why do dogs spin around before laying down?

[Heretic_Cata]

Imagine you are a penguin. You are standing straight. An helicopter arrives, it comes from somewhere in front of you. Curious, you look at it with your little penguin eyes. The helicopter is flying over you. Still curious, you follow it with your eyes. Of course, to do so, you raise your head... And when the helicopter pass behind you, you continue to raise your head, and bent backward (you are stupid penguin and don't realise you can turn backward).
And then, you lost balance and fall on your but...

Yes but that is the "normal and sane people" explanation, what did the scientist discover ? Or ar they still "researching" it even as we speak ... after many years of analisis.
Or did the ppl who paid for this got so fed up with it and hid the results (if any) because they were ashamed of their own stupidity.

This gives me an idea - i should add a "Why do penguins fall on their butts when an helicopter passes above them ?" tech in my mod .

 

[Steph]

Yes but that is the "normal and sane people" explanation, what did the scientist discover ? Or ar they still "researching" it even as we speak ... after many years of analisis.
Or did the ppl who paid for this got so fed up with it and hid the results (if any) because they were ashamed of their own stupidity.

That WAS the result of the study!!! After an expedition on site, cameras, studies, etc.

 

[Abaddon]

perhaps its down to the Corriolis effect?

 

[Sidhe]

It had long been a tennent of the scientific world that Bumble bees because of their mass should not be able to fly. So they gave a scientist a grant to find out if it was in fact true that Bumble Bees should not be able to fly, after the study the conclusion was made that it should be physically impossible for bumble bees to fly. Great money well spent there too

Recently someone came up with an idea how they fly it was something to do with the counter action of the wings. This is money better spent (although not much in the scheme of things)

Spending a year or two concluding that yes bumble bees can't fly in patent contradiction of the fact that they can and do, is a waste of tax payers money surely

 

[Rambuchan]

^ Someone's bored at work.

 

[Sidhe]

^ Someone's bored at work.

Bored off work, but same difference

 

[Rambuchan]

Furry muff.

 

[Sidhe]

Furry muff.

What about it?

 

[Rambuchan]

It's furry.

 

[Abaddon]

i think Sidhe got lost in translation there...

meh, fair enough.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

When doing this, my dog scratches at the ground (most cases my bed) while circling. So Sparta's thoughts are logical and its the most plausible thing I can think of atm.

My big outside dog, well he just walks out to where he wants to lay, sits down, and then basically falls onto either his chest or his side.

 

[Steph]

Spending a year or two concluding that yes bumble bees can't fly in patent contradiction of the fact that they can and do, is a waste of tax payers money surely

We should try to propose a major project : do penguins fall on their butt, and why when a bumble bee which is not supposed to be able to fly is flying over them?

 

[Heretic_Cata]

That WAS the result of the study!!! After an expedition on site, cameras, studies, etc.

OMG - Were they proud of their groundbraking discovery ? Were they laught at and fired ?

 

[Steph]

OMG - Were they proud of their groundbraking discovery ? Were they laught at and fired ?

I'm afraid they get a reward and were praised for their hard work

 

[Hornblower]

My Bulldog puppy has just discovered how to sit on our outside chairs like a person. Because he has no tail he sits the same way as a toddler would. Kinda wobbly but still upright. He heard me come out the back door behind him and fell right over like the aforementioned Penguins. Very funny to see but he wasn't impressed at me laughing at him. Anybody think I should go for a grant to study this?

 

[Mirc]

because dogs are cool, they don't need a reason

either that or what sidhe said

most likely both

I totally agree!

 

[Sidhe]

We should try to propose a major project : do penguins fall on their butt, and why when a bumble bee which is not supposed to be able to fly is flying over them?

interesting, should be easy to get funding, it's a two birds with one stone situation