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Post by angel3210 - foxfire3210 on Jul 21, 2012 20:41:21 GMT
What kind of person are you? www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Fp7flAWMA&feature=player_embedded In an election year, there is a lot of talk about the 99% and the 1%. But a NASA engineer wants to know if you are part of the 6% or the 94%. NASA scientist Mark Rober, who is known around YouTube for creating interesting science experiments on his own time, recently took a rubber snake, tarantula and turtle out to a busy road to see how many drivers would go out of their way to run them over. How many of us are given to sadistic behavior? Mind you, Rober did not put the fake critterati in the middle of the road. He actually placed them on the shoulder. The point of Rober's experiment was to see how many drivers would literally go out of their way to kill a living thing that was posing no threat to them. The result: 60 out of 1,000 cars that Rober monitored veered out of their lane to kill something. Yikes. Rober, being a scientist, knew he needed a "control," so he also placed a visible leaf on the shoulder, as well. Rober admits that the majority of the kills were of the tarantula. He suggests tarantulas need better public relations. If you take the spider out, the kill rate was 2.8% down from 6%. Check out Rober's video above, and see if you can be honest about what group you would be in.
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Post by gterminator on Jul 25, 2012 1:31:23 GMT
Amazing what people will do in the name of science!
I must admit though, after driving through Manitoba with wall to wall snakes sunning themselves on the road for miles, you dont swerve after the first few hundred feet...and you dont stop. So I am guilty of being a snake killer!
Thank goodness we don't have tarantulas up here, so no answer on that one.
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