You're out in your backyard. You see an interesting turtle. You watch it for 10 minutes, and it moves six inches. You run into the house, or across the street to the neighbor's place, to fetch somebody to come look at this turtle. You're back in a few minutes. That turtle is GONE. When nobody's watching, turtles can move fast!
Reminds me of, in the Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars books, probably the very first one, A PRINCESS OF MARS, there's mention of how certain Martians have houses that are basically built on a big screw and at night it screws upwards, effectively turning the house into a tower with no entrance, then the next day they bring it back to ground level again, to keep out burglars and murderers (and presumably, the assorted Martian monsters as well).
This article seems to miss a pretty obvious point: Boxing gloves aren't meant to do less damage to your opponent than hands. They're to keep the one throwing the punch from breaking his own fingers.
I'd like a little better explanation of how these faces are being sent into space. That is, what format?
Printed out very small in a spiral-bound notebook? Doesn't seem likely.
All stuck onto a data DVD? Seems more likely, but rather abstract. Technically, yes, your face went into space as a collection of 1s and 0s, but unless they had one of the PCs on the ISS running them as a screensaver or something, unless your face could actually have been visible to someone up there (even if they were busy doing other things), if it wasn't ever displayed in space, it's kind of a tree-falling-in-the-forest-does-it-make-a-sound-if-mobody's-around debate on whether your face was in space.
Is there any evidence that this just doesn't fall off within a week or so, or that the butterfly doesn't die from side effects of this manipulation?
Just because it can fly off when released doesn't mean it doesn't then go out in the woods and die.
I mean, is there any evidence that six months later, some of these repaired monarchs could really make the flight to Mexico, etc? Are there instances of Mexican lepidopterists saying, "What the *#*$, there's cardstock on this dude's wing!"
Next hailstorm, please substitute "Great Caesar's Ghost!" or "Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish!" or "By the power of Grayskull!" or "By Grabthar's Hammer!" every time you have the urge to say "Oh my God!" Change it up a bit.
Also, repeat the mantra, "I've seen something like this before. In May 2010!"
I liked this better when I just thought they'd let it go from the top of a hill and hope for the best.
Though it illustrates something I've noticed.
You're out in your backyard. You see an interesting turtle. You watch it for 10 minutes, and it moves six inches. You run into the house, or across the street to the neighbor's place, to fetch somebody to come look at this turtle. You're back in a few minutes. That turtle is GONE. When nobody's watching, turtles can move fast!
It dispenses Rembrants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3BYCT5oWw
-Willie Scott, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
Printed out very small in a spiral-bound notebook? Doesn't seem likely.
All stuck onto a data DVD? Seems more likely, but rather abstract. Technically, yes, your face went into space as a collection of 1s and 0s, but unless they had one of the PCs on the ISS running them as a screensaver or something, unless your face could actually have been visible to someone up there (even if they were busy doing other things), if it wasn't ever displayed in space, it's kind of a tree-falling-in-the-forest-does-it-make-a-sound-if-mobody's-around debate on whether your face was in space.
Just because it can fly off when released doesn't mean it doesn't then go out in the woods and die.
I mean, is there any evidence that six months later, some of these repaired monarchs could really make the flight to Mexico, etc? Are there instances of Mexican lepidopterists saying, "What the *#*$, there's cardstock on this dude's wing!"
Also, repeat the mantra, "I've seen something like this before. In May 2010!"