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corwin17 wrote:

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.... explain to me again how sheep's bladders can be employed to prevent earthquakes.

I think you have this back to front. You are talking about the symbiotic relationship between sheep bladders and earthquakes that have mutually evolved together over millions of years. In essence, a unique DNA strand entered the original ancestor of the sheep about 85 millon years ago. Scientist have extracted ancient DNA from Tyrannasheepus Merinos bones and noticed that, when injected into Bonobo monkeys, it made their urine very slippery.

After US military tests, where Bonobo monkeys, with large water flasks were parachuted onto a Panama parade ground to make General Noriega slip over, real scientists started to take serious notice. Prof Stephen Hawkins was the first to notice that the modified Bobobo urine and sheep urine tasted "quite similar". It was Stephen Gould, in a private unpublished paper, who claimed that his life's goal was near at hand by proving that "less sheep died through earthquakes if they had a higher "slippery urine" DNA content in their DNA gene maps as this allowed earthquakes faults to slip past with less vibration AND this was a clear dynamic evolutionary advantage that is millions of years old".

Today, large groups of American university students, used to American beer, are engaged in a systematic mapping of the strongest sheep urine and comparing to earthquake frequency. Need I point out that Australia has the largest number of sheep, per capita, and has no earthquakes.

I thought this was all common knowledge........