Re:Is anyone else getting sick of... (Score 1)

Yes, I also had similar thoughts when I read the summary that there must be a simpler explanation, and I got a good chuckle from the post from fellow slashdot'ers. Scenes of knights bickering back and forth about the aerodynamic properties of laden vs. unladen swallows come to mind. But, I kinda agree with edraven in that I'm disappointed more people have not embraced the researcher's findings as a first step in the scientific process. There are surely ways to test their hypothesis, and the very idea of this prospect seems ideally suited for the tech-savvy slashdot community. Therefore, I'd like to issue a challenge to all slashdot'ers to come up with the next step to test the researcher's conclusions. As a primer, I'm thinking of a collar equipped with a digital compass and a GPS device. There would also have to be some wireless capability to poll the location and orientation of the cattle, and some means of recording the time stamped data into a database.