ryyannon

Well yes, actually....I thought they might have been photoshopped in or otherwise tricked out, but after a little research on Google, I saw the list of geographical co-ordinates with people's comments that the same images turn up when one does an independent search on G-Earth. I still don't know myself - too lazy to look up each site - but like you say, 'interesting.'

Eerie (mostly) high flying views of the planet from Google Earth

The Chinese can do anything....

Are you insinuating something lewd here?

Fwance.

Life has its ups and downs, Clive In the meantime, nonesense like this keeps me off the streets - and out of trouble....

Holy crap! :cc_confused:

(sorry, OT - but): Nice to see you back here, Clive!

Interesting time-waster: http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/test/

I hope you don't mean me. I don't post in this thread any more.

@Pugwash: A chicken? Looks more like who's got the biggest coq.....

Exactly the same as the real one: you have to twirl the long cylinder ('the bullet') on the side of the lighter before you get a flame. Opening the top is just for producing the famous 'ping' (as well as releasing the valve that lets the butane escape into the nozzle).

France? What's that?

My feeling as well, Pugs...but I'm willing to go the extra mile just to keep the peace around here. The post in itself is not that important....

What do you mean by 'interested'? I read 100s of stories and posts every day....you have to admit that this one is pretty unusual. If you imagine that it somehow excited me, you're way off base. People fascinate me....our capacity for the ridiculous and the sublime....who's to say that this poor devil humping a dead dog is any less (or more) important than what's going on in Iraq, Korea or in your own head? For me, it's all part of the same thing. Like Dylan said, 'It's life and life only.' Sorry if my Olympian stance seems a bit disconnected to you, but there are too many people out there telling us what we can think, how we should feel.... As for myself, I'd love to know what brought this guy to do what he did....I'd love to know what's going on inside his mind... The animal in question was already dead. Had it been alive, had there been elements of torture or abuse, I never would have posted this item: we all know about these places, and I don't think there's a need to go there. Anyway.... Given that this forum is a shared space, I'll be happy to delete the story and the link if someone requests - either here or in a PM. Don't want to keep anyone from sleeping at night....

He's a vegetarian. I'd think twice before meating him.

Dave who?

" Kathryn Fehrman, argued that Michigan's statute on sodomy and bestiality is vague and does not outlaw sex with a dead dog." Open at your own risk: http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ss....xml&coll=4

I'm glad someone had the courage to bring this issue up here: ryyannon is not my real name either!

Just imagine that sucker with feathers and wings....

By the way, do you have any more pigeon pics, Pug?

Pug and I sincerely apologize for taking this thread off-topic. Must keep discussing ways to keep it short....

Great shot! I still feed 'em every day....or should I say night (to avoid the Pigeon Police). Was up a six watching them arrive in the dark ('the early bird gets...etc.) Smoked a big cigar until seven or so, by which time there were about a hundred having breakfast. Bought a pain au chocolate for myself at the corner bakery, went back upstairs and slept till two in the afternoon.... Life Is Good!

Leonardo Fibonacci (1170-1250) Accomplishments He published a book called Liber Abaci. In 1202 he published the first of his four books, Liber Abaci, it used the Hindu-Arabic numbering system, introducing the Indian numbers 1 through 9 and zero to a European audience. In his book you can tell that he was influenced by the Muslim and Arab culture, because he wrote many things from right to left. In his book he wrote the numerals in descending order and his fractions came before the numeral like ½ 4 instead of 4 ½. This sequence soon became known as the Fibonacci Sequence Fibonacci's Rabbits Originally this was a problem that he investigated (in the year 1202) to see about how fast rabbits would breed in ideal circumstances. This is assumming that none of the rabbits die, and that each pair of rabbits does not give birth to more than one pair of rabbits each month. The picture below shows a pair of rabbits that are born, and they don't mature until after the first month. Then they give birth to a pair of rabbits, and they don't mature until after the first month. It repeats like that forever. If you look at the numbers at the right in the chart, it shows the number of rabbits that are alive at the time, and those same numbers are also part of the Fibonacci Sequence. That is how he discovered the sequence. Below is one of the ways of calculating Fibonacci Numbers. Fibonacci Numbers, represented here by Fi, can be defined as follows. Let F0=0 and F1=1. For all other Fi, let Fn+1 = Fn-1 + Fn. Effects His introduction of the Arabian Numerals gave the Europeans an easier way to do calculations. Since using Roman Numerals were harder to use because of so many letters that represent numbers in different ways. It also caused some of the people many years after he made the discovery to create a society in his name. The Fibonacci Society was founded in 1962, and a journal, The Fibonacci Quarterly, first appeared in 1963, and was dedicated to unraveling its secrets. There were a lot of secrets to be found.