The Youtube video thread!

[Mikey]

Mikey's young and energetic enough for a zimmerframe?

If I remember to take my vitamins.

[Nutso]

Real Life Peter Griffin Goes To NYCC 2014

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

[Graham Kennedy]

[Mikey]

OK, found some video of the Grandmaster of my son's TKD dojang. This guy is 110% legit; he founded his own style, known when he taught in Germany as Sung Woo Do Kwan and known here as Kum Sung Korean Martial Arts, plus being a recognized Master in geomdo, TKD, hapkido, wing chun, and myriad Korean, Malaysian, Chinese, and Japanese traditional weapons.

[Nutso]

Hippo charge on Chobe river.

The late Steve Irwin said his scariest moment ever was when he had to cross a hippo filled river. Not the time a Komodo dragon chased him up a tree, or the times he rode a gator/croc.

[Mikey]

I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.

[IanKennedy]

I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.

Surely, that's the Mosquito?

[Mikey]

I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.

Surely, that's the Mosquito?

Indeed, I failed to refine my information. The hippopotamus is variously (properly) described as Africa's most deadly "large" animal or most dangerous vertebrate, and is responsible for the most fatalities through direct action; the mosquito is responsible through more fatalities thorugh the spread of malaria, dengue, et. al.

[Jim]

I'm led to believe that hippos are statistically the most dangerous animals in Africa.

Surely, that's the Mosquito?

Indeed, I failed to refine my information. The hippopotamus is variously (properly) described as Africa's most deadly "large" animal or most dangerous vertebrate, and is responsible for the most fatalities through direct action; the mosquito is responsible through more fatalities thorugh the spread of malaria, dengue, et. al.

You could argue that the mosquito is not dangerous at all. It is the malaria, etc that is dangerous. The hippo itself is dangerous.

[Graham Kennedy]

Whereas the most dangerous thing in America is, apparently, the bus :

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Whereas the most dangerous thing in America is, apparently, the bus :

And THIS why I look both ways and don't wander out into traffic.

[Nutso]

This Argument About Whether the Moon Is a Planet or a Star Will Make You Rethink Everything

Out of this world

A segment on the home-shopping network was recently selling some science that we aren’t buying.

QVC host Shawn Killinger and designer Isaac Mizrahi were debating whether the Moon is a planet or a star. Here is a snippet of that conversation:

Killinger: “Isn’t the moon a star?”

Mizrahi : “No, the Moon is a planet, darling.”

Killinger: “Don’t look at me like that! The sun is a star!”

Mizrahi: “I don’t know what the Sun is.”

The Moon, the Earth’s only natural satellite, is neither, by the way.

Maybe the next segment will be selling science textbooks.

[Mikey]

Yes, that's been making all the interweb rounds. However, we should bear something in mind before we get all riled up about it: this wasn't a conversation held on Cosmos or in an astronomy lecture... it was between a host and a fshion designer on a home shopping channel. What exactly were we expecting?

[Graham Kennedy]

Personally I would expect - or at least, hope - that an average person would know the difference between a star, a planet and a moon. It's not like that's high level stuff, after all - it's the equivalent of knowing enough biology to know what a mammal is, or enough geography to know where Africa is on a map.

But I am an eternal optimist.