Time for some more weather news. El Nino is strengthening in the Pacific. This means, marine life is disrupted. Giant squids are invading beaches where surfers like to play. If crops fail in major sectors due to El Nino, this can cause the worst sort of inflation: food price hikes. Already, the price of food hasn’t fallen much at all from where it was during the height of the last burst of inflation. The price of housing and new cars are much lower but the price of breakfast cereal has risen, relative to cars and houses.
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Jumbo flying squid have invaded the shallow waters off San Diego,California, spooking scuba divers and beachgoers after washing up dead on the beaches.
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The carnivorous cephalopods, which weigh up to 45kg (100lb), came up from the depths last week, with swarms of them roughing up unsuspecting divers. Some reported tentacles enveloping their masks and yanking at their cameras and gear.
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Stories of close encounters with the squid have chased many divers out of the water and created a whirlwind of excitement among those torn between their personal safety and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to swim with the deep-sea giants.
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Once, long ago, I had a dream where I was a giant squid. They have big eyes and use their tentacles as hands. They shoot through the water by expelling water under pressure and can go really fast. They travel tail-first. They communicate with each other in odd ways. It was fascinating, imaging being one of these mysterious creatures. Cephalopods are interesting creatures. Where I went to school in Germany in 1968, the University there has this museum with lots of cephalopod fossils. The Ammonite shells were as bigger than car tires, for example.
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Here is an Ammonite in Germany, I don’t know if it is Tübingen. It is the size of some of the ones I saw.
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YouTube – Dazed Giant Squid Wash Up On California Beach After Earthquake
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There are old stories about whales battling with giant squids as well as ships. Here is a computer recreation of a whale/squid battle. Evidently, whales like to eat squids but squids do fight back when cornered.
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YouTube – Animal Face-Off – Sperm Whale vs Giant Squid (in Spanish)
When the deep ocean temperatures change with an El Nino event, we see disruptions of sea life. This is probably why the denizens of the deepest parts of the ocean are suddenly washing up on the beaches of Southern California. Much sea life follows ocean currents and when these reverse, they get ‘flushed’ out of normal habitats. Sometimes, this disrupts their ability to find food and they get weaker and weaker.
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We know that whole sectors of life forms can suddenly be terminated. The giant sea Ammonites, for example, were victims of the same ecological/astronomical forces that killed of the cute trilobites. This was part of the Permian extinction event. In 2006, at my own blog, I discussed research about the Permian Extinction: Earth news: Yet Another Big Asteroid Strike Found In California
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Namely, the strata in the rocks often change with the fossils…quite abruptly. And at significant times, across many ecosystems in many areas simultaneously. A sudden change in percipitation can cause tremendous, swift changes in the landscape and a place that was, say, a fertile valley or a rich swamp, can instantly, in one year, be covered over with tons of sand or mud or other run-off items which we see over and over again in the geological record.
(AP) Researchers studying rocks from Antarctica have found chemical evidence that a huge meteorite smashed the Earth 251 million years ago and caused the greatest extinction event in the planet’s history, killing about 90 percent of all life.
The extinction, which scientists call the Permian-Triassic event, came some 185 million years before a similar meteorite collision with the planet killed off the dinosaurs.
“It appears to us that the two largest mass extinctions in Earth history … were both caused by catastrophic collisions” with meteoroids, the researchers say in their study appearing this week in the journal Science.
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And these are so obvious but when it comes to the other obvious events when the world suddenly dropped the ball on a host of previously successful species and suddenly veers off in a totally new direction, these happenstances are not singular at all but are COMMON. Here are some past articles I wrote on the topic of how weather systems and extinctions operate:
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February, 2006: Culture of Life Science News: Scientists Now Think Global Warming Caused Greatest Extinction During At End of Permian
This is a schematic map of Pangea at the end of the Permian Era, 250 million years ago. The land masses were, except for at the poles, very hot, the averages at over 100 F. Scientists now think the ocean’s north/south circulation shut down and the seas became too tepid and stagnant so 90% of all sea life perished while on the land, 70% of the fauna died and oxygen levels were so depressed, the air was breathable only slightly above sea level.
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From Science Magazine:.
Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions
Raymond B. Huey* and Peter D. Ward
A catastrophic extinction occurred at the end of the Permian Period. However, baseline extinction rates appear to have been elevated even before the final catastrophe, suggesting sustained environmental degradation. For terrestrial vertebrates during the Late Permian, the combination of a drop in atmospheric oxygen plus climate warming would have induced hypoxic stress and consequently compressed altitudinal ranges to near sea level. Our simulations suggest that the magnitude of altitudinal compression would have forced extinctions by reducing habitat diversity, fragmenting and isolating populations, and inducing a species-area effect. It also might have delayed ecosystem recovery after the mass extinction..
Here is a view from above showing how oxygen was cut off by mountains so populations were isolated from each other.
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This shows how low the oxygen level was relative to mountains, seen from the side.
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There are many reasons for us to try to understand all the extinctions because we are bioforms here and we know we can go extinct. Of course, with lunatics whipping up wars all the time, many we will beat Mother Nature to the punch. Right?
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But if sanity prevails, it does behoove us to figure out the planetary past and what dangers to keep a wary eye on. To me, this is simple when it comes to things like asteroids and comets. They are, without any doubt, grave dangers to us. Another is volcanic eruptions of mega volcanoes. Then there are more subtle but insidiously dangerous threats like destroying our air and water! And the data about global warming grows more and more dire, not less and less dangerous.
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This latest information is terrifying! Not only did the planet hyper-heat, this killed off a host of sealife that produces masses of oxygen and the loss of these tiny creatures nearly killed off the luxuriant flora and fauna on land. Life existed in only a few scattered “bio-islands” and there was reduced communication between these outposts, all creatures were locked into isolation chambers until the earth cooled off again and then evolution resumed with great force and we all descended from the survivors of this ancient Noah’s ark.
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National Center of Atmospheric Research:Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have created a computer simulation showing Earth’s climate in unprecedented detail at the time of the greatest mass extinction in the planet’s history. The work gives support to a theory that an abrupt and dramatic rise in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide triggered the massive die-off 251 million years ago. The research appears in the September issue of Geology.
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“The results demonstrate how rapidly rising temperatures in the atmosphere can affect ocean circulation, cutting off oxygen to lower depths and extinguishing most life,” says NCAR scientist Jeffrey Kiehl, the lead authorThanks to increasingly powerful computers, scientists can now run detailed climatological programs that take in many more variables than ever before in order to flash forward probabliities to some sort of conclusion. So, running variables on a 50 million year scale, feeding in a small rise in CO2 each year and this was the shocking result.
18 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit (10 to 30 degrees Celsius) higher than today, and extensive volcanic activity had released large amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere over a 700,000-year period.
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To solve the puzzle of how those conditions may have affected climate and life around the globe, the researchers turned to the Community Climate System Model (CCSM). One of the world’s premier climate research tools, the model can integrate changes in atmospheric temperatures with ocean temperatures and currents. Research teams had previously studied the Permian extinction with more limited computer models that focused on a single component of Earth’s climate system, such as the ocean.Well, we now know the upper limit! Severe desertfication happened back then. The reason why we have so much oil to pump is because of all that lush biomass rotted and was quickly covered by sand and gravel and then compressed by mud from rising seas. We are literally repeating the mess of the Permian extinction by burning the rotted carcasses of the living creatures who dwelled on this earth so long ago.
The CCSM’s simulations showed that ocean circulation was even more stagnant than previously thought. In addition, the research demonstrated the extent to which computer models can successfully simulate past climate events. The CCSM appeared to correctly capture key details of the late Permian, including increased ocean salinity and sea surface temperatures in the high latitudes that paleontologists believe were 14 degrees Fahrenheit (8 degrees Celsius) higher than present.
Understanding the dynamics of the ocean currents is important and scientists already fear the mighty Gulf Stream is weakening due to nonsalty water draining off of Greenland. .
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The most recent study of the Atlantic currents show weakening of the rate of flow. Some scientists have speculated that a slower current could trigger a sudden ice age if all other meteorlogical and solar actions coincide to produce a plunge in the northern jet stream. The debate about this oscillation possibility rages on. Understanding this process is vital for our survival.
Back when I wrote this, I didn’t know the new information. This is far more alarming.
