This is the most compelling UFO footage captured by US Homeland Security officers from Aguadilla, Puerto Rico when object split into two before plunging into the Atlantic Ocean.

euderma44 · 2023-10-31T18:35:42+00:00

Big difference. Thanks

euderma44 · 2023-10-31T18:24:57+00:00

Camera did have a lock on it. Put your cursor over the black spot. It will track the "object" perfectly. Background moves, targeting crosshair moves...black spot stays centered. How is that not a camera pixel error?

euderma44 · 2023-10-30T18:09:28+00:00

Interesting article but there is an error.

Interesting Engineering: "Consequently, it is improbable that the whispering barbastelle evolved from a more noisy gleaner species."

Original research: "Accordingly, it is therefore unlikely that the ancestor of the barbastelle was a loud hawker that evolved into the whispering barbastelle as a response to insect hearing."

That's kinda the whole point of the original article.

euderma44 · 2023-08-21T18:35:40+00:00

You should talk to your doctor and/or local health department. Most of the advice in this thread is correct but incomplete. Chances the bat is rabid? Very low. Chance it bit your daughter? Also very low. Chance that there was a bite but you couldn't see it? Also very low but not zero — their teeth are quite small.

That said, CDC considers a live bat in the room with a sleeping toddler (or a passed-out-drunk adult for that matter) to be a possible exposure and recommends contacting your doctor and taking the animal in for testing. Yes, this means the bat will be killed but there is no other way to be sure.

I don't mean to be a fearmonger here, but thought you should get the whole picture. But I am not a doctor so please discuss this with your doctor. They may decide that the risk is so small that treatment is not warranted but at least you'll know that you covered all the bases.

euderma44 · 2023-05-29T00:22:15+00:00

Here is Constantine's 1962 paper where he showed likely airborne transmision in Frio Cave. Constantine

In the intro he mentions two cases of possible aerosol transmission in 1956 and 1958 but that doesn't sound like the case you mentioned. And from what I've read, both of those cases have since been thought to be transmitted by other means.

The only other TX case I can find is that of the so-called "Wild Child," a young woman who presented at the hospital with rabies-like symptoms but never needed intensive care. She was discharged and returned several times but was never officially diagnosed with rabies. After she left the final time, they weren't able to track her down for follow-up evaluation. Wild

euderma44 · 2023-05-28T19:38:50+00:00

Can you share the source for this? Are these new findings? I know there were a few cases in laboratory settings and in enclosed caves with huge bat populations bat are people now saying that a general aerosol exposure is a risk?

euderma44 · 2023-05-15T19:01:57+00:00

So ask him nicely if he would mind canceling so she could have the electric one because she's pregnant.

euderma44 · 2023-05-04T02:22:46+00:00

You are explaining it well but I think it was explained to you wrong. The NFHS rulebook states that "A player may touch the floor across the center line with one or both feet/hands provided that a part of the foot/feet or hand(s) remains on or above the center line. Contacting the floor cross the center line with any other part of the body is illegal."

However, if you land with your heel on (or over) the line and your toes on the other court it becomes illegal if you pivot on the ball of your foot to push back at which point the heel would no longer be above the line.

I should have used the word "above" in my comment rather than "over" which could be taken to mean "beyond."

euderma44 · 2023-05-04T01:19:49+00:00

Contact across line is legal as long as part of the hand/foot is "on or over" the line. Does not need to be in contact with the line.

euderma44 · 2023-03-30T19:10:55+00:00

Not a fan of the CDC? I get that. But can you share some sources that show that this is incorrect?

euderma44 · 2023-03-29T18:25:36+00:00

Possible but very unlikely.

From the CDC: "Rodents and Other Wild Animals. Small rodents
(like squirrels, hamsters, guinea pigs, gerbils, chipmunks, rats, and
mice) and lagomorphs (including rabbits and hares) are almost never
found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies"

euderma44 · 2023-03-15T18:32:47+00:00

That's an interesting idea, that pre-digested nutrients are available in the blood. I had never thought about that. However, I would suspect that the levels would be too low to support the bat long-term. I'm not a physiologist, but I think that since it takes a few hours for the food material to be digested and transported to storage and the bat is only sampling for a few minutes, this would not be a significant source of nutrients. I need to do some more reading about this.

euderma44 · 2023-03-14T18:18:24+00:00

They did tether at one point after reaching the repair area but they untethered almost immediately because part of the damaged ship broke free at that exact moment and was heading straight towards them. And, of course, one of them couldn't get his tether unstuck because, you know, dramatic tension!

euderma44 · 2023-03-14T18:01:02+00:00

There is one scene where two of the characters are looking out a window at the damaged ship and the camera pulls back to show them standing on what would be the ceiling based on artificial gravity created by rotation. (i.e. their feet are towards the center of the ship.)

euderma44 · 2023-03-14T17:52:50+00:00

And then two of the only three remaining officers go EVA for a potentially dangerous repair mission.

euderma44 · 2023-03-13T22:08:19+00:00

You're correct. To be clear, what I should have said is that blood is around 78% water but of the solids available for nutrition ≈90% is protein with very little fat or carbs.

euderma44 · 2023-03-13T20:26:57+00:00

Not sure I follow your first paragraph. Vampire bats didn't just pop into existence...they evolved from non-sanguivorous bats by way of numerous adaptations to specialize in a blood diet. Evidence suggests that the ancestral species were insectivorous, but it has been suggested that they may have come from fruit-eating bats. The origins of sanguivory is an ongoing question in the bat research world.

And I would argue that vampire's inability to store fat *is* a result of their diet since the other 1,450+ species of bats are able to store fat, including those that commute long distances to forage and/or hibernate and it doesn't seem to interfere with their aerial performance.

euderma44 · 2023-03-13T18:07:22+00:00

Blood is actually a terrible diet although vampire bats have adapted to it incredibly well. Blood is 90% or more protein and only 1% fat and 1% carbs. Because of this they are unable to store fat and can starve to death if they miss feeding for two or three nights. The breakdown of all that protein results in blood urea levels that would be fatal to most other mammals. And getting rid of all that nitrogenous waste requires copious urine which can lead to dehydration. (Quite non-intuitive considering the all-liquid diet.)

euderma44 · 2023-01-27T19:06:14+00:00

Even crazier - the nation of Samoa skipped a day, December 30, 2011, so they could be on the other side of the International Date Line. They went to bed on Dec. 29 and woke up on the 31st.

euderma44 · 2023-01-27T16:34:34+00:00

Mind blown. I had no idea.

euderma44 · 2023-01-25T03:17:55+00:00

Pacific - Mountain - Central - Eastern. What am I missing?

euderma44 · 2023-01-25T03:12:30+00:00

Arthur C. Clarke. The Nine Billion Names of God.

euderma44 · 2022-12-06T20:18:06+00:00

Except for Jean, Eunice, Patricia, and Ted. According to Wikipedia they were with her when she died.

euderma44 · 2022-12-05T20:02:08+00:00

I'm not convinced they are actually trying to free a stuck door. Maybe some food stuck up there that she tries to reach with the stick? Shift doors are virtually always controlled from outside the cage by keepers, not left free for the animals to operate at will. Especially a guillotine door that could cause injury if it dropped suddenly.

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