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

Yeah, some sort of sugar arsenic in harmless amounts from what I understand, and from the observable fact that s don't spit out the seeds or fall over dead while eating buckets of s.

While I was eating mine this morning I found it easy enough, once I'd reached the seed chambers, to pull the seeds out stuck to the tip of my tongue.

I was actually past the core before I knew as I saw what looked like another chamber opening up but it turned out to be the other side of the .

For lack of a better place to post this, here is a story of an astronaut's step child suddenly having to deal with the detritus of the third man to step foot on the moon.


http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2015/02/neil_armstrong_s_closet_what_i_found_when_i_went_through_the_belongings.html

Its actually cyanide in apple seeds (and peach & apricot pits...), the arsenic once having been applied artificially as a preservative to the exterior of the apple.

On the cyanide in the apple pips, as they say, there are no toxic substances, only toxic levels.

A teacup full of apple seeds is lethal, just a few may merely leave you a litte short of breath.




Variations on the theme (of playing with one's food), peeling the orange in a single strip starting from the stem end.

This has a practical reason in that it leaves you only one piece of orange peel to police up rather than myriad little bits.

Done correctly, you're left with a strip of orange peel shaped like an integral sign or an f-hole on a violin.

The German imaging team that put together the tour of Vesta on a basis of the Dawn mission study used this pattern on their pole to pole tour.

In turn, if floated in water with some wave action about its size, the orange peel will align at right angles to the waves after the manner of a sea anchor or centerboard.

By the way, there's no reason not to eat the orange pips.

They're rich in vitamins good for hair, skin and nails.

But there is a reason not to. They taste like orange seeds.

This one doesn't go >SPLAT< along side a .

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-film-rare-sperm-whale-encounter-600-meters-below-gulf-mexico

There is NO WAY you can handle this much Texas 80's overload.

TEXERCISE with Irlene Mandrel.

(According to the article in which I found this, the fella yelling "Yee Haw" was Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson.)

http://youtu.be/1glU4gKNu48

Oh mah Lord

That phrase, ’Yee! Haw!' was apparently picked up as an English loan word back during the precolonial era from the Arabs during the Crusades, 'Ji-had!', or 'holy war', being their battle cry.

It may have come to England by way of Spain during the Lancastrian ascendancy in Spain that came to an end as a consequence of the Tudorian coup de etat with the Hapsburg ascendancy that followed.

Hmm... Jihad to yee haw?

Unlikely. At least in the usage we have here where it's associated more with the wild west. More likely it comes from horse commands to turn right and left, gee and haw.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/magazine/06ONLANGUAGE.html


Is yee-haw, used much in England?

I just can't imagine someone riding "English", with jodpurs and riding helmet screaming "YEE-HAW" as they leap a hedgerow on a fox hunt.

Well, I can imagine it and it makes me grin.

'Yahoo!', as employed by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels", is onomatopoeic, e.g. a case of calling the beast after the sound that it makes.

Some of you might be aware I recently purchased a new and fascinating bicycle, a Flevobike.* It took me some time to learn how to ride it. It was so different that I've described it many times as like being a 5 year old learning to ride for the first time. Well, here's a fascinating video of a very similar experience. Change one simple thing about a bicycle and you can't ride it. Learn how to ride it and you can't ride a normal bicycle.



http://youtu.be/MFzDaBzBlL0


Share & Enjoy


*Here's the glamour shot of my Flevobike. http://imgur.com/KfwHeqs

I've always loved images of abandoned places. When I go out shooting, I look for empty playgrounds and closed ballrooms; lonely, abandoned places. I love stories like The Omega Man and The Stand.

Here's some videos using drones in ghost towns and abandoned places. Pripyat, Detroit, Auschwitz, a town near Fukushima and an town in Italy. I always love views of Pripyat. It was abandoned suddenly in place without physical damage.

http://mic.com/articles/116772/people-flew-these-drones-over-ghost-towns-and-the-results-are-haunting

I think I've just discovered the most totally awesome kung fu cop movie ever made. If you have a love for the '80s, extreme schlock, and 30 spare minutes, enjoy Kung Fury.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg

Apparently this is a Kickstarter project out of Sweden... and there's a vidya game!


Here's more info. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cannes-full-length-version-directors-794397

ING MEEEAAAOOWWW!!!

http://youtu.be/J_8mdH20qTQ

Amusing, reminds me of a cat that curled up behind the seat of my pickup truck for a nap, rode along with me to the gate where I stopped to pick up the mail, then, BAILED the moment I got the door open.

I hadn't even realized the little bugger was hiding behind the seat till that.

Yeah... when I was watching that video the first time (from a gif) I had no idea whether the cat would leap or hang on until landing. I was quite happy to see full video and its happy ending.

Dolphins riding whales.

http://youtu.be/lC3AkGSigrA

This is an obvious bit of nerdy clickbait, but I bit. Feel free to just scroll down to the bottom for a proud grin.

http://www.fatwallet.com/blog/fastest-ship-in-the-universe/

The last three get a and a from me

That's one comments section that's actually worth reading, just for the utter nerdiness