Messages From The Heartland

[David In Indy]

the people that were hunting him were Eskimos...they SAY they are hunting to eat. Which is probably true. Crops don't grow up there you know...

They have McDonalds, Wendy's, KFC and Domino's Pizza up at the North Pole now Jess.

I know what you're saying. I didn't realize they were Eskimos. This is the first I heard of this story. It just seems sad for a 100 year old whale to get shot with a harpoon.

Is it okay if I have some mixed feelings about this? 

[injest]

They have McDonalds, Wendy's, KFC and Domino's Pizza up at the North Pole now Jess.

I know what you're saying. I didn't realize they were Eskimos. This is the first I heard of this story. It just seems sad for a 100 year old whale to get shot with a harpoon.

Is it okay if I have some mixed feelings about this? 

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Oh ABSOLUTELY!

every year we get these CUTE baby cows bouncing around and they are so sweet...then we send them off to get fattened up and slaughtered...

Trust me I know mixed feelings...

[Kelda]

19th Century bomb found in whale
Scientists have retrieved a weapon fragment from a whale that suggests it may have swum its first strokes not long after the American Civil War.
The fragment is part of a time delay bomb that was introduced in 1879 and manufactured until 1885.

Scientists say it is rare to find a whale over 100 years old but believe some may reach 200.

The bowhead whale was killed by indigenous hunters off Alaska as part of their subsistence quota.

Experts think the wound was inflicted in about 1890.


 
 

But the BBC's Catherine Utley says that 19th Century hunters would not have been bothered with a young whale, so it could have already been around for some time before that date.

She says having the weapon lodged in its shoulder might have been uncomfortable for the whale, but it must have got used to it.

The conical fragment, about 9cm (3.5 in) long, was embedded in the shoulder blade.

Indigenous hunters have been able to kill a quota of whales as an exemption to the commercial whaling moratorium that has been in place for more than 20 years.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/americas/6751175.stm

[injest]

whales have shoulders???

[Kelda]

is that alex in your new avatar!?

[mvansand76]

is that alex in your new avatar!?

It's David! 

[Kelda]

buff arms D!!!!

[injest]

buff arms D!!!!

is he a studmuffin or not!!

 

[Kelda]

david - the only full size pic i've seen of you does not do those arms any justice - you must spend all day in the gym you stud muffin!!!! can we have a look at a full size pic of your avatar!?

[David In Indy]

Alex told me to change my avatar. I have a hard time telling him no.