Alaskan author (NO AI) The Blackfire Chronicles on Amazon (no dragons, orcs or elves). Free stories that all end happily https://nitter.cf/t.co/NToG7413RY
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Here’s an alternative hypothesis: Someone dragged it up there for reasons known only to them and didn’t bring it back down. 🤷♂️
A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.
The species is Swiss stone pine.
Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.
This means that when that tree was alive, the climate there had to be warmer than today.
6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.
Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.
Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.
I remember that earthquake. Was at work when it happened, maybe 15, 20 miles from the epicenter. There was a huge boom, then the ground turned to water. An asphalt parking lot had waves rolling across it like the sea. It was wild!
The Alaska State Troopers have a daily dispatch section of their website where they post synopses of public contacts they've made. There's one on there from yesterday that is utterly disgusting. I will say nothing more than this: What the fu*k is wrong with people?
Dan Simmons
You can bring one dead author back to write one more book. Who are you choosing?
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Best argument I've ever seen for having a burger!
University debate, "Were humans built to eat meat?", same two chairs, same clock.
Vegan: "Anatomically we're closer to the gorilla than the lion. Flat molars, long gut. A gentle plant-eater with delusions."
Paleoanthropologist: "Then explain the acid."
Vegan: "Which acid?"
Paleoanthropologist: "Your stomach runs at a pH of about 1.5. A lion's sits nearer 3.6. Yours is stronger than the animal you've just been contrasted with, by a factor of about a hundred."
Vegan: "Stomach acid digests food."
Paleoanthropologist: "A cow's rumen sits at about 6.5. That's a compost heap with a pulse. Yours strips the zinc off a coin. Why would a gentle plant-eater carry that?"
Vegan: "Protection."
Paleoanthropologist: "From what? Lettuce doesn't fight back."
Vegan: "Bacteria."
Paleoanthropologist: "Which bacteria live in a leaf at a level that needs a pH of 1.5? Name the salad."
Vegan: "..."
Paleoanthropologist: "The animals that run acid as low as ours are the scavengers. Vultures. Things that arrive at a carcass on the second day and need to kill what's already living in it. We're not built like the lion. We're built like the bird that waits for the lion to finish."
Vegan: "Flattering."
Paleoanthropologist: "It's a picture of a species with a rock, a sharp flake and no claws. You don't get the fresh kill. You get the femur nobody could open, forty hours late, and you'd better have the acid for it."
Vegan: "Acid that strong is dangerous. Look how many people are on tablets for it."
Paleoanthropologist: "The only animal on earth that pays to switch its stomach off. You've spent sixty years pouring cereal onto a carcass digester and now you're medicating the digester for doing its job."
Vegan: "So your argument is that we're vultures."
Paleoanthropologist: "My argument is a number. Yours is a feeling about gorillas. The gorilla eats for most of the day and its gut is a fermentation tank. Yours is done in a few hours and runs on acid. One of you is designed for leaves."
Moderator: "Thirty seconds."
Paleoanthropologist: "She can keep them. I'm still waiting on the salad."
The Himalayas are fascinating to me. No interest in climbing them, but I'd love to see them someday.
Happiest of Birthdays to, 🇺🇦 Antonina Samoilova who ascended Everest three times (2022, 2023 and 2024), K2 in 2022, Manaslu in 2023, Lhotse in 2024, Makalu and Kangchenjunga in 2025, and Nanga Parbat in 2026!🙏
Video showing Antonina Samoilova proudly waving the Ukrainian flag atop Mt #Everest (8848.86 m), 24.05.2023. ©: Sandro Gromen-Hayes.
