by Matthew Cobb
Hili has some odd culinary choices, but she is a cat after all:
Hili: Te z kurczakiem też i te z indykiem.
Greetings and good morning it’s Monday #rushhour #farmrushhour #rushhourcc @caro_painter pic.twitter.com/MFzosESWbu
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) November 4, 2019
A Canada goose found its way onto a football pitch in Macclesfield, south of Manchester:
After there was a goose on the pitch at Macclesfield – what is the weirdest thing you have ever seen at a football match?
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Can you top this? ⤵ pic.twitter.com/rn9uVoTotG
— BBC RM Sport (@BBCRMsport) August 11, 2018
Academics – always complaining about the same thing:
Academics complaining that departmental service obligations interfere with their research and teaching. Assyria, mid 7th century BC: pic.twitter.com/SCkmgFk8by
— Christopher W. Jones (@cwjones89) November 2, 2019
Some absolutely gorgeous geology. It’s unsigned, but appears to have come from the workshop of Slartibartfast, I believe:
A 28 km long stretch of white cliffs and a deserted dark grey quarz+ titanomagnetite sand beach, north of Iturup island in Sakhalin region. Pictures by Dmitry Kulikov in collaboration with Sakhalin information and tourism centre pic.twitter.com/jyKH6xWgQA
— The Siberian Times (@siberian_times) November 3, 2019
There are some parts of Earth where life can’t find a way. Doesn’t look good for the hypersaline water sludge that may be just beneath the surface of Mars:
Our Dallol hydrothermal system microbial diversity paper just out @NatureEcoEvo. Despite abundant liquid water, we found two new life limits: no life in hyperacidic+hypersaline pools and in the Mg-rich Yellow and Black lakes https://t.co/A4hdV7XnZx pic.twitter.com/NbA35Xdauf
— DEEM team Orsay (@DEEMteam_Orsay) October 29, 2019
Speaking of Mars:
Mojave Crater flyby, Mars
data by @esa / DLR / FU Berlin pic.twitter.com/sTMEAJRuAs— Seán Doran (@_TheSeaning) November 3, 2019
The new BBC Natural History Unit series Seven Worlds: One Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, has got off to a flying start, although I found bits of a bit too brutal to watch (I went to do the washing up while trapped walruses tumbled and bounced off the top of a cliff). These next two tweets were the highlight of last night’s episode for me – a viper that lives in the Iranian desert which has adapted the end of its tail as a lure – it looks remarkably like a spider scuttling about, but the incredibly camouflaged snake soon puts paid to the illusion…
Everyone: Snakes and spiders are scary, but at least they’re mutually exclusive.
Nature: Hold my beer…#SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/gXpJFQ74yM— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019
Two nightmares, one GIF 🐍🕷#SevenWorldsOnePlanet pic.twitter.com/ePWmG0SU6w
— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 3, 2019
Goose? – Christmas dinner for the Macclesfield team sorted!
There is a football team with the nickname of “the Feathers” … who might want to get in on that.
There is a road in Shrewsbury called Featherbed Lane .
Hmmm, that sounds to me like another euphemism for Gropecunt Lane.
Sorry no time for animals on the pitch … too busy scoring goals.
Quickest Hat-Trick in British Football
At professional level, the quickest hat-trick in the long history of the British game was scored by the late Tommy Ross. The prolific inside-forward bagged his speedy trio of goals in his best spell, at Ross County. The three goals came in the space of just 1 minute and 30 seconds against Nairn County.
I appear to remember a swarm of bees on a cricket field during an international match, not too long ago. Beats the goose.
That must have been the most exciting thing that has ever happened on a cricket court .
Don’t like sport .
Amazing snake spider lure!
Will wonders never cease? The spider would make a fool out of any arachnologists.
I’m surprised the bird didn’t see that, they have vastly superior eye-sight.
Yes, but he was really, really, hungry.
Isn’t bird eyesight optimised to detect movement (like the moving ‘spider’) so while the bird was homing in on the ‘spider’ it probably was relatively blind to the motionless camouflaged snake?
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I’m sure that’s true. Like a gentleman at a party conversing with a lady with significant cleavage. Well, not exactly…
If Hili has odd culinary choices, then so do I. Chicken sausage, turkey sausage, seafood (including salmon) sausage, Mmmmm! The only difference with Hili’s sausages and mine is in the formulation.
Is it just me or has Hili become more practical and less philosophical as Winter approaches?
Beautiful work by Slartibartfast. He may not understand how to convey threats, but he does make some nice geography.
Is it a coincidence that Norway ,Chile ,and New Zealand have Fjords and they are near the poles .
No, they are created by glaciers I believe.
Thanks ,too lazy to look it up on line .
Unus ex disciples meis tradet me hodie. One of my disciples will betray me today.
Hauntingly beautiful choir, but I didn’t know Martians abused choir boys too.
discipulis, spell checker…