Nite Science Grab Bag

[greygirlbeast]

First, I figure everyone's already heard about the upcoming asteroid near-miss, and how over at the head temple of the Immaculate Order of the Falling Sky we've all been gnashing our teeth, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway.

Also, it turns out that African naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) are not only "cold-blooded" mammals, they are

Comments

[octoberland]

I fucking hate people.

[humglum]

Clearly, mole-rats aren't the only cold blooded mammals incapable of feeling certain types of pain...

[octoberland]

Huh?

[humglum]

Just my general loathing of people who find it necessary to mindlessly slaughter animals...

[sclerotic_rings]

(Slow frustrated hiss, the kind you'd hear from a very tired and very aggravated alligator snapping turtle.) At times like these, my wife is very glad that I didn't buy that shotgun and one slug, because the Robert Howard/Ernest Hemingway/H. Beam Piper route is very tempting at the moment. Me, I'm starting to regret the decision.

[eldritch00]

What about the satellite?

[eldritch00]

And you might find this interesting, if you don't know about it already.