cell organisms that gave us the oxygen concentration we have now. But they live in salt water so no.

5. Gravity

This fails for more reasons than this. These are just the reasons i could think of right now.

My sister (Uptown) and I (Metairie) had minor damage. Three aunts Uptown were not so lucky. One had 27 inches standing salt water in her basement. Another had water up to the ceiling in her basement – dampness came through the floorboards upstairs. And a third one had a tornado (that accompanied Katrina) rip the roof off allowing for it to rain inside.