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Memories made of this: USB stick found in frozen seal poo
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| February 5, 2019 / 6:51 AM
| Staff
Posted on 02/05/2019 1:59:12 PM PST by Red Badger
Scientists in New Zealand say they have found a USB memory stick containing holiday photos inside a frozen slab of seal poo.
The scat, valuable for studying the health of leopard seals, had been stored in a freezer for a year before it was thawed out for analysis, the researchers said.
“Concealed deep inside the scat was a USB stick,” the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on its website.
The stick was in good condition, “considering where it had come from”, and the researchers let it dry out for a few weeks.
It contained photos of sealions at Porpoise Bay, on New Zealand’s South Island, and a video of a mother sealion and her baby frolicking in shallow waters.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: leopardseals; newzealand; porpoisebay; usb
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Full of Kodiak Moments, I'm sure......................
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:01:45 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Red Badger
Seems like seal poop is a pretty good way to store a USB stick for long periods.
To: Red Badger
Probably just a bunch of crappy pictures.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:02:22 PM PST
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
To: Red Badger
TTIUWP!
Sorry, couldn't resist
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:03:12 PM PST
by
BraveMan
To: BraveMan
Video found on stick at link..................
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:03:35 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Ancesthntr
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:04:22 PM PST
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: Jewbacca
Video of someone in a blue kayak at link.
They say owner can have stick back if they can identify it.................
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:04:40 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
Seals don't have wallets.
So where else are they going to keep their USB sticks?
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:05:28 PM PST
by
x
To: Ancesthntr
As they say one can’t polish a turd nor pick one up by the clean end but-one can roll a turd in glitter and it’ll purty right up in some folk’s eyes!
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:06:12 PM PST
by
snuffy smiff
(Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
To: Red Badger
I lost a PC at sea awhile ago. Please ask Coast Guard to check whale poo for it.
To: x
I presume the owner lost the stick off the kayak and the seal thought it was food and quickly swallowed it....................
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:06:35 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
I lost a PC at sea awhile ago. Please ask Coast Guard to check whale poo for it.
To: Red Badger
thought it was food and quickly swallowed it....................
More likely a fish thought it was food and then the fish became food for the seal
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:08:37 PM PST
by
Fai Mao
(There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
To: Red Badger
The name of the manufacturer would be worth a fortune in advertisement for that USB stick.
And conversely: It would be worth any price to that stick’s competitor’s to keep it’s name secret.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:09:16 PM PST
by
drpix
To: Fai Mao
The video shows the seals playing around the Kayak......................
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:10:39 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: snuffy smiff
Three of many things I’ll never, ever do:
1) polish a turd,
2) pick one up by the clean end,
3) roll a turd in glitter.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:11:40 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
came here to say, let the puns begin.
was way too late.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:13:35 PM PST
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: x
In their “prison wallet”.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:18:05 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: BraveMan
TTIUWP!
Sorry for my ignorance but what does that mean? Have we become a nation of acronyms rather than speaking plain English?
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