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According to Richard Stone's book Mammoth (2001), Russian zoologist Alexei Tikhonov (who figures in articles about the recent Siberian find) once tried a bite and said "it was awful. It tasted like meat left too long in a freezer."

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Koumei wrote:I'm pretty sure they were thinking "We could make whole mammoths to kill for their ivory!"

I knew it was.

But vat-growing tissues or organs and not cloning whole organisms is a lot less ethically tricky.

FrankTrollman wrote:

According to Richard Stone's book Mammoth (2001), Russian zoologist Alexei Tikhonov (who figures in articles about the recent Siberian find) once tried a bite and said "it was awful. It tasted like meat left too long in a freezer."

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...he expected otherwise?

FrankTrollman wrote:

According to Richard Stone's book Mammoth (2001), Russian zoologist Alexei Tikhonov (who figures in articles about the recent Siberian find) once tried a bite and said "it was awful. It tasted like meat left too long in a freezer."

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You never cease to amaze me with the random knowledge you can provide out of nowhere.

OK Everyone, sing it with me ....

They say the butter's not so cheep in Norway (in Norway)
They say it's really expensive over there
But when cows give nothing to churn
And all those cookies you do yearn
Don't try to sneak it in from good old Russia.

Butter is $465 a pound (or 500 grams to be more precise which is more like 1.1 lbs)

How do you get $465 dollars a pound, from butter being $107 a Kilogram?

Still $48.64 a pound is still a lot!

RobbyPants wrote:Still $48.64 a pound is still a lot!

That's only the "online retailer" price set by hoarders. Butter is simply sold out in stores for everyone else.

Basically, it's like trying to price anything by using eBay.... the fact that some idiots will pay grossly inflated prices on rare things is not the same as real economic news of a price indicator.

Apparently there is also a new high-fat diet craze going on in Norway right now and that has increased demand for butter.

sabs wrote:How do you get $465 dollars a pound, from butter being $107 a Kilogram?

From Tzor's article:

online sellers have offered 500-gramme packs for up to 350 euros ($465).

K wrote:Apparently there is also a new high-fat diet craze going on in Norway right now and that has increased demand for butter.

It's Winter over there, and Norway is a frozen wasteland at the best of times. I bet they want to pack the extra kilos on, they might survive stepping outside that way.

Sooo, that one trillion frames-per-second camera.

No big deal.

On Butter:

Norway has giant tarrifs on non Norwegian butter, to protect the local butter industry. They have recently lowered them slightly, to make it a little cheaper. But it's still pretty high, and noone exports butter to Norway to begin with, so noone has the supply chain to do it.

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You know, one of the questions that I will never get answered in my lifetime is the nagging thought, "Would Fur Fighters have made a great MMOG?" It is what happens when you work, even briefly for the fail of a video game company called Acclaim, but hey's it was fun while it lasted.

I suspect this will turn out to be a UFO hoax but until then it's a neat mystery.

Ludik told The Namibian that the object poses no cause for alarm, and that such reports of metallic spheres falling from space are common in the Southern Hemisphere.

Common?

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People will kill for fancy shoes.

Disney is doing Mort, from Discworld. Not my favourite, but the fact that they're doing it at all, makes me ecstatic.

...even if I worry that Death will be afflicted with Dark is Evil syndrome...

Maybe you meant to post that in the other thread, Tzor.

I remember my ex's family last year on the day before Christmas Eve. Her stepfather was a devout Christian, who shot at his wife's head while holding a pillow over her head (while the children slept), then walked out the back door and shot himself in the head.

Motive wasn't discussed.

See? Same damn crap happens outside of Islamic people.

Gnosticism Is A Hoot wrote:Maybe you meant to post that in the other thread, Tzor.

Nope ... Muslim dresses as a Christian Icon for an Honor Killing and then Killls himself. It's not political, it's just many levels of exceptionally bizare.

it's not an honor killing.
The police even came out and said they don't think it's an honor killing.
And given his actions? It seems much more like fucked up psychotic break killing, than anything else.

Dude just got Divorced, he put cameras in his house, recording everything, he's been acting weird and Paranoid.

You're just making shit up now Tzor, because it fits your narrative.

tzor wrote:

Gnosticism Is A Hoot wrote:Maybe you meant to post that in the other thread, Tzor.

Nope ... Muslim dresses as a Christian Icon for an Honor Killing and then Killls himself. It's not political, it's just many levels of exceptionally bizare.

Then why is the tag line of the page "It's not personal... It's politics"?