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rohrl

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JuniorD said:
Is there a collective noun for *all* animals having webbed feet and if so, what is it?
The word which describes webbing of digits is syndactly, so syndactile or something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndactyly

garycat

1,891 posts

79 months

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Do free-divers get an unwanted seawater enema when they go deep?

JuniorD

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92 months

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rohrl said:
JuniorD said:
Is there a collective noun for *all* animals having webbed feet and if so, what is it?
The word which describes webbing of digits is syndactly, so syndactile or something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndactyly
Hmmm, interesting, thanks. Though I think that syndactility might relate specifically to the fusing of structural tissue such as bone as opposed to the membranous webbing found on ducks, platypuses, otters etc?


Justin Cyder

6,152 posts

18 months

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WHy do flies fly round & round lampshades?

Shaolin

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58 months

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theironduke said:
Can you do anything to aid your body in getting rid a virus? (seasonal flu type) or is it just a case of treating the symptoms and keeping fluids up and letting your immune system get on with it?
There are anti-viral drugs but they are less general, more expensive and less effective than anti-biotics. They are most widely used against HIV, they can be made against colds and flu (the seasonal jabs that are offered every year) but aren't that effective and soon become useless as viruses change to different strains. If you get a different strain of cold or flu they aer useless anyway.

Many anti-biotics target a general weakness of bacteria, the cell wall and disrupt it in some way. You could look at anti-biotics as being like rust stimulators and so would affect many cars, an anti-viral would attack a Citroen Picasso C4 limited edition only for instance, which are good at hiding (inside your body cells as do viruses rather than outside cells in the body fluids like bacteria) and once they'd been found out would change the headlamp shape a little and come in 3 different exclusive colours so making the anti-viral useless.
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Countdown

6,356 posts

65 months

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Justin Cyder said:
WHy do flies fly round & round lampshades?
Moths fly round lampshades because, during the day, they use the sun for navigation purposes. I.e. to fly in a straight line they know they have to keep the sun permanetly on their left (or right).

At nighttime they mistake any light source as the sun. Ergo when they try to fly in a straight line they think they have to keep the light on their left, and nd up flying in circles.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

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Countdown said:
Justin Cyder said:
WHy do flies fly round & round lampshades?
Moths fly round lampshades because, during the day, they use the sun for navigation purposes. I.e. to fly in a straight line they know they have to keep the sun permanently on their left (or right).

At night time they mistake any light source as the sun. Ergo when they try to fly in a straight line they think they have to keep the light on their left, and end up flying in circles.
Right.

So what about flies?


Countdown

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Cock Womble 7 said:
Right.

So what about flies?
I've never seen flies attracted to light or flying around lampshades. I assumed JC was referring to Moths.

torqueofthedevil

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46 months

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garycat said:
Do free-divers get an unwanted seawater enema when they go deep?
Haha

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

99 months

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Countdown said:
I've never seen flies attracted to light or flying around lampshades. I assumed JC was referring to Moths.
When he said "flies"?

Flies do tend to fly in a square pattern around the centre of the room, near the ceiling. This is often where the lampshade resides. More often than not during the day, when the light is switched off.

I have also noticed this and would love to know the answer.

Justin Cyder

6,152 posts

18 months

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Yep, flies, flying in squares around lampshades during the day. Apart from guarding the lamp, it's a mystery to me.

OlberJ

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102 months

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Remnants of the heat from when they were switched on possibly?

DrTre

12,428 posts

101 months

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Re: flies, they're in a holding pattern, or stack as it's known in ATC circles, prior to landing. You can observe the same thing at Heathrow. With planes, not flies.

Cock Womble 7

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DrTre said:
Re: flies, they're in a holding pattern, or stack as it's known in ATC circles, prior to landing. You can observe the same thing at Heathrow. With planes, not flies.
And Bovingdon.

DrTre

12,428 posts

101 months

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Ah Bovingdon, is that what it's called.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

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OlberJ said:
Remnants of the heat from when they were switched on possibly?
bks.

The light hasn't been switched on since the previous night. It's now mid-morning and the ambient temperature in the room is probably greater than that of the bulb.

Bang goes your theory.

ATTAK Z

2,041 posts

58 months

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DrTre said:
.....ATC circles ......
I thought they flew in ellipses or ovals

Hugo a Gogo

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102 months

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

99 months

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Hugo a Gogo said:
And that doesn't really answer the question, does it?

TheEnd

12,113 posts

57 months

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It's easier than walking in squares.
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