Shit toad watch, the science (not actually a toad)

[JimW]

"The pumpkin toadlet, which is a frog but not a toad, is so terrible at landing its jumps that its sheer incompetence has become a subject of scientific inquiry. A team of researchers from the United States and Brazil that includes Confetti and Singh say they have an answer: The miniaturized toadlets are so tiny that the fluid-filled chambers in their inner ears which control their balance function rather ineffectively, dooming the valiant little jumpers to a lifetime of crash landings."

Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping? | Defector

"They do nothing correctly."

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Perhaps readers would like to share other piss-poor creatures they have known, No humans though, or we'll be here all night.

 

[klang]

A Moon Fish can grow very large - one that weighs 100kg will have a brain weighing 1g

 

[8ball]

I’ll just leave this one here to get it out of the way.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Humans are the shittest. The only species that ever came up with the idea that they should have to pay to exist.

 

[fen_boy]

This reminds me of the sunfish rant

which for some reason I can't link to on mobile

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I’ll just leave this one here to get it out of the way.

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Pandas are obviously the most useless shittest creature on Earth. Nobody would mourn them if they went extinct.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A Moon Fish can grow very large - one that weighs 100kg will have a brain weighing 1g

Do they have oceans on the Moon?

 

[8ball]

Humans are the shittest. The only species that ever came up with the idea that they should have to pay to exist.

Mafia been hassling you again?

 

[JimW]

Pandas are obviously the most useless shittest creature on Earth. Nobody would mourn them if they went extinct.

They get a bad rap IMO because they do bimble and that looks crap under the glare of publicity but served them fine for millennia in the mountain bamboo groves until we encroached.
ETA I mean, compared to a frog so bad a jumping I assumed the gif was a cracker toy being tossed.

 

[JimW]

Humans are the shittest. The only species that ever came up with the idea that they should have to pay to exist.

I specifically excluded us in the OP for just this reason. Ten minute detention.

 

[maomao]

"The pumpkin toadlet, which is a frog but not a toad, is so terrible at landing its jumps that its sheer incompetence has become a subject of scientific inquiry. A team of researchers from the United States and Brazil that includes Confetti and Singh say they have an answer: The miniaturized toadlets are so tiny that the fluid-filled chambers in their inner ears which control their balance function rather ineffectively, dooming the valiant little jumpers to a lifetime of crash landings."

Why Is This Tiny Frog So Awful At Jumping? | Defector

"They do nothing correctly."

defector.com

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Perhaps readers would like to share other piss-poor creatures they have known, No humans though, or we'll be here all night.

Rubbish cats that fall asleep on fences and end up falling off.

 

[A380]

I’ll just leave this one here to get it out of the way.

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Good at made up fighting though.

 

[petee]

here's a totally shit animal

 

[WouldBe]

Do they have oceans on the Moon?

No. They keep dropping their kecks at other fish.

 

[hitmouse]

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Good at made up fighting though.

And at playing black metal.

 

[T & P]

Prompted by the news of people across several counties reporting a loud boom today, caused by one or several Typhoons going supersonic to intercept a plane… Presumably the size and loudness of sonic booms is linked to the size of the object flying above Mach 1? And if so, would hypersonic missiles produce a loud boom too? Or is it linked to the wing area of the object?

 

[8ball]

Prompted by the news of people across several counties reporting a loud boom today, caused by one or several Typhoons going supersonic to intercept a plane… Presumably the size and loudness of sonic booms is linked to the size of the object flying above Mach 1? And if so, would hypersonic missiles produce a loud boom too? Or is it linked to the wing area of the object?

Yeah, you’d get a decent sonic boom from a hypersonic missile. They might try to conceal this by staying subsonic until a particular height is reached, or until over the ocean (location dependent etc).

 

[WouldBe]

Yeah, you’d get a decent sonic boom from a hypersonic missile. They might try to conceal this by staying subsonic until a particular height is reached, or until over the ocean (location dependent etc).

T & P
Wrong thread?

 

[T & P]

T & P
Wrong thread?

Yes, and I’ve no idea how I managed to do that either!

 

[JimW]

Yes, and I’ve no idea how I managed to do that either!

Toadally messed that one up.