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May 27th, 2003, 05:58 AM
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OT: Giant what?
Giant Vampire Bats?
Why have I never heard of this before?
Why does a search of the internet turn up only refrences to this article and fiction?
And why, oh why, did she swollow the fly? I guess she'll die.
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May 27th, 2003, 07:07 AM
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Re: OT: Giant what?
well, i can understand wiping out the giant vampire bats with just some pointy sticks. 
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May 27th, 2003, 10:38 AM
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Re: OT: Giant what?
I saw a really interesting program a while back about this guy (Japanese I think) who is searching all these glaciers and things for frozen wooly mammoths. Quite a few have been found that way in the past, some of them in remarkably good condition. There is even a story about a bunch of people finding one and eating it.
Anyway, he wants to find a frozen male mammoth, extract some sperm, fertilise an elephant with it and that way resurrect the species. The first generation would be half elephant, half mammoth (mammophant), then over successive generations he'd make it more and more mammoth until the elephant genes were insignificant. Assuming he finds his sperm, it would take decades or even centuries to complete the project because it takes so long for elephants to reach adulthood and produce offspring.
Imnagine meeting him at a party. "So, what do you do for a living?"
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May 28th, 2003, 01:08 AM
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Re: OT: Giant what?
Wouldn't the half-and-half be a sport, like a mule or a zebra-horse-hybrid?
And what about the bats!?!? How the heck did those get in there? Why on earth didn't we learn about that in school? Was the guy just making that part up?
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May 28th, 2003, 01:19 AM
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Re: OT: Giant what?
Don't tell me the schools have stopped teaching about giant vampire bats. I wonder what they are covering up now. Clearly a conspiracy is affoot.
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May 28th, 2003, 01:23 AM
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Re: OT: Giant what?
Quote:
Originally posted by dogscoff:
Imnagine meeting him at a party. "So, what do you do for a living?"
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yeah, and imagine that he then wants to shake hands 
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