h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Huh imagine that.

I wonder what the first person to reach down there and give it a tug thought they were doing or why they then decided to keep it in a bucket and eat it.

Yes I think that's A BINGO +6

Gotta be up in the morning. Night Clive.

Oh my is that the time.

Well a modest investment of effort and you have +12 points so not bad going

Plenty of klaxons still to be tripped tho' so.... be bold but not obvious, you know the rules...


Good night.

*Props open the flap*

The QI tent of Mystery and Intrigue

is open for business...

You sir would you like to try you.. oh I'm sorry Madam, no, yes of course from a distance in this light my mistake.

Was this the Scottish island where they introduced hedgehogs, which promptly ate all the ground nesting birds eggs. No gulls, no noise?

Something like that but not that a bit more... drastic.

over run by rabbits they introduced a predator like a mink that went ballistic and eat everything, escaped to the mainland and threatend the pine marten

Nope.

There is a small Scottish island somewhere that is still uninhabitable due to anthrax tests having been performed there years ago. I think that was a Cold War thing though, not 1860s.

Could be QI if you've got more details.

the mod tested anthrax on an uninhabited scotish island and due to the anthrax getting into the soiland contaminating the island it was quarantened

every now and again animal rights groups would throw buckets of soil into various target locations, claiming it came from said island, causing the same sort of disruption and inconvinence a bomb scare did

i knew a bomb disposal bod who had to investigate one such bucket

he was told "if you develope flu like symptoms tonight, don't worry!!! you'll be dead by morning????"

he was fine

I don't know much more. I think it was connected to Porton Down's biological warfare stuff. A load of cattle were deliberately infected with anthrax on a small island in order to study how fast it spread/how deadly etc. They discovered that it really was very nasty indeed, and the spores can survive in the soil for decades. I'm fairly sure it is still off limits.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1457035.stm

HD +6

Taff DGI +1 for helping out.

Getting back to what happened on this island and the dawn chorus.

Somewhere between bacteriological warfare and 'release the ferrets!' Closer to ferrets than anthrax.

i was vacinated against anthrax during the gulf war

the vaccine is about 95% effective and we were given broad spectrum antibiotics to take if we were infected to make up the other 4%

i am alergic to penacillinwhich is what the tablets were???

never had to use them

so it was the introduction of an alien predator????

rats???

sort of....

DGI +1

but not rats.