What is the meaning of the whale tail?
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are you speaking of the story of Jonah? a whale tale?
698128
Whales do not have body hair. In utero they have sparse hairs that are lost further along in development. they do not have any actual hair on their body, not even little ones that we cannot see with the naked eye.Hairs along the body would severely interfere with their hydrodynamics and increase drag, thus reducing their efficiency in the water, so it would not behoove them to maintain hairs.
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In the beginning the Spirit hovered over the waters.  Hovered means like a bird over her eggs.\n\nIt signifies wings also.
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The whale. It is indeed a mammal.
56641
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha well its either a whale or a penis
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To simplify my life\nStop worrying about what others think\nTo see a whale breech!
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A bit vague I know, but this is the best I can come up with.\n\nThere is a nautical expression "cats paw" which refers to a light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.\n\nOtherwise, in geology, the only other references to "cats paw" are features such as glaciers or rock formations which are called this because they resemble a cats paw. (see link)
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Halley's Comet has a tail when it gets relatively close in orbit to the sun. A popular misconception is that the tail is travelling in the direction opposite to its direction of travel. Infact the tail is always pointing away from the sun. This is because the solar wind is "blowing" the fine ice particles away from the surface of the comet. This is highly reflective so we can see it easily from a distance.
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Thank God the Whale Tail fad is finally over!!
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No\n\nA quote from a presentation to “The Whale in Science and Culture” symposium at Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon, January 21, 2005\n\n"We love whales because they are gentle, in spite of their large size. We think we see a quizzical twinkle in their eyes, and maybe we do. Whale’s eyes are located directly above the corners of their lips, near the shoulders. They are small, about the size of a grapefruit in right whales and sperm whales. The eyelids, though present, are so swollen with fatty matter that they are practically immobile. There are no eyelashes. So the eye is there looking back at us curiously—or at least we think so."
1038290
Less than what I pay for the tail.
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er, here we go (and this is straight off the top of my head)\n\nNo skeleton (endo or exo)means that they cannot self support. (neg)\nNo real means of self propulsion (neg)\nMostly translucent (pos) (from a prey point of view)\nSome have stingers (pos) for food capture and defense\n\nand thats all i've got. It's been too many years since school. sorry
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If the tail of a comet disappears, it means that it is outside the distance from the sun at which it is being boiled by the solar wind. Until it is completely dispersed, or crashes into a planet or moon, it will continue on its outward path until it begins to fall back into the sun, and when it is close enough, it will again begin to boil in the raging storm of particles blasted out by the sun.\nSince comets (we now understand) are composed of "dirty ice" full of complex compounds, it may be possible that a comet impacting the ancient Earth brought the "spark of life" to our world.\nSo if you want to think of comet tails as "going out" and if you want to regard them with awe and worship, by all means do so. You may be right.
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He did give you a tail. He just put it in front instead of in the back.\n\nThat way you can wag it anytime you want.
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One of the transitional forms of the whale, ambulocetus was crocodile-like, build to spring from the water and catch prey on shore.  Killer whales still do this without legs, thrusting themselves up on beaches to snatch seals.\n\nUnfortunately, whale and dolphin beachings are a different evolutionary process.  A number of mechisms have been proposed, and noise polution is high on the list.  It may be that ship engines and industrial noise from the shore cause them to hear the land as open water.  Other mechanisms are proposed, but I don't think we've found one answer (if there is onle one) yet.
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Right now it has no tail as it is about 18 years from reaching aphelion.  Right now it is basically a big chunk of rocky ice.  In the year 2062 it will be at perhelion and will have a very long tail.  I would say that it's tail has no certain value at any given time.
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The expression is "too close to the wind."  It is an expression based on sail ships.  To sail upwind, a sail ship must tack, follow a zig-zag path each leg of which is only slightly up wind.  If a pilot gets too greedy and tries to sail too directly into the wind, he will stall.  That is called sailing "too close to the wind" short for "too close to the direction from which the wind is blowing."\n\nAs a saying, it means trying to accomplish too much too fast.  If you try to do too much, you can end up accomplishing nothing.