North_Fork_Trails said...
Hey, Bear-Charger,

Speaking of the number of transistors in modern CPUs, I find that a new Intel quad-core processor demonstrated recently has 847 million transistors.

Also, you seem to have thoroughly scared the bear. It has not returned.

Also, I saw on TV last night that the dread Grizzly Bears, up by Yellowstone, go up into the high country in the summer, above timberline, and tear into big talus slides, ripping the boulders up to get at the Pine Tussock Moth, which shelters beneath the boulders during the day, feeding on flower nectar at night. And the bears lap up these moths pretty much one by one. And these moths help the bears fatten for the coming winter.

That is pretty amazing. Well, not out of keeping with standard bear behavior: tearing up logs to get at grubs, tearing up yellowjacket nests to eat the grubs. But the video of these bears just ripping up two-hundred-pound boulders on vast steep slopes of talus ... amazing ... and then they would go glissade down some snowfield.

Love,

Dad
October 15, 2007 2:46 PM