Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

zagubov

Good to hear about the new dog, spirit. :beer:

Pyxis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

If I say too much, I'll be accused to being very not nice, but people annoy me sometimes :mad:

oldandhappy wrote: »

I sometimes can get annoyed a lot... sometimes everything just goes over my head...sometimes I have no choice which one happens...husband gets very confused...such is life

I shouldn't worry; I spent most of yesterday feeling cross and bolshie!
We're only human!


Even more interesting is the fact that the Kew bees' vibrations set off a sound and light emission from the sculpture, and the more they hum, the louder the sculpture resonates! :cool:



Just looking at the Hive sculpture at Kew.....



Apparently, bees buzz in the Key of C!

Generali

Pyxis wrote: »

Apparently, bees buzz in the Key of C!

All bees or just one sort?

Australian native bees have no sting and the most dangerous animal in Australia, measured by number of human deaths, is the European honey bee with about 10-11 deaths a year typically. By comparison, IIRC, nobody has died from a redback spider bite since the early 80s and sharks get a bit over a person a year on average.

Sharks don't want to eat people: it would be a pretty stupid fish that adapted to eat food that lives on land and that came into being hundreds/tens of millions of years after it did. The ones that bite people are inquisitive juveniles that are checking these weird shaped things out or great whites that mistake a surfie for a seal.

Doozergirl

Generali wrote: »

All bees or just one sort?

Australian native bees have no sting and the most dangerous animal in Australia, measured by number of human deaths, is the European honey bee with about 10-11 deaths a year typically. By comparison, IIRC, nobody has died from a redback spider bite since the early 80s and sharks get a bit over a person a year on average.

Sharks don't want to eat people: it would be a pretty stupid fish that adapted to eat food that lives on land and that came into being hundreds/tens of millions of years after it did. The ones that bite people are inquisitive juveniles that are checking these weird shaped things out or great whites that mistake a surfie for a seal.

Why don't we wear less 'seal coloured' wetsuits? I'm sure it would help.

Generali

Doozergirl wrote: »

Why don't we wear less 'seal coloured' wetsuits? I'm sure it would help.

Apparently it's the shape of the underside of the surfboard that does for the surfers.

There has been work on making wetsuits less seal shaped AIUI with occasional claims that there has been some big breakthrough. I went to a talk by a Navy bloke who was training in Sydney Harbour and lost a leg and an arm to a shark. He was quite interesting but a bit of a d!ck TBH. He made some claims about a wetsuit he was helping others to work on but TBH I'd rather trust someone in M&S menswear to give me a shark-proof suit than him.

chris_m

Generali wrote: »

I went to a talk by a Navy bloke who was training in Sydney Harbour and lost a leg and an arm to a shark. He was quite interesting but a bit of a d!ck TBH.

So it wasn't just an arm and a leg the shark had?
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

chris_m

Generali wrote: »

Australian native bees have no sting and the most dangerous animal in Australia, measured by number of human deaths, is the European honey bee with about 10-11 deaths a year typically. By comparison, IIRC, nobody has died from a redback spider bite since the early 80s and sharks get a bit over a person a year on average.

Does Oz not have a great problem with mosquitoes? They are reckoned to be the most dangerous creature in the world because of the diseases they spread.

Pyxis

Generali wrote: »

All bees or just one sort?

The ones that were studied did.

Other species hum differently......

Provoke Bombus pratorum (the early bumblebee) and it will buzz back at 151Hz (just below D sharp) for four seconds. Bombus pascuorum (the common carder bee), similarly annoyed, buzzes at 254Hz (between B and C in the octave above Bombus pratorum) for about 2¼ seconds. Bombus lapidarius (the red-tailed bumblebee) buzzes for longest (more than seven seconds) at 200Hz (between a G and a G sharp) and Bombus terrestris (the buff-tailed bumblebee) buzzes angrily at 248Hz (a solid for four seconds. When buzzing for pollen, though, Bombus pascuorum lowers its frequency to 214Hz (an A) and decreases the buzz’s duration to a second, while Bombus terrestris changes its buzzes to 289Hz (a D) for a mere three-quarters of a second.

Well, you did ask!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

The ones that were studied did.

Other species hum differently......

Well, you did ask!

What about Eric the Half a Bee?
:rotfl:

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

What about Eric the Half a Bee?
:rotfl:

Hahahahaha! I had to google that!



well, he only buzzes half the time!
In semiquavers!
But only when he's half a mind to.