Beaver Dam Visible From Space 286
ygslash writes "The
Hoover Dam
no longer holds the title of the world's widest dam.
Satellite photos of northern Alberta, Canada, show that several families
of beavers have apparently
joined forces
to build a dam 850 meters
wide, more than twice as wide as the Hoover Dam."
I like beavers (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I like beavers (Score:5, Insightful)
Unaided? (Score:5, Insightful)
FOX news? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Was the Hoover Dam EVER the widest? (Score:1, Insightful)
No, the original article was in The Sun (UK), the Fox article even links to it.
And Slashdot still sucks for being third in a chain of reposts by staff that apparently only does an absolute minimum of fact checking.
Re:I like beavers (Score:5, Insightful)
Humans are special.
We make steel, make building from concrete and glass. We've been to the moon and sent device outside our solars system.
We can build damns, can beavers build space ships?
Human beings kick ass.
Although the original poster was being a little slow in the head. I mean, ALL creatures modify their environment. You have to in order to reproduce and eat.
They really are the only ones. (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously everybody, nature's fucking awesome.
Re:I like beavers (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Bigger is Better (Score:2, Insightful)
Not sure if you were going for ironic or just stupid, but you hit both, so kudos.
Re:850 meters??? (Score:1, Insightful)
Yeah, but was it built by beavers?
/Proud Canadian
Re:Was the Hoover Dam EVER the widest? (Score:5, Insightful)
The common factor is that it's all Murdoch media- Fox, The Sun, The New York Post etc.
Yes, it's scary as fuck that the most succesful news corporation world wide is the one that's most full of shit globally.
Hell, they even look possibly set to be getting their own way and putting David Cameron into power in the UK today, fingers crossed things don't quite go entirely Rupert's way and we get a hung parliament now.
News Corporation papers are unfortunately responsible for more than just getting beaver stories wrong. Honestly, the best thing that could happen to the Western world would be the bankruptcy of Murdoch and the fall of all his papers etc. Him getting hit by a large truck would be nice too, because ultimately his love of spreading bullshit is responsible for more misery and problems globally through the spread of lies, ignorance, and bad government than some of the worlds worst dictators in history. If you look at the influence Fox had on getting Bush elected for example (even if you don't believe Fox's call was what gave him the election, all pre-election slandering of opposition makes a differences) then you can really link him to the fact the US went into Iraq in the first place even though it had nothing to do with 9/11. The actions of his news outlets have real, serious, knock on effects that can set off chains of events that cause tens, possibly hundreds of thousands to die.
Of course, Murdoch isn't unique, others are as bad, he's just the king of evil in this respect. It's quite sad really. What makes it worse is that his offspring are just as bad and are taking over the reigns from him, so it's not as if we'll get rid of him that way either.