BEFORE THEY GOT THEIR BILLS Flightless, penguin-like, still to Earth tethered, these massive pre-avian predators produced mammoth molts, if they were feathered; fossilization, acting editor. A search for fossil vanes, largely in vain since feathers contain as much air as mass and hollow, keratin shafts don’t remain around to be found under magnifying glass. So […]
Read more "Before They Got Their Bills"The International Astronomical Union’s Ruling Consider the new rules for planets that lessened our number of planets to eight, demoting Pluto, due to new format about how a planet must astrogate. Though Pluto has enough mass to be round, and orbits uniquely about our Sun, it fails (as its path has “clutter” around) at planetary […]
Read more "The IAU’s Ruling"I asked Chatbot to evaluate a poem for me. Here is the poem and its fabulous review, followed by Chatbots response, when I asked for a more critical review. DIVINE RECKONING When our machines grow capable of thought, and we assign them to the greatest task – to find the answers that mankind’s long sought […]
Read more "AI & I"THE OLD RINGS OUT “Perfect” not pleasant symphony of tuning-forks each impinging pitch.
Read more "The Old Rings Out"We used to think it was our ability to use tools or the elegance of our reasoning or the architecture of opposable thumbs or brain size.
Maybe we need a new criteria to define our intelligence and what makes it distinct from other species on our planet.
UFOlogists Some strain to conflate angels with space aliens with Egyptian gods.
Read more "UFOlogists"T.T.O.T.T. As we get older, more words elusively slip the tip of the tongue.
Read more "T.T.O.T.T."NEW EYE’S RESOLUTION Back when we were young is only a memory, yet those good old days were lived the same as today — well unappreciated.
Read more "NEW EYE’S RESOLUTION"CONSTANT VALUE In a universe where curvature skews angles, pi still won’t be three.
Read more "CONSTANT VALUE"COSMIC SIMPLIFICATION Parabolically, along a stretched “rubber sheet,” planets roll like balls.
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BARD OF MARS 