Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "National Geographic" channel.

  1. The people who continued caring for the patients even at extreme risk of dying of it themselves are unsung heroes.
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  2. In contrast, bonobos would just have an orgy and no one dies.
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  3. As the sun expands, yes. Though Mars is not the likely candidate for the next life-supporting planet. The more likely candidate is Jupiter and Saturn themselves as their atmospheres are blown off by solar wind, revealing their rocky cores. There's even a term for these: chthonian planets. Their advantage of course is that both have magnetospheres protecting them from radiation. Mars has no magnetosphere, which means it's being constantly bombarded by radiation which prevents the formation of complex molecules and thus surface life. No magnetosphere also means it is still bleeding out its atmosphere as it takes the full force of the solar wind. By the time Earth becomes uninhabitable, Mars will have no atmosphere left and will be truly a dead world. It would be more similar to Mercury now.
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  4. I've always wondered why most western religions seem to place great importance in immortality after death. Even heaven, if experienced forever, would become hell. Happiness is meaningless without sorrow.
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  5. Real troof: he was scared. Killer whales, leopard seals, great white sharks. Take your pick. One of them is nearby.
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  6. The emperors had little to do with it. It was public officials who ran most of China. China has perhaps the oldest tradition of civil service and bureaucracy. Their education system was centered around the fact that the students were meant to become government workers.
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  7. She's the kind of person that makes me optimistic about our chances of colonizing Mars.
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  8. The common factor among all these - China. The destination point of virtually all the illegal trade in exotic animals and plants. It's driving extinction rates up in surrounding countries, sadly for the most mundane reasons that don't even work. Like aphrodisiacs or cure-alls.
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  9. Coconut crabs are regular everyday hermit crabs when they're juveniles. They only leave seashells once they grow too big.
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  10. Well-preserved ones are very very rare. But new species are quite common, though they are often highly incomplete. I'm talking about species only being described from a thigh bone for instance. Or a tooth. This nodosaur really is THE best-preserved dinosaur specimen ever, surviving because it was petrified in bitumen. The closest contender to the "best preserved" title is perhaps the petrified remains of a mummified Edomontosaurus (nicknamed "Dakota") found in 1999. Even that one was only partial remains, since the dinosaur actually died and had mummified before being buried and turned into stone through mineralization. As for how many, I'm not sure about species since what constitutes a different species can be highly contentious in paleontology where you don't have DNA analysis and you're only working from very limited specimens. But in terms of genera, there are currently around 800 dinosaur genera discovered since the 1800s. Again, most of which are either quite boring or known only from incomplete remains which is why you don't hear about it every time. The number discovered each year averages at around 15 to 20, and is increasing each year due to better technology and more well-informed laymen who can alert paleontologists when they discover something, like the miners did in this example. Again, I'm talking about genera. A single genus can have multiple species. Also note that I'm talking only about non-avian dinosaurs. In other words, birds are not included. Neither are, obviously, organisms which are NOT dinosaurs. Pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, etc. for example are not dinosaurs. The number goes up if you include them. And even more so for other organisms (fish, invertebrates, plants, etc.). Remember, you are talking about remains of global ecosystems through spans of hundreds of millions years. A lot have been destroyed by time and geological activity, but even then, you would expect quite a lot to still be remaining to be discovered. If you live near a cliff face for example, where the rock layers are sedimentary and old, I'm sure you've seen fossils.
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  11. Parasitoids parasitizing parasitoids. And y'all still believe in god? XD
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  12. 7:09 Kind of ironic saying this. I despise how the Philippines is always depicted as being this dark scary place with nothing but slums. ALWAYS. The focus is almost always on Manila. The "rough streets" of Manila. The "dangerous city" of Manila. The subject is almost always poverty, or violence, or naivete. And so on. It's becoming infuriating. We're a middle economy country with more than 7000 tropical islands and dozens of different ethnic groups and languages. With one of the largest English-speaking populations in the world, one of the most active on social media as well. We have one of the largest diasporas out of any nationality (the majority in California and Hawaii). We're THE most gender-equal country in all of Asia. We're one of the most LGBT-friendly countries in the world. We're one of only two majority-Christian countries in Asia. We were a colony of both Spain and the United States. You'd think people would try to present a more accurate image of our country and our culture. But they don't. Most can't even spell "Filipino." Even in movies, you'd be more likely to see representation of every other nationality BUT Filipinos. Movies and TV shows made in LA of all places where I can literally walk two blocks and find someone speaking Tagalog. 3 out of every 20 residents of Los Angeles are of Filipino descent. So why don't you know us better?
