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 Look again. It’s one picture. Not two. 
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 Look again. It’s one picture. Not two. @bachophile WTF is that? It looks like a stubby cargo ship but what is the structure on the left? 
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 A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of acceleration when it's hammering away Read more http://bit.ly/3XXIU7c 
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That really is interesting. I have often wondered how a little bird's brain survives those thunderous blows without rattling around in its skull like a BB in a bottle. 
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That really is interesting. I have often wondered how a little bird's brain survives those thunderous blows without rattling around in its skull like a BB in a bottle. @Catseye3 I didn't mean to reply to your comment with another Mildly Interesting post. I meant to say. Maybe we should start a "Really Interesting" thread. But then I thought, who determines what is Mildly Interesting vs. Really Interesting? It's so subjective.  
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@bachophile WTF is that? It looks like a stubby cargo ship but what is the structure on the left? @mark left of what? 
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@mark left of what? @bachophile It's just the strangest looking ship I have seen. 
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The Earth’s Spinning Inner Core Recently Paused Then Changed Direction  
  
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The Earth’s Spinning Inner Core Recently Paused Then Changed Direction  
  
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When I was a kid we had this guy Newton somewhere in our school, and he made a bunch of laws. 
 As I recall something about something continuing in the same direction unless a force acted upon it. So, this "author" expects me to believe that a huge mass of spinning stuff can reverse direction in just a handful of years?
 Ever played with an out of balance basketball? That's our earth! Literally like a basketball. Same color too.










