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Nature is Metal

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    jon-nyc
    wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 18:06 last edited by
    #88

    So you’re saying you wouldn’t want to personally step in to break up the grizzly fight I posted above?

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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      21 Jul 2020, 18:06

      So you’re saying you wouldn’t want to personally step in to break up the grizzly fight I posted above?

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      Aqua Letifer
      wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 18:09 last edited by Aqua Letifer
      #89

      @jon-nyc said in Nature is Metal:

      So you’re saying you wouldn’t want to personally step in to break up the grizzly fight I posted above?

      I'd pull out my phone and do exactly what the person recording it did. Except I might have to edit the audio afterward to mute out my pants-shitting, depending on how close I was.

      I've been up close to black bears a couple times. They're freaky enough.

      Please love yourself.

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        taiwan_girl
        wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 01:29 last edited by
        #90

        I think I mentioned this in another thread on bears

        (BTW, we have more than one??? 5555)

        If it is black, fight back
        if it is brown, lay down
        if it is white, good night!

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          jon-nyc
          wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 01:43 last edited by
          #91

          Think about how many hominids had to die to pass that heuristic down to us.

          Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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          • J jon-nyc
            22 Jul 2020, 01:43

            Think about how many hominids had to die to pass that heuristic down to us.

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            Aqua Letifer
            wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 02:02 last edited by
            #92

            @jon-nyc said in Nature is Metal:

            Think about how many hominids had to die to pass that heuristic down to us.

            Stories do preserve the collected wisdom of a culture.

            Please love yourself.

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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 11:38 last edited by
              #93

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                25 Jul 2020, 11:38

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                George K
                wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 11:42 last edited by
                #94

                "Stay the FUCK away from my babies!"

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  brenda
                  wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 22:47 last edited by
                  #95

                  "Yes, that's our chicken. How did you know we named her Karen?"

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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on 26 Jul 2020, 17:18 last edited by
                    #96

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                      jon-nyc
                      wrote on 27 Jul 2020, 00:35 last edited by
                      #97

                      Who knew chickens were so brave?

                      Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                        jon-nyc
                        wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 03:15 last edited by
                        #98

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                          Aqua Letifer
                          wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 04:00 last edited by
                          #99

                          I really didn't need to see or know that.

                          Please love yourself.

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                            George K
                            wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 11:47 last edited by
                            #100

                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_channel

                            In excitable cells such as neurons, myocytes, and certain types of glia, sodium channels are responsible for the rising phase of action potentials. These channels go through three different states called resting, active and inactive states.
                            ...
                            Voltage-gated sodium channels play an important role in action potentials. If enough channels open when there is a change in the cell's membrane potential, a small but significant number of Na+ ions will move into the cell down their electrochemical gradient, further depolarizing the cell. Thus, the more Na+ channels localized in a region of a cell's membrane the faster the action potential will propagate and the more excitable that area of the cell will be. This is an example of a positive feedback loop. The ability of these channels to assume a closed-inactivated state causes the refractory period and is critical for the propagation of action potentials down an axon.

                            Na+ channels both open and close more quickly than K+ channels, producing an influx of positive charge (Na+) toward the beginning of the action potential and an efflux (K+) toward the end.

                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              Mik
                              wrote on 28 Jul 2020, 13:39 last edited by
                              #101

                              Love this thread.

                              "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                jon-nyc
                                wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 16:17 last edited by
                                #102

                                That’s a weird walk at the end. Is that how they go fast? Or is it a limp?

                                Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                                  Klaus
                                  wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 16:24 last edited by
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                                  I wondered if the turtle was hurt.

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                                    Mik
                                    wrote on 29 Jul 2020, 16:34 last edited by
                                    #104

                                    lazy ass gator.

                                    "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                                      jon-nyc
                                      wrote on 30 Jul 2020, 19:03 last edited by
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                                        Horace
                                        wrote on 30 Jul 2020, 19:09 last edited by
                                        #106

                                        Brutal

                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                          jon-nyc
                                          wrote on 5 Aug 2020, 16:48 last edited by
                                          #107

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