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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Tyrannosaurus' Cute Little Arms Could Rip You to Shreds

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Tyrannosaurus rex was the Tyrannosaurus rex of the dinosaur world. You don't need metaphors when you've got a bite force in excess of the weight of an African elephant. A single nibble from T. rex makes your whole goddamn species go extinct. The only thing powerful enough to kill and eat a T. rex is another T. rex. Still, there's one thing that made every T. rex grow up to develop a nagging inferiority complex, and that's the relentless teasing all the other dinosaurs gave him about his itty-bitty arms.

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"Dude, it's how you use it."

Hey, you guys, T. rex is napping -- quick, tickle his ear hole and let's watch him try to slap it! And then we'd laugh and laugh, and he'd use those hilariously inadequate arms to rip us clean the fuck in two.

Though they were only slightly longer than an average man's, you've got to remember that a T. rex's arms were attached to nine salivating tons of pure, fabulous muscle. His biceps alone could curl 430 pounds apiece, and that's not even taking into account the fact that those guns had backup in the form of the friggin' nuclear weapons that were his chest and shoulder muscles. Paleontologists think that a T. rex's arms were powerful enough to help him push his enormous body up from the ground after sleeping, or to latch onto a female T. rex during mating.

Why Do Your Fingers Prune When You Take a Bath?

Everyone knows how to tell when bath time is over: you suddenly notice the bath's gone chilly and the whiskey bottle is empty. However, when we were younger, there was a slightly more liver-friendly way to know when to get out of the tub: when your fingers started pruning. As a kid, you probably just assumed this was the first sign that your body was about to start melting. And for the longest time, science's answers weren't much less stupid.

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"Melting? Fine. Sure. Whatever. Now can you excuse me? I've got stuff to grow on rats' backs."

However, it looks like they've finally cracked this particular nut: A new theory suggests that pruning not only has a function, but is a straight-up evolutionary advantage that allows us to grip wet items more tightly. You may have noticed that the wrinkles that form on your fingers resemble treading on tires and other high-friction materials. The point of treading is to increase surface area and thus friction, and that's what scientists think pruning does, too.

In the modern world, this helps us with holding on to the soap and, well, that's basically it. But back in caveman days, pruned fingers may have been a huge survival advantage for our ancestors living in wet and humid climes. The extra gripping power provided by nutsack-textured fingers meant they had a surer grip on the spears and other weapons they used to fend off hungry beasts.

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Keeping their precious genes safe so that future generations might masturbate in the shower more efficiently.

The pruning response doesn't work with fingers where the nerve had been severed, which heavily implies that pruning is an intentional response from your central nervous system, which knows a thing or two about keeping your ass alive.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

HOW TO NOT LOOK GOOD IN PHOTOS

To those people who are super photogenic all the time.. I envy you guys.
Because I can never take a good photo whenever I try hard or not.
Whether it is a good smile, lighting, or angle coming from the photograph, I still look like a person who had just got out of jail.
This is why whenever photo taking is in session, I give up on trying to look good and look "fabulous" instead.

*strike a pose*

*smile like theres no tomorrow*

*question life itself*

Either I'm having too much fun looking goofy in photos or I have serious issues.

lol..

Life is too short to wast time on good photos - yiphann 2014

Things You Won't Believe Crocodiles Are Learning to Do

Soo recently I have read an article concerning crocodiles and their nature habits..
The thing is, recently those hard scaled meat chomping reptiles have learnt to actually CLIMB TREES
Its scary enough to know you might encounter one of them while swimming in rivers but to see them above you on trees is taking horror to a whole new level

when you thought it was safe to build a tree house or pluck mangos from trees,

SURPRISE!! *CHOMP CHOMP*
THERE GOES AN ARM.

Apparently scientists have theorized that the reason was because they are probably trying to control their body temperature by basking under the sunlight. As much as I think that its cool that these reptiles have evolved to become prime predators in rivers, being face to face with one will definitely send me running back home and hiding under the blankets.

source of article at: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/if-you-think-climbing-tree-will-save-you-crocodile-180949728/?no-ist

Monday, June 2, 2014

BEAAACHHH

It was the month of May and I have just recently finished the second semester of the year in my studies. SEM BREAK MOOD was all on the rise as holidays arrived along with it.

After months of tedious work on assignments and studying it was always good to have a break from all of it. This was when my family decided on a 3 day 2 night vacation trip to Pangkor Island which was situated in the state of Perak.

I have always loved nature and going to the beach since I was a child so I was naturally excited for the trip.

It took us at least 3 to 4 hours of driving and ferry till we finally managed to reached our destination.

Once we checked in to the hotel and unload our luggage, it was beach beach beach all the way for me already.

One thing that I always do at beaches is finding and catching crabs. The big ones are harder to find and are quick on their feet. To catch a proper sized crab you gotta be cunning, quick, and silent at the same time.

STEP ONE: Scout from a distance for any moving things on the sand.

STEP TWO: Approach silently with caution and take notice on the crab’s movements. This is because before anyone gets close to a crab they usually scurry away in to their holes in the sand.

STEP THREE: By now the crab would have noticed you approaching towards it and already took shelter in their holes. This is where it is important to remember exactly which hole the crab went in to

STEP FOUR: START DIGGING TILL YOU FIND THAT LITTLE CRITTER.

STEP FIVE: Be quick with your hands and pick the crab up on its hind side and pray that you do not lose a finger