Have you ever asked the Internet a question and received a "No information available"?

Bretrick said:
I asked, "Why do Pelicans seem to become invisible when circling high in the sky"?
Nothing relating to my question was found on the WWW.
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Ask AI! I got:
Pelicans can appear to become invisible when circling high in the sky due to a combination of factors:
  1. Sunlight Reflection: The angle of the sun can cause light to reflect off their feathers in a way that makes them blend into the sky. This can make them hard to see at certain points in their flight.
  2. Thermals: Pelicans often ride thermal air currents to gain altitude with minimal effort. These thermals can create a shimmering effect in the air, which can make the birds seem to disappear and reappear as they circle within these columns of rising air1.
  3. Distance and Altitude: When pelicans are very high up, their size relative to the vast sky makes them harder to spot. The higher they go, the more they blend into the background.
 

CallMeKate said:
Ask AI! I got:
Pelicans can appear to become invisible when circling high in the sky due to a combination of factors:
  1. Sunlight Reflection: The angle of the sun can cause light to reflect off their feathers in a way that makes them blend into the sky. This can make them hard to see at certain points in their flight.
  2. Thermals: Pelicans often ride thermal air currents to gain altitude with minimal effort. These thermals can create a shimmering effect in the air, which can make the birds seem to disappear and reappear as they circle within these columns of rising air1.
  3. Distance and Altitude: When pelicans are very high up, their size relative to the vast sky makes them harder to spot. The higher they go, the more they blend into the background.
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Wow. All the years I have been asking this question and have been ridiculed. "You must be high on drugs" sort of comments.
Thank you so much for this validation of my observations.
I regularly see this happen at Rockingham, Western Australia.
Amazing to see them circling high up, at a certain point in the circle they disappear, then reappear further along the circle.
 
jujube said:
Ogden Nash wrote:

A wonderful bird is the pelican.​

His bill can hold more than his belican.​

He can hold in his beak​

Enough food for a week,​

But I’m damned if I see how the helican.​

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Ha, Nash was widely known for his light limerick verse.

Here is a limerick by Robert Frost.


This biplane is the shape of human flight.
Its name might better be First Motor Kite.
Its makers' name - Time cannot get that wrong,
For it was writ in heaven doubly Wright.
 
On a related issue, something, maybe Yahoo, but I don't know for sure, co-opted my browser a week ago, and now I cannot get the information I need. If I asked something about vultures in the sky, I would be directed to things to buy, amazon, or things that look promising, but just redirect me back to the bull$hit search page.

Luckily, I can right click on my request line and be redirected to a google search, where my requests are understood, and the info, rather than products for sale, becomes available. Anyone else having this problem? I'd like to reinstall google as my default, but I use Linux as an operating system, and all I can find is how to do it in Windows.

I can live with this. It just involves one extra click to get to google, and it's almost automatic muscle memory now. But who needs to add clicks where none were needed before?
 
ohioboy said:
Ha, Nash was widely known for his light limerick verse.

Here is a limerick by Robert Frost.


This biplane is the shape of human flight.
Its name might better be First Motor Kite.
Its makers' name - Time cannot get that wrong,
For it was writ in heaven doubly Wright.
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Off topic a little....My English teacher at school was an American lady from one of the Carolinas... and she was a huge fan of Robert frost...
 

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