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Flying Spaghetti Monster

2011-04-26T16:26:09Z

Ashy:

The '''Flying Spaghetti Monster''' is [[awesome]]. He is the god in '''Pastafarianism''', a [[parody]] [[religion]] that began as a critique of the Kansas Board of Education's decision to allow the teaching of [[intelligent design]] in public schools. Arguing that intelligent design was a thinly-veiled attempt to bring [[religion]] into the classroom, Bobby Henderson constructed Pastafarianism as a new theological system and argued that, if schools wished to "teach the controversy," they should teach Pastafarianism alongside evolution and intelligent design<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/27/AR2005082700019.html?nav=most_emailed Verbatim: Noodle This, Kansas - Washington Post]</ref>.

Since then, many [[atheist]]s and [[secularist]]s have claimed to be Pastafarians, implicitly using its obvious shortcomings to criticize actual religions, especially [[Christianity]]. More prominent atheists have also mentioned it, such as [[Richard Dawkins]] in his book ''[[The God Delusion]]'' ''(sic)''.

==Teachings==
Pastafarians worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a flying pile of spaghetti and meatballs, by eating spaghetti and dressing in pirate regalia. Pastafarianism also holds pirates in high esteem, claiming that they were good men whose deeds were perverted by the media. They attribute [[global warming]] to the decrease of pirates, presenting graphs showing that global temperatures have risen over the past centuries in rough inverse correlation to the number of pirates.

According to the letter by Bobby Henderson to the Kansas Board of Education, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has the following powers:
*Flight
*Invisibility
*Can travel through solid matter
*Can create and alter anything
*Plants evidence and changes test results to confuse [[evolutionists]].

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Awesome

2011-04-26T16:26:06Z

Ashy: Created page with "'''Awesome''' is an adjective meaning truly magnificent or great. Examples of awesome things are Stephen Colbert, the Flying Spaghetti Monster an..."

'''Awesome''' is an adjective meaning truly magnificent or great. Examples of awesome things are [[Stephen Colbert]], [[Flying Spaghetti Monster|the Flying Spaghetti Monster]] and AshTree or Ashy. [[Andy Schlafly]] is utterly lacking in awesome. [[Goat|Goats]] are not awesome, as they do not exist.

Penguin

2011-04-26T16:26:02Z

Ashy:

[[Image:Emperor penguins.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Emperor penguins.]]
A number of kinds of flightless seabirds found in the southern hemisphere, '''penguins''' are actively swimming predators, feeding on [[fish]] and [[squid]]. They are pretty damn [[awesome]]. Adelie penguins have been recorded diving to depths of over 2,000 feet.

In addition to the huge colonies found on many islands of the sub-Antarctic, penguins are found in [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], [[South Africa]], and continental South America. The most northerly variety is the [[Galápagos Islands|Galápagos]] penguin.

The largest type is the [[Emperor penguin]] which nests on the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] continent and grows up to four feet tall, but remains of [[fossil]] penguins as tall as a man have been found.

Penguins normally have very sleek feathers designed to allow them to swim very fast. King Penguin chicks, however, do not need to swim as their parents fetch all their food for them. What they do need is to keep warm, so their feathers are brown and woolly, not at all like their adult feathers. For this reason, early antarctic explorers wrongly decided that they were a separate species from their parents and christened them "woolly penguins". <ref>http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins/king.html</ref>

Penguins are eaten at sea by leopard seals and [[orca|killer whale]]s, and on land can fall prey to Antarctic [[skua]]s and feral [[cat]]s. Historically they were commercially processed into oil by enterprises on numerous sub-Antarctic islands.

==Penguin mating habits==

Emperor Penguins are only faithful to their mate for the length of the breeding season. This is necessary, as it requires the undivided attention of both parents to raise a chick in such a hostile environment. However, once the breeding season is over, as few as 15% remain with the same breeding partner and, at times, this rate of fidelity can even drop as low as 5%.<ref>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0819_050819_march_penguins_2.html</ref>

Roy and Silo, two male [[homosexual]] birds in the penguin enclosure at New York's Central Park Zoo, built a nest, incubated an egg, and successfully raised a chick. They exhibited courting behaviour, built a nest together, and ignored all the advances from female penguins. When keepers gave them a fake egg to look after, they behaved like model parents. So, when another breeding pair stopped looking after one of their eggs, the keepers gave it to Roy and Silo who successfully hatched it and raised a chick called Tango. However, the following season Silo left Roy and mated with a female penguin named Scrappy who'd just transferred in from Sea World Zoo in San Diego. <ref> http://www.drthrockmorton.com/article.asp?id=164</ref>

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Decibel

2011-04-26T16:25:56Z

Ashy:

The '''decibel''' is the unit of sound [[pressure]] used to measure [[noise]]. Decibel means 1/10 of a Bel, after [[Alexander Graham Bell]]. Because decibels are such a small measure, they are computed [[logarithm]]ically and cannot be added arithmetically. An increase of ten dB is perceived by human [[ear]]s as a doubling of noise. There is no absolute decibel scale, so the decibel is used to measure sound in comparison to another sound. When the decibel level gets too high, it may cause pain, and ceases to be [[awesome]].
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