One word ... WOW!

[Dan]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...ntcmp=features <....>

61mph -- without wheels and a motor.

I don't care who ya are. That's gettin' with the program! <....>

[DBelton]

Well, Dan..

Sarah would keep you in tip-top shape chasing you around (I'll sit back with a cold one, laughing while watching )

[bigflopper2]

foxnews

[Dan]

Originally Posted by bigflopper2

foxnews

... reporting from National Geographic.

Methinks it is wise to learn to separate prejudices and opinions from critical thinking skills. <....>

[Iron_Mike]

Originally Posted by Dan

... reporting from National Geographic.

Methinks it is wise to learn to separate prejudices and opinions from critical thinking skills. <....>

What for? And just think if Splotch could run that fast...

[Doug G]

Fox News Channel is the majority owner of National Geographic Channel.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Iron_Mike

What for? And just think if Splotch could run that fast...

Yikes! When she gets the rips, it's plenty bad enough. If I even thought there was a chance of that kind of speed ... I'd put in hardwood floors, and wax them a lot. It's already kinda comical when she zips into the kitchen and hits the lino. And being the twisted guy that I am ... once I tracked her favorite routing ... I put the water dish smack dab in the middle of the kitty-cat skid-pan. <....>

[mmix]

foxnews? well, in south korea, there is chosun, donga, joongang

human doesnt see this newspaper, only oxymoron does!
dont even click ever!

chosun
http://english.chosun.com_dont_click_this_is_harmful/

donga
http://www.donga.com_dont_click_this_is_harmful/

joongang
http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.c...is_is_harmful/
http://joongang.joinsmsn.com_dont_cl...is_is_harmful/

want to know about behind scene of south korea culture?
find the information about ¨섹떡검¨

[Dan]

Sheesh!

Ok, folks. One warning, and that's all we're gonna get. After that, the deletions start. <....>

I've gotten a whopping load of grief for expressing my opinion about some of my "less favorite" news sources, and even though I've got the stomach of a billy goat, the hypocrisy here is getting pretty hard to swallow. <....>

So ...

That's the last post I'm going to tolerate bashing Fox News. It's not so much that they are a favorite (they are not) nor that I'm particularly enamoured with them. (which I'm not) The bottom line is that the OP was about one seriously amazing cat, not about your prejudices, nor the venue which brought us the story.

Yeah, you could (and probably will) call me intolerant. But I really don't much care.

It's about the cat. Not the catty/snarky remarks.

[Doug G]

I've gotten a whopping load of grief for expressing my opinion about some of my "less favorite" news sources, and even though I've got the stomach of a billy goat, the hypocrisy here is getting pretty hard to swallow. <....>

It certainly is.

[Iron_Mike]

And here I tried to sideways it about splotch....

[stevea]

Ti's a fabulous thing, and poetry to watch, but consider that very few cheetahs are taken out to the track for a timed run. So this is probably not the fastest cheetah alive today. Then there is th e interesting fact - cheetah genetics show that the population was likely highly inbred and went through a population bottleneck of a few breeding pairs at hthe last ice age. The race is not always to the swift I guess ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fe...&v=DPOG3xgYWyw

Humans can be impressive too. In this Olympic season so obsessed with that human-designed-for-aquatic-life, Michael Phelps that perhaps it overshadows that people of a less extreme phenotype can do some very impresive things ...

The late Florence Joyner (died of a brain tumor at 38yo) ran like no other person I've seen, Some of her 1988 track records still stand I believe,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq5JXVC8oM4
Most of the grainy youtube vids don't do her justice, but watching on the tube back then her movement in running was notably different than her competitors - amazing to watch.

Or imagine performing this from memory ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfxlCHOoWk
one of the most difficult piano pieces performed spectacularly by Kigawa. Gotta say I'm not a huge fan of P.Boulez' compositions, but he's a fabulous conductor and brilliant guy too.

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Dan, I hope you'll reconsider your decision to cut-off anti-Fox opinions on wibble.

I'm not aligned with either Dem or Rep parties and I surf all the news sources. Fox is no worse than the other news sources in terms of partisan bias however they are the only counterpoint to the bias of others particularly NBC. They do report on a few important stories that left-news fail to report - and that's an important thing. Certainly they focus excessively on pro-right anti-left issues, often beating small stories into the ground, but any fair viewing of NBC, ABC, CBS PBS, and NPR demonstrates an opposite bias. I used to think CNN was close to neutral, but they've have enough pro-left gaffes to make a bias clear.

