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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by eru »

Garbage wrote: post #8
ars wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know, I read that. Why are you repeating it? Was something I wrote unclear?

As per my understanding, what he is trying to say is, even if people gets ready to keep them as pets, very few might be able to survive in outer world.

Unless they become an invasive species somewhere else. Though if rats like to eat them, that bodes ill for them.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by rmc »

lionhearted wrote: post #3

> The important thing, the scientists thought, was to get a few of these insects protected and into a breeding program. That wasn't so easy. The Australian government didn't know if the animals on Ball's Pyramid could or should be moved. There were meetings, studies, two years passed, and finally officials agreed to allow four animals to be retrieved. Just four. > When the team went back to collect them, it turned ou…

In this case it might look like bureaucracy was a hindrence, but much of australian bureaurcracy is designed around preventing this thing happening again.

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Post by DanBC »

threepointone wrote: post #12

This is a fascinating story, but I must ask - does this belong on hacker news? Please, I ask with no intended malice.

From the guidelines:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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Post by nolok »

threepointone wrote: post #12

This is a fascinating story, but I must ask - does this belong on hacker news? Please, I ask with no intended malice.

While I see your point, it's come to a point where I prefer to see such interesting non-tech article rather than the crcle jerking of (poorly made) benchmarks / you should do this / no you should do that / php should die / my answer to "php should die" that I should have posted as a comment but didn't because I'm only milking for more adviews / etc ...

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Post by davidw »

threepointone wrote: post #12

This is a fascinating story, but I must ask - does this belong on hacker news? Please, I ask with no intended malice.

It's good to always be asking that. As someone who often thinks "no, it doesn't", I think this kind of story is ok: it's not about politics or some kind of charged topic, it's just a random, interesting story. If you want one that's in need of flagging, the "big brother speech jamming gun" one is a great candidate.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

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Post by arethuza »

tpatke wrote: post #6

That's an amazing story. This insect was pretty lucky to live on the coolest rock climbing crag I have ever seen...which requires a special permit to climb [1]. I think I would have quite happily joined that "research" team. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balls_Pyramid

I'd rather have a house on a craggy island:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/icesebra/3675752635/in/set-7215...

[Apparently the house belongs to Bjork].

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