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The great Siberian eruptions occured at the end of the Permian and this was like Mother Nature running a huge SUV non stop. She does what She does but we can’t be that fatalistic, we have to do the right thing, not the wrong thing, since it pays off handsomely, namely, we get to live on as organisms.
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As usual, we take tiny steps forwards, here is an example, the British are getting kind of worried since they are on the front lines of so many bad things here (forget Florida or any Gulf state, they are doomed).Governments are wrestling with problems of rising energy demands, rising costs and the spectre of climate change. In this week’s Green Room, Dr Matt Prescott argues there is an easy first step to dealing with all three issues – banning the traditional light bulb.
Ever since I began to use solar energy, I used only fluorecent bulbs. I never use the cheap bulbs. I agree they should be outlawed but bet this will never happen any more than people will respond by doing the right thing rather than the destructive, cheap thing. This is why people are going to be caught in a trap of their own devising.
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Simple things like building houses facing the optimal direction for solar heating or keeping cool depending on the climate, is a no-no nearly universally in this country. I must be living on one of all of 1% of houses deliberately sited and designed to maximize natural forces to my benefit. This is woeful and suicidal, our building for no future. Even if we build vast bubbles to protect us, the planet will die around us and end up with less oxygen than Mars.
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Now, recently, people think that I am terminally stupid because I am pissed off at Prince Charles and his rich buddies who are yelling that the world will come to an end due to global warming…and they want us to reduce our ‘carbon footprints’ while obviously, none of the rich are bothering reducing their Big Foot carbon foot prints. I accuse the rich and powerful of scare mongering because they are all obviously not going to change a single thing they are doing, if this might save the planet. They want you and I to reduce our own appetites while they all dine on caviar (which is going extinct, too!)
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The planet earth has undergone tremendous agonies that killed off most life forms. Generally speaking, this is due to both geological forces such as plate tectonic movements as well as sudden exterior events such as asteroids slamming into the planet, for example. We are still in an Ice Age cycle despite the melting ice due to two geological forces: Antarctica still sits on the bottom of the planet, thus, being rather icy. And the Arctic is still being pinched together by both Eurasia and North America which are being shoved northwards. Once both crash into each other at the top of the globe, there will be a very long Ice Age, not global warming.
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Unless, of course, the sun changes nature which it has done several times in the past! The mega-forces that create our climate are only partially in our own control. We should, of course, minimize pollution as much as possible. And we should not exterminate all other species by eating them or despoiling their home bases.
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El Nino threat blows commodity prices higher – Telegraph
The United Nations expects that the world population will hit 7bn in early 2012 – and rise above 9bn by 2050. Despite the technical innovations of the so-called “green revolution” after the Second World War which increased crop yields through fertilisers and large-scale farming, worries still persist that population growth is putting the global food chain under too much pressure. The possibility of a Malthusian catastrophe is once again being discussed.
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. The most vital factor in food production is the weather. If the sun doesn’t shine or the rains don’t come then it can spell disaster. Over the last two weeks, meteorologists worldwide have been predicting just that. A weather event that happens once every three to seven years is under way – and weather patterns across the southern hemisphere could be sent into turmoil over the next six months. This has price implications for commodities, but it could be disastrous for people in the poorer parts of the world.
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. Across the southern hemisphere farmers are preparing for El Niño. Properly known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation – and often shortened to ENSO – this involves a warming of the oceans in the Pacific that sets off a chain of events that cause droughts in Australia and floods in South America. It is likely that crops will fail. . It’s not only the hungry who need to watch its development, but businesses all over the world must also keep an eye on events as ENSO has the potential to substantially alter cost drivers.
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Supply chains can be disrupted, input costs can soar and logistics for global operations become a nightmare. Add in the social and political turmoil that this can bring, it is clear that global businesses ignore ENSO at their peril. Rising sea surface temperatures across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean herald El Niño, which could disrupt the rains in major cereal producing regions, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has warned.
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There are things we call ‘perfect storms’ when all sorts of things coincide in time. During the Great Depression, for example, there was this ENSO event that turned the middle of America into a massive dust bowl. Crop failures in Southeast Asia weakened colonial rule of the European empires. Stalin made an agricultural difficulty in the Ukraine into a very vicious ethnic cleansing horror. The 1930′s was a ‘Malthusian’ event because of the credit bubble collapse dovetailing with natural disasters.