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  13. Gotta catch em all! *throws pokeballs at the screen*
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  14. Then obviously it could be nothing else but the neritic Loch Ness monster!
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  15. Volcanoes. Earth's pimples.
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  16. I found one! I was walking through the woods this morning when I saw this here wheel with te
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  17. Correction: Plesiosauria is NOT a genus. It's an order. Unless you meant Plesiosaurus, which you obviously didn't.
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  18. The ignorance in the comments make me weep.
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  19. It should have ended with a short clip of an old couple and the caption: "EXPIRED HUMANS"
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  20. -_- Why do they always sound so fakely out-of-breath and excited? These new documentary-makers need to watch more Attenborough.
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  21. @Justin Media They probably won't. The mechanism is called hydrodynamic escape. But it requires that Jupiter and Saturn be very close to the sun, which is unlikely to happen even in the red giant phase. Just saying they're more likely candidates than Mars. Their moons are also other candidates. Then again, they routinely pass within the deadly radiation belts of Jupiter and Saturn, so nah. They can become Earth-like though, but probably will never develop or support life. No, we can not bring back Mars' magnetosphere, short of god-like technology that could melt the outer core.
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  22. Imagine being the wildlife filmmakers who came across this.
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  23. The people who lived there are not genetically or culturally related to modern Pakistanis though. They predated the arrival of Indo-Europeans from Central Asia. They were likely to have been Dravidians (whom the Indo-Europeans drove out). Their closest modern-day descendants are perhaps the southern Indians (Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, etc.). Though Pakistan does have a Dravidian population (the Brahui people), most anthropologists believe they resettled Pakistan from central India long after the fall of the Dravidian empires. All other major Pakistani groups (Urdu/Hindustani, Sindhi, Gujarati, etc., even the Kalash) as well as Indian groups are Indo-European (Indo-Aryan). It's similar to the Stonehenge, which was built by a culture that is now effectively extinct. Though it exists in lands now claimed by people of Celtic/Germanic descent, they are not related to the Stonehenge builders. The world of 4000 years ago is very different to the world now.
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  24. Echinoderms and cnidarians always seem very mathematical to me. Not quite the pure fractal body plans of Ediacaran life, but close. Almost like there's a formula somewhere in their DNA.
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  25. It was a coal-mining facility/prison camp in the 1930s to the end of WW2. A large number of the workers were forced laborers from Japanese-occupied territories in Korea and China. Many of them died under harsh conditions. After WW2, civilian workers replaced prison labor, before it was finally abandoned in the 1960s when the coal started to run out. Coal was also by then, far less profitable as it was being replaced by petroleum.
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  26. Have you read the other comments here? Some people are indeed dumb as fuck.
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  27. If only it were that simple.
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  28. "OMG. Stop following me. Go away. OMG! Leave me alone!" - Octopus
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  29. Didn't happen for the 44 dead people and the 9000 homes burned did it?
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  30. Time and space did not exist before the Big Bang. Thus an infinity of everything was everywhere forever. A singularity. So how did something begin when time didn't exist? According to the Hartle-Hawking state hypothesis, this singularity isn't infinite when measured in a manifold reality with imaginary time, another dimension where time becomes space-like and past, present, and future become places you can travel to, and thus... *brain explodes*
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  31. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how berbers got their name.
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  32. Side effects vary by geographic location. In Australia, it's generally lethal.
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  33. When I look down, I have NO LEGS! WHERE ARE MY LEGS?!
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  34. @night time Yes. If a god exists and it created the universe, it is probably something beyond our comprehension. So tell me... why exactly would you believe that the Bible is the word of god then? A being who created the universe is not something you can summarize in a book of around a thousand pages written by nomadic shepherds a few thousand years ago. A book which is mainly about the various wars and confused history of the Jewish people, with no mention of anything outside of their knowledge. No Americas, no planets, no atoms, nothing. If a being who created the universe exists, its book is the universe around us, not the bible. And to read the universe, you need science, not religion. You can't say things like "We can not know God" then proceed to tell us that "According to the Bible, God is this and that, God said this and that, God did this and that..." Incomprehensible, remember?
