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Evidently, sleeping on the road is an everyday thing for asses in Botswana. Google says that one of its Street View cars did not kill a donkey in Botswana, despite what images taken by that Street View car seem to imply.
As CNET notes, the images appeared to have gained steam earlier this week after they were shared on the Web by various users.
Depending on your direction of travel as you click through the map, the donkey appears either to meet an untimely demise, or to rise from a catnap in the road as the Street View car approaches.
Google insists it’s the latter.
In a Google Lat Long blog post titled “Never ass-ume,” Kei Kawai, a Google Maps group project manager, explained the controversy:
Over the last 24-hours concerned members of the public and the media have been speculating on the fate of a donkey pictured in Street View in the Kweneng region of Botswana.Because of the way our 360-degree imagery is put together, it looked to some that our car had been involved in an unseemly hit and run, leaving the humble beast stranded in the road. As our imagery below shows, the donkey was lying in the path – perhaps enjoying a dust bath – before moving safely aside as our car drove past. I’m pleased to confirm the donkey is alive and well.
Over the last 24-hours concerned members of the public and the media have been speculating on the fate of a donkey pictured in Street View in the Kweneng region of Botswana.Because of the way our 360-degree imagery is put together, it looked to some that our car had been involved in an unseemly hit and run, leaving the humble beast stranded in the road.
As our imagery below shows, the donkey was lying in the path – perhaps enjoying a dust bath – before moving safely aside as our car drove past. I’m pleased to confirm the donkey is alive and well.
YOU be the judge.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/google-run-over-donkey_n_2489691.html
When you die, donate your body to science. To be mummified! After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, Alan Billis, a father of three from England, responded to an advertisement seeking a volunteer to be mummified.
“People have been leaving their bodies to science for years,” he said of his decision, “and if people don’t volunteer for anything nothing gets found out.”
When Billis died in January of 2011, Dr. Stephen Buckley and Dr. Jo Fletcher, both archaeology fellows from the University of York, collected his body, intending to preserve it by using the same techniques last practiced by the ancient Egyptians more than 3,000 years ago.
According to the BBC, the mummification techniques used on Billis relied heavily on beeswax, oils, and resins, in addition to long amounts of time in natron, a particularly caustic salt thought to be used by the ancient Egyptians.
The full results of Alan’s mummification will be televised on “I Was Mummified,” a Discovery Channel show set to air on Sunday, Oct. 21.
As for Alan, if the researchers performed their jobs correctly, his body may be around for several thousand years.
Watch a clip from the show HERE.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/alan-billis-mummy-_n_1961820.html?utm_hp_ref=science
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