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Monday, August 18, 2008

Science is Cool Quiz:



1) Is it real?

2) How big is it?

3) How old is it?

3) Can you eat it?

8 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:28 pm

    Real. Cat-sized. Old. Everything is.. to some extent.. edible.

    I, for one, welcome our Giant deep-sea Isopod overlords.

    Binks

    http://images.google.ca/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=giant%20sea%20bug&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

    http://flickr.com/search/?q=Giant+isopod

    http://www.neatorama.com/2006/10/04/giant-isopod/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod

    http://images.google.ca/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hl=en&q=Giant+isopod&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

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  2. I know the correct answers to this quiz, but won't post them here so as not to spoil the fun.

    What is potentially horrifying is where you find it......

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  3. This just in via email:

    Without any research (no googling) I would say:

    1. It is real.

    2. It is microscopic. That looks like an electron-microscope image.

    3. It exists now.

    4. Yes you can eat it. In fact, I am guessing that we unwittingly eat many of them every day... Hope the stomach acid kills 'em.

    Fr. Paul

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  4. Anonymous11:01 pm

    I would say it eats people, or at least, little flakes that fall off people.
    Hugh

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  5. Anonymous12:48 am

    Cheater? Nassty hobbitses!

    To be clear, I did know the stuff about the bug. Sorry to spoil anybody else's fun. As penance, here's a Binks-made graphic, via Despair.com...

    http://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/poster33107374.jpg

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  6. Anonymous12:56 am

    OK, I cheated too. But anon is wrong and we should refer to deep-sea Isopod underlords.

    (If I hadn't cheated, I would have said it was a flea.)

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  7. Anonymous3:16 pm

    I was going to go with dust mite.

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