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Skriven 2010-12-11 20:23:46 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: A.J. 812  01207
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Hi Glen!
-> 
->  ->  ->  HN> BTW, Amanda seems to have found
->  ->  ->  HN> a boy friend!
-> 
->  -> That is great news about the boyfriend.  Were you tempted to ask
->  -> whether he had 8 arms and lived in a tank of sea water?
->  -> 
->  HN> Nope evidently he has all the requisite
->  HN> appendages to be a hominid. But he DID
->  HN> give her a stuffed plush octopus as a gift!.
-> 
-> How sweet!  He obviously knows the way to her heart.
-> 
Seems to so far, as long as he doesn't
get her mad he's doing good!
 
->  -> I am sure the chicken soup prepared by Amanda would have served its
->  -> purpose, even if made by Campbells.
->  HN> Home made is much better and lower in 
->  HN> sodium as well.
-> 
-> Of course.
->  
->  -> giant Japanese spider crabs can move around on land, or whether they
->  -> are incapable of supporting their own weight out of water?  MLoo and I
->  -> would like to know.  :)
->  -> 
->  HN> I will ask her, but she's not likely to
->  HN> have an answer, she's too busy 
->  HN> concentrating on her own work to 
->  HN> worry about crabs that have nothing
->  HN> to do with her. However it would 
-> 
-> Is she still concentrating on lobsters?  Anyway, don't worry about the
-> larger crustaceans, as young Jimmy has looked into that and come up
-> with a likely answer (ie, one I agree with.).
-> 
Not lobsters, invasive european green crab, and invasive 
sea slug philine auriformis (from NZ I think) and 
philine orientalis from any number of asian 
ports.

->  HN> seem to me that the engineer in you
->  HN> would have figured out already that
->  HN> the legs are so long that the principles
->  HN> of levers would apply and how strong
->  HN> that bugger'd have to be to simply 
->  HN> lift his body off the ground if water
->  HN> were not subtracting a substantial 
->  HN> amount of weight.
-> 
-> Those are my thoughts, also.  I have just been watching a BBC feature
-> on the development of submarines, finishing up with the huge Nautilus.
-> What a boat!   After having been inside older submarines, I can see
-> that life for the crews has changed greatly.
-> 
True, I see that a few weeks back the 
Aus navy was even able to get one
of their Collins class boats out to sea for
a few days...not sure if it was fully 
functional or just a publicity move as
they are trying to get funding for more
modern boats (and built in OZ as well)
chat with you soon!
hap 
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