Friday, December 28, 2007
Fingers of Grease
Know what's always bugged me? The fact that whales and porpoises have flukes which they move up and down vertically to move in water while fishes seem like they are almost all using their tails in the opposite manner and moving theirs side to side. Unless you are a flounder or some other bottom feeder. But then you know you got your own problems with two eyes on the side of your face and stuff. So lets forget about you freaks for a minute and worry about the whales and teh fishes. Why... oh why do you propel yourselves differently? Plus you whales have those little flipper things. They are kinda weird. IT's like you're waving and flailing about all the time in the water. Makes me worry about you and your ability to fend for yourself and make a proper living under the sea. I guess though the answer lies with Kevin Costner again. It always seems to. Like I watched water world one or maybe more it kinda drug on if you know what i mean for like ever and evar. Anyways I seen the man doing this little swim move where he undulated like a belly dancer on X. It disguisted me... but then it got me to thinkng just now when I was thinking about the little flippers and stuff that maybe whales started out just like he did long ago when the planet was all covered with water after the big noah flood thing and hten whales became masters of swimming like that and gave up their clothes and society and need to walk on land at all and just used their little flippers and big tail just like Kevin did in that movie and that may just explain it all. Doesn't explain about the fishes though. Why did they go off and swish back and forth side to side like. Doesn't make no sense. Unless maybe the earths axis like tilted at some point in the past and the fishes never really caught on... unless you were like an uber smart but really ugly fish like a flounder and then you did and you switched up way way before the rest of them. Being the nerds of the fish world you woulda done that. Maybe though I'm gonna learn you about GPS someday soon with some fishy little brain implaints that are genertically engineered to be wet-wired into your little brains and you'll get really really smart and totaly connnected and have like 100% situational awareness and then you'll rule the fish world beneath the sea and pay me in tribute of degreased fish sticks which wont make my fingers greasy.
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Yer whole grease thing made me laugh but the aquatic mammal stuff really does sit funny in my mind, especially 'cause the three "smartest" animals (according to that brain-mass to body-weight ratio thingie, however good THAT is heh) are carnivorous apes, dolphins, and whales.
The structural stuff required to move around on land (even if you give up and go back into the water heh) is AMAZING compared to the simple junk fish are made out of.
And then I just saw this thing:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071219/ap_on_sc/whale_ancestor;_ylt=AhGmFrE2EhgPKbXa6CaShoUPLBIF
,,,which ain't too exciting, but at least it means that some cool detective guys are on the case or something heh.
yeah i think the ultimate cage match of whales vs apes would not go well for the apes. even on land the whales would just roll over and squish them flat. that little proto-whale creature was freaky, like a naked anteater or de-shelled armadillo. not that i've any idea what they really look like but that's what they look like.
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