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Yes - albino reptiles are very pale pink, orange and/or yellow and not white. They retain the pattern of their normal coloration - they just lack the full pigmentation. Truly white reptiles lack their natural pattern, and that's what makes them completely white. That is called "leucistic."


Like other albino animals, albino reptiles are vulnerable to skin problem due to sun exposure.

Cool.

Many subterranian fish, although blind, have developed senses to detect to electrical fields.

Catfish are scaleless fish. They protect their skin with a heavy layer of mucus. Yum! The host of the TV show "Dirty Jobs" described holding a catfish was like holding "snot."

The Mekong River Giant Catfish may be the world's largest freshwater-only fish. It grows in excess of 650 pounds and over 10 feet in length. It is highly endangered, and capturing and selling them in Thailand is against the law.

Would make one heck of a fish fry thogh:

Earth is the 5th largest planet in the solar system.

Shall we do astronomy now?


Mars is nicknamed a "moon killer" because of evidence that Mars has had other moons in the past that have been drawn in by Mars' gravity and collided with Mars' surface. The two current moon, Deimos and Phobos, are very irregular in shape, suggest they may be remnants of a previously destroyed moon. They are also in irregular and gradually deteriorating orbits very close to Mars, which makes astronomers speculate that these moons will eventually crash into Mars' surface as well.

Astronomers are still debating whether Pluto is a planet or an asteriod, nearly 40 years after its discovery.

Pluto's moon, Charon, is only slightly smaller than Pluto. It was recently discovered that rather Charon orbiting around Pluto, the two bodies orbit around each other. Also, both bodies appear to go through seasons of their own.

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is so cold that methane is perserved in a liguid state on its surface. It also has a a very thick atmosphere, yet lacks its own magnetic field. This lack of a magnetic field keeps it in orbit of Saturn's magnetosphere. Titan is larger than both Mercury and Pluto. It has an irregular orbit when it sometimes moves outside of Saturn's magnetosphere and is exposed to solar winds, which is thought to cause ioziation in Titan's atmospher and in turn trigger some of Titan's unique atmopheric progresses.

Saturn is most famous for its rings, which where first observed in 1659 by Chirstiaan Hugens. Since the 1970's, rings have been discovered around Uranus Jupiter and Neptune as well.

Europa, one of Jupiter's moon, is unlike anything in our inner solar system. It's surface lacks craters and is unusually smooth. It's surface has many cracks and fissure-like freatures all over its seemingly frozen surface, although what causes them and what may lie beneath the ice is highly debated. Photos don't tell us enough, so one proposal so far is to send a returning ice sampling mission dubbed the Eurpoa Ice Clipper.

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You should never build a teleporter on mars

There used to be a chair so people could check the gender of the pope.

Venus is the 6th largest planet in the solar system Cade missed that one.

South Carolina is known as the palmetto state because of a battle in the Rev. war (fort multrie on sullivan's Island) where the unfinished fortifications were made of palmetto logs. The british fired cannon balls at the fort and the palmetto logs were so soft that the cannon balls sank into the wood rather than toppeling the walls. The tide moved out and left the brittish ship on a sand bar so and unable to flank the island fort and move in on what was the back, and unfinished side. When the tide came back in, the ships left as they did not want to become stranded on the sand bar again.

Passion Flower is a woody vine with intricate blue, purple, red, or white flowers. There are several species which act as sedatives and anxiolytics and are sometimes consumed as a tea or herbal supplement. Some species, notably P. caerulea also contain poisonous cyanogenic glycoside.

I had no idea!! !! !

The tomato belongs to the nightshade family. For centuries people would not eat tomatoes because they assume that it was poisonous like other nightshades.

Tomatoes are among the most devoured fruits by humans. Before the advent of commercially available fertilizer, the popularity of the tomato discouraged people from using human feces as fertilizer: not because it was taboo, but because doing so would result in your garden being overrun by tomato plants from all the undigested seeds.

Belladonna is another name for deadly nightshade, which contains a potent neurotoxic poison known since ancient times. It got that name, which means "pretty lady" in Italian, because when diluted in water and dropped in teh eye in small amount, it dilates and temporarily paralyzes the pupil. Since humans find a dilated pupil more attractive, women would put belladonna in their eyes to make them more appealing. Belladonna today has been used to treat migraines (it dilates blood vessel as well) and as therapy for lazy eye.

Arsenic is another poison that has been used to inhance beauty. From the middle ages up until modern times, arsenic was used by women to make their skin paler. Pale skin was associated with nobility, whereas dark skin with peasents and those who had to labor in the sun. Arsenic over time accumilates in the body, and so women who used arsenic for this purpose often developed other symptoms of arsenic poisoning over time, such as fainting, anemia, lathergy, muscle athropy, and dementia.

Arsenic is a naturally occurring metallic element and is found in several types of plants and soils. It can even be find in harmless trace amounts in apple seeds.

Since you mention Venus, did you know that ...

The planet Venus’s day is longer than its year? It takes 225 ‘Earth’ days to rotate around the Sun (a Venusian year) and 243 ‘Earth’ days to rotate on its axis (a Venusian day).

Not only that, but Venus - along with Uranus - is the only planet in the Solar System that rotates clockwise. All the other planets rotate anti-clockwise, as does the Sun.

I still think they are poisonous!

and im not alone; http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/

My sister nicknamed me Passion Flower. When I asked why she said, "You're so sweet, sensitive and passionate but people just use you." Then she burst out into sardonic laughter.

Sorry! I was just posting, um, randomly a few things that came into my head.

What I know about Venus:

It is the brightest body in our sky after the Sun and moon.

In prehistronic times it was thought to be two distinct bodies because it appears either before the Sun (morning star) or after the Sun (evening star) near our horizon at differnt times during its orbit. The Monring Star was called Eosphorus (and later, the Romans called it Lucifer) andthe Evening Star was called Hesperus. Ancient greek astronomers were the first to realize that these two were the same planet.

It, like Mercury, does not have a moon of its own. Due to its slow rotation, it lacks a magnetic field to keep a satellite in orbit.

Unlike Mercury, Venus has a very dense atmosphere. Samller meteorites burn up in that atmosphere so quickly that Venus' surface is nearly crater-free, unlike Mercury.

The surface of Venus is hotter than Mercury's despite being twice as far from the Sun, due to the run-away greenhouse effect from its dense atmosphere. Although venus is in many ways very similar to Earth, its exceptional temperatures would make Venus the least hospitable place in our solar system aside from the Sun itself. Astronomers have learned a lot about Earth, its atmosphere and climate by studying how the otherwise very Earth-like Venus has turned out so differently just by being closer to the Sun.

Most recent data collected about Venus' surface indictes it is still highly volcanic and covered in lava flows. Much of venus' terrian is flat or gently sloping, with few depressions, valleys or mountains.

Venus is one of the 4 inner planets, meaning it in between the Sun and the large asteriod belt between Mars and Jupiter.

It is one of 2 inferior planets (the other is Mercury), which means it is closer to the Sun than the earth. Both inferior planets appear to have phases like our Moon's phases when observed from Earth.

It is one of the 5 classical planets, since it can be seen unaided and has been known since classical times. The other classical planets are Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.