Funilly enough carrots do help your vision a tiny little bit, but there is now quite a common myth in Britain that carrots harm your night vision. Since the war it has become common knowlege in Britain that it was merely propoganda that carrots improving your night vision. Somewhere along the line somebody misunderstood the reasons for this propaganda - somehow radar got left out of one version of the story. As a result somebody tried to work out why the British government created the story in the first place and decided that it must have been because they wanted German pilots to eat carrots. The only reason they could see for this was that carrots harm your night vision. So the story got started that the British government were trying to harm German servicemen's night vision. It gained momentum and you won't find it hard today to find a Brit who believes that carrots harm your night vision.
@Smango, you'd be amazed. I know plenty of people who are addicted to their gadgets (and every one of them an Apple customer). They say they're going to use their toys less, but they just can't keep away. They behave like other addicts, secreting their iPhone where they think nobody will know it's there and sneaking off to use it when they think nobody is looking.
We were having a proper "away from it all" vacation and we all agreed we would leave all our electronic gadgets at home. I dug out an old Nokia (a 3210 IIRC) which we agreed we might need in emergencies, but other than that we agreed no gadgets.
When we reached the cottage I was pleased to discover that not only was there no TV - indeed we had been told there was no point as there was no TV reception, but there was no mobile phone signal. We noted however that one of our party spent a lot of time taking the car to go to the nearest village to shop for things she'd "forgotten". Turns out she was doing it to get a signal on the iPhone she'd brought with her.
I never really got the point of Haw Haw and his like. Surely the only people who would listen to him were Nazi sympathisers. As such he was preaching to the converted. A waste of effort and money.
If you didn't want to hear it you wouldn't listen.
@dev I don't know about US law, but in English law (upon which US law is based) detained is effectively a polite way of saying arrested. The only way the police can detain you is to arrest you. Or to put it another way if you're not arrested you can leave whenever you like, so you are not detained.
You sure are reading it wrong. The point is that new species are being discovered all the time.
The message of the video is twofold; one that most people don't even here about these species; and two that if we keep on destroying the environment at the rate we are we will destroy species before we even discover them.
Yup, thought so. Just been reading that most experts have said that it's not a river, just water soaking through porous rock at a rate of inches per year.
Rainbow's sort of right, but I'd go further. It's not just that cracked isn't fact checked, I'd say a lot of the "facts" on there are deliberately invented or at least exaggerated for comic effect.
It all depends on your definition of "underground river".
In the traditional sense it's a flow of water through caves. IOW just like a real river but underground. However it seems that this is more about water flowing though porous rock. Not what I'd call a river.
I'm puzzled by the detail of this story. According to the story witenesses say he stopped to check his brakes, which failed.
Hold on. How do witnesses know he was checking his brakes? And if his brakes did fail then he didn't stop did he? So how do the witnesses come up with the idea that he "stopped to check his brakes"? It's not that I doubt that this accident happened, but I do think that either the witnesses are idiots or the author of the story is as dumb as the driver.
Oh I forgot to mention, but the bodies and camp site were not found until weeks later. Wind and fresh falls of snow would have done much to disguise any obvious traces of an avalanche.
@Gary B the avalanche wouldn't necessarilly have hit the tent. Remember the campers cut their way out of the tent. It conceivable that they heard the rumbling avalanche and made a run for it. As for cutting their way out, I have woken in the night and been unable to find the zipper when disoriented in a dark tent. I didn't cut my way out since I was merely in need of a pee, but imagine if you thought your life was in danger.
The weird thing about an avalanche is that bodies and other objects are often found on top of the snow rather than buried. It's counter intuitive I know, but that's how it happens.
We were having a proper "away from it all" vacation and we all agreed we would leave all our electronic gadgets at home. I dug out an old Nokia (a 3210 IIRC) which we agreed we might need in emergencies, but other than that we agreed no gadgets.
When we reached the cottage I was pleased to discover that not only was there no TV - indeed we had been told there was no point as there was no TV reception, but there was no mobile phone signal. We noted however that one of our party spent a lot of time taking the car to go to the nearest village to shop for things she'd "forgotten". Turns out she was doing it to get a signal on the iPhone she'd brought with her.
If you didn't want to hear it you wouldn't listen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14643052
The message of the video is twofold; one that most people don't even here about these species; and two that if we keep on destroying the environment at the rate we are we will destroy species before we even discover them.
In the traditional sense it's a flow of water through caves. IOW just like a real river but underground. However it seems that this is more about water flowing though porous rock. Not what I'd call a river.
Hold on. How do witnesses know he was checking his brakes? And if his brakes did fail then he didn't stop did he? So how do the witnesses come up with the idea that he "stopped to check his brakes"? It's not that I doubt that this accident happened, but I do think that either the witnesses are idiots or the author of the story is as dumb as the driver.
The weird thing about an avalanche is that bodies and other objects are often found on top of the snow rather than buried. It's counter intuitive I know, but that's how it happens.