Old Man Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I've seen a couple litters of 3, but none of 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I don't know. The last time we had a litter born in our house, I was 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I've seen a couple litters of 3' date=' but none of 2.[/quote'] We had a dachshund have a "litter" of 1 once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Well, as I understand it, female cats let off a number of eggs when they're in heat, usually between two and a dozen. The scent and yowls of her heat draw many, many males, and the female cat will usually be mated with by most of them. So litters are 50% similar, rather than the 100% you'd get from egg-splitting. So if the mother cat didn't produce as many eggs, or had a small gene pool to work with, then it is possible for the mother cat to only have one or two. Also, spontaneous abortion, if the mother cat was underfed and/or overstressed, is fairly common. I've just never run into a litter of two before. The only times I've seen a mother cat with only two kittens, it was because the others had died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER litter should be thrown in the bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER It is. Different sort of litter, though. And you have to sweep it up, since some gets tracked across the floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER no silly. litter as in trash and a litter of a group small animals being born one at a time. Sigh. no one gets my jokes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I recognized what you said, and was being deliberately dense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER practice makes perfect (you are a lecturer, I'm sure you've seen the test scores to prove it and imitate the type well) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I figure he lectures in Mandarin to stay compatible with the rest of the faculty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Not Mandarin, Latin. This is a Jesuit university. Ancient Greek is also considered acceptable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Not Mandarin' date=' Latin. This is a Jesuit university. Ancient Greek is also considered acceptable.[/quote'] what's is it's name. It may be on iTunes U. (I could take your course! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I was hoping he'd post the exam so we could look at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER why not ask him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK, here it is. Nothing special. The stuff covered going into this exam was geometric optics and wave nature of light (interference, diffraction, polarization). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Further news: 2 more kitties born last night, now we have 4, and that seems to be all. The tuxedo and the "white" (he seems to be a rather pale orange) are males. The two newborns are a mackerel tabby and a tortie, both female. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hmph. Whatever happened to "ladies first?" Just how long was the momcat in labor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER OK' date=' here it is. Nothing special. The stuff covered going into this exam was geometric optics and wave nature of light (interference, diffraction, polarization).[/quote'] Wouldn't that mirror suffer from Spherical Aberration and thus not have a specific focal point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Sure, but at the non-calculus series level there's no way they can handle that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Hmph. Whatever happened to "ladies first?" Just how long was the momcat in labor? That I can't tell you; I don't even know if her labor was continuous during that time. One thing I do know is that for very few species is childbirth as traumatic as it is for humans. The most severe constraint on human evolution is the size of the birth canal, and our infants are born far younger, comparitively speaking, than those of other animal species of our mass. It's trying to get that enormous brain formed and out into the world while leaving the mother alive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Yep. It's the head size that does it. Like squeezing a watermelon through an opening the size of a lemon. The very word "episiotomy" makes me shudder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I had to watch one happen when my son was born. It's not possible for me to have one, so that's as close as I can get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I got to watch a video of an actual birth in high school. It smacked that idea of childbirth as a beautiful experience RIGHT out of my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER "Hi, excuse me, is that your nose? Mind if we shove a POTROAST THROUGH IT!?!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Longest Running Thread EVER A potroast with bones. Big ones. And not through someplace as pleasant to think about as your nose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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