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Post by skywalker on Jan 8, 2011 11:04:16 GMT -6
That's true, Jo. There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around about a lot a lot of things. Maybe the reason is because we really know so little about what really is going on. With all of the secrecy that exists within the government and many large corporations we are really kept in the dark about a lot of things. For example, the government drops a bajillion ladybugs on the planet and we think it is an act of God...or an attempt by the ladybugs to take over the world. We can't really blame people for having conspiracy theories when the truth is kept hidden from them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 14:05:07 GMT -6
I LIKE ladybugs
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Post by skywalker on Jan 8, 2011 18:12:09 GMT -6
Calm down Jo. I wasn't insulting the ladybugs. Nice lady bugs... ;D
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Post by lois on Jan 8, 2011 18:24:41 GMT -6
Hey .. One of my brothers lives close to where the birds died. out in the boomdocks of nothing around him. He called me two nights ago. And was joking about the birds, he said these nitwits down here in the hills are giving a 100 reasons for the bird deaths.. He also said he goes hunting quite a bit and noticed . More than usual dead birds lying around.. what does that tell you? Has something to do with the location.. I told him you better watch what wild life you are eating down there.. I would not eat any of it.. I would not drink his water either. I think he buys bottled water for drinking..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2011 11:43:49 GMT -6
It's even in China now Lois that the reports are coming from. Not to mention the peculiarity of the fish..what effects both birds and fish? I still lean toward magnetics or some sort of harmonics. If it were some sort of atmospheric poison..I think there would be a LOT more of them and more species of at least small varmints. I wouldn't test that by eating anything I stumbled across tho ;D
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Post by lois on Jan 9, 2011 11:50:07 GMT -6
Thanks Jo.. I did not hear about China. My husband watches fox news all day. He never gets on a computer. He tells me things as they happen, but I usually tell him I seen that on the computer two days ago.. ha... It is strange one.. I hope no country is using some chemical that is dangerous to others. You never know.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2011 21:13:56 GMT -6
Well now I've heard it all. They're refering to it as Aflockalypse (how clever is that). I didn't realize that it was as far reaching as it is and I'd just heard about the one species of fish too..of course since they say there is no problem..I'm sure there isn't ;D www.thirdage.com/news/aflockalypse-now-biologists-say-no_1-8-2011
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2011 11:01:25 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on Jan 19, 2011 10:42:03 GMT -6
Now there are octopuses dying in Portugal. What Is Killing Portugal's Octopuses?By Lisa Abend Wednesday, Jan. 06, 2010 www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1951644,00.html What is killing the octopus of Vila Nova de Gaia? That question has obsessed the Portuguese city — located just across the Douro River from Porto — since Jan. 2, when 1,100 lb. (500 kg) of dead octopus were found on a 1.8-mile (3 km) stretch of local beach. The following day, another 110 lb. (50 kg) appeared; later there was just one expired creature. "It's very strange that so many should be killed, and in such a confined area," says Nuno Oliveira, director of the Gaia Biological Park, a nature refuge on the outskirts of Vila Nova de Gaia. "There's nothing in the scientific literature for this kind of mass mortality among octopus."
Twelve hundred pounds is a lot of dead cephalopod, especially when no one seems to know for sure what killed them. Local biologists have ruled out pollution or contamination because no other species were affected. And although some suggest that perhaps a boat, illegally fishing the multilegged creatures, threw them overboard in a panicked attempt to avoid detection, that possibility also seems unlikely. "The sea has been very rough," says Oliveira. "No one has been out fishing for days."
After issuing multiple warnings that no townspeople should take the carcasses home for dinner (boiled octopus — perhaps sprinkled with a touch of paprika — is a Portuguese delicacy), Vila Nova de Gaia's municipal government had firefighters gather up the dead animals; many will be sent to Lisbon's veterinary lab for testing, a process that is expected to take up to two weeks.
Until then, evidence points to some sort of disease: a parasite, bacteria or powerful virus. "It affected octopus of all ages and sizes," says Mike Weber, director of the Aguda coastal station, an aquarium and biological research institute in Gaia. "That suggests that it wiped out the entire local population."
There is one other option. In December 2007, Portuguese police confiscated 9.4 tons of cocaine in a shipment of frozen octopus from Venezuela. "I suppose it's possible that someone defrosted the animals, took out the cocaine, then threw their bodies overboard," says Weber. Still, like Oliveira, Weber is betting on a biological cause. "We've had swine flu, bird flu," he says, not completely in jest. "Why not octopus flu?"
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