And there were several singed pieces of mail from the Hindenburg. Here’s a post card.
I would think that with the right marketing, they could sell it at a substantially higher price than ordinary, run-of-the-mill, non-death-related tuna.
“Bumble Bee. Our tuna is to die for.”
That would really send the mercury soaring!
This was such a wonderful story in the midst of these downer facts. Thank you!
It’s refreshing in 2023 to hear a story where a person does not seize a golden opportunity to be an @$$hole.
yes, i recall munching iodium tablets after chernobyl, to saturate the tyroide and avoid radioactive material to be stored there.
Since 1980, the average lifespan of a housecat has increased from seven to fifteen years.
How does one even measure this? Is it from the date of euthanasia of cats at veterinarians?
I’d expect that the difference would mostly be from a smaller proportion of the population being ferals, since feral cats will have a fairly short lifespan before what’s called in humans “death by misadventure”, and that would drag down the overall average considerably.
“Death by Misadventure” = coyotes & Toyotas.
While all this is true, it only explains 34% of adult illiteracy in the USA. It also does not change the fact that our government is failing to provide needed education for these vulnerable adults. When you consider that 54% of US adults read below the sixth grade level, the problem is clearly epidemic. How is this not the primary issue in politics?
21% of adults in the USA are illiterate.
54% of adults in the USA have a literacy below 6th grade level.
Of those with low or no literacy, only 34% were born outside the US.
How do they define housecat? Do they mean all felis catis, or pet cats living in people’s homes?
Good point. If it’s just pet cats, it’s probably because there has been a change in attitude about cats living outside. When I was a teen in the 70s, it was just assumed that cats were an indoor/outdoor pet. Now letting a cat go outside is considered bad by a lot of people
I don’t doubt that the availability of better veterinary care (and people’s willingness to pay for it) is a big factor.
It’s household pet cats. I should have been more clear.
I think better nutrition, higher percentage of cats being indoor only, vaccinations and better vet care in general.
taken from a reddit post, as it really is astonishing …
You can actually “see through” Chile on a clear day…
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guessing, its about 100-120km as the crow flies between Viña del Mar (Pacific coast) and Aconcagua … so the humidity must have been really low that day …
On a smaller scale, at the Aventine Keyhole, you stand in the sovereign embassy of the Knights of Malta, view across Italian land, and see the Dome of Saint Peters on Vatican territory.
Of the 73 Fairchild FH-227 aircraft (44-52 passenger capacity) that were built; 23 have crashed resulting in a total of 393 fatalities. The most notable of these was the plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team (not quite all the way) over the Andes.
Interesting tidbit on the Uru.Rugby Team:
Due to bad weather, they could not fly across the Andes as they planned and they had to spend the night in Mendoza, Arg. and then start again the next day into to fly into Santiago (just some 150km behind the Andes for them). Mendoza is to the right/east of the Aconcagua, as a matter of fact, the road south of the Aconcagua in the map above (Route 60), leads to Mendoza and is the main pass between Chile and Arg to go by car/truck.
However, the Andes are too high there for the plane (the Fairchild mentioned above) to cross (6 - 7000m in this general area) and they had to divert some 200km to the south, where the Andes are lower. It was there, where disaster struck.
It seems that the pilot did not calculate for headwinds, and hence came up short crossing the Andes east-to-west.Under cloud-cover - he headed north again, thinking they already left the Andes behind - when in reality they were right in the Andes. When descending under the clouds the pilot noticed that, gave full throttle but still hit a mountain.
Maybe one of the esteemed pilots on the board has some more info on the pilot error (assuming those typical lessons-learned trainig sessions after a plane-crash)