I should watch Nat Geo tv more often.

[Edko]

Every time I turn it on I learn more and more trivial facts. Soon I will be ready for Jeopardy...

Last night I was flipping and ran across some scientists kayaking the Congo River. Apparently, they used some Lowrance equipment and ran across several areas that are...over 750 ft deep. They even found some blind albino fish that washed up on shore. Amazing stuff.

Anyway not interesting to everyone but thought I'd share. Heck, if you don't care about that, you can always go fishing there for these:

 

[bowman316]

Re: I should watch Nat Geo tv more often.

i just got fios, and now we get this chanel, and several other interesting chanels.

I love the shows about outer space on there. Fios is 100 times better than comcast, but just today half the chanels were having techinal difficulty

 

[sebago_kid]

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wow...!!!
the stripers here in Maine don't look quite like THAT!

 

[Bard1]

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Q. what is a yellowpike........ dung,dung,dung.........

 

[Edko]

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Yeah kinda looks like that. It's a Tigerfish, apparently they can get up to 150 lbs, here's another one.

 

[WizeOne]

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....you can always go fishing there for these:

Yikes! More like they'd be fishin' for you!

 

[idrownworms]

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Three mile island walleye?
I'm cablely challenged so I don't have a clue. The little fish has stripes running down it's body while the big fish is stripe free do the stripes disappear as they grow?
just curious.
jamie

 

[Edko]

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There are a few sub species in the Congo, one of the things covered in the show I watched revolved around the scientists checking the DNA in upriver vs downriver Tigerfish. The theory was that, due to massive river currents and the like, these fish were evolving in segmented pockets and thus branching off the main Tigerfish tree. The ones they were going for were called Goliath Tigerfish. There are some other species in different rivers in Africa, so those two pictures may indeed be of different branches of the tree.

One other funny part of the show involved a local guide trying to net an electric Catfish. The way they catch them is to basically poke at them, which causes the fish to discharge current, several times until the fish exhausts itself, then net it. Poor guide ( a 15ish year old kid) got shocked 3 or 4 times.

Apparently this show is part of a series called Hooked: Monster fish. Found a link here http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/3826/Overview

 

[idrownworms]

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Got it Darwins theory at work. The same thing that happened to the Galapagos Island finches.
jamie

 

[drewmitch44]

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Fios is about 10 years out on being a good service. They have about 15% of their F/O cables run in MD so you can expect to constantly loose internet-TV- and Phone service on a regular basis. They are recomending that you have the regular phone service for a back up if you need phone service for at least the next year or two until they get it all worked out. The FIOS service was really launched WAY WAY before it was ready and there is going to be problems BIG TIME for the next several years. Its going to get expensive as well as they realize how many F/O cables they need! They are already Billions in the hole with this project company wide! They plan on a across the board price increase for their services to pay for it. I have Verizon wireless and i was told that im going to be paying for the FIOS service in the next couple months even though i have comcast internet. I get 23Mbps down and 9Mbps up with Comcast now so im not interested in switching to a service that is not even ready for launch. Thats just my opinion.

 

[Edko]

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I have Fios and so far so good. If they raise prices, that's what competition is for. I am not brand loyal to tv or net service.

I do know that with Fios I get a couple HD fishing channels which are occasionally fun to watch, in addition to the usual stuff.

 

[drewmitch44]

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I bet your internet is intermittent. What is your download speed? Go here http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Im getting 23 MBPS which is off the chart with that site.

 

[waterinthefuel]

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Last night I was flipping and ran across some scientists kayaking the Congo River. Apparently, they used some Lowrance equipment and ran across several areas that are...over 750 ft deep.

ROTFLMAO!! I get that with my depthfinder too!! That happens when the transducer loses the bottom momentarily!!! LOL

 

[Edko]

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I can't beat 23 mbps, I only have the 20 mbps plan.

I get 19 and change mbps.

Like I said, not brand loyal. I had comcast in the past. It was fine.