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Just as the oil crisis period of the 1970′s coincided with foul weather conditions in the farm belts leading to many bankruptcies as well as crop viral diseases. Yes, the viral empire like showing up when things go bad. One might suggest that these ancient life forms that survived all extinction events are one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Actually, are part of ‘Famine’ as well as ‘Pestilence’. Both ride together.
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Here is the official El Nino website:
El Niño: Research, Forecasts and Observations
Today’s El Niño status
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The part we must observe is offshore of Peru and Columbia, stretching across the Equatorial Pacific Ocean towards New Guinea and Indonesia. As this section turns red, the El Nino is strengthening.
If you click on the above link, you get access to monthly maps predicting rain and temperature differentials. Note the cold spot in the lower Great Lakes region. This has generated many storms for us living east of that region. This cold spot has been sitting over this region all summer long and evidently will continue to do this for yet another month. This will interfere with harvesting virtually all the major crops including simple hay.
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My brother-in-law in Alaska has been in this long-term heat wave. Perhaps this is partially due to the rising El Nino currents. When the Atlantic Ocean is in a cold cycle (it has hot and cold cycles, too), we get lots of rain and ferocious winter blizzards that come off of the Atlantic Ocean. And huge waves hammer the shoreline, causing lots of damage. If you click on the link below, you can see a short movie showing how the ocean surface temperatures morph and change over time, as viewed as if we are looking from the Andes mountains in Peru:
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TAO / TRITON data display, visualization and animation
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the cold in the midwest….massive damage done to growing crops if a killing freeze happens early. i remember one year the later planted corn did not mature because of a hard freeze in early september. the crop was really “chaffy” and light weight. freezes in october mean nothing. a freeze in august would spell utter complete doom. it is getting down into the 40′s tonight for probable record low temperatures. sleep well.
We have had night temperatures in the 40s almost all summer long. Only twice since May, have I slept with a window open.
and about mass die-offs? i remember this well. about 10-15 years ago, i went by one of my ponds and was amazed to see thousands? of dead fish on the banks of my pond and floating in the water. dead fish everywhere and they died all at once overnight. i think the pond was way over populated and maybe there was some pond moss growing in the water that summer that was unusual, but the entire damn pond died in one night! i think about that every time i read about the worlds population going up and up. apparently the tipping point was reached in the pond and it happened overnight.
god i hate mowing hay. i have a new kuhn disc mower. as i mow hay, pheasant and quail chicks do not get the hell out of harms way! the big birds fly away to divert me i think but the chicks….instead, they run down the edge where i am driving the tractor, then the little chicks dart into the grass right in front of the mower. and i remember hiring someone to do my baling one year. and sticking out of the round bales was baby deer feet and legs….just the legs. legless baby deer are left to wriggle in the mowed hay. then they were baled up. i mow a lot of snakes somehow too. if i throw the tarp that covers the mower back, the underside is covered in blood. last week i got diesel fuel for the tractors right next to a semi full of pigs going to the slaughter plant in town. you all have a lot to answer for if you eat i think. and a nice gravy job with benefits in town would be easier i think….keep you innocent longer. life is not nice at all wc.
it could be worse. i could be trying to ignore trucks full of people going to the processing plant! gads.
and everybody is just itching for a fight. what a world. thanks.
Now, recently, people think that I am terminally stupid because I am pissed off at Prince Charles and his rich buddies who are yelling that the world will come to an end due to global warming…and they want us to reduce our ‘carbon footprints’ while obviously, none of the rich are bothering reducing their Big Foot carbon foot prints. I accuse the rich and powerful of scare mongering because they are all obviously not going to change a single thing they are doing, if this might save the planet. They want you and I to reduce our own appetites while they all dine on caviar (which is going extinct, too!)
