This radiation would make the horn, and any shipping container it would be placed into, light up light a Christmas tree on any of the radiation detectors used at borders and ports around the world.Ī couple of years ago, we shared a chart that explained the different vegetables that all come from the plant species Brassica oleracea. Presumably the radioisotope that would be picked would be a Gamma or Beta emitter, as these are significantly harder to block than Alpha (large helium atoms) radiation.
But smuggling the horn through illicit channels becomes immensely more difficult as the tell-tale radioactive signature would be hard to hide. Hack A Day explains: The radiation from these would not be enough to cause any harm to the animal. Scientists propose to inject radioactive isotopes inside the horns of living rhinoceroses, thus making the horns trackable if removed and smuggled. The Rhisotope Project is an innovative effort by conservationists to right back.
A rhino horn is worth a lot of money on the black market, so poachers are highly motivated to kill rhinoceroses and remove their horns. Traditional forms of medicine attribute special powers to rhinoceros horns, which is why that animal is hunted by poachers. I couldn't believe… I'm here to tell it." "I just got thrown in the air and landed in the water. "Then all of a sudden he went up to the surface and just erupted and started shaking his head. This is it, I'm going die'." Mr Packard says he thought about his wife and two boys, aged 12 and 15. "And then I realised: 'Oh my God, I'm in a whale's mouth and he's trying to swallow me. He thought he had been attacked by one of the great white sharks that swim in the area, "and then I felt around and I realised there was no teeth". He told WBZ-TV News that after jumping off the vessel in scuba gear into the water, he "felt this huge bump and everything went dark". Mr Packard, 56, told the Cape Cod Times he and his crewmate took their boat, the Ja'n J, off Herring Cove on Friday morning where conditions were excellent, with water visibility at about 20ft. According to the World Wildlife Fund, their global population is about 60,000. Humpback whales can grow to as long as 50ft (15m) and weigh about 36 tons. Luckily, the marine giant spat him out after 30-40 seconds, which only left him with a dislocated knee, and a hell of an unique story to tell : Despite his wife's pleas to get another job, he has no plans of giving up a 40-year career diving off Cape Cod. Is this the modern adaptation of the bible story of Jonah and the whale? US lobsterman Michael Packard was diving when he was swallowed by a humpback whale in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Read the rest of the list of Victorian sex tips at Mental Floss. “This great pressure of hair on the small brain produces great heat in the part,” he warned, increasing blood flow to the brain’s sex center and causing “a chronic desire for its sexual exercise.”Īs you may guess, sex within marriage was okay, as long as one didn't engage in it too much. Large buns coiled atop the head were all the rage in the 1880s, much to the chagrin of Dr. She therefore recommended abstinence, by which “the forces of the body are conserved, and are concentrated, and that goes to brain-power which would otherwise be exhausted in sexual union.” Though radically progressive on many matters, Duffey held to the ancient notion that sex wasted the body’s vital spirits. Knowledge workers of the world be warned: “The accumulated evidence of the world goes to show that celibacy is a most favorable state for severe mental labor,” according to Eliza Bisbee Duffey. A list of 11 bits of Victorian advice on sex starts with these gems: In the Victorian age (1837-1901), publicly available advice on sex was often wound up with the ideas of sin and public decency and control of one's animal nature. Advice about sex has been around forever, some for better and some for worse.
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