They are magnificent creatures! AKA “thumb-splitters” They have very complex eyes. I know a diver who had his dome lens port cracked by a mantis, flooding his camera.
Less is more.
January 11, 2018, 06:44 PM
Spokane228
Yikes. Just did some browsing. That’s the real deal.
January 11, 2018, 07:06 PM
sig226fan
Badass and tasty too! One of my favorites when I am in Hong Kong. Go to the fresh fish market at Lei Yue Mun and pick the fresh catch. Have it cooked up right there on the dock. Fry them up with garlic and some noodles.
It's all about clean living. Just do the right thing, and karma will help with the rest.
January 11, 2018, 07:08 PM
David Lee
LOL..onetwothree death. I gotta go look one up.
January 11, 2018, 07:14 PM
newtoSig765
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Originally posted by sig226fan: ...Have it cooked up right there on the dock...
Sounds like good advice, considering it could kill you on the way home otherwise!
-------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken
I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
January 11, 2018, 07:50 PM
Hound Dog
That is my all-time favorite Oatmeal article. Click on the link to read the whole thing. OP just posted just some of the of many comic panes.
Fear God and Dread Nought Admiral of the Fleet Sir Jacky Fisher
January 11, 2018, 07:56 PM
Sr_Bull
Here I was getting my hopes up that it was going to be another delicious looking "Dinner with Protection" threads. Boy was I wrong!
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
January 11, 2018, 09:18 PM
David Lee
I watched a short video in which they said 40,000 frames per second. Any one know what that means ?
January 11, 2018, 09:24 PM
parabellum
Well, shit, the way I see it, it's either him or me, and I ain't goin' out like that, fried up with garlic and noodles, so...
January 11, 2018, 09:27 PM
parabellum
quote:
Originally posted by David Lee: I watched a short video in which they said 40,000 frames per second. Any one know what that means ?
It means that images are captured 40,000 times every second. To put things in perspective, the frame rate for motion picture film is 24 frames per second. Video is 60 fps, I think.
"I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023
January 11, 2018, 09:32 PM
David Lee
Wow. It must be done with a laser or somehow. Kind of beyond my knowledge.
January 11, 2018, 09:43 PM
Oz_Shadow
You can eat him but first you gotta beat him!
January 11, 2018, 09:48 PM
maladat
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum:
quote:
Originally posted by David Lee: I watched a short video in which they said 40,000 frames per second. Any one know what that means ?
It means that images are captured 40,000 times every second. To put things in perspective, the frame rate for motion picture film is 24 frames per second. Video is 60 fps, I think.
Traditional TV, VHS tapes, DVDs, things like that, are 30 fps, while high definition TV, Blurays, etc., can be 30 or 60 (mostly 60 these days).
January 11, 2018, 10:16 PM
Infidel
quote:
Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk: The Chuck Norris of the shrimp world
Chuck Norris wishes.
I hate offended people. They come in two flavours - huffy and whiny - and it's hard to know which is worst. The huffy ones are self-important, narcissistic authoritarians in love with the sound of their own booming disapproval, while the whiny, sparrowlike ones are so annoying and sickly and ill-equipped for life on Earth you just want to smack them round the head until they stop crying and grow up. - Charlie Brooker
January 11, 2018, 10:26 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
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Originally posted by Infidel:
quote:
Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk: The Chuck Norris of the shrimp world
"we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet
January 11, 2018, 10:37 PM
rusbro
They are wicked smart, too.
January 12, 2018, 12:05 AM
dwright1951
Used to catch them in my shrimp trawl pretty regular, spiky things, but they taste like regular shrimp to me, kind of a pain to peel.