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you should have a disclaimer… all princes and their associated servants are not allowed to view this site at risk of rated R awesomeness and that they agree to VIEW the vicious half truths… and not truly believe that some asshole that consumes 100x the average golabl warmin’ should give a rats ass…. dont for the most part anyways
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its like my nephew in law says, IM a PRINCESS ‘hes got a sister’ its hella cool
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and global warmin’… lets go green i dont buy it, but its totally a efficiency thing with me… all the electrons we can produce on a cheapness scale of 1 ‘see hydro and nuclear’ we should allow… all the chem’ homo princy fag ass fuel spill sloppy old porno energy we should work on eliminating
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and those that produce wonders of entertainment have diluted fans
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dont be pwnd’ too quick now
Sounds like you all are mowing too fast. When I mow, the swallows swoop around me, eating the insects I flush out. Any ground dwellers get away, easily. Once, I mowed next to a fawn. I avoided mowing that section until the next day and the doe removed the fawn.
We can do things fast or we can take our time. It is our choice.
To A Mouse.
On turning her up in her nest with the plough, November 1785.
- Robert Burns
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
What makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!
I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
‘S a sma’ request;
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss’t!
Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!
Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell -
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.
That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Still thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me;
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects dreaer!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!
The local hawks actually hover over me when I hay the fields, waiting for me to flush out any mice or moles.
That particular squid can be a very dangerous one.
Its also called the Humboldt Squid. It has killed quite a few night fishing Mexicans in the Sea of Cortez over the years. They stay deep during the day and then come to the surface at night. They have very sharp beaks and are unpredictable.Sometimes they will start out curious and then turn aggressive for no apparent reason.
I have kayaked down in this country years ago and were told about these nasty things. We used to kayak around Bahia de la Conception and the coast line between Mulege and Loreto.
Great article in Outside Magazine on the Humboldt Squid
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200607/sea-of-cortez-humboldt-squid-1.html
death by squid….what a way to go!
and now i do mow much, much slower now elaine. when i first got the new disc mower, after a lifetime of mowing with an old sickle mower, i was amazed that i could not plug up. it literally was possible to mow wet heavy hay in tractor road gear. the poor beasties in the field pfobably did not even know what was happening i would be on them so fast. now, i mow slow as hell too. the problem with this is on some windless days, it has been so wet, and i am going much slower, bugs, bugs and more bugs the indestructible aggressive kind that look like flat metal triangles land all over me and the tractor and since i am a humble poor boy i mow with jd 3020 and 4020 with no cab and these horrors attack my face. i swallowed so many, i had a sore throat for days after.
mow fast? no bugs crawling all over me but slaughter innocent critters. mow slo? critters escape mostly, i hope, but i don’t. and i bet i had hundreds of swallow type birds swooping all around me two days ago too. i don’t know where the come from.
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i am going to stop posting about religion all. cc has made me see the errors of my ways. plus this morning, i realize i am a gnostic basically. the year before i was born, the gnostic texts started being re-discovered after millennium. coincidence? i think it was a miracle! anyway, i found a home. i was born a natural gnostic i think.
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from gnostic society main page:
“….Like the Adam and Eve of Gnosticism’s alternative Genesis (see sidebar following article), the recipient of gnosis awakens one day to the sobering realization that the world we live in is, in Hoeller’s words, “the flawed creation of a flawed Creator,” and that we are “strangers, lost in a world that is ill-fitting and absurd.” From that moment on, perception is altered, belief is cast aside in favor of experience, dogma is abandoned and the search for the True God begins. Oh, yes, Virginia, there is a God, if not quite the God of your Fathers. This God would not bar you from the priesthood, or seek to keep you barefoot and pregnant, but this God also might not be invoked by a Tori Amos song. This God takes some getting used to.
If it’s not apparent how dangerous such an altered worldview is, and why it once led straight to dungeon and stake, consider this: Just as you can’t smoke a joint and take a politician seriously, you can’t experience gnosis and take the business of the world — producing and consuming — to be of terribly great consequence. Gnosticism embodies the eternal counterculture, and as with expansion of consciousness by any other means, it has always been a grave threat to the established order. In the Gnostic Genesis, not only is Eve the heroine and the serpent in effect her fairy godmother, but the tyrant of Eden is none other than Jehovah, the Old Testament God who would “have no others before him.” The Gnostics know him as the Demiurge — the “Half-Maker” — or Ialdabaoth. So who or what, then, is the God of the Gnostics? It is both aeons away, and closer than we think. It is, to quote Hoeller’s liturgy, “that whose name not but the silence can express.” ….”
