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A slab of seal poo used for scientific research in New Zealand has led to the unlikely discovery of a USB stick full of holiday snaps.
The sample, known as scat, had been stored for over a year before being thawed out.
Researchers analyse seal faeces to assess the health and diet of seals in New Zealand waters.
The fully functioning stick contained images of sea lions and a video of a mother playing with her baby.
The sample was submitted by a vet who had been monitoring a sickly-looking leopard seal on Oreti Beach, Invercargill, on New Zealand's South Island.
The device was in good condition "considering where it had come from", the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on its website.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47135528
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 06 2019, @04:32PM (2 children)
FFS, Donny - you could get the spiel right. Takes a lickin, and keeps on tickin. Watches didn't "run" back then - you wound up the clockwork spring, and the watch would run until the spring lost all it's energy. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Some of them said tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick. But watches never said tic-toc. That was for cukoo clocks and grandfather clocks.
Just think of all the trivia that almost no millenial knows about.
Try it orally - "Takes a lickin, and keeps on tickin!" Now, try it with Oral Roberts.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday February 06 2019, @05:19PM (1 child)
Well, that's a matter of dialect. We always said "tick-tock" was the sound made by clocks, watches, etc.
Note that *NONE* of them actually really sounded like tick-tock, but all of them made two separate distinctive sounds. (Though watches were, admittedly, pretty close to the same. Perhaps the difference was mainly rhythmic, i.e. the time interval between sounds, or the length of intermediate pauses.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 06 2019, @06:01PM
Personally, I don't recall distinctive sounds in any but large clocks. Smaller alarm clocks, like three or four inches around, maybe. Larger alarm clocks, five inches and larger, definitely. Large wall clocks, case clocks, etc, no question, very distinctive. Maybe that's just me though - my hearing wasn't really great, even as a kid.
Now, I'm trying to recall whether we ever had a wind-up wall clock. I think all of the wall-clocks were electric. As an adult, in the Navy, all the chronometers were wind-up. Someone from Communications went around each day, wound them up and set them if necessary. We didn't hear them very much - there was far too much noise at the quietest of times. I've given a thought to buying one, now and then. Never did to searching for one though. Hmmmm - Ebay, right now!