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    Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    Yeah, isn't there a value in leaving something that's untouched untouched?
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    Image of Seiven Seiven
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    TECHNOLOGY IS AWESOME...damn I love gadgets and what they can do for us. From the simplest apps to the LHC gadgets and technology never cease to amaze.
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    Image of wagenejm wagenejm
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    "An expedition launched in the fall to Mount Mabu discovered three new species of butterflies, a new Gaboon viper than can kill a human in a single bite, along with all kinds of other wildlife, like 200 types of butterflies and tropical plants, all in a matter of weeks."


    So much for these areas being untouched.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @wagenejm: Or un-stepped on
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    Image of Afzal Pahary Afzal Pahary
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    It is a bitter-sweet thing because the military has had access to these tech for decades and yet it was never used for the benefit of humanity..... Nice find though.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @Afzal Pahary: And scientists have had access to the images for decades, yet it never used for the benefit of humanity.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    So before Google Earth, scientists didn't have things like maps which they would mark where they had searched before? Did they think it was an empty hole in the universe till Google took a photo?


    Julian Bayliss was looking around Google Earth for a new conservation project when he came across patches of green in Mozambique that appeared to be previously unexplored.

    If a place is explored, does it change color?

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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
    12/22/08

    @NHTOB_GitEmSteveDave loves->★: They mark the map with "Here Be Monsters" until it gets explored. After that, it says "Here be Gaboon Vipers".
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @DeusExMach: Should be "Gah-Boom you're dead" vipers.
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    Image of DisposableInterloper DisposableInterloper
    12/22/08

    @NHTOB_GitEmSteveDave loves->★:

    A scientist looks over the map, sees something that catches his eye, says "Hey, I wonder what that place is," and then looks into it to find there's nothing on the records.


    *Ding-ding-ding!* Unexplored area.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @DisposableInterloper: So is there only one scientist w/ a map?
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    Image of BEERxTaco BEERxTaco
    12/22/08

    @NHTOB_GitEmSteveDave loves->★: I'm thinking it's like the old Doom maps, you can't see anything until you've been there.
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    Image of Darkest Daze Darkest Daze
    12/22/08

    @BEERxTaco: The Fog of War.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @Darkest Daze: Was thinking the same thing a la StarCraft.
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    Image of fredygamer fredygamer
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    Red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow. Red touches black, you're okay, Jack



    I forgot about that saying...i learned it when i was little.
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    Image of bostero2 bostero2
    12/22/08

    @fredygamer: Then with that snake we would be okay... As red touches black and not yellow...
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    Image of phealy phealy
    12/22/08

    @fredygamer: I always heard a slightly different version: red on yellow, kill a fellow, red on black, friend of Jack. Pretty much the same. I wonder if it's a regional thing?
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/22/08

    @bostero2: I dunno...red kinda does touch yellow in some spots. Maybe it's still learning?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/22/08

    @phealy: When I was a kid, I remember it as "red on yellow, die like a motherfucking marshmallow -- red on black, shmacky shmack shmack." Then again, I'm Amish (Mennonite, actually).
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    Image of TerryinSt.Paul TerryinSt.Paul
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    I love these stories about " Undiscovered " things. It reminds me of Christopher Colombus " discovering " America. It's not like noone knew about it, there were people already living there!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @TerryinSt.Paul: But they didn't have a flag!
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    Image of MisterWho's Mystery Meat MisterWho's Mystery Meat
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    This is great! Now no part of our planet with be left unraped, correction, unexplored.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/22/08

    @misterwho: I agree. Earth must have been a beautiful place before we got here.
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    Image of burnt2acrisp burnt2acrisp
    12/22/08

    @Curves wishes you a Blessed and Peaceful Hanukkah: hippie statement of the year...
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/22/08

    @burnt2acrisp: Groovy Man! Peace out and Flower Power to you. :)
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    Image of Dwayne Harris Dwayne Harris
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    I don't understand how people go exploring without immediately getting killed by some creature like that snake.
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    Image of LastOne LastOne
    12/22/08

    @Dwayne Harris: guns?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @Dwayne Harris: They let the porters go first.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    12/22/08

    @LastOne: Machetes; you can still extract and analyze venom from a severed snake head...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/22/08

    @bpapa9013: But you have to close to the snake w/the machete.
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    Image of blomster blomster
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    Wait a minute. How did they figure out that the new Gaboon viper can kill a human in a single bite?
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/22/08

    @blomster:
    We'd have expedition leader Joe answer that, but unfortunately he was killed immediately when a Gaboon viper bit him. Once.
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    Image of xsecretfiles2 xsecretfiles2
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    "a new Gaboon viper than can kill a human in a single bite?"


    Don't you mean THAT CAN KILL A HUMAN?

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    Image of LastOne LastOne
    12/22/08

    @xsecretfiles2: Lots of animals can kill a human, but in a single bite... that is pretty good.
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    12/22/08

    @LastOne: I don't know, the whole "single bite" thing doesn't really scare me that much.


    I'd be much more scared about an animal that kills people by biting them 1000 times. at least the gaboon viper gets it over with.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/22/08

    @m4ximusprim3: which makes you wonder, are there many species that can kill a man with two bites? That would certainly make a safer pet, at least in the short run.


    Come to think of it, anything that bites you enough will kill you, so it's all a matter of amount. I wonder if species could be catalogued based on number of bites until death? Snake = 1. Dog = 20. Cat = 100. Caterpillar = 10,000.

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    Image of thedarkhorse thedarkhorse
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    I wonder who was the poor sucker to find out about that viper.
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    Image of yogibimbi yogibimbi
    12/22/08

    @thedarkhorse: Methinks it might have been just an embellishment by our esteemed Mr. Buchanan. But of course you all knew that, but went for the joke anyway.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    12/23/08

    @yogibimbi: Actually i imagine they simply tested the strength of it's venom and looked at the amount expelled in a bite. To do this they usually have a snake bite into a plastic shield over a container.


    I was gonna make the "which dude found out the hard way?" joke too though.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    Please don't wake up Cthulhu.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/22/08

    @Mount_Prion: "There's a funny lookin' greenish island right there in the Pacific... odd, we've never noticed it before..."
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    Image of Maksimir Maksimir
    12/22/08

    In reply to Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species
    Timberlake... pop star AND scientist.. is there anything he can't.. er.. wait a minute...
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    12/22/08

    @Maksimir: He's gonna bring back previously undiscovered forms of sexy.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    12/22/08

    @Mount_Prion: You get an extra biscuit for that one! props!
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