On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> You'd need a much bigger bullbar to get one of the big grey things
> airborne and the sound is quite different, more of a loud smack.
But a good photo opportunity for petunias...
"Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability
a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above
the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable
position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to
come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to
terms with not being a whale any more. This is a complete record of its
thoughts from the moment it began its life till the moment it ended it. Ah
... ! What's happening? it thought. Er, excuse me, who am I? Hello? Why am I
here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Calm down, get
a grip now ... oh! this is an interesting sensation, what is it? It's a sort
of ... yawning, tingling sensation in my ... my ... well I suppose I'd
better start finding names for things if I want to make any headway in what
for the sake of what I shall call an argument I shall call the world, so
let's call it my stomach. Good. Ooooh, it's getting quite strong. And hey,
what's about this whistling roaring sound going past what I'm suddenly going
to call my head? Perhaps I can call that ... wind! Is that a good name?
It'll do ... perhaps I can find a better name for it later when I've found
out what it's for. It must be something very important because there
certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of it. Hey! What's this thing? This
... let's call it a tail - yeah, tail. Hey! I can can really thrash it about
pretty good can't I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn't seem to achieve
very much but I'll probably find out what it's for later on. Now - have I
built up any coherent picture of things yet? No. Never mind, hey, this is
really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I'm
quite dizzy with anticipation ... Or is it the wind? There really is a lot
of that now isn't it? And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming
towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a
big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it!
That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the
rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence. Curiously enough, the only thing
that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not
again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of
petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the
universe than we do now. "
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