[Kzyxtalk] The tardigrade conspiracy.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: The tardigrade conspiracy.

/"I've got my tinfoil hat on, my mind cannot be soiled, I've got my 
tinfoil hat on, and their evil plans are foiled."/

The recording of last night's (2021-09-03) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0452

This particular show is only six-and-a-half hours long. Your mother and 
I are doing the best we can, kids, I was exhausted from the events of 
the last couple of weeks; you can hear it in my voice, especially at the 
end. The show? Good, though.

BESIDES ALL THAT, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but 
nonetheless worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering that 
show together. Such as, for instance:

Whales still have rudimentary hands from when their long-ago ancestors 
were land animals. You just can't see them normally because they're 
inside a fin. (Conversely, elephant ears are not rudimentary flippers 
from when their ancestors were sea animals; they're blood-cooling fins.)
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-reminder-that-whales-have-rudimentary.html

Imagine the terrible threat that they're practicing to confuse by 
spinning around till they're dizzy taking turns shooting at it... /Don't 
make it all about the hat, Roy. It is just a hat, and you know I didn't 
do that on purpose. And maybe it's a good thing that happened. It's a 
notice of room for improvement. We just need to rehearse more, and shoot 
and dance and spin around even faster. Now let's go again, and try to 
keep your stupid head down this time, you're making a fool of us./
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2021/09/tweet-of-day.html

And the picture at the top in this Guardian article is remarkably close 
to my mind's-eye image of a Bethe blaster, a future artillery energy 
weapon in stories by several unrelated science-fiction authors in the 
1940s and '50s. From Wikipedia: "The powerful space weapon called the 
Bethe blaster operates by causing a fast atomic fusion explosion in all 
low-atomic-weight elements in its target, thus completely vaporizing it. 
It was named after physicist Hans Bethe." (via DamnInteresting)
https://tinyurl.com/SkiMountainsOnFire

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com