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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2016 20:04:00 GMT
India starts to paint cow horns with reflective paint to stop night time accidents: goo.gl/rQdaXl I've posted this before but I can't remember if it was on C4 or HJ. I was once sat at the desk in my hotel room overlooking a busy traffic intersection in Bangalore watching the traffic while trying to rephrase part of a presentation I was giving the next day. After about ten minutes I noticed that the cows wandering along with the traffic would stop when the traffic lights turned to red before moving on again when they changed to green. You wouldn't find an English cow with so much road sense. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2016 20:06:29 GMT
South America is rich in abandoned and stray dogs, they just become part of the landscape. In the capital it is not unusual to see them waiting at a pedestrian crossing for the lights to change.
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 25, 2016 20:49:50 GMT
You wouldn't find an English cow with so much road sense. I have links to some very gory youtube footage that shows Indian Cows have no sense at all when it comes to wandering along Indian Railways. |
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Post by WDB on Aug 31, 2016 20:02:26 GMT
There's a famous film of Japanese crows waiting for the lights to turn red before placing tasty but impossibly hard nuts in the road. Crow retires to the top of the lamp post and waits for the lights to change again before swooping back to collect its cracked reward.
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Post by Rob on Aug 31, 2016 21:55:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2016 5:14:24 GMT
Brilliant. If it wasn't David Attenborough narrating, you would assume its fake.
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Post by sherlock on Sept 8, 2016 9:24:37 GMT
Whilst painting the cows with reflective paint may result in a worthwhile short term job creation program for the lower castes, a much better solution would be to some genetic modification by tinkering with the DNA of said animals. If you think that is crazy, a quick Google finds that this has already been done to a variety of species. theweek.com/articles/464980/7-genetically-modified-animals-that-glow-darkMaybe the next stop is to modify human DNA of people who are involved in high risk nocturnal activities or live in rural areas without streetlights. Dog in Cornwall perhaps? Distribution by attacking the water supply? Perhaps this could be funded from the saving of energy supply to street lights? |
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 8, 2016 9:28:57 GMT
Whilst painting the cows with reflective paint may result in a worthwhile short term job creation program for the lower castes, a much better solution would be to some genetic modification by tinkering with the DNA of said animals. If you think that is crazy, a quick Google finds that this has already been done to a variety of species. theweek.com/articles/464980/7-genetically-modified-animals-that-glow-darkMaybe the next stop is to modify human DNA of people who are involved in high risk nocturnal activities or live in rural areas without streetlights. Dog in Cornwall perhaps? Distribution by attacking the water supply? Perhaps this could be funded from the saving of energy supply to street lights? Already been done in that area, see Camelford. They got it a bit wrong tho. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelford_water_pollution_incident |
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Post by sherlock on Sept 8, 2016 9:43:24 GMT
That was why I chose Cornwall as an experimental location.
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Post by sherlock on Sept 8, 2016 9:48:29 GMT
That was why I chose Cornwall!
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