Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick.
January 09, 2018, 08:57 PM
lbj
It's very interesting. I have never read about this behavior.
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January 09, 2018, 08:59 PM
rusbro
January 09, 2018, 08:59 PM
cruiser68
Amazing, with a tiny brain
January 09, 2018, 09:01 PM
darthfuster
Okay, but when they harness the explosive expansion of gasses to propel a projectile, I'm not going outside ever again....
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
January 09, 2018, 09:04 PM
Sig2340
Nice is overrated
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January 09, 2018, 09:11 PM
rusbro
Before you know it...
January 09, 2018, 09:24 PM
dsiets
Clever girl.
January 09, 2018, 09:42 PM
Deqlyn
BEST THREAD TITLE EVER. BRAVO
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Only boring people get bored. - Ruth Burke
January 09, 2018, 10:15 PM
P220 Smudge
I read of one occasion where some Vikings trying to raid a walled city couldn't find a good way in. But one of them noticed that there were birds that nested in the town but hunted the fields and forest around the town during the day. The Vikings captured many of the birds, then either set them on fire or shomehow rigged them up with a small trailing fireball that they then flew back to their perches in the straw rafters of the town, setting the whole thing ablaze.
Odin must have been displeased. This is the bird's vengeance.
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January 10, 2018, 10:30 AM
BBMW
I'll get worried when they learn how to actually make a fire.
January 10, 2018, 10:45 AM
Chance
"Big Duke Six to Eagle Thrust. Put on psy-war-op. Make it loud. This is a Romeo Foxtrot. Shall we dance?"
January 10, 2018, 10:50 AM
sns3guppy
I have worked a lot of fires over the years that have been spread by animals.
The smallest was a brush fire that nearly took a subdivision, and was started by a burning bug. And a kid with a magnifying glass. The bug took off into the grass and the kid ran for the hills.
It's not uncommon during a wildfire to see animals racing out of a fire, on fire. Burning rabbits, dear, and other animals will run from the flames, spreading the fire through grass and other fuels.
January 10, 2018, 11:05 AM
BurtonRW
Everything in Australia will kill you.
It's axiomatic.
-Rob
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A=A
January 10, 2018, 11:12 AM
Sgt Neutron
quote:
Originally posted by P220 Smudge: I read of one occasion where some Vikings trying to raid a walled city couldn't find a good way in. But one of them noticed that there were birds that nested in the town but hunted the fields and forest around the town during the day. The Vikings captured many of the birds, then either set them on fire or shomehow rigged them up with a small trailing fireball that they then flew back to their perches in the straw rafters of the town, setting the whole thing ablaze.
Odin must have been displeased. This is the bird's vengeance.
The US Army had a similar program in WWII, except with bats:
Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican free-tailed bat with a small, timed incendiary bomb attached. Dropped from a bomber at dawn, the casings would deploy a parachute in mid-flight and open to release the bats, which would then roost in eaves and attics in a 20–40 mile radius. The incendiaries would start fires in inaccessible places in the largely wood and paper constructions of the Japanese cities that were the weapon's intended target.
"Fire can be our friend; whether it's toasting marshmallows, or raining down on Charlie."
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Originally posted by Will938: If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
January 10, 2018, 11:53 AM
arabiancowboy
Birds are smart, personable and amazing creatures. I shutter anytime I see a bird owner keeping those creative animals locked permanently in a cage.
January 10, 2018, 12:13 PM
Mars_Attacks
It’s why my cockatoo has free run of the house
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Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick.
January 10, 2018, 01:25 PM
tacfoley
I'll REALLY start to worry when dolphins can make fire.
tac
January 10, 2018, 03:13 PM
Hound Dog
quote:
Originally posted by sns3guppy:
The smallest was a brush fire that nearly took a subdivision, and was started by a burning bug. And a kid with a magnifying glass. The bug took off into the grass and the kid ran for the hills.
My favorite example is of a guy who lit a woodpile on fire in order to eradicate a nest of mice. A burning mouse fled underneath the guy's house, burning it to the ground.
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