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Flying frog discovered during NASA rocket launch
- jlebrech 13y agowhat if one of it's ancestors once thought, i would like to fly like one of those things. a few generations of evolution later you have a flying frog. sadly that's not how evolution works.
- nawitus 13y agoBut there actually are "flying" frogs (they can glide).
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y ago(macro!)evolution doesn't work anyway.
- chiph 13y agoOK, game idea for someone: Space Frogger. Mr Toad tries to dodge orbital debris & marauding aliens on his way to Venus.
- tribe 13y agoI wrote this exact game as a high school project, but instead of Venus, I think you had to get to a Stargate / wormhole
- jk4930 13y agoPretty much related text: "NASA’S SUCCESSFUL QUANTIFYING OF COMEDY TIMING" http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/5987695109/nasas-successful-quantifying-of-comedy-timing-by-penn http://symftr.tumblr.com/post/5987695109/nasas-successful-qu...
- Achshar 13y agoHow does this go with the space bat?
- asciimo 13y agoWhy the heck are we launching rockets on top of a wildlife refuge? https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=nasa&data=!1m4!1m3!1d37571!2d-75.4579581!3d37.9241459!4m10!1m9!4m8!1m3!1d75168!2d-75.4496325!3d37.8973297!3m2!1i1440!2i1146!4f13.1 https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=nasa&data=!1m4!1m3!1d...
- duskwuff 13y agoRead the description of the photo on Instagram; they go into that.
- mistercow 13y agoThat sounds extremely iffy to me. The "disturbance" may be short lived, and the space they take up may be a small portion of the island, but I find it hard to believe that the degree of disturbance caused by a rocket launch can be canceled out by its brevity.
- diminoten 13y agoIt can be put into other terms: The refuge gets a lot of money because of the NASA station there.
- ghc 13y agoWhy not? The latest statistics I could find say that about 22 launches per year happen there. At each launch pad there are probably only a fraction of those. But even if the disturbance is approximately 2 minutes long (a slowly rising rocket), that's less than 1 hour per year. I find it hard to believe that wildlife cannot cope with that.
- mistercow 13y agoMy understanding is that the noise from a rocket launch is so loud, even 10 miles away, that you have to shout over it to be heard. One mile from the launchpad, it's loud enough to damage your ears. Wallops Island is 6 square miles.
- joezydeco 13y agoWas the flying performed on the frog's part, or was it assisted by the 360,000 pounds of thrust coming out of the rocket?
- sporkologist 13y agoProbably: 0.1 lbs thrust from the frog, and 359,999.9 lbs thrust from the rocket
- Patrick_Devine 13y agoHopefully NASA works to make certain the launch area is clear of small critters in the future. It's really not good PR to be blasting frogs (or anything) with a few hundred thousand pounds of rocket exhaust.
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- mead5432 13y agoBest line in the caption: "...the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has an agreement with NASA to use the NASA-owned portion of Wallops Island for research and management of declining wildlife in special need of protection." Hope that frog wasn't one in special need.
- ArekDymalski 13y agoLooks like someone misunderstood the cooking directions for the bullfrog.