not as lot of people know that

esmozz said:
Ah - another fan of 'The Ancients' podcast?

All of humanity today is thought to have descended from only 1300 individuals around a million years ago. There have been several such bottlenecks in our history where the reasonable expectation would be that we should have become extinct.

Not a lot of people know that.
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Cheetahs are the same - their population became so low at one point and means they’re all so interbred that you can take any skin from any cheetah and graft it onto another one with no fear of rejection.



I don’t know quite how they proved this…
 
mattyfez said:
On the subject of Jurassic park - I randomly watched a documentary about Velociraptors last night.

Contrary to the films portrayal, they are pretty damn small, more like an angry Turkey than a serious threat to a human.

As the scientist put it: 'if you found one in your kitchen, it would be more an opportunity for your dinner, than a threat to your life' :cry:
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Jurassic Park showed Deinonychus/Utahraptor but used the name Velociraptor because it sounds cooler.
 
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Penfold101 said:
Cheetahs are the same - their population became so low at one point and means they’re all so interbred that you can take any skin from any cheetah and graft it onto another one with no fear of rejection.



I don’t know quite how they proved this…
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They had skin in the game*.

*A situation where risk is taken to achieve a reward.

Not a lot of people know that.
 
RevBillyG said:
Blue Whales don't generally die of cancer. Their cancer gets cancer and destroys itself.
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that's nothing compared to those jellyfish that live forever


The "immortal jellyfish," Turritopsis dohrnii, is a tiny hydrozoan known for its ability to reverse its aging process and revert to a polyp stage, effectively cheating death. This process, called transdifferentiation, allows the jellyfish to regenerate itself when stressed or injured. While not truly immortal, as they can still be killed by predators or disease, their ability to repeatedly revert to a juvenile state makes them biologically immortal
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MissChief said:
There was a period during the mid 2000's where it wasn't possible to buy a normally aspirated Saab, every model had a turbocharged engine.
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That was when GM had just figured out that Saab was an utter money pit as the cars were over-engineered in typical Swedish fashion and their designers had no interest in building cheap, profitable cars.
 
Terminal_Boy said:
That was when GM had just figured out that Saab was an utter money pit as the cars were over-engineered in typical Swedish fashion and their designers had no interest in building cheap, profitable cars.
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I remember a story about a GM executive visiting the Saab head office to investigate how they were absolutely bleeding money. They were under instructions from GM to reuse their in car entertainment system and displays, just to add Saab startup screens etc. He was shocked to find out Saab had spent millions on a completely bespoke system and disregarded the GM software completely.
 
MissChief said:
I remember a story about a GM executive visiting the Saab head office to investigate how they were absolutely bleeding money. They were under instructions from GM to reuse their in car entertainment system and displays, just to add Saab startup screens etc. He was shocked to find out Saab had spent millions on a completely bespoke system and disregarded the GM software completely.
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Saab basically went Full Ericsson - never use an commercially available solution when you can design something whacky for twice the price.

Sony learnt the same lesson at the same time as GM when they formed Sony Ericsson.
 
Burton200 said:
lightning is significantly hotter than the surface of the sun. Lightning can reach temperatures of 30,000°C (54,000°F), which is about five times hotter than the sun's surface
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On the subject of lightning, I always found it an amazing fact that across the globe on average there's around 45 strikes per second (1.4 billion per year) mostly focused in the tropics.
 
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Greboth said:
On the subject of lightning, I always found it an amazing fact that across the globe on average there's around 45 strikes per second (1.4 billion per year) mostly focused in the tropics.
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Real Time Lightning Map

See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms. By Blitzortung.org and contributors.
www.lightningmaps.org www.lightningmaps.org
 
Diddums x said:
Yep, and they probably had feathers too.

Random JP related fact, in Jurassic World there's a scene where that massive sea dino thing jumps out of its enclosure and eats a helicopter. We have the fossil of that exact dino on the wall at the museum and it's actually about the size of a Ford Fiesta.

Hollywood does some amazing things :p
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Perhaps the helicopter was very far away...
 
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