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For nearly two millennia, the family secret was safely in the crypt, but in 1945, as we shall see, the ground shifted, and in the early years of our new century, thanks in some ironic measure to the very mainstream success of The Matrix and The Da Vinci Code, the vault burst open.
does this finally make me a somewhat of a hippy at 62? do you suppose? heh. well i still like merle haggard and hank williams, jr. i am out of here to go rake if the hay is finally fit. i am free! i am free!
yes i am home. read this article from:
http://www.gnosis.org/LAWeekly.htm
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“….And he’s decidedly not prescribing his doctrine as an opiate for the masses when he cautions, “When encountering Gnosticism in the spiritual supermarket, we may be tempted to embrace some parts of its worldview and disregard others . . . such as the presence of evil in the very fabric of the universe.” Although it may be more accurate to characterize Gnosticism as mystical existentialism than the nihilism it has often been labeled, it’s clearly an acquired and rarefied taste, like absinthe or Nick Drake or, to cite another cinematic exorciser, David Lynch.
Lynch’s work has frequently been pegged by film critics as “Manichaean,” and Mani, the third-century Babylonian prophet who framed the world in terms of the eternal struggle between co-equal forces of Light and Darkness, is a Gnostic hero. Hoeller has seen Mulholland Drive, and I have a hunch he might view the gruesome bum with the blue box who occupies the alley behind Winkie’s Diner as an embodiment of the Demiurge, manipulating reality so as to keep the characters (and us) from seeing the truth. His reply is Jungian: “I can’t say if David Lynch is familiar with the writings, but Gnostic archetypes are present in the underground stream of the subconscious, a place he clearly taps into.”
Aside from its dismissal of Judaic law and its challenge to Papal Writ, one of the things that undoubtedly drove the suppression of Gnostic scripture was its depiction of “the prostitute,” Mary Magdalene, as holding equal status with the 12 disciples and special rank with the Son of God himself. Like Eve, M.M. “gets it” before the guys do, not infrequently prompting grumblings of “What’s up with her?” This brings us to the zingers breathlessly reported by Dan Brown in the widely read pages of The Da Vinci Code.
Since Bishop Hoeller is a bona fide scholar of the lore alluded to by the now stupendously rich Mr. Brown, the question must be posed: Was it some sort of tantric sex thing between J.C. and M.M.?
“Although I’m delighted by the interest in Gnosticism it’s stirred up,” Hoeller says, “and by its part in restoring Mary Magdalene to her place at the side of Jesus, I must confess that my regard for The Da Vinci Code is considerably less than for The Matrix….”
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i will never comment about religion again finally.
I’ve read that cephalopods are extremely intelligent. Almost as smart as us. They play tricks on handlers in aquariums and have been known to escape their tanks to explore.
After I read that, I could no longer eat them. It turned into a form of cannibalism for me.
I think it was written in Kon-Tiki, that the thing that made Heyerdahl & Co most nervous were not the sharks but the giant squids. They heard a lot of tales about boats and rafts being pulled under. At night they would see eyes watching them from the water. He concluded that these were the squid.
Openly hidden, your religion is gnome, eh?
Cephalods are smart like crows or raccoons.
who knows what openly hidden’s religion is….perhaps openly hidden will tell us one day, but I doubt it highly based on all the evidence I have “sensed” to date.
Here is a daily prediction: CA is a tumultous place and therefore tumultous things happen in CA. I lived there for over a year so I have standing to make this statement. Why else do you think all the “dreamers” (especially the young ladies who “want to make it big”).
And now, here is a song:
“Track 14″
Sorry, no link can be provided, but it is a great song. My daughter gave it to me for Father’s day.
why else do all the young dreamers go to CA is what I meant to day.
Jeepers. There is no such thing as perfection, but we do know a thing or two about communication – do we not?
Figure it out yourself, but enjoy the moment if you can.
“The giant sea Ammonites, for example, were victims of the same ecological/astronomical forces that killed of the cute trilobites. This was part of the Permian extinction event.”
No, the Ammonites had their big day after the Triobites were long gone..
The surviving lines disappeared along with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.