Category: General Topics Posts
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The Sky is Falling… or not!
https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech-old/4184607/nasa-north-pole-heavy-sky-fall-experiment/ This article was brought to my attention by my daughter who is a meteorologist/writer. We are both interested in things of scientific nature from Dark Matter to Dark Skies and all sorts of things most people do not even think about. But hey! Somebody has to worry about things of larger scope. For example, […]
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Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
Amazingly this fantasy land is located in the middle of farmlands on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. That rocky outcropping is not a mountain or hill that pushed up, but rather a piece of the rocky basalt that used to cover the whole area. It’s kind of like bas relief hill. Though it may […]
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Consciousness and what it is…
Defining consciousness is like trying to see the back of your head by looking in a mirror. Brenda carroll, nov 2, 2021 Don’t tell me that you can see the back of your head in a mirror by using two mirrors. I said “a” mirror which means one mirror. Besides mirrors only give you a […]
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What it means to be alive…
This is a tardigrade, AKA water bear AKA moss pig. When I was a kid, I would have had nightmares to know that such a creature existed. But now I am amazed that such things exist. Not only do they exist, they outnumber us by a long shot. Millions, even billions, of such microscopic creatures […]
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See Where It Goes
So I bought a bracelet from a non-profit organization working to save endangered species. I ordered a turtle bracelet and it soon arrived in the mail. It is a cute little beaded bracelet with a tiny carved sea turtle on it. There is a card included with my turtle’s name, Foxy, and one of those […]