Quote of the week!

[Cody]

There's a good piece here:

Indeed - a very good read. Thanks! To my shame, as a young man I enjoyed eating pulpo. But I learnt, and have not eaten any since!

[Disembodied]

Coincidentally, more on octopus intelligence here, via the BBC iPlayer:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000vx48

[Cody]

Damn! These days, one has to sign in to use the BBC iPlayer, and I refuse to do that.

In this third episode, he visits an extraordinary site off the coast of Australia, Octopolis, where the animals have developed a kind of city under the sea. He dives down to Octopolis and observes a site where generations of octopuses have learned to live close together, beginning to evolve new ways of communicating with each other.

For normally solitary critters, that's remarkable!

[Disembodied]

If you've not read it already, you might enjoy Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin … of course you'll need to read Children of Time first, which features some other eight-legged critters.

[Cody]

Damn, it had to be arachnids - one critter that I really don't like! <shudders>
I'll give it a go though - if my poor old eyes can handle reading a book.

[Disembodied]

Maybe some States need nannies:

Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline.

https://www.themarysue.com/ransomware-g ... stic-bags/

[Cody]

Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline.

Are we the most intelligent species on the planet? Sometimes I wonder!

[Disembodied]

So plastic bags are out, then … on to Plan B:

[Cody]

Oh dear! Think I'll go live in Octopolis. Where can I get some gills fitted?

[Disembodied]

More here on Octopolis (and its sister city, Octlantis):

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/o ... or-metazoa

[Cody]

And yet more octopus stuff here. Colour me fascinated!

[Cody]

Attendances were so small, rather than announcing the team changes to the crowd, we'd announce the crowd changes to the team.

[Disembodied]

I understand from what’s been testified to, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, you want very much to work on the issue of climate change. I was informed by the past director of NASA that they’ve found the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. We know there’s been significant solar flare activity, and so … is there anything that the National Forest Service or the BLM can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate.

This would be an interesting way to discover that the US National Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management have, all this time, been Level II Civilizations (at a minimum) on the Kardashev scale.

[Cody]

Words fail me!

[Disembodied]

It's always (R). It's frequently (TX), but it's always (R).

Scientists: We need to stop burning fossil fuels.
Republicans: Wait! Have you considered moving the moon?