Those who merely hate on Fox, without also pointing to the equal flaws on the other side of the fence are people with no respect for freedom of speech and the press. People intolerant of differing opinions are the main part of 'the problem' IMO. I prefer that the totalitarian partisans self-identify.

[R3v0lut10nary]

Originally Posted by stevea

Those who merely hate on Fox, without also pointing to the equal flaws on the other side of the fence are people with no respect for freedom of speech and the press. People intolerant of differing opinions are the main part of 'the problem' IMO. I prefer that the totalitarian partisans self-identify.

Marry me. *


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[Dan]

Originally Posted by stevea

Ti's a fabulous thing, and poetry to watch, but consider that very few cheetahs are taken out to the track for a timed run. So this is probably not the fastest cheetah alive today. Then there is th e interesting fact - cheetah genetics show that the population was likely highly inbred and went through a population bottleneck of a few breeding pairs at hthe last ice age. The race is not always to the swift I guess ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fe...&v=DPOG3xgYWyw

Humans can be impressive too. In this Olympic season so obsessed with that human-designed-for-aquatic-life, Michael Phelps that perhaps it overshadows that people of a less extreme phenotype can do some very impressive things ...

The late Florence Joyner (died of a brain tumor at 38yo) ran like no other person I've seen, Some of her 1988 track records still stand I believe,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq5JXVC8oM4
Most of the grainy youtube vids don't do her justice, but watching on the tube back then her movement in running was notably different than her competitors - amazing to watch.

Or imagine performing this from memory ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfxlCHOoWk
one of the most difficult piano pieces performed spectacularly by Kigawa. Gotta say I'm not a huge fan of P.Boulez' compositions, but he's a fabulous conductor and brilliant guy too.

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Dan, I hope you'll reconsider your decision to cut-off anti-Fox opinions on wibble.

I'm not aligned with either Dem or Rep parties and I surf all the news sources. Fox is no worse than the other news sources in terms of partisan bias however they are the only counterpoint to the bias of others particularly NBC. They do report on a few important stories that left-news fail to report - and that's an important thing. Certainly they focus excessively on pro-right anti-left issues, often beating small stories into the ground, but any fair viewing of NBC, ABC, CBS PBS, and NPR demonstrates an opposite bias. I used to think CNN was close to neutral, but they've have enough pro-left gaffes to make a bias clear.

Those who merely hate on Fox, without also pointing to the equal flaws on the other side of the fence are people with no respect for freedom of speech and the press. People intolerant of differing opinions are the main part of 'the problem' IMO. I prefer that the totalitarian partisans self-identify.

Steve ... I usually don't mind folks calling out the genuine stinker fouls when they see them in the press. Taking potshots at the self-important ID-10-T jerks in the media is a long and treasured tradition world-wide. However, as we saw in this thread, it doesn't take long before that kind of thing dissolves into both bad judgement, hypocrisy and ... eventually politics. None of which were called for, nor particularly welcome, in a thread all about admiring something so unrelated as a big cat with a well stoked boiler and all the right running gear to back it up.

Seems to me that we've got a venue specifically for such agendized and essentially political potshots, where the freedom to out oneself as a charter member of the Kool-Aid Brigade (on either/both/all sides) reigns both frequent and supreme. That's the social groups. Such nonsense is not only allowed there, it's welcomed. That's why they were created.

However, your point does bring up the other side of the argument. Having a whack at the likes of The Huffpo and CNN and MSNBC NBC, CBS is equally silly out here in the open forums. That needs to retire to the Social Groups, too. (Someone please gently remind me of that the next time Brian Ross steps into a steaming pile of stupid, or Ann Coulter once again proves that even a well groomed Afghan Hound can have all the personality of a rabid pitbull ... and I get horribly tempted to point and laugh about it outside of the social groups.)


Although, I'm open to cogent and convincing arguments to the contrary ... but they need to be via PM or a by community discussion in the afore-mentioned social groups.

[billybob linux]

Getting back to Dans original post and link, the photo almost defines speed, very sleek and streamlined.

Quote:

The fastest cheetah on Earth has done it again, breaking her previous world record for the 100-meter dash and setting a new best time of 5.95 seconds.

Reminds me of the dash for school dinners