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  35. Fat chance. Despite what it looks like, it is actually pure rock. After more than 100 million years, no actual organic matter remains. The same thing is true with dinosaur "bones". They aren't actual bones and are most definitely not made from collagen. They're made by a very very slow process where minerals in groundwater seep into the tissues and slowly replace it cell by cell, resulting in a perfect replica of the original organism. It's a process called petrifaction.
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  36. And that was the last they ever heard of him. To this day, Honduran Indians still tell stories of seeing a white man in a white city. They also say he looked hopelessly lost.
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  37. Feed me.
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  38. And then they all died. The end.
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  39. And I can already guess where they end up in: China. There's no supply if there had been no demand. Traditional Chinese Medicine trade is one of the (if not THE) biggest culprit of continuing extinction trends worldwide. And all for the sake of aphrodisiacs and immortality pills for rich fat old men who can't get their dicks up anymore. And the worst part? They're usually government officials, like the ones caught in that "giant salamander banquet" scandal just a year ago.
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  40. It's called "King" for a reason. That name is given to snakes which eat snakes, hence Kingsnakes. Also don't misunderstand the video. They're deadly as fuck to humans.
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  41. I'm pretty sure every single one of them would have preferred to be alive.
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  42. Their reactions are eerily human.
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  43. And yet the Ugandan government and the American Christian Right blame the gays.
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  44. fifer. info LOL. Ah the naivete. I'm not talking about living "scared." I'm talking about living without the means. I was born in a third world country. I had pretty big dreams as a kid, but reality catches up with you. For first world nations it's as easy as choosing to be "courageous." For the rest of the world, there is no choice at all. When your parents can barely put food on the table, do you really think things like "sailing the world" or "backpacking through the Himalayas", etc. are feasible things?
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  45. Your brain is already switched off if you can't understand what fossils are.
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  46. Funny thing is, even when predictions fail, people still refuse to believe they've been duped. Look around. There are tons of formerly apocalyptic cults that have now become regular religions with millions to billions of followers. From the obvious ones like the Seventh Day Adventists and the multiple Mahdis in Islam, to even the entirety of Christianity (the Messiah in Jewish belief only arrives just before the end of the world, and indeed, early Christians believed the world would end within 300 years of Jesus' death).
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  47. This is one of the instances where hunting (or sterilizing) is an ecologically good idea. They should be culled now before they spread throughout South America. Remember what happened to camels and rabbits in Australia. Hippos are also VERY dangerous. More than crocodiles.
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  48. Made me think of Stardew Valley.
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  49. Not to nitpick, but those are termites.
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  50. +OnceUponATimeThereWasAPersonWithALongUsername.TheElongationOfThatUsernameWasPlainlyLegendary Actually, no. Cats, like most mammals (except a few exceptions like humans), are dichromats. They can not distinguish red from green. However this is because mammals lost the ability to see more colors during the course of our evolution. Our common mammalian ancestors were nocturnal and thus did not need to see colors. They thus lost cone cells (cells which allow us to distinguish colors) in favor of more rod cells (cells which allow us to see better in darkness). The end result was that they became dichromats. A condition passed on to all their descendants, regardless if they were nocturnal or not. Primates only re-evolved the ability to tell red from green very recently. A result of high evolutionary pressure as it allowed them to quickly tell fruits from leaves. This is why humans, unlike other mammals, are trichromats. We can tell red from green. However, even this does not really fully compensate for the color vision our ancestors lost. The ancestral condition of most vertebrates is TETRAchromacy. That is, aside from red, green, and blue, they can also distinguish a fourth "color" - ultraviolet. Birds, unlike mammals, never went through a bottleneck in their evolutionary history as nocturnal animals. They retained the tetrachromacy of our common vertebrate ancestors (and in some groups even added to it. Pigeons for instance have five types of photoreceptors). To put it simply, birds see better than cats. Heck, they see better than humans. In particular, eagles and other raptors, aside from being tetrachromats; also have wide-field binocular vision, and have very dense photoreceptors (five times as many as humans). This allows them to see even the tiniest mouse in a wheatfield and accurately gauge how far it is from them.
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