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Life-Size Whale

Category: Biodiversity
Posted on: March 19, 2007 4:24 PM, by CR McClain

You can now see a life-size whale on the world wide web. That's not a typo either!

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That is so cool!

Posted by: afarensis | March 19, 2007 5:18 PM

Sites shouldn't try to do their own Flash detection - they do it so badly.

Meanwhile - if you're going to link to something that should be a photo, but isn't - please tell us what it is (in this case, Flash).

Posted by: Stephen Downes | March 20, 2007 2:33 PM

Stephen,
I apologize that you seem to be frustrated by the link or I didn't include the precise specifics of what the link actually was. I disagree that this is a bad use of flash. The goal of the website is to convey the size of whale and it does so brilliantly. I would go so far as to say it is the best website I have seen this year. Better flash sites may exist but I am positive they will rank far below this on content.

Posted by: CR McClain | March 20, 2007 2:41 PM

Super cool, but where are the barnacles and stuff? This whale seems exceedingly clean skinned compared to the ones David Attenborough has shown me. ;)

Posted by: ellie | March 21, 2007 1:56 PM

It would have definitely been much better with some invertebrates attached.

Posted by: CR McClain | March 21, 2007 1:58 PM

That's superb - thanks! I posted the link on the Bad Astronomy forum in the General Science section in case others are interested. It's a great idea; it took me a while to scroll on my 15 inch screen, but I went to the tip of his/her bottom tail. I imagined marking points with a ruler along an actual whale, and that does give you a sense of its size (consider the time it would take to mark a cow with a ruler).

Thanks again - I'm unofficially giving you a Blog of the Day award just for that post alone. But I've been enjoying your other entries, too. ;-)

Posted by: Melusine | March 21, 2007 4:59 PM