Thursday, 15 January 2009

It's official!

Cows can't sense earthquakes:

Swedish scientists have disappointingly discovered that cows do not have "an innate ability to detect natural disasters", thereby thwarting any possibility of deploying bovine imminent earthquake detectors in seismic hotspots.


I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

If cows had a sixth sense then the popular rural pursuit of cow tipping would be impossible.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Animals can sense earthquake. 250,000 people drowned in that Boxing Day Tsunami but hardly any animals.

Anonymous said...

Thats true, but how many animals were sunbathing and playing vollyball on the beach ?

Jon said...

Ross, you are quite right. Cows have a seventh sense, but no sixth sense.

Anonymous said...

Mark, you are spot on. Interestingly, not one eskimo was killed in the Boxing Day tsunami. That'll be because they have a built-in earthquake detector in their noses.

Anonymous said...

"250,000 people drowned in that Boxing Day Tsunami but hardly any animals."
Er not quite, I saw the aftermath in Thailand no idea about other places but there were planty of rotting caracases, pigs, cows you name it. The fact that there are still big boats miles inland where Tsunami left them might give you a clue how many snuffed it. As to 250,000 died nobody will ever know because there were and are thousands and thousands of undocumented and illegal Burmese people working there

Thud said...

This must be wrong surely mother earth speaks...we just choose not to listen....bollox.

Mac the Knife said...

Balls. The lying, mooing, bell-wearing motherfuckers know exactly what's going on but won't tell us. Just because they're bastards.

Oswald Bastable said...

Of course they can detect earthquakes!

If its a small one, their udders wobble.

If it's a big one, they fall over.

Earthlet Nigel said...

And just how much of our taxpayers money was wasted on this 'vital' piece of research (bollox). No doubt it kept some post grad in spliff for a while