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Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 12:28 pm
by Cody
Disembodied wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 10:37 am
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!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 10:14 am
by Disembodied
Coincidentally, more on octopus intelligence here, via the BBC iPlayer:

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

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 10:21 am
by 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!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 10:33 am
by 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.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu May 13, 2021 10:37 am
by 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.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 1:21 pm
by Disembodied
Maybe some States need nannies:
US Consumer Product Safety Commission wrote:
Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline.
https://www.themarysue.com/ransomware-g ... stic-bags/

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 2:32 pm
by Cody
Do not fill plastic bags with gasoline.
Are we the most intelligent species on the planet? Sometimes I wonder!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 3:29 pm
by Disembodied
So plastic bags are out, then … on to Plan B:

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Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 3:45 pm
by Cody
Oh dear! Think I'll go live in Octopolis. Where can I get some gills fitted?

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 4:56 pm
by Disembodied
More here on Octopolis (and its sister city, Octlantis):

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

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 5:30 pm
by Cody
And yet more octopus stuff here. Colour me fascinated!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat May 22, 2021 10:16 am
by Cody
Attendances were so small, rather than announcing the team changes to the crowd, we'd announce the crowd changes to the team.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 9:55 am
by Disembodied
US Congressman Louie Gohmer (R, TX) wrote:
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.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:04 am
by Cody
Words fail me!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:32 am
by 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?