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Memories made of this: USB stick found in frozen seal poo
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| February 5, 2019 / 6:51 AM
| Staff
Posted on 02/05/2019 1:59:12 PM PST by Red Badger
Scientists in New Zealand say they have found a USB memory stick containing holiday photos inside a frozen slab of seal poo.
The scat, valuable for studying the health of leopard seals, had been stored in a freezer for a year before it was thawed out for analysis, the researchers said.
“Concealed deep inside the scat was a USB stick,” the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) said on its website.
The stick was in good condition, “considering where it had come from”, and the researchers let it dry out for a few weeks.
It contained photos of sealions at Porpoise Bay, on New Zealand’s South Island, and a video of a mother sealion and her baby frolicking in shallow waters.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: leopardseals; newzealand; porpoisebay; usb
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To: Red Badger
“That wasn’t what I meant when I asked if the USB stick contained a virus. “
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:25:03 PM PST
by
I-ambush
(One foot in the grave,one foot on the pedal. I was born to rebel.)
To: I-ambush
It’s clean.............on the inside, anyways..............
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:26:01 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Hot Tabasco
This
Thread
Is
Useless
Without
Pictures.............
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:26:50 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
“so, do you want to store these photos in the cloud, or in a seal’s colon?”
To: drpix
I would bet on a Sandisk.
They’re really sturdy.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:32:04 PM PST
by
Salamander
(Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
To: antidemoncrat
I wonder if it’s in the same body of water that I lost my ar-15 in.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:34:33 PM PST
by
ObozoMustGo2012
("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
To: Red Badger
You really want to look at a picture of seal sh*t?
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:35:52 PM PST
by
ObozoMustGo2012
("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
To: Salamander
I saw a long gone Brit IT show called Click Online.
One of the hosts did a multitude of abusive things to a jump drive and still worked.
Driving over it, washer and dryer and some other stuff. All that was left was the board and it looked about ready to crumble.
Plugged in and it the drive still worked.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:40:19 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
To: ObozoMustGo2012
From thumb drive to bum drive in one easy step...
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:41:41 PM PST
by
null and void
(Adrenochrome. The Whore of Babylon, drunk on the blood of saints.)
To: Salamander
Given the content of this thread I will accept that statement at face value. I will NOT ask you how you came to know this!
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:42:28 PM PST
by
BraveMan
To: Red Badger
To: Salamander
I would bet on a Sandisk. They’re really sturdy.
Looking forward to the ad based on this...
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:42:39 PM PST
by
null and void
(Adrenochrome. The Whore of Babylon, drunk on the blood of saints.)
To: ObozoMustGo2012
Given a choice between that and pics of Chuck and Nancy I’ll go with the seal shit.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:42:42 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
To: ObozoMustGo2012
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:45:21 PM PST
by
BraveMan
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:45:32 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:46:32 PM PST
by
shotgun
To: ObozoMustGo2012
No, I was explaining what the acronym was..................
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:46:56 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Hot Tabasco
You win!
Acronyms contribute to the coarsening of society.
ACTTCOS
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:50:42 PM PST
by
BraveMan
To: Red Badger
How many USB sticks have been found in the turds on the Streets of San Fransicko?
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:56:56 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: Salamander
Just did a quick check for waterproof and shockproof USBs and there are so many more than I would have expected. Below is one online rating websites selection of best 10.
BUT THE REAL LIFE DEMONSTRATION in the seal's digestive track would blow all nerd ratings out of the water.
1- Corsair Flash Survivor Stealth
2- Samsung Bar USB Flash Drive
3- Gorilla Drive
4- SanDisk Extreme CZ80
5- SanDisk Extreme Pro 128 GB Drive
6- Farsler 32 GB Fingerprint Thumb Drive
7- Kingston Digital USB Drive
8- SanDisk iXpand 128 GB
9- Silicon Power 64 GB Flash Drive
10- Verbatim Dog Tag Rugged USB Flash Drive
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:57:40 PM PST
by
drpix
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