blue ice
i almost sprained my diaphragm discussing blue ice last night.
you know, when airplanes jettison their toilet tank holdings... and sometimes accidentally it happens over a populated area where some guy is watching tv, and this giant wad of excrement that has turned into an icy meteorite whilst hurtling through the upper atmosphere smashes through his roof and lands in the middle of his living room. what would you say? what could you do? how do you figure out which airline it came from? it's not like they stamp it with the american airlines insignia... and by the way, how does it come out of the airplane? someone suggested that the airplane is sort of like a big flying animal, and gets rid of its waste in the usual animal fashion. maybe it is like a fish, and makes a sort of "chain", if you will, which strings out behind the plane (if you've had fish, you will know exactly what i mean)... but if the "jettisonning" is really a human-controlled function, how does a mistake like that happen? is there a button in the cockpit? if so, what does this button look like, and what does it say? is there a secret code on a panel somewhere? are there devious flight attendants or pilots behind the untimely releases? and it's sort of scary to think they do it over the ocean all the time... is there a percentage of surface-feeding whales out there swimming around with poo concussions? and of course then you start to think about what it was like in the time of the prehistoric giganto-bird pterodactyl things. these are things you never consider! like, just the other day, we were talking about how bats give birth. i had never considered that before, but do you know, those babies just yank themselves right outta there and up onto their mothers as soon as they've got their arm/wing things free? what if human births were like that? fully mobile crawly babies... so many things to ponder...
you know, when airplanes jettison their toilet tank holdings... and sometimes accidentally it happens over a populated area where some guy is watching tv, and this giant wad of excrement that has turned into an icy meteorite whilst hurtling through the upper atmosphere smashes through his roof and lands in the middle of his living room. what would you say? what could you do? how do you figure out which airline it came from? it's not like they stamp it with the american airlines insignia... and by the way, how does it come out of the airplane? someone suggested that the airplane is sort of like a big flying animal, and gets rid of its waste in the usual animal fashion. maybe it is like a fish, and makes a sort of "chain", if you will, which strings out behind the plane (if you've had fish, you will know exactly what i mean)... but if the "jettisonning" is really a human-controlled function, how does a mistake like that happen? is there a button in the cockpit? if so, what does this button look like, and what does it say? is there a secret code on a panel somewhere? are there devious flight attendants or pilots behind the untimely releases? and it's sort of scary to think they do it over the ocean all the time... is there a percentage of surface-feeding whales out there swimming around with poo concussions? and of course then you start to think about what it was like in the time of the prehistoric giganto-bird pterodactyl things. these are things you never consider! like, just the other day, we were talking about how bats give birth. i had never considered that before, but do you know, those babies just yank themselves right outta there and up onto their mothers as soon as they've got their arm/wing things free? what if human births were like that? fully mobile crawly babies... so many things to ponder...