06-13-2007, 07:51 AM
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Random Title Change!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary
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Wow. It's been around for 115 years, survived at least one hunt, and now it's gone. How do you say depressing reading at 8 in the morning.
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06-13-2007, 08:46 AM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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No kidding! Survived a brush with death and then died the same way later.
Nice work humankind.
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06-13-2007, 10:43 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
Nice work humankind.
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 What, we aren't allowed to kill animals now? Does this one have a special pass since we failed 100 years ago?
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06-13-2007, 01:57 PM
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Read the story this morning too. It is quite amazing how old some animals can live too.
It says that there was a whale that presumably lived to 200 years old. If I'm not mistaken, I remember reading a few stories about a tortoise that was also at least 135 years old.
Have there been any biological tests to determine why some whales can possibly live for so long? A whale's life has quite a few less variables to it than a human's life with relation to what it eats and exercise, etc.
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06-13-2007, 04:12 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Wherever the cooler is.
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i'd think it have something to do with their size, especially their organs and heart. most of the really long living animals seem to be really big. maybe it has something to so with the fact that their hearts aren't beating anywhere near as hard as ours...
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06-13-2007, 04:53 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Originally Posted by Berger_4_
i'd think it have something to do with their size, especially their organs and heart. most of the really long living animals seem to be really big. maybe it has something to so with the fact that their hearts aren't beating anywhere near as hard as ours...
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Parrots can live a real long time too IIRC.
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06-14-2007, 12:58 AM
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Resident Videologist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by troutman
Parrots can live a real long time too IIRC.
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Yep, some parrot species can live over 100 years.
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06-14-2007, 07:32 AM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
What, we aren't allowed to kill animals now? Does this one have a special pass since we failed 100 years ago? |
Lord knows we need to be hunting 100 year old whales, to fill our many whale related needs. We just took something that had been around since before Chris Chelios's draft year out off the planet perminantly.
You don't feel even slightly bad about that? It isn't like there are herds of the damn things.
We have made it quite clear we are "allowed" to do whatever we want with regards to animals. The question is "should we" be doing whatever we want?
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06-14-2007, 08:32 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
Lord knows we need to be hunting 100 year old whales, to fill our many whale related needs. We just took something that had been around since before Chris Chelios's draft year out off the planet perminantly.
You don't feel even slightly bad about that? It isn't like there are herds of the damn things.
We have made it quite clear we are "allowed" to do whatever we want with regards to animals. The question is "should we" be doing whatever we want?
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No, I don't feel bad one bit. It's called survival and it's what our ancestors' ancestors and I'm pretty sure their ancestors were doing. Are the laws of survival changing for humans so that we must consider feelings and emotions before killing something for good use?
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06-14-2007, 10:05 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Turner Valley
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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
Lord knows we need to be hunting 100 year old whales, to fill our many whale related needs. We just took something that had been around since before Chris Chelios's draft year out off the planet perminantly.
You don't feel even slightly bad about that? It isn't like there are herds of the damn things.
We have made it quite clear we are "allowed" to do whatever we want with regards to animals. The question is "should we" be doing whatever we want?
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Alright, from now on, we will ask the whales how old they are before killing them. Respect your elders, I always say. 
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06-14-2007, 10:52 AM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
No, I don't feel bad one bit. It's called survival and it's what our ancestors' ancestors and I'm pretty sure their ancestors were doing. Are the laws of survival changing for humans so that we must consider feelings and emotions before killing something for good use?
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So you're saying we need whales to survive?
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06-14-2007, 11:12 AM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta
Alright, from now on, we will ask the whales how old they are before killing them. Respect your elders, I always say. |
Meh... it would probably easier to stop killing them entirely, or at least kill them at a sustainable rate. Right now we're cleaning the oceans free of large mammals, often regardless of age. I don't know how one could sit back and look at unsustainable whaling practises wiping out populations and say 'so what?'.
Haven't you ever seen Star Trek IV? Sheesh! 
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06-14-2007, 11:15 AM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
So you're saying we need whales to survive?
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Yes... not you, nor me... but up north they do. This took place in Alaska. How about telling them they don't need them? They do have quotas up there... this isn't a kill a whale for sport thing.
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06-14-2007, 01:26 PM
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Not the 1 millionth post winnar
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Yes... not you, nor me... but up north they do. This took place in Alaska. How about telling them they don't need them? They do have quotas up there... this isn't a kill a whale for sport thing.
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Fair enough. Still a shame IMO to take out such a long lived creature.
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