[ForGodsSake]

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Whats this guy hunting. Elephants or something.

[ForGodsSake]

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Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming: scientists

If that is the case with the amount of roos over here, the atmosphere above oz will implode in seconds.

[Nobar King]

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This story was quoted here in another thread, but I thought it would be appropriate here, too.

A kangaroo next to a waterhole in Australia
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming: scientists

Dec 5, 2007
SYDNEY (AFP) — Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, researchers say.


Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroo flatulence contains no methane and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep who emit large quantities of the harmful gas.


While the usual image of greenhouse gas pollution is a billowing smokestack pushing out carbon dioxide, livestock passing wind contribute a surprisingly high percentage of total emissions in some countries.


"Fourteen percent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle and sheep," said Athol Klieve, a senior research scientist with the Queensland state government. "And if you look at another country such as New Zealand, which has got a much higher agricultural base, they're actually up around 50 percent," he told AFP.

Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive process much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers. "Not only would they not produce the methane, they would actually get something like 10 to 15 percent more energy out of the feed they are eating," said Klieve.

Even farmers who laugh at the idea of environmentally friendly kangaroo farts say that's nothing to joke about, particularly given the devastating drought Australia is suffering."In a tight year like a drought situation, 15 percent would be a considerable sum," said farmer Michael Mitton. But it will take researchers at least three years to isolate the bacteria, before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to cattle and sheep.

Another group of scientists, meanwhile, has suggested Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroos. The idea is controversial, but about 20 percent of health conscious Australians are believed to eat the national symbol already.

"It's low in fat, it's got high protein levels it's very clean in the sense that basically it's the ultimate free range animal," said Peter Ampt of the University of New South Wales's institute of environmental studies. "It doesn't get drenched, it doesn't get vaccinated, it utilizes food right across the landscape, it moves around to where the food is good, so yes, it's a good food."


It might take a while for kangaroos to become popular barbecue fare, but with concern over global warming growing in the world's driest inhabited continent, Australians could soon be ready to try almost anything to cut emissions.

[Sister Noddy]

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. . . extra flaky crust brushed with breastmilk . . .

Ewww! I thought her recipe said 'buttermilk' (Jesus excuse noddy)

[Nobar King]

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Australians invent world's dimmest flashlight:

Single particles of light have a market



The world's first commercial product delivering individual photons of light has been developed by researchers from Quantum Communication Victoria (QCV), based in the University of Melbourne's School of Physics.

The technology uses the unique properties of diamond to produce single particles of light (photons) on demand at room temperature.

The Single Photon Source was launched at the recent Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Trade Fair in San Diego, USA,

[ForGodsSake]

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I would be very surprised if there were any straight actors in oz.

[Nobar King]

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Who would have thought that Baywatch would be turning boys gay?

World Exclusive: Baywatch Star Becomes a Gay Dad
After quitting Baywatch, Aussie TV star Jaason Simmons did a lot of soul searching - now he's about to marry his boyfriend and become a dad!

Baywatch hunk Jaason Simmons revealed for the first time that he's gay - and that he plans to wed his lover, Irish actor John O'Callaghan, and together raise the boy John rescued from an African orphanage.

Jaason's handsome face lights up with happiness whenever he's in the presence of John, his partner of eight months. And his smile increases when six-year-old Odin, the

Ugandan boy John adopted two years ago, comes home from school and joins them.

Clearly they are a real family unit, and it will soon become official.

John proposed a few months after they met and Jaason immediately said 'yes'. When the two men wed later this year, Tasmanian-born Jaason will officially become Odin's second father.

It's a long way from flirting with bikini-clad babes on TV's Baywatch in his role as bad boy lifeguard Logan Fowler, but privately Jaason was miserable riding that wave.

So in 1997, after three years on the show and with two years still on his contract, he quit, turning his back on Hollywood.

[Nobar King]

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More evidence that Australia hates America and will do anything to jeopardize the war on terror.

Australian magazine apologizes to Prince Harry

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian women's magazine apologized on Monday for breaking a global media blackout on Prince Harry's deployment in Afghanistan, forcing the third in line to the British throne to be withdrawn from frontline duty.

"We did not knowingly breach any embargo and were not party to any agreement for a media blackout on the story," said New Idea in a short apology in its latest edition.

"However, and more importantly, we do acknowledge that our actions in publishing the story can be reasonably viewed as insensitive and irresponsible," said the magazine.

Harry, 23, was hastily pulled out of Afghanistan last month, after just 10 weeks on the frontline, because of British fears that news of his presence my could increase the danger to him and his fellow soldiers.

New Idea, which often runs cover stories of the British royal family, said it was not "alert to the possible ramifications" of publishing the story of Harry in Afghanistan.

"We regret this serious lapse of judgment," it said. "We sincerely apologize to all our readers, to the servicemen whose lives are at constant risk while serving at home and abroad and to their families and loved ones."

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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In honor of this thread and I have devised a most delicious recipe for Joey Pie! It's a variation on mincemeat, only with baby kangaroo shank substituted. Brother Zeke, I'd love to fill your piehole, praise Jesus.

1/2 c apples diced. 1/4 c raisins, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 joey on-the-barbie, medium well and shredded, 1 tsp conrnstarch, extra flaky crust brushed with breastmilk. Fill shell and bake at 350 til bubblin!

That sounds perfectly delicious. I'd love to try some....WAIT JUST A SECOND THERE!!??!!

Brushed with WHAT!?

[Betty Lambskin]

Re: Those crazy Australians

.....and delicious too!

In honor of this thread and I have devised a most delicious recipe for Joey Pie! It's a variation on mincemeat, only with baby kangaroo shank substituted. Brother Zeke, I'd love to fill your piehole, praise Jesus.

1/2 c apples diced. 1/4 c raisins, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 joey on-the-barbie, medium well and shredded, 1 tsp conrnstarch, extra flaky crust brushed with breastmilk. Fill shell and bake at 350 til bubblin!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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Don't tell me that you're one of these PETA nazis? Maybe you want to "save the whales?"

Don't you understand that God gave us the animals of the earth to use as we please?

Genesis 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth

[caitlin]

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[Pastor Ezekiel]

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lol... animals are so cute

Awww! Those sweet little cuddley fur-babies!

they are so perfectly adorable!

.....and delicious too!

[caitlin]

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they are so perfectly adorable!

[WickedWitch]

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Awww! Those sweet little cuddley fur-babies!