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      He was also outwitted by a virus, even lower on the evolutionary scale.

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        Generally unrelated, but there’s a type of algae (acetabularia) that looks like it should be multicellular, its a macroscopic “plant” with a clear if simple structure, with roots, a stem, and a mushroom cap looking plate on top. But, its actually a single celled organism, and unlike many other single celled organisms that are big enough to see, which often have multiple cell nuclei and effectively act like multiple cells just without the walls separating them, it only has one nucleus as well. Algae are weird.

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        Yeah I looked it up before posting, and although there are many common types of green algae, (many that are not single celled) the genus Desmodesmus or often clasified as Scenedesmus algae is said to be the single celled version here.

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      I always thought that the premise was hilarious but also tragic. The reason that machine guns were so brutally effective was because humans were literally walked into their muzzles. Emus were much smarter and decided to NOT do that and had no Field Marshall Haig to force them to do so. Apparently the Australians never considered that possibility…

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        unfortunately for the Australians, the Emus had enlisted Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith, formerly of the Royal Australian Artillery Corps, and Sir George Pierce marched the Ozzies straight into the Emu guns.

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    Strangely enough, paying 300 billion dollars to the pool might actually result in victory here.

    Or some really expensive paint, idk.

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    We’re not going to be able to make fun of Australia for losing to a bunch of birds anymore, are we?

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    I hate to argue against the presiden’t latest dumbassery, but he’s arguing someone took a box cutter and cut a slit 350 feet long.

    If someone did you that, it would be a failure of his administration to not catch them on the spot well before they got that far.

    This is beyond stupid, not worth responding to except for the poor bastards the feds are trying to run through the meat grinder to cover up the president corruptly giving a contract to his partners that kickback to him.

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      The fact that people believe this tells me the lot of them have never participated in a single second of manual labour. You go drag a box cutter 10 feet across a similar surface and tell me what that blade looks like haha.

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        350 ft. is no joke. I think someone would have to be on their hands and knees dragging that knife across a distance longer that the Statue of Liberty is tall (by 49 ft.)!

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          If only someone had a graphic made comparing the statue of Liberty and the reflecting pool side by side then I’d truly understand the scale!

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        It would take an hour or more even if the blade didn’t get dulled which it would immediately as you say, and be totally obvious.

        The national mall is crawling with LE and cameras. You can’t even set a backpack down without them swarming on it like it’s an ied.

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    Why aren’t we talking about the Biden administration? Where was the Biden administration when the Emu Wars were being lost?