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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: Buckeye McFrog
Your data is safe until someone breaks the seal.
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:58:57 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: null and void
Million to one shot, doc!
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posted on
02/05/2019 2:59:59 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: Red Badger
This is simple. The seal had taken videos of his girlfriend and his offspring seal during an out of town “business trip”. His wife, having discovered his tendency to be out of town more often than her friends husband’s, was getting “ nosy”. Hey, what was he to do with the evidence?
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posted on
02/05/2019 3:05:53 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
To: Red Badger
Amazing, really, that it wasn’t full of guns lost in boating accidents.
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posted on
02/05/2019 3:08:19 PM PST
by
outofsalt
(If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
To: Salamander
To: Red Badger
It contained photos of naked baby seals!
To: zeestephen
Getting clubbed—a snuff film
47
posted on
02/05/2019 3:29:52 PM PST
by
I-ambush
(One foot in the grave,one foot on the pedal. I was born to rebel.)
To: snuffy smiff
Saving that. I can think of so many uses for it...
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posted on
02/05/2019 3:51:13 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: Red Badger
Where Hillary’s emails eended up.
49
posted on
02/05/2019 4:15:24 PM PST
by
lurk
To: a fool in paradise
I bet it had a FAT table on it.
50
posted on
02/05/2019 4:33:35 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: carriage_hill
Same here but the democommies seem to relish in doing it!
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posted on
02/05/2019 5:08:37 PM PST
by
snuffy smiff
(Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
To: Red Badger
They say owner can have stick back if they can identify it..What do you think the origin of the feces was in which the memory was found?
52
posted on
02/05/2019 6:40:08 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Red Badger
The guy was eaten by the sea leopard.
To: Red Badger
Mystery solved. The leopard seal ate
the photographer.
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posted on
02/05/2019 9:09:42 PM PST
by
Lean-Right
(Eat More Moose)
To: I-ambush
Re: Snuff Film
Thanks for the clever and slightly gory humor.
To: Red Badger
Kinda boring that the mysterious usb found in seal poop contained nothing more interesting than pictures of seals.
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posted on
02/06/2019 5:29:16 AM PST
by
dead
(Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
To: dead
Well, there was a video of someone in a blue kayak who appeared to be wearing a GoPro.
He/She must have lost the USB stick when changing it ...................
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posted on
02/06/2019 6:02:36 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: a fool in paradise
I’m sure they have found a few sticks, but not the USB kind...............
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posted on
02/06/2019 6:11:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: zeestephen
PETA Porn!.....................
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posted on
02/06/2019 6:21:26 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: PAR35
Say that might make a nice title for a book:
On the Origin of Feces.........By means of Natural Defecation.......
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posted on
02/06/2019 6:27:02 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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