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Wonders Norbits

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Proud to be an Australian, finally! Quenthel Beanre, current Matron Mother of Menzoberranzan's first house and most favoured Drow of the Spider Queen.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · Jul 28

Footprints in the mud. Thank mud. All praise be to mud. Without mud, we wouldn't know about the Cambrian explosion! 115K year old footprints from SAPIENS! or very similar foot to us, certainly no Neanderthal, experts say. In Saudi Arabia, but I reckon humans of all kinds have been making pond jumps.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 31m

Reminds me of that politician mentioned by George Orwell in The Road to Wiggin Peer, when asked why he put baths in the houses when they'd only grow weed in them and don't shower anyway. He said, 'I didn't put bathrooms in the factory workers houses for them, I did it for me!"

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 12h

A haunted house but it's just a nation without public education.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 38m

I think we should start putting plans together and sending them into space, we not going to last long as organic things anyway, I'll give you that much.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 40m

From a science fiction story my favourite school teacher told me, second favourite, biology teacher, impressed that I had recognised a native species of fern when he had stupidly thought it was some kind of grass (? really?), when we looked it up in book. Mathematics teacher favourite, the calculus!

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 46m

@godfly.bsky.social @drstevenhobbs.bsky.social Intelligent species hosted light-based space virus! Things SETI look out for I suspect? Interesting idea, in a billions of years old universe.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 51m

And send more plans out into space?

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 52m

Haha, it's an interesting idea. One alien species, figured that they'd send the details of how to build a machine out into space, because they wanted to expand, using light, they would 'highjack' an intelligent species, who would use the plans to build the machine, that would then take over the civ!

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 55m

Because their own planet had run out of food, they left. To not make it happen again they decide to plant and harvest human beings for food. World War Z!

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 57m

Do you not think that would be an important definition? What if we met an intelligent space faring species who didn't understand they were the products of biological evolution and viewed us as food provided by their god instead, that would be fun.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 59m

Our civilisation is only a maximum 200 years, say, since we could use radio waves and would know an alien for what it was rather than a god, I guess, because we also know where we came from now, not a god, but through biological evolution like them, so, since Darwin we've been a true civilisation.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

You see, if it happened once per 100 years, say, like a Supernova and such that created much of the gold and shit heavier than iron about the place. The rare earths that make our new computer machines work, per galaxy, and the range was only a galaxy or so, for matter transmitter, 100K light years?

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

I feel the same way though about the scientists warnings regarding the climate, being continually ignored, as they are. Oh, and it's officially a hoax now, in America.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

Trusting that they have come to the same conclusion in being able to travel the stars, they might be able to do so, in long chains of matter transmitters build by species and left in the 'on' position, because they might be intermittent and/or have other restriction parameters, like distance still.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

@godfly.bsky.social So what we need to do is build something co-operatively with another intelligent species without being able to speak to them or advise each other, but merely presuming in their existence, like one end of a matter transmission machine, something like that/trusting in counterparts.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

Or said I'd date my daughter on TV. Supposed to make her feel less ugmo, daddy? Is that why she had all the plastic surgery or is that just normal and a fundamental requirement for royalty level wealthy American 'noble women', hard to tell. Bring her handbag design qualifications to the White House!

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

? What does a government shutdown imply? We don't have those in Australia, never heard of it in the UK either. Reminds me of Robocop, when the police go on strike, sounds like America at the moment, with armies in the streets? Is it because your police on strike over a gov. shutdown? Stupid country.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1h

Aust. politics has descended to where we have hard right Liberals (undermining the party leadership) publicly declaring the party will become obscure and die if they adopt the far-right extremism of Trump and Farage. Warns Aust.'s a smaller country with smarter people in it than either the UK or US.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

It's probably worse than you think, is all I'm saying, especially its effects on the rest of the world and how they perceive of America, and whilst I know many Americans who I consider the best of all people. and Americans generally. Especially when it comes to their inability to control their fate.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Elon is merely fake boasting, I reckon, when he says he rigged the last election so that Trump won, if he said such a thing. No, the American people, more than 50% of them believing in fairies, voted for their favourite populist friendly Nazi.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Lager Staten? Konservat-Lagerstätten, well preserved fossils of soft bodied parts of organisms. I like the trilobites they find in these conditions, can see their eggs! They look so much more like cockroaches when decked out with their soft parts! @johnmoffitt.bsky.social How did they ever die out!

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 3h

Amazing, like the Lord Howe Island rediscovered stick insect, A TINY CRAG OF ROCK, just off the main island had some specimens on it who were not eaten by European introduced rats!

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1d

He ain't leaving that's for sure. Likely say he was cheated in 2020 so he's keeping the job another four years, the American people gave him the immunity for crimes and any actions he takes when they elected him after he failed at a coup, any further, guaranteed to happen, insurrection, their fault.

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Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1d

Some guy, Rosevelt.

Wonders Norbits @wondersnorbet.bsky.social · 1d

Venison! Wow. I have not had venison medallions in a fancy restaurant for an absolute age. Such delicious meat.