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And by the way...
« on: June 28, 2007, 07:50:45 PM »
Does anyone else here ever get really into Penguins?
 
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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2007, 08:00:36 PM »
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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2007, 08:08:20 PM »
Well, I'm into penguins...
 
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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2007, 08:10:18 PM »
BTW... If you behave, the men will buy your beer for free.
 

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2007, 02:57:00 AM »
Does anyone else here ever get really into Penguins?

My brother-in-law is.  To a lesser extent, my daughter is too.

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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2007, 03:39:53 AM »
Like this extinct giant penguin?

From the BBC.

 
Tropical giant penguin discovered
By Neil Bowdler
BBC science reporter 



A giant penguin that preferred the tropics to the southern oceans has been discovered by a team of scientists.
The fossilised remains of the animal, which lived some 36 million years ago, were found in what is today Peru.

At 1.5m (5ft) tall, the penguin looked quite different from its modern-day cousins, a report in PNAS journal says.

It had a long protracted skull and what its discoverers are describing as a grossly elongated beak that was spear-like in appearance.

The Icadyptes salasi penguin would dwarf all the penguins who walk the planet today.

It would have stood head and shoulders over the emperor and the king penguins of the southern seas.

Its well-preserved skeleton was discovered in the Department of Ica on the southern coast of Peru along with the remains of as many as four other previously undiscovered penguin species, all of which appear to have preferred the tropics for colder climes.

Indeed, the Icadyptes appears to have lived happily at such warmer latitudes at a time when world temperatures were much hotter than they are today - and long before anyone thought penguins had reached such low latitudes.

Of course, not all modern-day penguins are adapted for life in cold temperatures.

The African or Galapagos penguins, for example, as their names suggest, also prefer warmer waters to the better-known penguins of the southern seas and Antarctica; but they are comparative newcomers, say the researchers, compared with the giant whose discovery they are now announcing.

"That was sort of a dominant hypothesis - that in fact penguins had only reached low latitude regions comparatively recently and after two major periods of cooling in Earth's history," said Dr Julia Clarke, of North Carolina State University, US, and a member of the research team.

"One was around the Eocene-Oligocene about 34 million years ago; and more recently, post 15 million years ago - but in fact we find penguins there now in much warmer periods and much, much earlier."

Full details are reported in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States of America.


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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2007, 05:06:08 AM »
I wonder what BBQ penguin tastes like?

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2007, 05:15:55 AM »
Someone always says this, so I'll do it this time.

What caliber for penguins? 

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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2007, 07:50:11 AM »

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2007, 11:34:00 AM »
Does anyone else here ever get really into Penguins?

My wife is. She has amassed quite the collection of penguin memorabilia.

Er, was there any particular reason for the inquiry?

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2007, 11:36:00 AM »
There was a game a few years ago called "Deus Ex: Invisible War" that had an amusing bug. If the penguins at an arctic base were accidentally ignited, they'd not go out, and would continue to march around on fire, setting enemies on fire as well.

That was always amusing.  grin

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2007, 12:05:46 PM »
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If the penguins at an arctic base were accidentally ignited, they'd not go out, and would continue to march around on fire, setting enemies on fire as well.

Fire in video games is ALWAYS amusing. Was true back in the days of Syndicate, and would have been loads of fun in Brothers In Arms if the flamethrower mod had ever been released.

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2007, 12:21:52 PM »
As to fire in games, there was always the absolutely ineffectual flame rounds in the first Team Fortress that did a laughably low amount of damage, even while the person hit was on fire.

Which led to one of the most amusing in-game conversations among players I can recall, while they continued walking around.

"By jove! I appear to be aflame!"

"Indeed! How curious!"

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2007, 12:40:15 PM »
Just where the heck did the idea for this thread come from in the first place?  You know it's not good to start drinking that early in the day.

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« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2007, 01:24:21 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2007, 02:26:54 PM »
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BTW... If you behave, the men will buy your beer for free.

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2007, 03:14:06 PM »
As to fire in games, there was always the absolutely ineffectual flame rounds in the first Team Fortress that did a laughably low amount of damage, even while the person hit was on fire.

Which led to one of the most amusing in-game conversations among players I can recall, while they continued walking around.

"By jove! I appear to be aflame!"

"Indeed! How curious!"

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Re: And by the way...
« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2007, 04:04:15 PM »
Are penguins very sensitive to your needs, Bogie?

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