Scientists Confirm World's Oldest Creature...But Kill it Determining Its Age

Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 5 months ago to The Gulch: General

This clam survived for 507 years. Scientsts killed it determining its age. That just sound dumb.

SOURCE URL: http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/11/14/Scientists-Confirm-World-s-Oldest-Creature-But-Kill-it-Determining-Its-Age

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Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 5 months ago

And that's it in a nutshell... or rather a clamshell.

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Posted by Maphesdus 12 years, 5 months ago

That's actually kind of ironic... :X

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Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago

someone opened a can of worms

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  Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 5 months ago
  
  I didn't see anywhere in the article where they felt the least bit upset about splitting open a 500 year old clam. This would make a great movie. Maybe they released a deadly virus when they opened him up. Would serve them right.
  
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    Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
    
    that's what I thought! like curse of the tomb
    I LOOOOVE mussels and clams steamed in garlic and butter and white wine topped with delicate new green beans and a side of crusty french bread. if you are 500 years old, are you a bit tough? I will mull this dilemma as I prepare
    mussels and clams tonight!
    
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      Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 5 months ago
      
      That's why this story bothered me. I hate seafood. How were the mussels and clams?
      
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        They turned into dorado. I didnt think the days catch had much to recommend it. Pan seared with lime and cracked pepper. Why don't you like seafood?
        
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        Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        I'm not sure, It just looks gross. My wife loves Red Lobster. She makes fun of me cause I always order chicken or steak. Aren't you up early?
        
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        Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        I don't eat bugs or bait.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        couldn't sleep. During the last year in Colorado we planned our galting over a bloody mary and beer late Friday lunch at Joe's Crab Shack. Joe's Crab Shack Friday we called it. then we galted. there is no Joes crab shack in the Gulch. but we liked the tradition so we began to outline PoJ at Al Capone's. which was quite an unusual name in the Gulch but the locals loved it. inside joke, I guess. we called it Joe's Crab Shack Friday on Thursday at Al Capones. the seafood was much fresher but no crab legs, alas.
        
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        Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        I have been to Joe's. We have at least one in the burgh. Next time you can't sleep try reading MM's blog. Puts me under every time.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        there's always stuff to do. it was my responsibility to kill a scorpion in the dark all by myself. the designated scorpion killer was sleeping like a baby. I didn't scream. this time
        
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        Posted by richrobinson 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        My wife freaks out at small spiders. Good job.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        well, if it had been a tarantula, all bets would have been off at the not screaming and sleeping like a baby part
        wild america
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Oh... I was wondering what "sleeping like a baby part" meant. Sigh. Alex...can I buy a nap please?
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        one or two vowels.? Have I old you I HATE game shows?
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        yes
        
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      Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
      
      When we go out for dinner...I know what we're having!
      
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        Posted by Susanne 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Had Frutti di Mare at this Italian place in Yreka the other night - Spectacular - tho I think the mussels were a bit too young, somewhere less than 100 years... ;-)
        
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        Posted by johnrobert2 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        You near Lake Mendocino? Spent several summers working at Kelseyville. Nice country.
        
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        Posted by Susanne 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Foot of Mt. Lassen... 4200 ft elevation, in the big trees... Setting up a business where there is a definite need, and opportunity for profit (and hopefully, generate some local employment)... wouldn't be anywhere else!
        
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    Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m1EFMoRF...
    
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        Posted by Lucky 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Hi DK, I am more inclined to believe your secret reports than pronouncements of 'Climate Change Experts'. Anything done by those has to turn out bad.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        hey lucky! did you check out my my post on fellow ozzie vinay?
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        hey stranger
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        I'm tired of you being scarce. Cut it out!
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        What are you eating before you go to bed?
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        (should I admit I didn't even realize that we were on the old clam post?? Took me a minute to figure out what you were talking about. Sorry Rich.)
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        yea, what's up with the racing against time....
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        ooooh analyzing dreams and stuff.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        can we just have a NEW post so people can organize their Christmas lists?
        geez. miss you
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        People need a new post to organize their Christmas list?
        Like... books and art to buy???
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Well...at least you waited until I realized what post we were on before you made me go down there.
        
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      Posted by lrbeggs 12 years, 5 months ago
      
      OMG! I'm dying here khalling! and dancing around the room.
      
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Posted by Timelord 12 years, 5 months ago

We should immediately launch a scientific study to determine the ages of all elected officials.

In other news, I wonder how these scientists define "creature?" There are many living entities on Earth that are older than 507, some plants and some fungi among them.

I had thought that a Galapagos tortoise by Charles Darwin was still alive, but according to Wikipedia, "Adwaita, who died in 2006 at the estimated age of 255." Hmmm, only twice as old as the oldest human.

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Posted by Susanne 12 years, 5 months ago

Score another victory for the State Science Institute and the People's Scientists, opening up the great mysteries of life and death!

(Of course, they were probably hoping for a pearl to appease the great leader, so he could give it to Michelle...)

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Posted by flanap 12 years, 5 months ago

All in the name of the god, Science...praise be to it!

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Posted by Abaco 12 years, 5 months ago

Government scientists kill things and kill people. That's why the government hires them. Kill, kill, kill. They probably all stood around in their white lab coats with their bellys sticking out patting each other on the back after killing it.

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Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 5 months ago

When that clam was young, Columbus had just discovered the New World only 14 years earlier.

Galileo wasn't to be born for another 57 years.
Leonardo Da Vinci was still alive.
Copernicus was in his 30s.
Gutenberg had been dead for 38 years.
Queen Elisabeth I had not yet ascended the throne of England.

And Michelangelo Buonarroti (the original Howard Roark) had just begun the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEoV_7cIs...

Way to go, scientists.

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Posted by nickursis 12 years, 5 months ago

Did they measure it's mercury content? If it was from the pacific, I would suggest isotope decay might be better...

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  Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
  
  gods hairy balls-you did not introduce grandma smell into this conversation
  
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  Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
  
  I wish you hadn't made me read this.
  
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    Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
    
    I did not mean YOUNG grandma smell-I meant ....never mind
    
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      Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
      
      he said old lady...technically that's not grandma. right?
      
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        right
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        You can stop back peddling....
        
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        Posted by Zenphamy 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Well???? Would an Objectivist say ###**##?
        
        This is definitely a KYFHO!
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Let's talk about this Zenph... KYFHO.... tell us your story. :)
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        yea, like why did you leave the banana off
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        I musta came in late... I never saw the banana. I hope he's typing up some long story right now for us to read.
        
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        Posted by Zenphamy 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Not right at the moment. I'm too busy and committed to finding that damn banana. I didn't see it either.
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        kh makes up stuff sometimes. Gotta keep an eye on that one.
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        it's true
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaOD...
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        MONKEES!!!!
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        lol
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Graa_Vm5...
        
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        Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        Okay... you caused this to yourself, you've no one else to blame...
        
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zalWPiOvl...
        
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        Posted by khalling 12 years, 5 months ago
        
        that is 10 hours long!
        
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