Polite Dissent

9 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Buzzy in “Nature Loves a Nature Lover!” ”

1. the Original Keith
   April 20th, 2009 at 6:56 am
   

   Susie was later bitten by a rabid bat and died horribly. So remember kids – that friend of yours who’s a jerk? He knows best.

2. Mr. B
   April 20th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
   

   I thought at first, that Buzzy might be related to Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot. But not after that radar remark.

   Bats haven’t anything that resembles radar. Echolocation yes, radar no.

3. Dean
   April 20th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
   

   Wolfie later had an opportunity to demonstrate his own knowlege of bats, when he broke Buzzy’s legs with a Louisville Slugger.

4. Bryan L
   April 21st, 2009 at 12:15 pm
   

   Clearly, Wolfie grew up to be a member of a certain “superstitious and cowardly” group who cringe and run when confronted by nocturnal mammals. He’s doubtless rotting in Blackgate right now.

5. Mark
   April 21st, 2009 at 1:06 pm
   

   The next time this happened, Wolfie told the belle, “I know how to keep bats away by whistling ultrasonically. Stand close and hang onto me, baby, so I can protect us both.”

6. Your Obedient Serpent
   April 21st, 2009 at 2:48 pm
   

   Mr. B:

   Echolocation very MUCH resembles Radar. One uses sound while the other uses electromagnetic radiation, but they both create an image of their surroundings using signal reflection. Conceptually and in terms of signal processing, they’re essentially identical — the differences between carrier media and signal velocity are just a matter of twiddling some parameters.

   In an era when the visual image of blips on a radar screen was common, but sonar was a guy wearing headphones listening to “pings”, “Radar” provided a much clearer metaphor for “seeing your surroundings with echos” than “sonar” would.

7. Jeffrey
   April 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 am
   

   You know, I’ve had this same conversation with many of my past girl friends. I was simply trying to record a few notes about red-crested finches when MY date decided that it was ruining her pinic to have me write about birds. If I were to give any advice to Buzzy, I’d say let Wolfie have this one, she seems a bit to haughty to be good for him.

8. Devon
   April 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 am
   

   “Practically built-in radar”. So it’s not quite built-in? But good enough for all intents and purposes? lol. I just want to see a bat flying off with a hot dog, how cool would that be?

9. Xenobiologista
   April 26th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
   

   Actually, I WOULD be rather worried if I saw a large flock of bats in broad daylight, thinking either rabies or White-Nose Disease. (The latter is harmless to humans but is devastating the poor little batties in the northeastern US.)

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